On Monday, Dr. Willie Soon, the brilliant astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been smeared by media outlets including the Boston Globe, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Scientific American and Nature because he had the temerity to point out that human activities are not “a major cause of global warming,” struck back with a press release defending himself from the scurrilous charges aimed at him.
by William Bigelow2 Mar 2015, 7:33 PM PST0
In recent weeks I have been the target of attacks in the press by various radical environmental and politically motivated groups.
by Dr. Wei-Hock Soon2 Mar 2015, 2:54 PM PST0
A scientist at Georgia Tech is the latest target of the current crusade trying to intimidate dissenting scientists and writers out of the public square by accusing them of being intellectually dishonest henchpersons working for Big Oil.
by John Hayward27 Feb 2015, 1:39 PM PST0
In a show of protest of so-called anthropogenic global warming alarmism, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), an outspoken critic of the theory of global warming, threw a snowball on the floor of the U.S. Senate. “Do you know what this is?” Inhofe
by Jeff Poor26 Feb 2015, 2:02 PM PST0
A scientist gets the message: Stop questioning climate change. Intimidation is the new scientific method, apparently.
by John Hayward25 Feb 2015, 2:08 PM PST0
These are times of panic for the Church of Global Warming. Science has failed them.
by John Hayward24 Feb 2015, 3:51 PM PST0
In recent weeks, Dr. Wei-Hock Soon, a distinguished solar astrophysicist, coauthored with Christopher Monckton, Matt Briggs, and David Legates an important work of original scholarship in the Science Bulletin (previously titled Chinese Science Bulletin), a publication of the Chinese Academy
by Joseph L. Bast and Joseph A. Morris24 Feb 2015, 10:11 AM PST0
What causes both the widespread alarmism and the public ignorance of the beneficial effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide? Scientists remaining silent.
by William M. Briggs, Robert M. Carter, & David R. Legates23 Feb 2015, 5:48 PM PST0
Pennsylvania Democrat and likely Senate candidate Joe Sestak tweeted out a link to a dubious New York Times hit piece on Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Wei-Hock Soon.
by Dan Riehl23 Feb 2015, 11:58 AM PST0
A not so funny, but somewhat predictable, event occurred after Dr. Matt Briggs co-authored a major peer-reviewed climate physics paper that exposed significant errors in the billion-dollar computer models used by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
by Robert Wilde23 Feb 2015, 5:18 AM PST0
As this horrible winter rages on, record low temperatures are being set from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and snow is still piling up in places like Maine and Vermont. It all adds up to dangerous winter conditions for much of the country, and it will continue for the next week.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Feb 2015, 5:49 AM PST0
Climate change activists pose a “credible threat to the health and safety” of people and the environment, according to a memo prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the Canadian government. The memo has provoked righteous indignation from climate
by Donna Rachel Edmunds19 Feb 2015, 8:04 AM PST0
A few inches of snow leads to two days off — and counting — for Fairfax County school students.
by Rich Tucker18 Feb 2015, 9:42 AM PST0
A New Mexico physicist has launched a petition – signed by 22,000 Klimate-Kool-Aid-drinkers, and counting – demanding that from henceforward climate sceptics be referred to in the media by their proper name. That proper name, apparently, is “climate deniers”. Among
by James Delingpole14 Feb 2015, 1:58 AM PST0
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized the news media for not devoting enough time to climate change on Friday. “Brian Williams shouldn’t have to go away because he lied. He should have to go away because the ‘NBC Nightly
by Ian Hanchett13 Feb 2015, 8:46 PM PST0
Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest had a hard time trying to explain to ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl if President Barack Obama believes climate change is worse than terrorism. Earnest stonewalled
by Pam Key10 Feb 2015, 11:27 AM PST0
John Podesta built his reputation as a Democratic Party wise man by trying to salvage the second terms of two presidents. He’s about to duck out of the White House to try to engineer the election of a third.
by Breitbart News9 Feb 2015, 8:23 PM PST0
“Fiddling temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever,” says Christopher Booker, not pulling his punches. And I think he’s right not to do so. If – as Booker, myself, and few others suspect – the guardians of the world’s
by James Delingpole9 Feb 2015, 5:15 AM PST0
After a 17-year delay, former Vice President Al Gore’s satellite is about to lift off for outer space in part to measure–what else–global warming.
by Warner Todd Huston8 Feb 2015, 8:18 AM PST0
HBO’s Bill Maher complained that comparing climate change skepticism to vaccine skepticism was unfair to vaccine skeptics before attacking GMOs on Friday’s “Real Time.” “The analogy that I see all the time is that if you ask any questions [about
by Ian Hanchett6 Feb 2015, 9:10 PM PST0
The City of Melbourne, Australia has stumbled upon a novel way of wasting taxpayer money: email any one of the city’s 60,000 trees and they will email you back, as their thoughts are helpfully channelled through the minds of friendly, handsomely paid
by Donna Rachel Edmunds6 Feb 2015, 6:25 AM PST0
In a bid to shift climate change from a “scientific fact” to a “social fact”, the Royal Society for Arts is running a series of events exploring the “seven main dimensions of the climate problem: science, behaviour, democracy, law, technology,
by Donna Rachel Edmunds4 Feb 2015, 9:56 AM PST0
A US professor has come up with a brilliant and original new theory as to why mankind is doomed by climate change: it’s because, unlike mice, humans are fatally handicapped by their ability to rationalize and reason. No wait. You
by James Delingpole4 Feb 2015, 6:06 AM PST0
David Rose is a journalist who sometimes writes about the grey areas within the climate change debate. As a result, he has already endured calls for his own children to murder him, been compared to Hitler despite being Jewish, and had his
by Donna Rachel Edmunds3 Feb 2015, 4:41 AM PST0
Proponents of anthropogenic climate change may be struggling to deliver conclusive evidence that human activity is causing catastrophic global warming, but one thing they have no problem with producing is ever more elaborate flights of imaginative fancy. The latest bonkers offering is the
by Donna Rachel Edmunds2 Feb 2015, 8:01 AM PST0
