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Famine Forecasts Foiled: Climate’s Projected Food Production to Increase
Read moreRising temperatures and increasing carbon dioxide are leading to multiple benefits and perhaps the most important of those is increasing crop production. The latest dose of “fake news” about global warming comes from two forecasts of famine due to human activity. Both drew on estimates of extremely high temperatures predicted by the same flawed climate […]
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Ross McKitrick: Global Warming Predictions Have A Big, New Problem — A Reality Check
Read moreLooking at the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity measurements, it might not get as hot some people seem to think One of the most important numbers in the world goes by the catchy title of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, or ECS. It is a measure of how much the climate responds to greenhouse gases. More formally, it is […]
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Pipelines Bottleneck: The Biggest U.S. Oil Patch Is Near Its Limit
Read moreThe biggest U.S. shale region will have to shut wells within four months because there aren’t enough pipelines to get the oil to customers, the head of one of the industry’s largest producers said. The worsening bottleneck in the Permian region that straddles west Texas and New Mexico offers an unexpected fillip to OPEC and […]
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Matt Ridley: My Speech On The Bee Population Scare
Read moreViscount Ridley’s speech in the House of Lords on the Bee Population Scare, 19 June 2018 My Lords, like others, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Bloomfield on securing this debate and join her in paying tribute to the Hymenoptera and other pollinators. I declare my interest as the owner of a farm. Actually, this […]
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Shock, Horror: CO2 Shortage Sparks Fears Over World Cup Beer Supplies
Read moreBeer and fizzy drinks are in danger of falling flat after fears of a shortage of carbon dioxide production in Europe surfaced at the weekend. Concerns about CO2 are usually more about there being too much of the gas. But a shortage among some of the biggest suppliers in north-western Europe has emerged, potentially endangering […]
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John Constable: Speech At The Financial Times Energy Summit
Read moreLast week, on the 14th of June, I spoke in the Lex Debate at the Financial Times Energy Transitions Summit, opposing the motion that “Fossil Fuels are Doomed”, but did not succeed. The text of my debate speech follows. I attended the Summit from 08.45 to 15.30, and was the only platform speaker to use the […]
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Another Green Scare Debunked: Studies Show Groundwater Not Contaminated By Fracking
Read moreNew research suggests drinking water supplies in Pennsylvania have shown resilience in the face of a drilling boom that has turned swaths of countryside into a major production zone for natural gas. Energy companies have drilled more than 11,000 wells since arriving en masse in 2008, making Pennsylvania the nation’s No. 2 gas-producing state after […]
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Pope Francis’s Misguided War on Fossil Fuels
Read moreA world without fossil fuels would be a much more brutal place. Until Pope Francis understands the vital role fossil fuels have and should continue to play around the world, he should stick to saving souls rather than pontificating over peoples’ energy choices. It seems that Pope Francis has learned little since his 2015 papal […]
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Forget Paris: Not A Single EU State Is Meeting Paris Climate Targets
Read moreNot a single EU state is meeting Paris climate targets, a new analysis finds. It’s been close to three years since countries worldwide signed the Paris Agreement, which obligates nations pledge to commit themselves to intending (or something like that) to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to “safeguard the planet’s future”. The language of the […]
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A Conversation with Prof. Richard Lindzen
Read moreRichard Siegmund Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist known for his work in the dynamics of the atmosphere, atmospheric tides, and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books. Prof. Richard Lindzen (in the middle), and his wife Nadine, in the company of Grégoire Canlorbe, in Paris in May 2018 From 1983 until his […]
