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Climate Change

We Have a Responsibility

Whenever I hear someone proffer the argument that “climate science is settled” I cringe, because as Dr. Charles Krauthammer opined sometime back, “there is nothing more anti-scientific than the idea that science is settled, static and impervious to challenge.” Now I...

Unintended Consequences

The Encyclopedia Britannica tells us “Trophic Cascade” is the ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in...

Taking Earth’s Temperature

Pat Michaels (Ph.D. Climatology) a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and retired Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia relates how the spokesperson for an organization with some of the oldest temperature sensor data in existence...

Critical Thinking Needed

Predictions of global climate catastrophe are predicated upon models, and models depend upon assumptions.  But those who claim the matter of global warming is “settled” overlook the fact that climate is based upon complex systems whose inter-relationships are not...