Tag Archives: IPCC

Climate Fearing Useful Idiots Welcome Authoritarianism

Posted on 2021-09-11 by jimbelton

George Monbiot writes in the Guardian that Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work. His qualifications as a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and a political activist seem to give his opinion on … Continue reading →

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The Truth about Sea Level Rise

Posted on 2019-12-27 by jimbelton

There is a lot of misinformation out there about how much sea level will rise due to global warming. The current best information (from 2018) comes from the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest report in chapter 9, … Continue reading →

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Environmentalists Continue to Lie and Cry Wolf

Posted on 2019-09-11 by jimbelton

According to the Guardian, Adaptation isn’t enough: We’ve got to throw everything at the climate crisis. Is this really a crisis, or merely propaganda? I’m going to examine their claims. When we’re faced with threats of inundation, our reaction has … Continue reading →

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Global Warming: Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on 2019-07-09 by jimbelton

As reported by the CBC, Moody’s analytics has just published a report on The Economic Implications of Climate Change. The CBC’s article focuses on the finding that global warming will actually improve Canada’s economy and, to a less degree, the … Continue reading →

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Are Hurricanes Due to Global Warming?

Posted on 2017-09-09 by jimbelton

People keep repeating the “expert” opinions that this year’s bumper crop of hurricanes are caused by global warming. The NOAA, source of the much of the data and the models that make up modern climate science, aren’t so sure. Their … Continue reading →

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Al Gore Lies About Extreme Weather

Posted on 2017-08-06 by jimbelton

One of the claims we continually hear from the global warming activists is that extreme weather events are getting worse. Al Gore, promoting his new film “An Inconvenient Sequel” has been hammering this point. But it is true? Not according … Continue reading →

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Global Warming Scare Mongering Conflicts with Article from One Day Earlier

Posted on 2017-08-02 by jimbelton

The CBC is at it again, this time with Parts of South Asia could be too hot to live in by end of century. It makes some very frightening claims. I’m going to examine their claims in the light of … Continue reading →

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Economists Think They are Climatologists

Posted on 2017-08-01 by jimbelton

The CBC has a new story on global warming, Study suggests Earth to warm more than 2 C this century. I’m going to examine both the abstract of the study, Less than 2 °C warming by 2100 unlikely (the full article is … Continue reading →

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What the New York Times’s Climate Skeptic Says

Posted on 2017-04-30 by jimbelton

When the NYT hired climate science skeptic Bret Stephens, they were harshly criticized for the move, which was purportedly made because the paper felt that they had drifted too far to the left. Stephens published his first article, and the … Continue reading →

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Bill Nye Fails to Rebut William Happer

Posted on 2017-04-25 by jimbelton

The following video claims that Bill Nye “destroys” William Happer on climate change. Far from it. Nye’s argumentation is weak, and in places, flat out wrong. Happer begins: CO2 is not a pollutant; it is natural like water vapor. Plants … Continue reading →

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