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George Orwell, call your office. In what the Huffington Post's Alexander Kaufman called "an Orwellian rhetorical shift away from a scientific reality," the Department of Defense "scrubbed its latest National Defense Strategy of all references to climate change."
Chocolate lovers across the world had a shocking beginning to their new year when they were informed of the coming chocolate apocalypse. The chief suspect again — climate change.
In Florida over the holidays, President Trump tweeted, "In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!"
Global cereal (grain) production has reached record levels in 2017. Credit for the increase usually goes to agrochemicals and other advanced agricultural technology. However, there are two other key contributors — carbon dioxide and climate change.
The Cap Times in Madison, Wisconsin, recently ran an article titled "Climate change is here: Wisconsin is seeing earlier springs, later falls, less snow and more floods," to which a Badger state resident called our attention.
Terminologies are powerful. Over the past 50 years of public discourse, the climate controversy has had various names — global cooling, global warming, and, more recently, climate change. What do these names indicate about the climate hysteria that has blinded our political institutions?
How did biofuel policy have such ghastly effects? By diverting vast amounts of corn (in some years a full half the crop), of which the U.S. raises about a third of the global total, from food (whether directly for people or indirectly through livestock) to fuel.
One of the biggest barriers to investment in infrastructure all across the United States is the long, costly, and unpredictable permitting process. If you have any doubts, just consider the Keystone XL pipeline extension.
There has been widespread news coverage of a new "study" published in Nature Geoscience which concludes that global warming has not been progressing as fast as expected and that climate models might be a "little bit" wrong.
It was inevitable that global warming alarmists like Al Gore would blame mankind for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
President Donald J. Trump recently nominated Rep. James Bridenstine (R-OK) to lead NASA. Science Magazine promptly raised two objections.
Twenty-nine years ago record drought and fires hit the West and no one seemed to notice. Frustrated, I sent query letters to the three largest East Coast newspapers and, to my surprise, The New York Times answered.
USA Today reports that 80% of disaster relief aid following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma comes from faith-based organizations — denominations, individual churches, and non-denominational charitable organizations.
Nearly universal access to safe drinking water is one of the great miracles of modern society.
Back in 1984, Richard Lamm, then-Democratic Governor of Colorado, gained infamy for having said the terminally ill elderly have "a duty to die and get out of the way." Such disrespect for age persists among progressives. Bill Nye "The Science Guy," a major proponent of global warming alarmism, blames climate skepticism on age.
Pure symbolism. That's what "We Are Still In" really is.
Studies rarely specify what it is to which the scientists agree.
A variety of studies have purported to find an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists on global warming. However, the studies rarely specify what it is to which the scientists agree.
President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
