Monthly Archives: August 2016

The global warming case against Exxon and some free market think tanks by New York’s Attorney General and a posse of AG’s from other states “has collapsed due to its own willful dishonesty.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-exxon-case-unraveled-1472598472

As a general principle, I don’t like populist politicians of any ilk. Whether the Obama/Clinton ilk or the Trump ilk or the Bush/Rove/Chaney ilk or the Johnson ilk. Populism does not work well in a republic. Everyone in a republic … Continue reading →

Irradiance is the radiant flux (power) received by a surface per unit area. The unit of irradiance is watt per square meter (W/m2). So-called greenhouse warming results from infrared radiation from the sun and from nearby molecules or reflection, convection, … Continue reading →

An open letter by my colorful friend Yuri in Gloucester, MA. Published after he managed to talk with the publisher who, evidently, overruled the refusal of the editor to print it. I think Yuri speaks for a lot of us.

“It is really quite simple. The ‘left’ and ‘right’, ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’, have been duped into a war against each other over ‘issues’ that truly separate, rather than unite, but that are also not the most senior issues. Although these … Continue reading →

The party platform adopted at the Democratic National Convention, on page 45, calls for a national mobilization on the scale of World War II. What enemy deserves the wrath endured by Hirohito and Hitler? Climate change! Democrats want to declare a … Continue reading →

“In addition to the substantial economic costs and minimal environmental benefits, and disregarding the fact that many climatologists question the validity of the EPA’s endangerment finding, the criticisms in the [EPA’s Office of Inspector General] OIG’s new report are another … Continue reading →

What we see clearly illustrated in the study at the link below is one of the fundamental problems of climate science: the natural variability is so large in Earth’s climate that teasing out a single climate variable (such as global … Continue reading →

“We’re about to train people for certain death.” ~ Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator for South Carolina Like the Bush administration on Iraq, and the Johnson administration on Vietnam, the Obama administration was ready to march thousands of Americans to war … Continue reading →