Claim: ‘Climate Skeptics Declare Victory in Age of Trump’
(Paul Chesser, Liberty Headlines) With the election of President Donald Trump, and his emphasis upon reduced regulations and strengthening the nation’s fossil fuels industries, the free-market Heartland Institute has announced it will host its twelfth International Conference on Climate Change, to educate and advise the new administration on recommended policies in transition to a freer and fairer energy economy.
The Arlington Heights, Ill.-based think tank is recognized as one of the top advocates for realism in the global warming debate, based upon observed scientific phenomena measured in actual data, as opposed to projections informed by computer modeling that can be more easily manipulated by human error and bias. Heartland and other nonprofit organizations that advocate for limited government, fewer regulations, and less intervention in a free economy — such as the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation — have been the targets of demonization and attacks by environmentalist pressure groups, left-wing academia and the interventionist government establishment.
“The purpose of this conference is to introduce members of the Trump administration and newly elected members of Congress and their staff to leading scientists and economists who hold a data-based, non-alarmist view of the climate,” said Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute. “It’s time to reset U.S. climate and energy policy away from the alarmism and fake science that dominated policymaking during the Obama era, and plot a new course based on real scientific data and economic analysis.
“The American people deserve a huge ‘peace dividend’ that can be brought about by ending the unnecessary and futile war on fossil fuels.”
The conference is scheduled for March 23-24 in Washington, DC. Thousands of people have attended previous conferences hosted by Heartland in various locations around the world.
Many of the presentations at past conferences delivered a scientific view on climate change that undermined the narrative — predominantly delivered by the legacy media — that fossil fuels and human activity exert an inordinate, dangerous, and heat-increasing influence upon the planet. Outcomes from that perspective have driven government policies that have nearly destroyed the coal industry; Placed onerous regulations on the automobile industry and other fossil fuel development; Pushed lawmakers to pursue taxes on carbon dioxide and cap-and-trade policies; and subsidized inefficient and costly renewable energy schemes.
Trump’s election has transformed the outlook on government’s climate change and regulatory policies. The president appointed Myron Ebell …
Enviros Freak Out After Judge Calls Global Warming A Controversial Belief
Environmentalists cried foul when a judge called global warming a controversial issue during the high-profile trial of an environmentalist accused of sabotaging various oil pipelines.
Judge Michael Rickert said Jan. 24 that there is “great controversy” over the degree to which humans play in perpetuating so-called man-made global warming. He was addressing climate activist Ken Ward’s request to present a “necessity defense” to justify his attempts to shut down oil sands pipelines.
Ward is facing decades in prison for shutting down oil pipelines in Skagit County, Washington.
“I don’t know what everybody’s beliefs are on [climate change], but I know that there’s tremendous controversy over the fact whether it even exists,” the Skagit County judge said during the trial.…
UN IPCC ‘altered’ climate reports violate U.S. science policy guidelines
U.S. Scientific Integrity Rules Repudiate the UN Climate Process
By Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise, author of the book, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert.
Mere days before he left office, Barack Obama’s Department of Energy (DOE) introduced a sweeping new scientific integrity policy. This matters because the DOE is the largest funder of physical sciences in America, and because climate change is one of its core concerns.
Elsewhere, I’ve explained that the new policy is a startling departure from the one that prevailed while Obama was in charge. It seems designed to unleash mayhem. In both instances, however, the DOE was adamant concerning one issue: Politicians should not tamper with scientific findings.
The 2014 DOE policy declares:
Political officials will not suppress or alter scientific or technological findings. [italics added]
The 2017 DOE policy says:
Under no circumstance may anyone, including a public affairs officer, ask or direct any researcher to alter the record of scientific findings or conclusions. [italics added]
…personnel will not suppress or alter scientific or technological findings, or intimidate or coerce…others to alter or censor scientific or technological findings or conclusions.
There’s nothing equivocal about these statements. When scientists produce a document that says one thing, but their findings get massaged and manipulated by the people upstairs, scientific integrity has been violated. That is the clear position of the US government.
I am therefore happy to report that this same government has, in no uncertain terms, repudiated the process by which UN climate reports are produced.
In recent years, I’ve written two entire books about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Tasked with producing authoritative climate change assessments, the IPCC recruits scientists to write these documents.
The last major scientific assessment, released in 2013-2014, runs to 7,000 pages. No one has time to read such an opus, so the IPCC also released a Summary for Policymakers approximately 30 pages long for each of the report’s three sections.
These summaries were authored by a subset of the scientists who worked on the main report. But the IPCC considers scientists’ own, unadorned words to be a mere draft. Before each summary became an official IPCC document it was extensively altered. By political officials.
IPCC summary-rewriting meeting. Click to enlarge. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipccphoto/14108451053/ Image used here in a fair use context. More info here.This …
U.S. Climate Skeptic Meets U.K. Prime Minister Advisers
A former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump who denies the world is experiencing global warming attended a meeting at the official residence of British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday.
Myron Ebell, who headed Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team, met with advisers to May as director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group that campaigns against policies for tackling climate change, according to May’s office. He was earlier seen going into 10 Downing Street following a cabinet meeting.
Ebell leaves 10 Downing Street, Jan. 31.
The visit is likely to fuel concern that the U.K. could weaken its efforts to tackle climate change as it exits the European Union. May came under pressure from lawmakers to seek assurances on the future of the Paris Deal when she met with Trump last week.
“This looks as if Theresa May’s team are cozying up to the worst excesses of the climate-denying, fossil-fuel funded elite,” said Guy Shrubsole, campaigner for Friends of the Earth group.…
Climate skeptic advisor says Trump could pull out of Paris climate agreement in days
…Meltdown at the EPA — And not the nuclear kind: Agencys junk-science promoters are flipping out.
Meltdown at the EPA — And not the nuclear kind: Agencys junk-science promoters are flipping out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3519613/posts
In his recently released and timely book, Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA, author Steve Milloy says this about the Environmental Protection Agency: The EPA has over the course of the last 20 years marshaled its vast and virtually unchallenged power into an echo chamber of deceptive science, runaway regulations and fatally flawed research derived from unethical human experiments. The EPAs conduct runs the gamut from subtle statistical shenanigans to withholding key scientific data, from seeking to rubberstamp baseless research data to illegally spraying diesel exhaust up the noses of unsuspecting children and other vulnerable populations….
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New study: Atlantic Hurricane Numbers Decreasing Despite Increases In Atmospheric CO2
Atlantic Hurricane Numbers Decreasing Despite Increases In Atmospheric CO2
http://www.thegwpf.com/atlantic-hurricane-numbers-decreasing-despite-increases-in-atmospheric-co2/
Study of historical hurricane occurrences in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, during the period 1749 to 2012, reveals that “the hurricane number is actually decreasing in time.” Paper Reviewed Rojo-Garibaldi, B., Salas-de-León, D.A., Sánchez, N.L. and Monreal-Gómez, M.A. 2016. Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and their relationship with sunspots. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 148: 48-52. Although some climate alarmists contend that CO2-induced global warming will increase the number of hurricanes in the future, the search for such effect on Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone frequency has so far remained elusive. And with the recent publication of Rojo-Garibaldi et al. (2016), it looks like climate alarmists will have to keep on looking, or accept the likelihood that something other than CO2 is at the helm in moderating Atlantic hurricane frequency. In their intriguing analysis published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, the four-member research team of Rojo-Garibaldi et al. developed a new database of historical hurricane occurrences in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, spanning twenty-six decades over the period 1749 to 2012. Statistical analysis of the record revealed “the hurricane number is actually decreasing in time,” which finding is quite stunning considering that it is quite possible fewer hurricanes were recorded at the beginning of their record when data acquisition was considerably worse than towards the end of the record. Nevertheless, as the Mexican research team indicates, “when analyzing the entire time series built for this study, i.e., from 1749 to 2012, the linear trend in the number of hurricanes is decreasing” (see figure below)…. Figure 1. Annual hurricane count in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea over the period 1749-2012. Red line indicates the linear trend. Source: Rojo-Garibaldi et al. (2016). Full post
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12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) to be held in DC in March
12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) to be held
Via press release: It’s official! The 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) will take place on March 23-24 in Washington, DC. Attached is a flyer I hope you will read and forward to friends and foes alike. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States already is having a profound effect […]
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Monckton’s 10 Steps for Calming Climate Craziness
Monckton’s 10 Steps for Calming Climate Craziness
http://cliscep.com/2017/01/29/moncktons-10-steps-for-calming-climate-craziness
I sometimes take a scroll down Spiel Climate’s list of latest links, and usually find a few things of interest. Yesterday, I found this one containing suggestions for the new administration in the USA by Christopher Monckton. 10 actions to cut back on the CO2-fuelled madness on climate – they look like a pretty useful set to […]
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Environmentalists preparing to battle Trump, GOP in court
Environmentalists preparing to battle Trump, GOP in court
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3518837/posts
Environmentalists facing a hostile Trump administration and a Republican-dominated Congress say the courts may offer their best chance to block changes they oppose. Advocacy groups nationwide are hiring more staff lawyers and coordinating with private attorneys and firms volunteering their services. They are seeking donations, setting priorities and reviewing laws that could be the basis of lawsuits against Trump policies concerning climate change, endangered wildlife, pollution and other issues.
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