July 7, 2024

Book Review: Thwarting the Attack on American Liberty

During July, the month we celebrate America’s independence, we must be extra vigilant and victorious against those seeking our dependence. In Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came Fr...

May 20, 2024

Up or Down? Which Direction will Climate Change Take Air Pollution Levels?

The Biden Administration is tightening air pollution regulations again, this time by dropping particulate matter standards to levels near natural background concentrations in some areas. The move can further handicap America’s low-cost, abundan...

July 30, 2023

The dangers of a post-science society

A biological male with superficial features of a woman won the Miss Netherlands contest earlier this month and will go on to represent the Netherlands in the Miss Universe pageant later this year.   Too bad for women’s rights and ...

September 6, 2022

Science returns to the Middle Ages with a vengeance

Touring Britain's Cotswolds region in Gloucestershire, England and beyond can be downright inspirational.  Castles long ago conquered, now in ruins, recall a cold, hard past — a past that relied on the sun and wood for heat, ...

February 2, 2022

The dangers of challenging the climate change consensus

One of the easiest things to do is to go along to get along.  This is true in so many areas of life, including knowledge of science topics.  If you don't have an in-depth knowledge of a particular area of science, the ...

October 3, 2020

Environmental perspective meets environmental apocalypse

On the first day of teaching college-level environmental science, I write on the board in large letters, "PERSPECTIVE."  This attention-grabber focuses students on what they need to learn to get a more complete understanding of en...

August 8, 2019

Trump Still Winning? You bet

While most of the rest of the popular pundits are still whining about Mr. Trump winning in 2016, Charles Hurt, opinion editor for The Washington Times, is continuing to celebrate Trump's victory with Still Winning: Why America Went All ...

April 22, 2019

Earth Day: Then and now

In case you've lost track, today is the 49th Earth Day.  And, unless you've just awoke from a long, long hibernation, you know that the imminent demise of the planet by "carbon pollution" is a top, top dread by leftist env...

March 1, 2019

The Green New Deal: Same old socialist scam in sparkling packaging

Much fanfare has heralded the Green New Deal that was introduced recently to the first session of the 116th Congress.  The sponsors of the deal were Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).  I...

March 26, 2018

Maybe 'exceptional' weather is just weather

Perhaps the best challenge to the hysterical claims that humans are causing unusual climate change is the demonstration that "exceptional" weather events can be predicted in advance based on their natural occurrence in history. One perso...

February 18, 2018

Atmospheric science 50 years later

The climate of the atmospheric science field has changed dramatically over the past few decades.  The "weather," once considered a safe topic of conversation in polite company, has morphed into the subject of heated socio-politica...

November 23, 2017

Go Bigly All the Way to the White House

There are so many poor souls still reeling from the outcome of the November 2016 presidential election.  How, oh, how could that deplorable man have won?  It's a big mystery. Enter the book-length page-turner and mystery-solver,...

August 15, 2017

Surprise! Nukes do more harm to environment than carbon

During the Obama administration, the proletariat was constantly scolded that climate change is the biggest threat to people and the planet.  The Earth's rising temperatures resulting from the carbon emissions of modernity were endangering ou...

April 23, 2017

Mecca march in DC lacks political perspective

In case you missed it, yesterday was Earth Day, the high holy day of Earth-worshipers.  So it was quite appropriate for Mother Earth's true believers, acolytes, and clueless subservients to trek en masse to the holiest city on the planet, Wa...

March 6, 2017

Winning the war for America

When I woke up Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, the day after the election, and read that Donald Trump had won, one of my first thoughts was, "I bet they're popping champagne corks at Little Sisters of the Poor."...

November 29, 2016

Global warming hysteria’s long goodbye: Sidetracking the Marrakech Express

The twenty-second session of the United Nation’s climate change conference ended a few days ago in Marrakech, Morocco, and the proclamation went forth that the conference “successfully demonstrated to the world that the implementation of ...

November 10, 2016

Tossing another climate scare talking point into the circular file

One of the standard mantras of those pushing their superior knowledge of Earth’s future climate – including those who politicize science to sway the electorate – is the talking point that says climate scientists were not all that co...

September 29, 2016

World Climate Measured in Foreign-Hype Decrees

This coming Sunday, India is to ratify the 2015 Paris climate accord.  Earlier this month, in Hangzhou, China, President Obama accepted on behalf of all Americans--without the official approval of the people’s duly elected representatives ...

August 9, 2016

Gaming politics then and now

A couple of important books just came out that serve as good reference texts for the present campaign season.  The books are Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections by Fred Lucas of The ...

July 31, 2016

Striking Out at Fenway Park

Like my childhood park, Forbes Field, in Pittsburgh of many years ago, iconic Fenway Park in Boston today has the look and feel of the ball yard us old-timers grew up with. Fenway has not changed much since its opening day on April 20, 1912. Ye...

June 29, 2016

Legal backbone strengthens science and society

The Republican attorneys general showed much needed backbone countering the Democratic A.G.s recently on climate change science issues. The Democratic Party's continued intimidation politics being waged against perspective on the globe's c...

May 11, 2016

Could coal still be king?

What if an attack on coal was like an attack on Mom or apple pie?  Now, granted, coal would make a lousy mom or even pie, but coal is what helped make America great.  And at least one presidential contender is for Making America Great Again...

May 8, 2016

Some Thoughts on the Politics, Profits, and Prophecies of Climate Change

Dire climate change, predicted by atmospheric models but not substantiated by reality, has become the coinage of statists.  Wealth transfer executors never had it so good.  No wonder free-market thinkers and scientists whose curre...

April 12, 2016

The Model Atmosphere and Global Warming

Last month, Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified before the Senate that the Department of Justice is considering taking legal action against energy industries dubious of the dire role of carbon emissions to change the climate. And ...

March 1, 2016

The calamitous climate at Indoctrination U

Recently, on their opinion pages in a piece titled “Notable & Quotable: The Campus Climate” (February 12, 2016), The Wall Street Journal exposed a curious curriculum program offered by the University of California, Irvine....

February 5, 2016

Don’t Be Blown Away by Winter Weather

Headlines hyping Snowzilla, Blizzard for the Ages, Snowcalypse, and such, make for good press and can be quite descriptive, but hyperbole seemed less necessary when I was a youth in the 1960s. And winter weather, even big snowstorms, seemed like...

January 16, 2016

An academic atmosphere of flustered faculty

Like the vagaries of the weather itself, true believers in man-caused global warming twist with the wind as challenges to their beliefs blow by.  For example, I recently pointed out to a graduate of a large, well-respected university that o...

December 24, 2015

O Come All Ye Faithful Environmentalists

There’s a lot of faith going around this holiday season, some of it misplaced.  Faith in long term, global climate catastrophe is one faith that is inappropriate. The complexity of the earth’s climate is incredible.  Foreca...

November 22, 2015

COPing with Real-World Catastrophes

The attack on climate change via the United Nation’s 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP21) is on the horizon.  People who grew up with computer games and now live in the world of computer-generated climate are scheduled to meet in...

May 25, 2015

In polite company, it's not proper to talk about religion, politics, <em>or</em> the weather

There’s an old saying that in polite company, it’s not proper to talk about religion or politics, so stick to neutral subjects like the weather to avoid conversational confrontation.  Nowadays, the climate on that subject has changed...

April 26, 2015

Eliminating the Left's Euphemisms

Here’s good advice for conservatives, as this political campaign season is revving up:  Don’t use the euphemisms “liberal” or “progressive” to describe those on the left.  These descriptors immediately ce...

April 25, 2015

Taking a broom to climate change gloom and doom

University of Houston professor Larry Bell, a prolific Forbes and Newsmax columnist, has released a new book, Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Climate Doom (Seattle: Stairway Press, 2015).  This work can...

April 22, 2015

Earth Day 2015: Thought for the Day

To paraphrase Archie Bunker, “Earth Day is once again at our throats.” Well, here’s a wishful thought for the 45th Earth Day: Let’s take all the hyperventilated resources wasted since the early 1980s to fuel public panic ov...

March 11, 2015

Minority Liberal Ideology Drives Majority Climate Science

Richard Lindzen, MIT emeritus professor of atmospheric science, Willie Soon of Harvard’s Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, John Christy of the University of Alabama, and other honest, objective scientists must be doing something right if the...

February 28, 2015

The Delusional and Disastrous Triple Point of White House Climatology

There's a term in meteorology called the "triple point."  The official Glossary of Meteorology (American Meteorological Society, 2000) gives one pertinent definition of the triple point as a "junction point within th...

February 8, 2015

The Still Small Voice and Environmental Science

As the Good Book advises in 1 Kings 19, listen to the "still small voice" (rather than the shrill pompous vent).  This advice can certainly be applied to science in general and environmental science in particular.  After all, scie...

December 22, 2014

The inculcation of final-form climate science

With the close of another college semester, the long holiday break can give educators a chance to ponder the dismal state of science literacy in the U.S.  The sad decline in robust science education is certainly part of the problem and is perhap...

October 31, 2014

Climate Predictions and Wishful Thinking

Apparently, long-range climate predictions are more about politics and wishful thinking than science. And  regardless of how the mid-term elections turn out, climate-change confusion by the general public and the potential benefits it can reap w...

September 22, 2014

Climate apocalypse march Sunday draws true believers

Over a hundred thousand true believers marched in New York City for the People’s Climate March to profess their faith in the power of greenhouse gases.  These trace chemicals (especially carbon dioxide) have been imbued with such awesome c...

September 9, 2014

Everybody Knows That about Climate Change

With a (very small) hat tip to that cute little GEICO gecko, here’s a possible real-life conversation... The Scene:  Curious reader pondering headline in local paper. “Huh...   97% of Homeopathic doctors believe homeo...

August 30, 2014

The High Cost of Climate-Change Politics

“Environmental science is a contentious and intensely politicized field,” as the late Michael Crichton correctly noted in his 2004 best-selling novel State of Fear.  And, without a doubt, one particular subset of environmental s...

July 24, 2014

Reflections on the State of Climate Science

In late June, I attended the annual international conference of a prestigious environmental organization -- the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) -- and presented a paper on atmospheric modeling. To kick off the environmental conferenc...

June 6, 2014

Help for Sufferers of CD (Climate Dysfunction)

With the release this past Monday of new Environmental Protection Agency directives to cripple coal-fired power plants, the effort continues to rid the U.S. of the disease of low-cost energy. A big new concern being pander...

April 22, 2014

Putting People First on Earth Day

Radical environmentalists deem people as the top environmental problem.  There are just too many people for our natural world to endure.  We must drastically reduce the world's population at all costs.  When the numb...

March 30, 2014

EPA Budget Focus: GHG Trumps More-Serious Environmental Issues

One of the best ways to keep tabs on what’s happening with air issues inside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is through a newsletter called the Clean Air Report of the aptly titled online news service InsideEPA.com.  The Clean Ai...

March 10, 2014

When You Can't Think, You Need to Think

Sometimes TV commercials can be downright inspirational (h/t DirectTV)... When your climate change theory's on the fritz, you get tense. When you get tense, you can't think. When you can't think, you need to think. ...

February 10, 2014

Keeping Cool on Climate Change

With the recent frigid temperatures in the Midwest and East and continued icy conditions for much of the nation, it is important for warmists to keep a cool head.  Perspective is essential to science, especially contemporary climate science....

December 31, 2013

Lighting Up the New Year

I gave my wife some very thoughtful gifts this Christmas, but one in particular she hopes to cherish for a long time to come.  The gift is very practical.  It at once represents both history and hysterics--history because this gift is ...

October 6, 2013

Go Tell It On the Mountain

As the word of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report goes forth ex cathedra to make disciples of all nations, many will embrace it, some will even adore it.  Verses from the AR5 (Assessment Report #5) version of the IPCC cl...

September 27, 2013

Climate Change Conclusions: You Get What You Pay For

With this morning's release of the Summary for Policymakers of the first volume of the fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of scientific evidence behind climate change by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is time to recall the IPCC's...

September 7, 2013

Socialist Science in the Climate Science Neighborhood

Radical socialists (often disguised with the euphemism "progressives") have many potential avenues they can travel to arrive at their ends -- an end that justifies its means.  And, rather than a goal to save lives or help the poor, the nefa...

July 14, 2013

Evangelical Environmentalism

Sadly, a few days ago, a group of about 200 evangelical scientists and academics sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Members of Congress advising them to take immediate action "to reduce carbon emission...

June 27, 2013

Five Steps to a Man-ufactured Climate Crisis

With the President dealing out another round of anthropogenic climate-change hype against an ethereal enemy--i.e., reliable, inexpensive energy--claims of humans caused this or that meteorological mayhem is sure to follow. Some cli...

June 23, 2013

A Tarnished Silver Anniversary

This day in history, on June 23, 1988, Dr. James Hansen of NASA officially launched the man-made global warming scare by proclaiming before a Congressional hearing and the world that "the greenhouse effect is here and is affecting our climate n...

June 20, 2013

Critical Thinking about Climate Change

Getting students to "think critically" has been a serious effort by educators for quite some time.  Of course time after time we've seen that in practice the critical thinking desired critically questions traditional and conservative p...

May 28, 2013

The real crisis facing America is global warming

Bengazi, IRS, AP ... who cares?  These are mere distractions. Let's not forget the real crises.  We are still facing a catastrophe of global proportions unlike any before in history.  Populations will uproot.  Coastlines will si...

April 22, 2013

Some thoughts on fracking on Earth Day

As part of my job as an air-pollution meteorologist, I was recently on-site at Marcellus shale gas wells in various stages of development and operation in southwestern Pennsylvania. The state-of-the-science technology and professionalism of t...

March 28, 2013

Connecting the mundane to the magnificent

Theology's impact in the affairs of men is always important (and sometimes even acknowledged, at least during sacred holiday seasons). Decades ago a brilliant theologian connected much of the mundane to the magnificant.  He also lin...

March 25, 2013

10 Reasons Climate-Change Hysterics Continue

Here are 10 winning reasons for continued climate-change hysterics: 1.  Indoctrination from grade school through graduate school has inculcated the "incontrovertible conclusion" that people are destroying the planet.  By acting to s...

February 25, 2013

Climate Change in Perspective

With the fanfare of released official weather records for 2012 comes the usual claims of "warmest this" and "historic extreme that."  But, facts are stubborn things. Global temperatures have leveled off over the past 15 years, even as carbon d...

January 15, 2013

Capping-and-Trading Liberty

America is at the threshold of a bright energy future.  Why is it then that bold, intelligent steps aren't taken to cross that threshold? Our economic success in this new year depends on energy.  So, what will be the fate of the Keystone ...

December 23, 2012

Climate Change: "A Holiday Affair"

It's funny what you can learn historically about popular climatology from watching an old, mildly-amusing, holiday film.  The 1949 movie Holiday Affair, starring Janet Leigh (as the widow Connie Ennis, the love interest), Robert...

December 18, 2012

Ambassadors for the Atmosphere

There was a time in the not too distant past when the focus of American churches was on preaching Christ, and evangelism truly meant the delivery of "good news."  Nowadays, it's become fashionable in many churches to save everything but souls. ...

December 12, 2012

Polar Express to a Bright Energy Future

As the over-heated talk against fossil-fuel use at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Doha, Qatar ended last week, I was reminded of my early professional days in the frozen frontier of spectacular natural beauty and copious energy re...

October 18, 2012

Once Again, You Might Be a Progressive Ideologue If...

There are lots of ways to figure out if someone is a progressive ideologue.  In fact, if you posit enough of those reasons in one place, they may get compiled as the inspiration for a YouTube video. But if you're still wondering as to whether yo...

September 23, 2012

Education from an Objective Perspective

Can insight from a brilliant, prolific, yet little-known (at least in secular circles) theologian lead the way to real education reform? In his thorough work Method in Theology (1971), the esteemed theologian Bernard Lonergan explained that "in ...

August 15, 2012

You Might Be a Progressive Ideologue, if...

While relaxing in Harvard Yard one exceptionally pleasant afternoon this August, I figured the setting was appropriate to contemplate ten signs that you might be a progressive ideologue. Here they are. You might be a progressive ideologue, if: 1. You...

August 4, 2012

The Perspective of a Lifetime on Atmospheric Modeling

The president vowed to make climate change a top priority in his second term, suggesting that a major assault on industry is coming if he is re-elected.  So before the potential onslaught, some real-world perspective on climate change is essenti...

December 2, 2011

COPing with Climate-Change Misinformation

Right now, a climate-confab party is being held on the beaches of the Indian Ocean by the U.N.'s 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) -- this while the rest of us deal with real-world issues in a more mundane fashion.  In particular, American ...

August 22, 2011

Has Progressivism Ruined Environmental Science?

In my thirty years of work in the science arena, as a government scientist, an industry consultant, and an academician, I have witnessed an increasingly adverse influence of progressivism on the practice of science.  This influence has been espe...

August 5, 2011

Enlightened Activist Scientists Dim Society

Perhaps it's simply a consequence of modern society or an outworking of today's educational philosophy on professionals, but progressive activism is making its mark and taking its toll on the U.S. There are activist judges who impose their brand of "...

June 30, 2011

A Nutshell History of Climate-Change Hysteria

At a time when the push is on to subject humanity to more crazy, shortsighted progressive environmental programs (read carbon regulations) to "save the earth" from its human population, a brief look at progressive airy predictions...

December 17, 2010

Hubris and the History of Forecasting

Parting thoughts on the Earth-love-fest in Cancun, Mexico: Bureaucrats of the world united to once again try to save the planet from supposed man-made global warming.  Yet just a few hundred miles northwest of Cancun, during a time in history wh...

October 30, 2010

Whatever Happened to Unity?

Stroll down the halls of just about any college or university in the United States today and you will see promotions galore for "diversity." Signs that advocate the acceptance of diversity for everything from race and gender to transsexual ...