Tag: Dr. Tim Ball
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Asteroid Impact Model the Best Approach to Climate Change Policy
by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2023 (Nov. 18, 2023) — For two weeks starting on November 30th, we will be inundated with the avalanche of climate change alarmism that always accompanies the annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences. This year the event, officially called the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations…
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Global Warming Not Our Most Pressing Concern
MOST PEOPLE DO NOT REALLY CARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE by Tom Harris, ©2018 (Jul. 26, 2018) — In an interview with the Vatican News service published on July 4, former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore said, “the climate crisis is now the biggest existential challenge humanity has ever faced.” We often hear that man-made climate…
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Red Team Must Leave No Stone Unturned in Climate Debate
“IT AIN’T WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW THAT GETS YOU INTO TROUBLE. IT’S WHAT YOU KNOW FOR SURE THAT JUST AIN’T SO.” — MARK TWAIN by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2017 (Jul. 28, 2017) — Al Gore expects us to believe that climate change science is settled. According to the former Vice President, scientists know,…
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Climate Change Had No Place in Presidential Debates
CLIMATE ACTIVISTS NEED TO “GET A LIFE” by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Oct. 21, 2016) — Environmental activists and their supporters in main stream media are appalled that not a single question in the presidential debates focused on climate change. Writing for The New York Times, David Leonhardt called it “a failure of…
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Political Elite Out of Touch on Climate Change
MOST PEOPLE WANT LEADERS TO FOCUS ON REAL, IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Sep. 15, 2016) — In his September 8th speech announcing California’s new greenhouse gas emission laws, Governor Jerry Brown said, “If we don’t stop climate change, it’s not going to be 110 [degrees] in Imperial County; it’s going…
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Public Misled on Climate Impacts
GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES REDUCED EXTREME WEATHER by Tom Harris and Tim Ball (Oct. 16, 2015) — The public are being told by politicians, bureaucrats, and activists that global warming will cause more extreme weather. Yet both the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) have…
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Divestment Ethics and Realities
ELIMINATING FOSSIL FUELS FROM INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS HURTS COLLEGES, WORKERS AND POOR FAMILIES by Paul Driessen, ©2015, CFACT.org (Feb. 15, 2015) — College students who support divestment of fossil fuel stocks are passionate about their cause. Just look at their word choices. Though they could never function even one week without hydrocarbon energy, they call fossil-fuel companies…
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NOAA and NASA Lied on Temperature Records
“WARMEST YEAR YET” ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE NO SENSE by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2015 (Jan. 19, 2015) — During the 2012 presidential election, Rasmussen Report’s poll conducted between November 1st and 3rd showed 49% of likely voters supported Barack Obama and an equal number supported Mitt Romney. But by Rasmussen’s next poll, covering the November…
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It’s Libel – Except When Mike Does It
THIS “MANN-MADE” GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT COULD BACKFIRE ON THE PENN STATE ALARMIST by Paul Driessen, ©2011 (Oct. 31, 2011) — Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control science, debate and public policy on global warming and energy – and then…