Category Archives: Democracy and global warming policies

Andrew L. Urban.  The anthropogenic global warming scenario was launched on June 23, 1988 in the US Senate committee with the testimony of James Hansen of NASA. In the Senate, a political not a scientific setting. It’s well to remember … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. “I’ll go on a limb and say I’m probably one of, if not the only person in this room who’s been to Tuvalu. I’ve stood at the most narrow point of Tuvalu and seen the impact of … Continue reading →

In the wake of the estimable Judith Curry’s retirement from the mad climate change biffo (see our report), we pay tribute to her work with this random collection from her speeches, writings and testimonies at governmental hearings. # My quote-shopping … Continue reading →

“Most of climate science has become BORING . . . too much mega-modellingand politicking, and not enough thinking. In any event, I no longer have an interest in writing for the public on these topics,” writes one of the most … Continue reading →

Rigorous new research, published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, trawled through more than 116,000 newspaper articles from 10 influential outlets, both right- and left-leaning, and found systematic fearmongering in their reporting of the six major Assessment … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban  Just last week, I received the latest newsletter from the Australian Academy of Science, with a message from its new President, Prof. Sam Berkovic. After the opening pleasantries, he writes: “I take up the Presidency at a … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban I am sitting at a small table at the rooftop terrace cafe of the Noga Hilton on the famed Croisette in Cannes, The sun sparkles off the Mediterranean below. It’s May 2006 and I’m waiting to interview … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban  Australia is an ongoing feast for the Parisites; these are the Paris agreement-revering organisms that live off or within our national organism, obtaining nourishment and protection while offering no benefit in return. Below is an extract from … Continue reading →

The framework driving IPCC climate modelling has officially ditched the extreme scenarios as implausible, writes Roger Pielke jr in Climate Change Dispatch. The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban The mother of all unchallenged false premises, that fossil fuel emissions drive global warming, has delivered a bastard of policy settings, dumped on a gullible (stupid?) Australia, to nurture. After 30-plus years of wealth-draining activism, the stupidity … Continue reading →