Summary
Earth’s climate changes frequently, sometimes beneficially, sometimes disastrously (as during repeated glacial periods and the Little Ice Age of 1350-1850), as a result of shifting and interacting solar, cosmic, oceanic, atmospheric and other forces that we are only beginning to understand. While some continue to insist that human “greenhouse gas” emissions are causing potentially catastrophic changes in climate and weather, growing numbers of scientists say nature, not man, rules the climate and causes changes of varying extent and significance every few decades, centuries and millennia.
Humans, plants and wildlife have survived and even prospered during past climate changes – and will continue to do so. Indeed, our technology and wealth will make people and civilizations much better able to prepare for and adapt to most climate changes, although another Pleistocene-scale ice age would devastate northern cities, decimate agricultural production, and drive human and species migrations.
Computer models are helpful for improving our understanding of how weather and climate systems work and change over time. However, because they are based on poor data and false, questionable or simplistic premises, they are useless in forecasting future climate and weather. Moreover, actual temperature and weather data demonstrate that alarmist warnings of dangerous global warming are not supported by reality. Regulating carbon dioxide may be profitable for certain industries and governments, but will impose enormous costs on society – while having no effect on our weather and climate.
Today, the real danger is laws and policies implemented in a misplaced belief that humans can control or prevent climate change. These policies raise energy costs, kill jobs, impose especially heavy burdens on poor families, and make it hard for still impoverished nations to develop, provide affordable energy, create jobs, and improve lives and living standards. Moreover, even drastic reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions will mean nothing globally, because China, India and other developing nations are now emitting far more CO2 than the United States could eliminate even by shutting down its economy.
FAQ
Our Climate Change Truth File Q&A contains answers to a broad range of questions about global warming science and policy.
CFACT Reports
The Science and Global Politics of Climate Change
Lord Christopher Monckton’s “The Science and Global Politics of Climate Change” is a 30 page special report written for heads of state and government, cabinet officials, and national legislators. It provides pragmatic, factual insight into climate science, economics and policy, and offers sensible, straightforward, affordable answers to the key questions now before the international community.
The world faces many real environmental problems. In any view, however, “global warming” is not one of them. Science shows that the world will not warm dangerously. Even if warming were to prove severe, focused adaptation to its consequences would be the most cost-effective approach.
Taxing or regulating carbon – however profitable it might be for the Armageddon industry and for cash-hungry governments – would make little measurable difference to the climate, and at a disproportionately extravagant cost – all pain, no gain.
A-Z Climate Reality Check
As the real world evidence mounts that global warming claims are failing, the climate activists have ramped up predictions of future climate change impacts to declare that it “worse than we thought.” Marc Morano, editor of CFACT’s Climate Depot, compiled a special report entitled “A-Z Climate Reality Check” that shatters any such illusions that the climate is “worse than we thought.”
The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim — from A-Z — the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing, and in many instances the claims are moving in the opposite direction. The global warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts. This Climate Depot special report categorizes and indexes the full range of climate developments in a handy A-Z reference guide. The A-Z report includes key facts, peer-reviewed studies and the latest data and developments with links for further reading, on an exhaustive range of man-made global warming claims.
Recent Articles
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Relax. It’s not Global Warming ‘End Times’
Despite the man-made global warming fear movement’s clarion call of alarm, many scientists are dismissing the 400ppm level of carbon dioxide as a non-event. Scientists point out that there are literally hundreds of factors that govern Earth’s climate and temperature – not just CO2.
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A chill in the air for crony climate cash?
Within the past two years, at least seven peer-reviewed studies published in the scientific literature have concluded that the influence of doubling the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is likely to be substantially lower than IPCC has determined and have ruled out the high-end projections.
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New report: Obesity promotes global warming
You’ve heard that being overweight can lead to diabetes and high blood pressure, but how about global warming? Probably not, but in a peculiar new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology some researchers actually proposed such a bizarre linkage.
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Earth Day’s Big Lie
A global propaganda campaign will glorify Earth Day and its message is that you must change your life to accommodate the lies that sustain the environmental movement and permit government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency to strangle the economic life of the nation.
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Listen Now: Climate Depot’s Morano Unleashed in One hour UK interview!
CFACT’s Marc Morano unleashed on global warming in a one hour interview with UK podcaster.
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Melting Greenland’s glaciers to fight global warming?
When you hear about melting glaciers in Greenland, you probably think this a result of manmade global warming. But more and more scientists are coming to an understanding that Greenland’s ice sheet has been naturally melting for millennia. . .
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Britain narrowly escapes winter blackouts
For years, many have warned of the energy havoc that could be wrought by global warming hysteria. Great Britain barely avoided such chaos this past winter when one million homes narrowly escaped a blackout during Britain’s 5th harsh winter in a row.
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CERN study may provide vital answers on clouds
One of the biggest questions surrounding climate change is the cause and effect of clouds, which have an enormous impact on temperature.
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Who Released The Climategate Emails And Why
Unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) network.
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Climategate 3.0 “Mr. FOIA’s” full message
Read Mr. FOIA’s message.
Climategate 3.0 is set to rock the global warming establishment. 220,000 encrypted emails which document what goes on behind the scenes at team global warming are suddenly decrypted and free for the public to view. What they reveal is not pretty. How unsettling.
Who is this masked FOIA and how can we thank him?
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Morano vs. Mann on the BBC
In this corner….. Marc “The Godfather” Morano. In the other corner….. Michael “Hockey Schtick” Mann. Hear it now, while you still can!
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What A Surprise To See You Here
Tweet Tweet The party season has started. In about a month, Rio will be crowded by politicians and hooligans for [...]
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Scary Monsters
Tweet Tweet During my years in the climate debate, I’ve been called all sorts of things. Climate Hater, Weather Denier, [...]
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Yet Another Panel
Tweet Tweet When I was a kid, we were told that pollution was the worst threat to the world. This [...]
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Remember Remember – Last November
Tweet Tweet by Einar Du Rietz How can we ever forget the Climate-gate scandal that erupted right in time for the [...]
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Let the Auction Begin
Tweet Tweet by Einar Du Rietz The – most likely – last preparatory conference before Cancun kicks off today in [...]
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A carbon tax would destroy America
If you want to know what a carbon tax on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would do to America you need only look at the destruction of industry and business in Australia, along with the soaring costs for energy use it imposes on anyone there.
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Carbon tax would cost U.S. one million jobs
Proponents of a proposed carbon tax claim it would be revenue neutral, but Ph.D. economist David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation disagrees…
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Obama: Cap and tax and kill the economy!
Instead of more Solyndras and Chevy Volts, we would prefer the 800,000 barrels of oil a day and the estimated 343,000 new U.S. jobs by 2015 if Keystone XL is allowed to proceed.
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Cap-and-trade our cars?
Cap-and-trade regulation to limit carbon dioxide emissions was rejected by Congress. But did you know federal agencies have applied it to cars?
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Will the GOP really grill John Kerry?
Senator Kerry, based on your record of investing with KPCB, we have every reason to believe that, as Secretary of State, you will push forward a clean energy agenda, one that moves climate change to center stage; a top-tier priority—and this will financially benefit your family and friends.
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The carbon trading money tree
When it appears easy to make a lot of money from something simple then in all probability something is wrong. The economic rules which govern the world usually dictate that it is not easy to make a lot of money with not much effort.
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Are IPI and EPA plotting cap-and-trade for transportation fuels?
IPI Executive Director Michael Livermore demands that the EPA “make a finding” that transportation emissions might endanger public welfare, “propose a cap-and-trade system” for transportation fuels, find that aircraft fuels “endanger” public health, “propose a joint rulemaking with the Federal Aviation Administration” to include aircraft fuels in the cap-and-trade scheme, and finalize the regulations within 90 days!
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Governor Moonbeam: Pay up on warming or find another planet
California Governor Jerry Brown warns us to address global warming or prepare to live on “another planet.” No, this is no spoof – just the latest prattle from California’s unconventional Governor affectionately known as “Moonbeam.”
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Relax. It’s not Global Warming ‘End Times’
Despite the man-made global warming fear movement’s clarion call of alarm, many scientists are dismissing the 400ppm level of carbon dioxide as a non-event. Scientists point out that there are literally hundreds of factors that govern Earth’s climate and temperature – not just CO2.
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A chill in the air for crony climate cash?
Within the past two years, at least seven peer-reviewed studies published in the scientific literature have concluded that the influence of doubling the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is likely to be substantially lower than IPCC has determined and have ruled out the high-end projections.
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New report: Obesity promotes global warming
You’ve heard that being overweight can lead to diabetes and high blood pressure, but how about global warming? Probably not, but in a peculiar new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology some researchers actually proposed such a bizarre linkage.
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Listen Now: Climate Depot’s Morano Unleashed in One hour UK interview!
CFACT’s Marc Morano unleashed on global warming in a one hour interview with UK podcaster.
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Melting Greenland’s glaciers to fight global warming?
When you hear about melting glaciers in Greenland, you probably think this a result of manmade global warming. But more and more scientists are coming to an understanding that Greenland’s ice sheet has been naturally melting for millennia. . .
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CERN study may provide vital answers on clouds
One of the biggest questions surrounding climate change is the cause and effect of clouds, which have an enormous impact on temperature.
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Reports show global temperatures leveling off
Climate change skeptics are doing a bit of gloating following a series of mainstream media reports that acknowledge what those skeptics have long held — the earth is not warming, at least not in the last 10 years.
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Rush Limbaugh touts Climate Depot
Rush Limbaugh praised CFACT’s Marc Morano and Climate Depot on the air yesterday.