June 27, 2018

An update on surface-based temperature data

It is helpful to update and evaluate temperature data occasionally.  Accordingly, I have done so in the chart below, using data maintained by the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (part of NASA).  The data are actually collected ...

March 21, 2018

Global Warming: The Evolution of a Hoax

Only forty-some years ago, "climate science" suddenly turned from advancing a theory of global cooling to one of global warming.  A 123-page paper by Christopher Booker, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation ...

March 17, 2018

Are we undergoing global cooling?

Data available in both text and csv formats at the NASA, GISS website have been routinely cited as indicative of global warming despite their known weaknesses.  The three years 2015 through 2017 ...

March 1, 2018

Groupthink and global warming

A February 28 Breitbart article by James Delingpole begins the summary of a recent 2018 paper by Christopher Booker, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) on how climate science has been manipulated by groupthin...

February 11, 2018

A Time Must End before Another Time Begins

The cyclical nature of history is helpful in understanding the times we live in and those toward which we are transitioning.  An epic explanation of transitional trauma is found in Hermann Hesse's 1927 book Steppenwolf: "Every age,...

January 31, 2018

Rep Clyburn: Trump’s America Like Hitler’s 1934 Germany

President Trump’s State of the Union was a “home run” speech in many ways, but contrasted with the expectations of many, especially Democrat Representative John Clyburn of South Carolina who compared Trump’s America to Germany...

December 30, 2017

How to Fight Terrorism the Russian Way

Some are aware of the terrorist bombing in a St. Petersburg, Russia shopping center December 27.  The subsequent comment by Russian president Vladimir Putin, that terrorists should be "liquidated on the spot" if they pose "an imme...

December 22, 2017

Papa John's CEO booted from his own company after panning NFL protests

Many may already be aware that the 56-year-old founder and CEO of the once popular Papa John's Pizza has been forced out weeks after he publicly criticized the leadership of the NFL for tolerating disrespectful and unappreciative behavior by play...

November 6, 2017

Reform of the Renewable Fuels Standard

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Senators Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Deb Fisher (R-Neb.) met October 17 to discuss the future of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), which regulates the production of biofuels.  At issue...

October 25, 2017

EPA repeals Clean Power Plan

On October 10, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) repealed.  The CPP was a massive regulation, established during the Obama administration for the purpose of reducing emissions from coal-fired power ...

October 15, 2017

The Three Legs of Western Culture and the Time We Live In

In his reflection on Michael Novak’s 1980’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, in the October issue of First Things, R.R. Reno recalls the three mutually-supporting legs upon which Novak held Western culture to stand, but argues that cu...

October 1, 2017

Where does happiness come from?

The lack of man’s self-understanding and capacity for moral reasoning lead to a kind of untruth that detracts from human dignity.  The twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of the former Pope John Paul II’s Veritatas Splender, the ...

September 16, 2017

Climate change temperature data problems

Reasons exist to have serious investigations of the whole of climate change (aka global warming) science. Global warming inevitably rests on current temperatures setting records in geologic time, or at least since early human civilization.  A...

August 20, 2017

Hottest year on record? Not exactly - the chart shows a different story

Reports, such as one indicating 2016 to be the hottest year on record, draw on the temperature anomalies from a data set maintained by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP).  GISTEMP is “an estimate...

June 21, 2017

NASA not publicizing 8 months of cooler temperatures

Beginning in January of this year, headlines screamed 2016 to be the hottest year since 1880, highlighting July as the hottest month ever (here, here, here, and here).  Stories referenced the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, that part of the...

June 7, 2017

Peer-reviewed scientific papers increasingly cast doubt on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming

James Delingpole at Breitbart News provides a short humorously oriented article dismissive of the so-called consensus on catastrophic anthropogenic (i.e., caused by people) global warming (CAGW) with a few graphs from a much longer article ...

May 27, 2017

Swamp-draining: More on Waters of the United States rule

On May 25, Rick Moran detailed the plight of California-located Duarte Nursery, being sued by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) for plowing a small portion of a recently purchased 450-acre farm for the purpose of planting wheat.  Mr. Duarte...

March 27, 2017

Disingenuous Climate Science Debunked

In the February 18 American Thinker edition, Dennis Avery described path-breaking findings by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) reviving the Sun as the controlling mechanism of climate and debunking the so-called global warming ...

February 14, 2017

Contemplation versus the Digital Age

Digital imagery bombards us with appearances of camaraderie, driving us deeper into nihilism and distracting from spiritual awakening. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German philosopher and literary and social critic, articulated the power of (then) ...

October 23, 2016

Donald Trump and Man's Struggle for Recognition

  In his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama resurrected to intellectual respectability the primordial "struggle for recognition" as the dialectical driving force underlying man's quest for human free...