Monthly Archives: June 2019

Interesting Review of Political Policy Regarding Climate Issues

This article is worth reading – it provides some balance between the need to address environmental issues; the risk of not addressing those issues, and in balance, the cost that people are willing to pay (in real dollars) to address … Continue reading

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More land that is growing, not sinking. This time, Florida

A factor that is frequently raised among proponents of human-caused global warming is rising sea levels. According to the theory, cities such as Miami, Florida are at risk of being submerged. So, it is always interesting to find scientific studies … Continue reading

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Time Magazine leads with story on Tuvalu sinking, despite evidence to the contrary

Despite the clear evidence that the Pacific Islands en masse are not sinking, Time Magazine has decided to lead this week’s edition with a story from the UN Secretary General highlighting that they are (sinking). How long must we be … Continue reading

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Another forecast of doom

Time and again we are exposed to another article that tells us how long we, as the human race, have before there will be a cataclysmic disaster. Another such paper was prepared in Australia this week, and reported in global … Continue reading

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Largest source of ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet now reversed

The Jakobshavn Isbrae has been the single largest source of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet over the last 20 years. Since 2016 Jakobshavn has been re-advancing, slowing and thickening. Ocean temperatures in the bay’s upper 250 m have cooled … Continue reading

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Glaciers no longer in imminent danger of disappearing

Glacier National Park in Montana had a diorama display with lights showing the retreat of the glaciers. As you watched, lights turned off on a display map, showing the decline of the glaciers. In the park, a sign at the … Continue reading

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Al Gore invited to speak in QLD Australia about climate change

Weather isn’t climate. However, the day that Al Gore landed (to be paid $300,000+ for a presentation), it snowed in Queensland. First snow there in four years. It makes it timely to consider his predictions 2007 ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and … Continue reading

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Impacts of ‘Global Warming’ activism on the poorest of the poor

Without power, life is poor, nasty, brutish and, above all, short. Life expectancy in regions without electricity – sub-Saharan Africa, for instance – is little better than 60 years. In the European countries, it is more like 80 years. Yet … Continue reading

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Shrinking Glacier in Antarctica

From time to time, articles appear relating to the shrinking glaciers and ice melt in Antarctica, and more specifically in West Antarctica. The Pine Island Glacier has been cited as being of concern. The glacier drains an area of Antarctica … Continue reading

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Global Sea Level Rise – no evidence of acceleration since the 1920s

The Heartland Institute has published a paper: Global Sea Level Rise; an Evaluation of the Data. The key finding is that contrary to the IPCC’s statement that it is “very likely” sea-level rise is accelerating, the highest quality coastal tide … Continue reading

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