Inconvenient data points on those California wildfires

Inconvenient data points on those California wildfires

by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2018 While the Left has been quick to attribute the deadly California wildfires to climate change, forestry analysts say poor land management and environmental regulations which limited logging are the main reasons behind the increase in devastating wildfires. Gov. Jerry Brown said wildfires were part of a “new normal” because of […]

‘Running out of time’: Al Gore spots warning signs in latest hurricanes

‘Running out of time’: Al Gore spots warning signs in latest hurricanes

by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2018 The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report shows that current global warming “could actually extend to an existential threat to human civilization on this planet as we know it,” former Vice President Al Gore declared. In the IPCC report, 91 authors and editors from 40 countries concluded […]

Amazon’s Post: Trump ‘complicit’ in violence inflicted by Hurricane Florence

Amazon’s Post: Trump ‘complicit’ in violence inflicted by Hurricane Florence

by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2018 The Washington Post’s editorial board has assigned blame for Hurricane Florence – it’s President Donald Trump’s fault. The Post’s Sept. 12 editorial was titled “Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit”. Today’s Washington Post failed to address the question whether a chastened Trump was also […]

30 years ago, James Hansen lit the ‘bonfire of greenhouse vanities’

30 years ago, James Hansen lit the ‘bonfire of greenhouse vanities’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2018 In the summer of 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen issued sounded the alarm on global warming. In testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Hansen expressed a “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.” With his testimony, Hansen […]

Humility deficit in the corridors of shakedown science

Humility deficit in the corridors of shakedown science

Wesley Pruden “Climate research,” the New York Times confidently assures us, “stands at a crossroads.” This means that a lot of research scientists are standing at the crossroads, holding out paper bags like trick-or-treaters on Halloween night, standing in line for taxpayer largesse to fill ‘em up. These specialists in shakedown “science,” who speak only […]