The Hockey Schtick: Paper: Increasing CO2 Cools the Climate & Benefits Agriculture & Reforestation

Abstract: Conventional theory of global warming states that heating of the atmosphere occurs as a result of accumulation of CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere. The writers show that rising concentration of CO2 should result in the cooling of climate. The methane accumulation has no essential effect on the Earth’s climate. Even significant releases of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide into the atmosphere do not change average parameters of the Earth’s heat regime and the atmospheric greenhouse effect.

Authoritarian Science: The Public Wants–and Deserves–Better — MasterResource

While nobody would dispute the value of a good PR department, we doubted that bad or insufficient PR was the primary reason for the public’s declining trust in scientific pronouncements. Another view is that science is not losing its credibility because people no longer like or believe in the idea of scientific discovery, but because science has taken on an authoritarian tone, and has let itself be co-opted by pressure groups who want the government to force people to change their behavior.

German Media Panic Over Weather, Yet Tropical Storm Energy Near Record Lows. « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

Fewer people than ever are dying from weather extremes

[David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts dreams of a future when we all believe in the global warming fraud] | Grist

What needs to happen is for concern over earth's biophysical limitations to transcend the environmental movement -- and movement politics, as handed down from the '60s, generally. It needs to take its place alongside the economy and national security a priority concern of American elites across ideological and organizational lines. It needs to become a shared concern of every American citizen regardless of ideological orientation or level of political engagement. That is the only way we can ever hope to bring about the urgent necessary changes.

- Bishop Hill blog - Does Ross McKitrick sleep?

Ross McKitrick has been getting through a power of work...

- Bishop Hill blog - Could Greenpeace go bust?

I've always thought that there was something of a flaw in the green business model. Environmental groups depend fundamentally on capitalism - they need it to generate the surplus wealth that leads to donations
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Anti-capitalism, which is at the core of environmentalism, is always eventually going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.