After all was said and done, neither Harvey nor Irma was the "worst" hurricane ever to hit the U.S. CFACT advisor Larry Bell recounts over a century's information on hurricanes in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea, noting that hurricane damages are al;ways catastrophic for those whose lives are uprooted by them.
A close look at the numbers indicates that Bill Nye may actually be promoting skepticism as much as alarmism, maybe even more so. What a hoot!
“Irma reached Cat 3 status over temperatures in the Atlantic that weren’t all that warm.”
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen quotes multiple climate scientists who explain that high-rainfall tropical storms have battered the Texas coast (and Florida) for generations of recorded history (and likely long before). Thus, the efforts to tie Hurricane Harvey to "climate change" are "disgraceful" -- and ignore the reality that Houston was built on impermeable clays and reclaimed swamp lands with a history of subsidence.
The New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) has polled its members on the teaching of "climate change" and a bunch of the respondents seem pretty skeptical.
If Hurricane Irma impacts the United States at category 4 or 5 strength the effects will be devastating. As hurricane winds increase, the force of the wind does not increase linearly, but exponentially. A category 5 storm is not five times more destructive than a category 1 storm. It is 500 times more destructive! Check out the full Saffir-Simpson scale.
"The results are clear: human-induced global warming played an inconsequential role in this disaster."
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen corrects some assumptions in an earlier article about the energy, land, and materials requirements for creating a totally wind-powered United States. The numbers are staggering -- even though based on best-scenario assumptions. The real world situation would likely be much worse. Simply put, the goal of a 100% wind powered nation is a pipe dream.
CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell provides a personal account of the human response to Hurricane Harvey's destruction.
Croplands, habitats, taxes, family budgets, safety sacrificed to enrich a politically connected few?
The U.S. District Court of Northern California blocked the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) postponement of an Obama-era rule regulating royalties paid by energy companies on federal and tribal lands.
The politicized federal "Climate Science Special Report" presents a perfect opportunity for red team blue team fact and science checking.
Sixteen college professors signed a letter urging students to respect everyone's rights to think and speak for themselves.
How many solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars would we have needed to subsidize in order to prevent the tragic flooding of Houston?
CLEAN is the Grand Central Station when it comes to distributing alarmist teaching materials to American students.