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Left’s Climate Projections Yield Worst-Case Consequences

Larry Bell PA Pundits – International Larry Bell contributes posts at the CFACT site. He heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind

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Billionaire Climate Elites Have Their Own Rules

Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Progressives have long wanted to tax unrealized gains from billionaires’ stocks, bonds, land holdings, homes, artwork, cars, yachts and other property. As appealing as this sounds,

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From Independence to Dependence on Other Nations

From Independence to Dependence on Other Nations

Ronald Stein Dr Jay Lehr cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. CFACT Senior Science Analyst

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The Writing of a Book

The Writing of a Book

John Maunder Over 50 years ago, in April 1968, when I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography in the University of Victoria in Canada, I remember very well when on a Wednesday morning the representative from the British publishers Methuen and Co came to see me in

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Each month Professor Ole Humlum of The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes on his very comprehensive website a large number of updated charts and related analyses of data from international sources. His latest website can be found at: www.climate4you Record of recent global air

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Since instrumental records became available in the 1850’s, climatic values show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees C recorded in Rangiora on February 7, 1973, to the lowest temperature of-25.6 degrees C in Eweburn, Ranfurly on 17 July 1903. In terms of

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich when

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder For further information on a range of weather and climate matters see my recent book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. Available from Amazon. The following is an update on the subject from pages 171 to 173 and 180  to

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The following is an update on the subject from pages 173 to 184 of my book. The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since

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When the Climate Crusade Hijacks the Environment Movement

When the Climate Crusade Hijacks the Environment Movement

Tom Harris cfact.org Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition Modern environmentalism has been taken over by an extremist cult that threatens to destroy the movement. This cult preys especially on young and impressionable people who lack the life experience to recognise when their good

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Prophecies of Doom Come at a Cost

Prophecies of Doom Come at a Cost

Visiting Wonderland 1967 A “time of famines” is predicted, and by 1975 the world will not have enough food to feed its growing population. 1969 By the year 1989 everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue smoke due to population growth and contamination of the planet. 1970 We are

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich when

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They Want Us to Trash Our Economy for This?

They Want Us to Trash Our Economy for This?

On April 19 2022 the runaway catastrophic anthropogenic global warming temperature anomaly had reached the dizzying heights of exactly 0.0 °C above the long term average temperatures on April 19 for the period 1979–2000. Don’t believe me?  I have proof from the Climate Change Institute at the

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The Absurd Worship of Zero
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The Absurd Worship of Zero

Craig Pirrong brownstone.org Dr Pirrong is Professor of Finance, and Energy Markets Director for the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business of the University of Houston. He was previously Watson Family Professor of Commodity and Financial Risk Management at Oklahoma State University, and a faculty

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They Don’t Care About the Environment

Bill Kocacs cfact.org The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a diversion tactic by the government, the radical Left, and their mainstream press. The many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the

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Ain’t That a Shame

Ain’t That a Shame

ABC news reports on a court case that I sincerely hope will be well studied and referenced by the wind farm opponents on this side of the ditch.  Perhaps Dr Woods had a premonition about this outcome and this was the reason she has hesitated on building her 4.5

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