MADISON – Last week, a bipartisan commission of legislators – led by Republicans Sen. Luther Olsen and Rep. Joel Kitchens released a report calling for significant increases in government spending and automatic annual property tax increases on Wisconsinites. The recommendations from the Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding would increase already high costs for Wisconsin…
Gary Wickert
Building the Wall: The Death of U.S. Citizenship
Fresh off of a disappointing reversal of his threat to proudly shut down the government if he could not get funding for a border wall, and in the face of Democrats who refused to sign off on more than $1.3 billion for increased security at the border with Mexico, President Trump has reverted to making…
Pierre Gosselin
Arctic Ice Volume Shames Climate Experts …Antarctic Stations Show Cooling, Not Warming
We constantly hear from the untrustworthy media how polar ice is melting rapidly – due to human-induced global warming. But when we look at the real data, we understand why audiences worldwide increasing distrust the mainstream media and their constant stream of doomsday reports, which they uncritically produce. Recently I looked at some island stations…
General
The Week That Was January 12th, 2019
Two Types of Energy Flow: Last week’s TWTW produced several responses with questions that need to be explained further. Forty years of comprehensive atmospheric temperature trends, the last twenty years with no statistically significant warming, and 60 years of balloon observations show that the global atmosphere is not the warming envisioned in the 1970s and…
Kenneth Richard
Tree Trunk Conundrum
Between 60 and 40 thousand years ago, during the middle of the last glacial, atmospheric CO2 levels hovered around 200 ppm – half of today’s concentration. Tree remains dated to this period have been discovered 600-700 meters atop the modern treeline in the Russian Altai mountains. This suggests surface air temperatures were between 2°C and…
Viv Forbes
Saltbush Solar Activity Watch Established
The Saltbush Club today announced the formation of the “Saltbush Solar Activity Watch” led by Mr David Archibald. The Executive Director of Saltbush, Mr Viv Forbes, said it was obvious to everyone except school teachers, the ABC, the Greens and the leaders of CSIRO that the sun is the main driver of weather and climate…