Carbon Taxes: Real Misery, Imaginary Results
Carbon taxes aren’t merely pointless, they’re regressive. Politicians earn ‘green’ cred by making life worse for the poor.
Bob Carter: Scientist, Mentor, Extraordinary Human Being
A shining beacon of how to lead by example, I am fortunate to have crossed paths with him.
Beware the Green Lobby
Nothing we do to protect the environment will ever be good enough. Like the Nazgûl in The Lord of the Rings, green lobbyists are relentless.
Climate Question of the Year
Why aren’t we celebrating last week’s Paris climate deal? Where’s the joy and the gratitude – the dancing in the streets and the fireworks?
The IPCC’s Post-Paris Political Rallying Cry
IPCC official Chris Field claims the latest IPCC report set the stage for a Paris climate deal. An e-mail he sent colleagues three days ago is pure politics.
Paris and the Poor
Rich countries that try to meet their Paris commitments will spend huge amounts of money replacing cheap, higher-emissions energy sources with expensive, lower-emissions sources. This will harm the poor and do nothing for the climate.
As the Paris Climate Summit Fades Into History, A Real News Story
A US Senate committee hears that climate science is so intolerant and close-minded, the integrity and reputation of science itself is threatened.
The Climate Show Carries On
The Paris climate summit is a gigantic photo op – where ineffectual political leaders will pretend to be environmental superheroes.
(includes details of my Dec. 2 talk in Paris)
21 Days Until Paris
Millions of children perish each year, but world leaders think a problem that’s unlikely to become worrisome for decades is the world’s most pressing concern.
(photo credit UNICEF: http://tinyurl.com/pekcx2g)
Journalist Philippe Verdier Terminated (No Climate Free Speech, Part 6)
French weatherman Philippe Verdier is a free speech hero, a heretic whose livelihood has been stolen by the intolerant Church of Climate Change.
Flagrant Climate PR from the Australian Associated Press
A polar explorer is falsely described as a climate scientist in a news story; his activist connections aren’t reported.
Private Jet Airport Hosts Paris Climate Summit
December’s climate conference is being held on the grounds of Europe’s busiest private jet airport. If we were serious about fighting climate change, wouldn’t private jets have been banned long ago?
The Courts & the Climate
What lessons does the environment arm of the United Nations intend to learn from the Chief Justice of Malaysia – whose court has been condemned by Amnesty International?
(includes links to other voices on the proper role of courts in the climate debate)
The Unseemly Lord Carnwath
Why is a Supreme Court judge part of an unsavoury UN advisory panel?
Supreme Court Justice Carnwath: Climate Activist
A sitting UK Supreme Court judge took part in a Rio+20 event that said the UN (a political body) should be given more scope & authority.
Climate Secrets at the UK Supreme Court
Organizers of a climate conference co-sponsored by the UK Supreme Court won’t reveal who attended, how much the event cost, or how many participants had their airfare paid by the United Nations.
RICO20 Letter to President Obama Disappears
The institute that published a letter demanding mobster-style investigations of non-mainstream climate views has removed it. But the letter was archived in at least three other places.
Silencing Dissent Via the Courts (No Climate Free Speech, Part 4)
A British academic wants an international court to declare climate skeptics wrong, once and for all.
Silencing Dissent Via the Police (No Climate Free Speech, Part 3)
20 American academics think unorthodox climate views should be subjected to an organized crime investigation.
In League with the Devil (No Climate Free Speech, Part 2)
Climate activists have redefined the venerable concept of free speech. According to them, it means the polar opposite of what John Stuart Mill famously wrote about.
No Climate Free Speech – Part 1
Climate activists are behaving like tyrants. If my four-year-old acted this way, I’d be worried.
3 Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC
Slides and text of my presentation to the World Federation of Scientists, 20 Aug. 2015.
See You in September (And a Few Words About the Pope)
New material won’t be added to this blog until Autumn. You are invited to explore the six-years-worth of content already published here – as well as my two books.
Will Rajendra Pachauri Be Held Accountable by Green Activists?
The environmental movement routinely demands accountability from third parties. When will it acknowledge the creepy sexual misconduct of one of its leaders?
Pachauri Accuser ‘Vindicated’
The former head of the IPCC has long posed as a saviour of the planet. In reality, he’s been a systematic sexual predator – the kind of boss no young woman should have to endure.
Petition to Oust Pachauri
People who once worked at Rajendra Pachauri’s TERI aren’t surprised by the sexual allegations leveled against him.
Kofi Annan’s Infantile Climate Morality
The disgraced former head of the UN smears skeptics while ignoring the dubious motivations of green opportunists.
The Nobel Lie That Just Won’t Die
The Guardian newspaper once again wrongly calls Rajendra Pachauri a Nobel laureate. For good measure, it publishes a photo of him looking pious – while neglecting to mention the serious sexual offenses for which he is being investigated.
Indian Courts to Pachauri: No Travel For You
A man who used to joke that he lived “at 30,000 feet” is well and truly grounded. This week two courts denied the former IPCC chairman permission to leave the country.
The United Nations’ Fake News Machine
A UN official delivers a speech. An account of that speech is written up to look like a news story. It gets published on a website funded by the UN. Casual readers are unlikely to appreciate that this is 100% spin.
Court Rejects Pachauri, Water Summit Still Says He’ll Be Keynote Speaker
A lawyer for Rajendra Pachauri says that preventing the former IPCC chairman from delivering a speech at a trade show in Greece will damage India’s image and harm Pachauri’s reputation.
Do Science Bodies Know Whereof They Speak?
The American Geophysical Union is led by a climate evangelist with zero climate science credentials. When the American Physical Society produced its latest climate statement, it failed to consult members with the most relevant expertise.
Climate Change Special Interests Condemn Special Interests
Many of the scientists who signed an open letter against museums taking money from special interests are themselves linked to special interests. Part 3 of 3.
Scientists Object to Intellectual Freedom
Libraries define intellectual freedom as the public’s right to examine all points-of-view. These climate scientists are trying to stifle alternative perspectives. Part 2 of 3.
Another Reason Pachauri’s Book May Be Disappearing
A passage in his 2010 novel makes it clear the former IPCC chairman understands that it’s wrong for an older male boss to hit on a young woman new to his organization.
Pachauri vs the Police
New Delhi police say the former IPCC chairman is violating his bail conditions by hampering their investigation and influencing witnesses.
Pachauri’s TERI: Not a Safe Place for Women
Men who try to get women into bed via premature, extravagant professions of love aren’t uncommon. But only bosses who view female employees as their personal harem try this within days of a woman joining an organization.
My Interview with India’s Sify News
The Indian media is examining the wider implications of Rajendra Pachauri’s resignation while Western journalists pretend not to see the sex scandal.
An Open Letter to the Men of TERI
TERI women have summoned the courage to speak up about the nature of their workplace. Will TERI’s men step forward and do their part?
Pachauri Talks Ethics in Gender Justice Book
Invited to deliver a lecture in memory of a talented and successful feminist judge, Rajendra Pachauri didn’t think her half of humanity was worth mentioning.
Rajendra Pachauri & International Women’s Day
Why is a man accused of egregious sexual harassment still the chancellor of a university? Why is he still on a UNESCO panel when that entity says gender equality is a global priority?
Pachauri’s Sofa
Electronic messages cited in a Delhi police report tell the story of a spirited young woman who effectively lost her job because she wouldn’t let her boss grope her.
Rajendra Pachauri’s Resignation Letter
The resignation letter of the IPCC chairman is a two-page love letter to himself – in which he openly admits that saving the planet is his ‘religion’. The world’s most important climate body has not been led by a dispassionate scientist.
Woman #2’s Story
Rajendra Pachauri’s TERI institute appears to be a workplace in which female employees are habitually invited to spend private time with the boss.
More Women Accuse Pachauri
Additional women are stepping forward with tales of inappropriate behaviour on the part of Rajendra Pachauri, who has chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002.
Chairman Pachauri’s Messy Messages
Texts and emails allegedly sent by IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri tell a disturbing tale. Months after a female subordinate objected repeatedly and strenuously to his sexual advances, the head of a UN body continued to physically and electronically stalk her.
Indian Court Rejects Pachauri Publication Ban
An Indian court has ruled against Rajendra Pachauri and in favour of press freedom. The IPCC chairman sought to prevent the media from reporting on a police investigation concerning allegations of sexual misconduct.
Police Ponder Pachauri Assault & Stalking Charges
IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri is being investigated under four sections of the Indian Penal Code. Maximum prison sentences of two, three, and seven years apply.
Sex Allegations Against IPCC’s Pachauri
According to a police complaint, one of the biggest names in climate science grabbed, touched, and forcibly kissed a female subordinate in the workplace.
Health Care or Climate Change?
A health care system in crisis. A $300 billion debt. Yet this government is worried about climate change.
Fanatics for Mother Gaia
French philosopher Pascal Bruckner says fundamentalist eco activists are steering society in a scary direction.
By Their Language We Shall Know Them
People who employ the word ‘denier’ in a climate context are silencing normal, healthy debate.
Pachauri Jury Gives Own Member an Award
Tasked with assessing the achievements of others, a jury that includes IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri heaps honour on one of its own.
Murder & Misinformation
Ordinary citizens have been force-fed a diet of dubious climate claims. Is it a surprise that some people now equate climate skepticism with murder?
Grandkids Deserve Living Grandparents
More people routinely die from excess cold than from heat waves. While we spend trillions attempting to avert a slightly warmer world decades hence, seniors who can’t afford to adequately heat their homes are perishing.
Greenpeace, Auschwitz & Mass Murder
A Greenpeace activist thinks ‘the world would be a better place’ without a journalist who questions climate orthodoxy. Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, he says we’d ‘solve a great deal of the world’s problems by chopping off everyone’s heads.’
When Journalists Question Catastrophe
Unlike most journalists, Matt Ridley has done PhD-level work in the sciences. He has served as science editor for the Economist. One would think his views on the climate debate deserve a fair hearing. Instead, he is pilloried by climate extremists.
Greenpeace: We Spit on Your Sacred Spaces
Greenpeace activists have no respect for what others hold sacred – whether it’s Peru’s Nazca lines or a Roman Catholic cross in Canada.
When Emissions Disappear, So Do Jobs
The dirty little secret behind every pie-in-the-sky climate measure is that when emissions disappear, so do jobs, economic opportunities, and human well-being.
IPCC Links New Report to Sneering Stephen Schneider
The world’s most important climate body dedicates its new document to a rude, intolerant, highly politicized climate crusader.
Waking Up from the Green Nightmare
A scathing critique of anti-human environmentalism, by a prominent French philosopher, is now an affordable e-book.
Medical Journals Undermine Their Own Credibility
Recent articles about the Middle East and climate change published in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal demonstrate that even medicine is being contaminated by politics. This is dangerous and unprofessional.
The Royal Society & the Scottish Referendum
Why has the president of the world’s oldest science body issued a statement about Scotland’s independence vote? Why go near that thoroughly political question with a 10-foot pole?
Who Signed the Climate Declaration?
The European Environment Foundation doesn’t make it easy to analyze the names of the 160 individuals who signed last week’s climate declaration. Part 4 of 4
Saving Civilization: 2009 vs 2015
Five years ago, we were told that the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit was the last chance to save civilization. As the 2015 Paris summit approaches, the same sort of fear mongering is ramping up. Part 3 of 4
More Dubious Eco Laureates
Green energy lobbyists pretending to be eco prize winners have signed a climate change declaration. Its real purpose is to secure more green energy funding. Part 2 of 4
About Those 160 Eco Laureates
A full-page advertisement in the New York Times falsely claims that 160 signatories to a climate declaration are all “environmental prize winners.” Part 1 of 4
The WMO’s Macabre Climate Fiction
Rather than persuading us with reason and logic, the World Meteorological Organization has recruited TV weather presenters to deliver pretend weather reports from the year 2050.
Tiny Imaginations, Big Egos
We’re told that fewer butterflies is something to be alarmed about – and to blame humanity for. But change is normal and natural.
Screw the Poor, Our Eyes are Fixed on Tomorrow
Why are we not one-tenth as concerned about real children dying needlessly right now as we are about hypothetical future climate change?
Obama, Coal & Climate
Will the American president throw thousands of US coal miners out-of-work in an utterly futile climate change gesture?
Whither Intellectual Freedom?
Bigotry and intolerance from scientific colleagues lead a Swedish scientist to resign from an advisory role with the UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation. If exploring alternative climate perspectives is verboten, genuine scientific inquiry has ceased to exist.
Delusions Climatic & Otherwise @ the New York Times
The New York Times publishes pablum about the IPCC.
The IPCC, the Police & Greenpeace
Greenpeace isn’t anti-establishment anymore. Now it’s just another arm of the authoritarian, UN green machine.
The IPCC: Bar the Media, Welcome the Activists
In Berlin this week, environmental activists were allowed to attend a four-day meeting that journalists were denied access to. This is normal IPCC procedure.
The WWF Activist in Charge at the IPCC
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the marine biologist who led the IPCC’s Ocean chapter, is a full-blown environmental activist. He recently wrote a politicized foreword to a WWF brochure, and has a long history of employment with both the WWF and Greenpeace.
Bleeding Edge Research in the New IPCC Report
In one chapter alone, IPCC personnel relied on unpublished studies 21 times to make their case.
The IPCC: Providing ‘Hope for Our Earth’
An IPCC document produced for its meeting in Yokohama uses emphatically activist language. What happened to the scientific body delivering a scientific report based on scientific research?
UN Employees as IPCC Authors
The IPCC’s Chapter 7 was not written by neutral, dispassionate scholars. Three UN employees are among its authors.
Conflict-of-Interest in the IPCC’s New Chapter 7
As a journal guest editor, IPCC lead author Andrew Challinor approved the publication of 9 research papers that are now being cited as evidence in his IPCC chapter.
The Supposedly ‘Conservative’ IPCC Thwarts its Own Safeguards
The upcoming Working Group 2 report wasn’t thoroughly scrutinized by hundreds of external reviewers. Those people saw only early versions of the report. Unpublished research findings were still being incorporated months later.
The Climate Change Express: Ignoring Your Views at Every Meal
Ordinary people don’t care about climate change. How many times do they have to say so?
Bob Ward’s Despicable Harassment Campaign
If someone was systematically writing to journals that had published your work, making false allegations against you, would you be concerned?
Woodrow Clark: Thin Nobel Gruel
A fake Nobel keynote speaker played an embarrassingly minor role in the IPCC.
Green Energy Trade Show Hires Fake Nobel Laureate
A press release issued this week falsely describes economist Woodrow Clark as a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Skepticism Used to be a Scientific Virtue
20 years ago, scientific superstar Carl Sagan urged us to use our brains – to be actively skeptical.
Judith Curry, Free Speech Champion
A climatologist urges her community to stop defending Michael Mann.
Government Tells Public They’re Morons
Ontario energy minister says we should wear sweaters in winter.
Video Interview: Activists & the UN Climate Process
In a 23-minute interview, filmed in the UK last month, I talk about activists and the UN’s climate process.
Wind Energy Meeting Silences the Public
Government-mandated wind project meetings are supposed to be about two-way communication. But no questions from the public are allowed, and the notice period is ridiculously short.
A Historical Perspective on Hysterical Rhetoric
Environmental activists have been declaring that the sky is falling since at least 1948. We aren’t the first generation to care – or to be raised on eco scare stories.
The Church of Global Warming’s Changing Catechism
15 months ago, it was a sin to declare out loud that the global temperature was no longer rising. Today, the IPCC, the UK Met office, and mainstream researchers are all admitting the obvious.
UK Adventure
Having touched down in London, I’m chuckling over a Charles Krauthammer column titled Stop Jerking Canada Around.
Neil Young’s Hiroshima – Exhibit #10 in the Drama Queen Files
Rockstar’s rhetoric about Canada’s oil sands is intemperate, offensive, and ill-informed.
The WWF: Still Donning the Science Costume
Why doesn’t the World Wildlife Fund argue for its vision based solely on that vision’s merits?
Five Years Later
My first thoughts about the climate change debate were written five years ago today.
The Global Warming Prophecy
At the heart of the climate change movement is the belief that we will be punished for our sins.
Warmth: Another Word for Well-Being
Rather than bringing pine logs to the poor, 21st-century energy policies do the exact opposite. More children now shiver in the cold.
Doubting is Thinking – a Blog from Spain
In California, low-income car buyers are subsidizing the top 1% who purchase Tesla electric vehicles.
IPCC Called a ‘Global Thinker of 2013’
The editors of Foreign Policy magazine inhabit a fairy tale world of planet-saving superheroes and wicked climate deniers.
IPCC Officials Keen to Remake the World
UN climate panel leaders don’t behave in a “policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive” manner.
Does the IPCC Do Science?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes itself as a “scientific body.” Where in its multi-year, multi-thousand-page bureaucratic report-writing process is science actually practiced?
That Silly Anti-Coal Speech
In the National Post today I argue that the extreme anti-coal stance of UN officials and green activists harms both people and the environment.
Independent Greenpeace? Never Mind
Greenpeace makes a show of rejecting government and corporate money. But it’s close pals with the WWF – which gets enormous funding from exactly those sources.
UN Climate Fanatics
According to Ban Ki-moon, the latest IPCC report vaporized climate skepticism.
Climate Skepticism in Norway
There should be spaces in our communities where climate skeptics can speak freely. A group in Norway is an excellent example.
The Creepy Climate Conference
After frisking us for explosives, the UN repeatedly assures us that we’re good people.
Ad Featuring Roger Pulwarty Withdrawn
York University is no longer running an ad that mistakenly implied that one of its graduates is a Peace Prize laureate.
IPCC Author Stars in Sleazy, Fake Nobel Ad Campaign
A York University advertising campaign falsely implies that Roger Pulwarty has won a Nobel Peace Prize.
IPCC Summary: The Real Story
Media outlets remain oblivious to the IPCC’s tainted-by-activism personnel.
Canadian MP Withdraws False Nobel Claim
Kirsty Duncan no longer describes herself as a “Nobel Peace Prize laureate” on her Facebook page. But she’s still being falsely advertised in that manner on the Celebrity Speakers website.
The IPCC: Looking 95% Foolish
As the gap between its models and reality has grown, the IPCC has become more adamant that its conclusions are correct – rather than more cautious.
The Three Languages of Politics
People see the world differently. If we’re going to do more than preach to our respective choirs in the climate debate, we need to recognize this.
Greenpeace’s Menacing ‘Angry Kid’
Does a responsible organization make videos in which children call adults enemies?
Kirsty Duncan: Canada’s Fake Nobel Laureate Member of Parliament
Kirsty Duncan’s Facebook page says she’s been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Being 1 of 39 people involved in one chapter (out of 11) of an obscure report is apparently all it takes.
What Is Christiana Figueres Thinking?
It is improper for a UN official to criticize Australia’s 6-week-old election results.
Think You Know Greenpeace? Look Again
An urgent public health crisis exists. An effective, humanitarian response is available. But rather than pitching in and helping to save lives, Greenpeace is attacking the aid workers.
Fake Nobel Laureates & the White House
What happens to people who claim to be Peace Prize winners even though they aren’t? They get a job at the White House.
Official Launch of FakeNobelLaureates.com
Michael Mann’s boss at Penn State University – Dean William Easterling – falsely claims to be a Nobel laureate on his CV.
The IPCC Report as Ink Blot Test
What do Greenpeace and the Natural History Museum have in common? They both employ people with impaired reading comprehension skills.
Greenpeace & the IPCC Report
Greenpeace says 95% certainty is the same as 100% certainty. Tell that to people who die on the operating table.
2 Arctic Circle Fake Nobel Laureates
According to the agenda of an upcoming conference, three Nobel laureates will be participating. But only one of them is genuine.
Fake Nobel Laureate Steve Running
Like those sad souls who walk around with military medals they themselves didn’t earn on their chests, a forestry professor continues to bask in undeserved glory.
10 Pages of IPCC Science Mistakes?
Political manipulation of a scientific document – or pages upon pages of newly-discovered scientific errors? You decide.
The Bad Novel and the New Climate Report
Pachauri’s 2010 work of fiction and the credibility of the IPCC’s 2013-2014 climate report are now inextricably linked.
9,000 Nobel Pretenders
The unadorned truth was door number one. Cringe-worthy exaggeration was door number two. The IPCC made the wrong call.
Why the IPCC Meeting Isn’t Being Televised
Scientific truth isn’t negotiated in the dead of night behind closed doors.
My ‘Wall Street Journal’ Op-Ed
There are many reasons to distrust the UN’s climate panel. Let’s start with political meddling and authors linked to green lobby groups.
The IPCC’s Political Chairman
It may not be wise to judge a book by its cover, but it’s entirely appropriate to judge an organization by its leader.
Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 5)
Rather than speaking truth to power, activists have been parroting claims by the establishment that the IPCC chairman is a Nobel Prize winner.
‘Nature’ Spin Elevates Third-Tier IPCC Official to Chair
With attention focused on the IPCC’s imminent Working Group 1 report, a prestigious science journal has published a misleadingly-headlined profile of Working Group 3 co-chair, Ottmar Edenhofer.
Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 4)
Multiple UN entities falsely describe the chairman of the IPCC as a Nobel prize winner.
On Journalism, Skepticism & a Lawsuit
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical of everything and everyone.
Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 3)
The day after the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the Office of the Prime Minister of Norway made false declarations about the head of the IPCC.
Suzanne Goldenberg: Eco Activist Disguised as a Journalist
The Guardian‘s environment correspondent couldn’t be more one-sided if she herself were on the IPCC’s payroll.
Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 2)
Why has Yale University promulgated the fiction that the chairman of the IPCC is a Nobel laureate?
Rajendra Pachauri, Fake Nobel Laureate (Part 1)
Why does the New York Academy of Sciences falsely call the chairman of the IPCC a Nobel laureate?
PR Firm Enlisted to Convince Leaders to Ignore Public
The UN’s Climate Secretariat will get free PR advice so it can inspire politicians to take action. But the UN’s own survey says the public ranks climate change last among 16 priorities.
The Important “50 to 1” Project
Nine new videos provide fresh insight into the climate debate. These reasonable voices, representing diverse perspectives, deserve to be heard.
Mark Jaccard Re-Writes History
A Simon Fraser University economist declared, on his blog in May, “I have never spoken or written of myself as a Nobel laureate.” After I unearthed written testimony to the contrary, he quietly rewrote the post, removing that denial.
WWF Partners With Country Where Rape Victims Are Jailed
Any country in which a woman finds herself sentenced to 16 months after reporting a rape is barbaric and deserves to be shunned. Instead, the WWF is burnishing the image of this oppressive regime.
When Name-Calling Passes for Journalism
What journalism has now come to: calling industries you don’t like outlaws, rogues, and evaders of ‘climate justice.’
The IPCC Chairman’s Fake Second PhD
Rajendra Pachauri holds only one PhD – not two, as his official IPCC bio claims.
Pachauri’s Latest Award: Can You Say Conflict-of-Interest?
An organization headed by a senior IPCC official (Working Group 3 Vice-Chair, Carlo Carraro) has ranked TERI, an organization headed by the IPCC’s chairman, first in the world.
David Suzuki: Canada is ‘Full’
Some people really do care more about “Mother Nature” than human beings.
Some Kind of Narcissism: WWF Says It’s Saving Life Itself
When the World Wildlife Fund began, it aspired merely to ensure the well-being of particular species of animals. It now imagines that life itself would vanish without it.
The Earth League: Self-Important, Self-Appointed Busybodies
Once again, people described as “leading scientists” turn out to be economists, UN officials, and those with links to activist organizations.
Proof the UN Doesn’t Believe There’s a Climate Crisis
Five years after they said they’d get right on it, more than one-quarter of UN organizations have done nothing about their carbon footprint.