By Daniel SutterWe continually hear that climate change is making extreme weather – from wildfires in Canada and Maui to Hurricane Hilary – worse. Unfortunately, this allows politicians to evade responsibility for their inaction and mistakes.Researchers have long emphasized that nature’s action and human exposure together produce disasters. A hurricane striking an uninhabited island is…
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Cornwall Alliance, Duggan Flanakin
Supernatural Warnings Come to California
On the same day that Hurricane (Tropical Storm) Hilary brought record rainfall to the Los Angeles area (nearly 6 inches to Lake Palmdale and 4.26 inches on the UCLA campus), a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred in nearby Ojai.To the truly enlightened, these rare disasters should serve as a warning from on high that the Golden…
Anthony J. Sadar, Cornwall Alliance
Climate Change Hysteria and the Rise of the Religious Left
The climate catastrophe crusade has been joined by a new regiment of converts: the religious left wing. The troop strength has been building over recent decades; the last few years, however, have seen a surge in the power of this cohort.The religious contingent is imbued with a spiritual fervor. Unfortunately for the Christian faithful, the…
Cornwall Alliance, Dr. Roy Spencer
SITYS: Climate Models Do Not Conserve Mass or Energy
One of the most fundamental requirements of any physics-based model of climate change is that it must conserve mass and energy. This is partly why I (along with Danny Braswell and John Christy) have been using simple 1-dimensional climate models that have simplified calculations and where conservation is not a problem.Changes in the global energy…
Cornwall Alliance, Vijay Jayaraj
The Untold Story of Climate’s Holocene Gift to Humanity
News reports of summer heatwaves often perversely misrepresent a modern climate favorable to human flourishing in order to fearmonger the false narrative of catastrophic global warming.The geological epoch of the Holocene, which roughly corresponds to the last 11,700 years, is a time of warmth that has been vital in fostering the diversity and adaptability of…
Cornwall Alliance, Robert Bryce
The “Energy Transition” Isn’t All It Claims To Be
We are inundated with claims about the “energy transition.”In February, E&E News, reporting on the State of the Union speech, said, “President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the energy transition Tuesday night.” In March, a reporter for Politico declared, “The U.S. energy transition is well underway.”Also in March, during a speech at the…