Climate change: On media perceptions and misperceptions

APS Physics Wallace Manheimer, wallymanheimer@yahoo.com This essay claims that the media vastly overstates the risks of climate change. It has a mandate to report an unbiased view of issues, not just present a single view of an extraordinarily complicated scientific controversy, and pretend the other side does not exist, or is corrupt. They assert a single cause for the supposed crisis, excess CO2 in the atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuel, something on which billions of people depend. They advance a single solution, stop using fossil fuel. But even if we do this, how sure can we be that the …

Controlled Opposition: the strategy to stymie real climate debate

Principia Scientific | October 2, 2019 Written by John O’Sullivan Why is it that groups like the Heartland Institute and CFACT are very good at spending money holding seminars and presentations to their echo chamber of supporters but don’t change things for the better in the real world? Have you noticed how ‘lukewarmers’ like Spencer, Happer, Curry, etc will say CO2 does something but none will quantify and qualify their statements with real metrics? Perhaps you’ve heard of the famous quote by Soviet tyrant, Vladimir Lenin [pictured below] who said: ”The best way to control the opposition is to lead …

97 Articles Refuting The “97% Consensus”

97 Articles Refuting The “97% Consensus”

Climate Change Dispatch The 97% “consensus” study, Cook et al. (2013) has been thoroughly refuted in scholarly peer-reviewed journals, by major news media, public policy organizations and think tanks, highly credentialed scientists and extensively in the climate blogosphere. The shoddy methodology of Cook’s study has been shown to be so fatally flawed that well known climate scientists have publicly spoken out against it, “The ‘97% consensus’ article is poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly executed. It obscures the complexities of the climate issue and it is a sign of the desperately poor level of public and policy debate in this …

No Transparency Keeps Climate Hysteric’s Findings in the Dark

No Transparency Keeps Climate Hysteric’s Findings in the Dark

Newsmax By Larry Bell | 30 September 2019 Before we spend tens of trillions of dollars on green new mis-dealings that collapse our economy and decimate our reliable energy infrastructure to save the planet from climatological Armageddon, let’s first consider some unsettling scientific questions regarding any “settled science” basis for hysteria. Top “climategate” figure Dr. Michael Mann filed a legal defamation suit in 2011 against Dr. Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, who had challenged his alarmist sanctimony on this matter. Ball had humorously commented in an interview published in a Winnipeg public …

Follow the (Climate Change) Money

Follow the (Climate Change) Money

Principia Scientific | September 22, 2019 Written by Stephen Moore The first iron rule of American politics is: Follow the money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington. Shortly after the latest “Chicken Little” climate change report was published last month, I noted on CNN that one reason so many hundreds of scientists are persuaded that the sky is falling is that they are paid handsomely to do so. I said, “In America and around the globe governments have created a multibillion dollar climate change industrial complex.” And then I added: “A lot of people …

The Climate Brainwashing Of Our Youth

The Climate Brainwashing Of Our Youth

Principia Scientific September 20, 2019 Written by Lynne Balzer CCD Editor’s Note: The following is a second excerpted chapter from Lynne Balzer’s new book, The Green New Deal and Climate Change: What You Need to Know, available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle. You can read her previous chapter here. For approximately forty years the AGW establishment has been indoctrinating the public worldwide, and their media accomplices have been only too willing to cooperate. But nowhere is this more evident than in our public schools. Just as the Nazi’s brainwashed the German children, the global warming movement, which hijacked environmentalism, has unfairly used their captive audiences …

Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann Doubling Down After Court Defeat

Principia Scientific Published on September 16, 2019 Written by John O’Sullivan Exactly as we expected, Dr Michael Mann, after his sensational court defeat to Dr Tim Ball in the ‘science trial of the century,‘ doubles down on more shenanigans over his infamous graph. The fundamental principle of jurisprudence is “Put up or shut up!” Mann failed to “put up” and to make matters worse, he fails to “shut up.” In the early hours of this morning mendacious Mann foolishly took to Twitter to try to rally his befuddled and shrinking army of Twitter troops with this latest whopper:   Do …

‘Trial of the century’ just poured cold water on ‘hockey stick’ legend

‘Trial of the century’ just poured cold water on ‘hockey stick’ legend

WND By Pat Boone | September 13, 2019 Reader, will you let me take you on a “Back to the Future” trip, layman to layman? On one of the hottest issues of the day? It should let you sleep better at night. What if I can relieve you of ever again worrying about mankind causing “global warming”? My thesis is that only God can do that, governing the sun itself – from which all of the world’s energy comes. So hang on. Almost 100 years ago the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, went into legend as the “trial of …

Open letter to Professor Michael E. Mann

Posted on Principia Scientific on Sept. 9, 2019 Written by Tom D. Tamarkin Upon Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann’s latest lawsuit threat to Pastor Jonathan Lange, who honestly reported on his legal defeat versus Tim Ball, we post a public letter to Mann by a valued PSI member. Michael E. Mann Distinguished Professor Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC) Department of Meteorology Phone: (814) 863-4075 514 Walker Building FAX: (814) 865-3663 The Pennsylvania State University email: mann@psu.edu Dr. Michael Mann: Recently you spoke ill of Dr. Judith Curry Bishop after her important stellar testimony before Congress and made unprofessional remarks about her …

Is man-made global warming Mann-made?

Only Human Jonathan Lange | Sept. 2, 2019 Dr. Michael E. Mann is regularly promoted as the “world-leading climate change scientist.” He is a professor at Penn State University and the author of the famous “hockey stick” graph. The “hockey stick” graph was published in 1998 and presented a wildly new assessment of earth’s temperature over the past millennium. Openly available climate data traces a roller coaster line of warming and cooling over the past 1,000 years. This line averages about 9.2 C, rising to nearly 10.0 C during the Medieval Warming Period and dropping to 8.6 C at the …