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Sure, the Earth has been warming for 200 years since the end of the little ice age. On the other hand, increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere must not be a major factor, given that the latest warmng tren lasted from about 19745 through 1998, while the small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to rise little by litt.e
During this hot, wet summer, a “national climate expert” recently told Delawareans that they can expect even hotter summers – with a climate like Savannah, Georgia’s – by the end of the century. The culprit, naturally: runaway global warming.
The ground hadn’t stopped shaking. Tsunami waters had not receded. And yet coverage of this awful natural disaster – a scene of almost unfathomable devastation and death – was already giving way to single-minded focus on radiation exposure and meltdowns.
The recent cold and snowy weather across much of the U.S. reminded us that driving in winter conditions can be quite challenging. But according to an article in the Washington Post, owners of electric cars may be facing some additional bone-chilling realities since batteries run down much more quickly in cold temperatures. A change of just 10 degrees can sap 50% of a battery’s output, and running the heater to stay warm or the car radio to stay informed can drain the battery even further. Adding insult to injury, drivers could come home to find their power off, meaning [...]
Global warming alarm was back in the news recently when the Natural Resources Defense Council claimed that hotter temperatures will soon lead to sharp rises in air pollution. But according to Joel Schwartz writing for Tech Central Station, these claims ignore some obvious facts. For starters, the NRDC used emissions levels from the mid-1990's to predict future smog, even though those levels have dropped by 25 to 50% over the last 10 years alone and will continue to plummet. But when you also consider the national average of smog alerts has also declined tremendously over recent decades during a [...]
Recently newspapers around the world trumpeted the alarm that glaciers in Greenland were melting at a rapid pace because of global warming. But according to the website Junkscience.com, its these pronouncements that need to be thawed out. For example, a study in the journal Science reported just last fall that, after examining the Greenland ice sheet from 1992-2003 using sophisticated radar devices, some Norwegian scientists actually discovered the glaciers in the interior landmass were growing by 5.4 centimeters per year, not shrinking. With even the worse scenarios showing it would take at least a millennium to melt Greenland's ice [...]
Global warming alarm was back in the news recently when the Natural Resources Defense Council claimed that hotter temperatures will soon lead to sharp rises in air pollution. But according to Joel Schwartz writing for Tech Central Station, these claims ignore some obvious facts. For starters, the NRDC used emissions levels from the mid-1990's to predict future smog, even though those levels have dropped by 25 to 50% over the last 10 years alone and will continue to plummet. But when you also consider the national average of smog alerts has also declined tremendously over recent decades during a [...]
Global warming alarm was back in the news recently when the Natural Resources Defense Council claimed that hotter temperatures will soon lead to sharp rises in air pollution. But according to Joel Schwartz writing for Tech Central Station, these claims ignore some obvious facts. For starters, the NRDC used emissions levels from the mid-1990's to predict future smog, even though those levels have dropped by 25 to 50 percent over the last 10 years alone and will continue to plummet. But when you also consider the national average of smog alerts has also declined tremendously over recent decades during a [...]
In the mysterious jungle known as the Amazon, legend had itthere lived a Golden King named El Dorado said to be so rich thateach day he used gold dust to adorn his royal body. For GonzaloPizarro, brother of the famous conqueror of the Incas, this visionwas more than he could bear. So in 1540, setting off with 4,000Indians, 200 horses, 3,000 swine, and packs of hunting dogs,Pizarro breached the Eastern edge of the great jungle and began hisquest to find and pillage El Dorado and his land of the cinnamonforests. Pizarro, of course, never did find the Golden King. And afterthrowing [...]
CFACT Briefing Paper #102 From movies to classrooms to the nightly news, Americans are constantly being told that of the world's environmental "crises," the staggering loss of tropical rainforest, and Amazon rainforest in particular, is right up there at the top. Pictures of charred remains of once lush jungles flicker before our eyes, we are shown the exotic plants and wild species that are being made homeless by the chainsaw and the flame, and numbers likened to one football field per second are used to describe this devastating loss. As a result of this, we are told that the tropical rainforests [...]