June 17, 2015

The only UN sustainable development goal needed is economic freedom

The proposed 17 UN sustainable development goals (SDG) are intended to subsume the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and extend UN ambitions to sustainable development.  The MDG has 169 aspirational and largely immeasurable targets. ...

May 31, 2015

Attrition in the climate trenches

There were a couple of interesting developments on the climate battlefront in the last few weeks. The first and foremost being the Ecomodernist Manifesto.  The essential idea is that economic growth and environment protection are compatible....

May 28, 2015

Destroy Capitalism, Save the Climate?

In a recent article by prominent academics, "Climate models and precautionary measures," it is contended that the climate debate is about the accuracy or otherwise of climate models.  Those who believe in climate models argue for speci...

May 27, 2015

Is climate sensitivity low or high?

Climate sensitivity is defined as the temperature response to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  Dr. S Fred Singer’s essay on climate sensitivity published at American Thinker late last year argues for a low climate sens...

May 24, 2015

Obama and the Syrian drought

Joseph told Pharaoh that his dreams came from God telling him to prepare for seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.  The task of Pharaoh was to find a wise and honest man to put some of the abundance of the years of plenty away...

January 22, 2015

Tipping Points and Prophets of Doom

There is a new paper that appeared last week in Science: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.  They presume that human development should be guided on a limited set of criteria that they say are approaching tippi...

November 28, 2007

ENSO Variation and Global Warming

ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) is the technical name given to the most prominent source of inter-annual variability in weather and climate around the world. Its ocean temperature signatures, the more widely-known La Niña and El Ni...