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The world is not coming to an end. At least not for tigers. Despite claims in doomsday reports last month, tigers are thriving and not in danger of extinction.
Across the globe, the month of June showed no signs of deviation from the climate trend for 2019: below average temperatures with chilling conditions.
It is easy to associate climate skepticism with the Republican Party and climate alarmism with the Democratic Party. It's also easy to brand skeptics as beneficiaries of big oil and proponents of unfettered capitalism and alarmists as in the pocket of big wind and solar and boosters of socialist central planning. But attitudes about climate change transcend political ideologies, and they should.
Lately, climate science has been under attack from extreme factions of people more concerned about desired outputs than climate reality.
You'd think so, if you observed the reactions by the climate-change establishment to President Donald Trump's appointment, back in September, of Will Happer as Senior Director for Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council (NSC) and the prospect of Trump's forming a Presidential Committee on Climate Security, headed by Happer, under the NSC, to bring the evidence for and against dangerous man-made global warming to the table for review.
Proponents of climate doomsday have often cited food security as a major concern, claiming that extreme man-made climate change has put the global agricultural sector in crisis.
David Wallace-Wells shook up a lot of people with a "horrifying 2017 essay in New York magazine about climate change. It was an attempt to paint a very real picture of our not-too-distant future, a future filled with famines, political chaos, economic collapse, fierce resource competition, and a sun that 'cooks us.'" Now he's got a book out that builds on that article.
Want to "bring nothing but misery to poor people, especially in the developing world"? Simple: Just follow the advice of the international cabal of UN leaders and their organizations calling for drastic action to fight global warming.
Last month, parts of the U.S. experienced what Newsweek called "the coldest Thanksgiving in a century." Indeed, November was 2.03˚F colder than the 1981–2010 average for the month in the lower 48 United States.
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. believes "human-caused climate change is real and poses significant risks" and thinks "mitigation and adaptation should be policy priorities."
When I first watched "Stranger Things" (a Netflix original) in 2016, I thought the story writer was really talented and the show lived up to its name. But a real-world storyline is even stranger: the climate policies recommended to us by the United Nations.
The #MeToo movement this year exposed the dark secrets of Hollywood and many other global organizations. But the #MeToo movement within one fraternity has been suppressed and underreported by the leftist media.
The news media has made the number and intensity of wildfires in western states this summer a household topic. As of Aug. 14, there were hundreds of them, and of major ones, 17 were burning in Alaska, 11 in Arizona, 10 each in Oregon and Colorado, and nine in California. The media and many environmentalists blame them on global warming.
Are there bigger environmental concerns than climate change? Certainly. But we don't hear that from our daily news anchors and bulletins.
With EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's recent resignation, the scandal talk heats up again.
Summers in the U.S. are hot. They always have been. Some are hotter than others. Speaking as a Ph.D. meteorologist with 40 years of experience, this week's heat wave is nothing special.
"How is it that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, a public servant who walks around clouded in ethics scandals like Pig-Pen in his swirl of dust, still holds his job?" That snide lede by Margaret Talbot to her *New Yorker* article June 8 titled "Are Evangelical Leaders Saving Scott Pruitt's Job?" should tip off even the uninitiated that what follows will be, shall we say, something less than journalistic fairness.
For decades the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has gotten away with creating regulations that lack sound scientific basis, costing Americans hundreds of billions of dollars without solid evidence that those costs were justified.
Last fall Politico ran a special feature on global health that featured a graphic presentation of increased incidence of insect-borne diseases in the United States from 2004 to 2013, blaming the increase on global warming.
One of the things I most appreciate about Joe Bastardi's book *The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won't Hear from Al Gore — and Others* is the long historical perspective he brings.
