UN climate officials add a week-long session in Bangkok in September to the diary, as Bonn talks make insufficient progress on the Paris Agreement rulebook The UN will hold an extra round of climate talks in Bangkok in September after lacklustre progress this fortnight. Long-rumoured talks in the Thai capital were confirmed by UN officials on Tuesday […]

A new study suggests those skeptical about climate change and climate alarmism behave in more climate-friendly ways than do those who are very concerned about the issue. University of Michigan psychology graduate student Michael Hall‘s study looked at 600 Americans who “regularly reported their climate change beliefs, pro-environmental behavior, and other climate-change related measures.” The results, published […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels increased in 2017, statistics office Eurostat said on Friday, indicating that the reduction of emissions blamed for climate change remains a challenge. Source: Eurostat Carbon emissions in the EU were up 1.8 percent from 2016, Eurostat said, with a double-digit increase in Malta and […]

One of the many questionable claims made by climate catastrophists is that climate change causes conflict. But now the Conversation, normally at the forefront of climate alarmism and exaggeration, has published not just one but two articles acknowledging that there really isn’t a link. See, for example, this report in the Independent, this one from Scientific American or these two articles from the […]

Large margins of error in polar bear population estimates means the conservation status threshold of a 30% decline (real or predicted) used by the US Endangered Species Act and the IUCN Red List is probably not valid for this species. Several recent subpopulation estimates have shown an increase between one estimate and another of greater […]

Old divisions between rich and poor over money and ambition are again threatening to limit progress in UN climate negotiations. Developing countries say they are “frustrated” with the lack of leadership from the developed world. Discussions between negotiators from nearly 200 countries have resumed in Germany, aiming to flesh out the rules on the Paris […]

There have been many recent claims that “climate change” was the reason for conflicts, with also the war in Syria explained by the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission. However, this is not settled science, as this claim is wrong. There have been, and there are, conflicts for other very well-known reasons. The causes of wars are […]

Front-line negotiators from more than 190 nations will gather for climate talks in Bonn on Monday. They face a daunting task: bring the 2015 Paris Agreement to life. The rift between rich and developing countries that stymied climate talks for more than two decades before the 2015 accord put all nations on the same page has […]