Study: Obama ‘war on coal’ responsible for 84% of decline in coal use

The rise of cheap natural gas from fracking only reduced coal use by an estimated 16%.

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Boom… fish farms debunk ‘ocean acidification’ alarm

” In contrast, the aquaculture industry was farming aquatic animals at CO2 levels that far exceed end-of-century climate change projections (sometimes >10 000 μatm) long before the term ‘ocean acidification’ was coined, with limited detrimental effects reported.”

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Oops… West Antarctic ice sheet melting as far back as 1940s

Pine Island Glacier is nearly two-thirds the size of the UK or the size of Texas. So what’s the cause since CO2 was only around 310 ppm in the 1940s?

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Trump defends climate skepticism in New York Times meeting

Claims to the contrary are “fake news.” The full transcript is below.

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Claim: A warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2

Nice graph. But can you see what’s wrong with it?

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Claim: Carbon-hungry plants impede growth rate of atmospheric CO2

Yet another excuse for the global warming pause — i.e., the plants did it.

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Steve Milloy a ‘Top 10 Climate Denier’

According to the web site for Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate movie, that is.

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Predicting when the Arctic will be ice-free

The birth of a new warmist factoid. Continue reading Predicting when the Arctic will be ice-free

Wow… Seattle Times edited James Hansen’s description of cap-and-trade from ‘bribes’ to ‘politics’

The Seattle Times doesn’t want anyone — especially James Hansen — to sully the image of Washington State’s proposed carbon tax. Continue reading Wow… Seattle Times edited James Hansen’s description of cap-and-trade from ‘bribes’ to ‘politics’

About that ‘major’ climate agreement covering HFCs…

… it’s much ado about nothing. Continue reading About that ‘major’ climate agreement covering HFCs…

Claim: Climate change has doubled western US forest fires

False. Continue reading Claim: Climate change has doubled western US forest fires

Warmist Fail: Climate change not causing health harm, reports new Global Burden of Disease study

So far only improvement in health is associated with whatever climate change has occurred. Continue reading Warmist Fail: Climate change not causing health harm, reports new Global Burden of Disease study