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Photo: The author (second from right) in Maranhão, Brazil, 1995 MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on …

Electroverse June 27, 2020 | Cap Allon If alive today, Albert Einstein would almost certainly have been labelled a global warming “denier”. His views and theories would be considered controversial –a word that shouldn’t exist in science– and I’m sure the horde of climate zealots would work tirelessly to destroy his career. Back in 1919, Einstein showed that if a gas was in thermodynamic equilibrium the rate of adsorption by an infrared gas was equal to the emission. Meaning, if you increase the amount of infrared active gases in the atmosphere you will increase the rate of absorption but, crucially, …

or Michael E Mann, Loser (Again) and Deadbeat (for Sure) Steyn online June 23, 2020 The Mann vs Steyn case is about to enter its ninth year in the choked septic tank of the District of Columbia (pending name change) “judicial” system. Yet oddly enough the Covid lockdown of every other courthouse on the planet has coincided with a modest acceleration in the progress of the global warm-monger’s vanity litigation. For those new to this suit, there’s a whole book about it. But as I summarized it the other day: Mann is the climate ayatollah who created the global-warming hockey …

PSI June 14, 2020 | Bevan Dockery Statistical analysis of official data from the Mauna Loa Observatory of atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) reveals Nature, not humans determines the concentration of this trace gas. Variances in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are shown to be well correlated with changes in the seasons, phases of the moon and El Niño events rather than human industrial activity. No studies by climatologists endorsed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) address these factors. Figure 1 shows the atmospheric CO2 concentration measured weekly at the Mauna Loa Observatory (see Ref.1) for …

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | May 26, 2020 To all the kind and generous readers who have donated to the appeal for Naomi Seibt, I should like to say how very grateful she for your support. Thanks to your contributions to her Patreon account, she now has $1800 a month in income, and skeptics everywhere are spreading the word. Stefan Molyneux, who has interviewed Naomi in the past, has just retweeted it, and from there it has been retweeted almost 1000 times. Latest news is that the State Media Authority in North-Rhine Westphalia has threatened Naomi with imprisonment. Naomi, …

nicholaslewis.org Nicholas Lewis | May 10, 2020 A pdf copy of this article is available here. Introduction A study published in March by the COVID-19 Response Team from Imperial College (Ferguson20[1]) appears to have been largely responsible for driving government actions in the UK and, to a fair extent, in the US and some other countries. Until that report came out, the strategy of the UK government, at least, seems to have been to rely on the build up of ‘herd immunity’ to slow the growth of the epidemic and eventually cause it to peter out. The ‘herd immunity threshold’ …