The Idiocy of Joe Biden’s Climate Plan
As in so many other issues, progressives have been lying to us for decades about the causes of global warming, aka climate change. Now, the Biden Administration is asserting we … Read More
Category: Scientific Issues
Issues that arise when we disagree with each other on what science is telling us about biological and physical reality.
The Green New Deal Is Totally Insane!
One of the greatest priorities for American progressives is the so-called “Green New Deal.” In case you are one of the very few who has not heard of it, the … Read More
More Evidence of an Exceptionally Deep Solar Minimum
Here is more evidence of an exceptionally deep solar minimum which will arrive around 2020. For the last three days, the irreplaceable and invaluable Spaceweather.com has been alerting us to … Read More
The Sun Is Going Into an Extra Deep Solar Minimum
The Sun in extreme ultraviolet Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/NASA, ESA This post is just a short blurb to pass on some information from the website Spaceweather.com. If you have been … Read More
More Measurements To Deflate AGW Enthusiasts
Total solar irradiance from 1978 to the present. Space weather.com / Solar Dynamics Observatory While obtaining the daily solar activity statistics for my Solar Activity page this morning, I came … Read More
Even More Lies Progressives Tell To Themselves!
A progressive regarding the world. Be careful what you buy from him! (c) Can Stock Photo / ezumeimages In my last essay I was only able to cover two of … Read More
New Data Points To Continuing Warming Pause
Cosmic ray intensities from March 2015 to May 2017. Image and Data from Spaceweather.com Today marks the sixth straight day for which there were absolutely no sunspots on the Sun. … Read More
CO2 Levels In Air Dangerously Low for Life on Earth
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations and average global temperatures for the past 550 million years on Earth. Carbon dioxide levels from Brener (2001) and temperature from Scotese (2001) sourced from www.geocraft.com. See … Read More
Thermodynamic Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Revisited
Varieties of interactions between air and sea Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Apparently, I did not not explain my thoughts clearly enough in my post Thermodynamic Interactions of the Oceans … Read More
Thermodynamic Interactions of the Oceans With the Atmosphere
Cumulus clouds over the Atlantic Ocean Wikimedia Commons / Tiago Fioreze One fruitful way of looking at the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) controversy is through the lens of thermodynamics, a … Read More
What Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Dr. Nir Shaviv, Chair of the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, giving a talk on global warming at the George Marshall Institute on March 21, … Read More
Anti-AGW Global Warming Scholarly References
Different terrestrial environments involved with or affected by global warming. Over on my Facebook group A Divided World Readers, one reader complained I did not give a single scholarly reference to … Read More
The Complexity of Atmospheric Physics
View of the crescent moon through the top of the earth’s atmosphere, as seen from the International Space Station. The photo was taken over the South China Sea, just south … Read More
Global Warming Teaches Humility
The Hadcrut4 global land and ocean temperature anomaly for 1997 to the present. The Hadcrut4 data set is maintained by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. … Read More
How Is the Weather Like a Country’s Economy?
Hurricane Isabel, a category 5 hurricane, seen from the International Space Station in September 2003. This deadly storm had many of the same system characteristics in the planet’s weather that … Read More
How to Form Your Personal Ideology
The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin Wikimedia Commons/Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Paris, France The most sacred words any human being can utter are “I believe …”, The more … Read More
Should Christians Be Stigmatized?
A symbol of hope or a symbol of ignorance and prejudice? FreeImages.com/abcdz2000 Christians have a great deal to fear in this world. In the Middle East, they have been marked … Read More
Solar Wind, Cosmic Rays and Clouds: The Determinants of Global Warming
Average cloud cover is the most important factor in global warming While global warming alarmists are trying to create a hysteria about Man causing the heat death of the planet, … Read More
Something Is Happening in the Sun!
Structure of the Sun Wikimedia Commons/Kelvinsong Something important is most definitely going on inside the sun! We have just finished eleven straight days with no sunspots on the sun’s surface. … Read More
More on HGV Defenses
YAL-1A airborne laser in flight with the mirror unstowed Photo Credit:Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Missile Defense Agency This is the third post in a series on the threat of Chinese and Russian … Read More
The Menace of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles
Deployment of U.S. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV2) AFP Photo/Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) While Obama’s administration is cutting back on defense spending and futuristic defense development programs, both … Read More
The Anti-Freedom Bias of Progressives
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
Democrats Want to Imprison Scientific Skeptics?
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Junior Senator from Rhode Island Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kenneth C. Zirkel Last October, while writing about progressives’ views concerning conservatives, I noted how Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse … Read More
The “Science” of Economics
A modern day view of economists. By Rembrandt – The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons The … Read More
Cosmic Rays Continue Increasing: Global Cooling Ahead!
Clouds: What cosmic rays help create Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Fir0002 The latest measurements of cosmic ray intensity in the stratosphere from Spaceweather.com and the students of … Read More
Chaotic Economies and Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
Chaos, chaos everywhere! Image Credit: Flickr.com/SantaRosa OLD SKOOL It is sometimes said that “if the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything you see looks like … Read More
Global Cooling May Intensify – Cosmic Rays Increasing
Cosmic ray intensity between March 2015 and January 2016. Image Credit: Spaceweather.com As shown in the plot above, cosmic ray intensity has intensified between March 2015 and January 2016. In … Read More
Objections to Anti-AGW Argument Answered
Comparison of smoothed globally averaged temperature data sets with common zero Image Credit: tamino.wordpress.com Very recently, a friend and an opponent on a number of issues asked me to … Read More