“[Climate change is] a very complex subject. I’m not sure anybody is ever going to really know…. they say they have science on one side but then they also have those horrible emails that were sent between the [Climategate] scientists…. Terrible. Where they got caught, you know, so you see that and you say, what’s this all about. I absolutely have an open mind.”
– President-elect Donald Trump, “Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript,” November 23, 2016. Quoted in Joe Romm, “Trump Fools the New York Times on Climate Change, ThinkProgress, November 23, 2016.
It has been seven years this month since the intellectual scandal erupted called Climategate. With President-elect Trump’s recent reference to the scandal, it is timely to recall some of the more salient quotations.…
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Crossroads III, Energy and Climate Policy Summit (DC: 12/8/16)
Lomborg: Trump’s climate plan might not be so bad after all
What Trump Should Do with the Paris Treaty
Keep Science and Scientists Credible
Some Methodological Issues in Climate Science
The EPA Shows Again That It’s an Affront to Common Sense
2016 State of the Climate Report
Half Of Global Warming Alarmist Research Papers Might Be Wrong
Global Warming: Policy Hoax versus Dodgy Science
Satellite Data Reinstates Global Temperature Pause
100+ Scientific Papers From 2016 Link Solar Forcing To Climate Change
Time to Cut Our Losses on Big Wind
The Latest List of Turbine Accidents (now almost two thousand)
Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy Series: Part1, Part 2, Part 3.…
Continue Reading“The true meaning of Thanksgiving is the triumph of Capitalism over the failure of Collectivism in all its forms.”
This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when Americans gather with their families and friends and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. It marks a remembrance of those early Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the uncharted ocean from Europe to make a new start in Plymouth, Massachusetts. What is less appreciated is that Thanksgiving also is a celebration of the birth of free enterprise in America.
The English Puritans, who left Great Britain and sailed across the Atlantic on the Mayflower in 1620, were not only escaping from religious persecution in their homeland. They also wanted to turn their back on what they viewed as the materialistic and greedy corruption of the Old World.…
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