Whether or not global warming can be attributed to man’s actions is debatable. However, regardless of the reason, a warmer plant may mean a serious cool-down in your bedroom. Bloomberg reports: An extra “hot day” (the economists use quotation marks with the phrase) leads to a 0.4 percent drop in birth rates nine months later,…
Steve Birr Top French weatherman Philippe Verdier was fired Saturday for publishing a book critical of the climate change narrative. Verdier’s story first gained traction in early October following reports that he was forced to take a vacation after his new book Climate Investigation published. In the book, Verdier accuses global warming scientists ofmisleading the public…
Michael Bastasch For years, scientists assumed Antarctica’s ice sheet was shrinking, but new research challenges the consensus on how global warming is impacting the world’s largest ice sheet. National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) published a new study showing that Antarctica’s ice sheet has been thickening for at least a thousand years from extra snowfall,…
By Lina Bryce NASA scientists are tracking a ‘Spooky’ Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145. The asteroid will fly past Earth slightly farther than the moon’s orbit at 1:01 pm ET. According to NASA, scientists estimated the rock to be 1,300 feet wide. This is the closest approach any object this size has flown towards Earth ever…
Andrew Follett People are ruining the planet and there needs to be a lot fewer of them in order to save the environment, according to a recent article by a Brown University academic. “[Pope Francis] utterly failed to address a major threat to humanity’s future that he and the Catholic Church have helped create: over-population” claimed…
Steve Birr With pipeline projects mired in environmental battles and oil prices trapped below $50 a barrel, Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday it is halting its oil sands project in Canada. Shell stopped development at its Carmon Creek facility in Alberta, a project that would produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The loss will…
Andrew Follett The amount of methane leaked from shale gas production has been massively overestimated according to a new study. The study was authored by University of California Professor of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory senior scientist Dr. Richard Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller, a former policy adviser for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
Michael Bastasch The global warming debate on Capitol Hill is heating up. Government scientists refused to comply with lawmakers’ demands they turn over internal documents regarding a study that eliminated the “hiatus” in global warming from the temperature record. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials argued such records are confidential and “essential to frank…
Guy Bentley The World Health Organization (WHO) placed some of America’s favorite meats in the same category as cigarettes and alcohol as a leading cause of cancer. Bacon, ham and sausages have been deemed dangerous enough to be classified as group one carcinogens while red meat has been placed in group two A as “probably…
Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency finally published a regulation that will be the backbone of President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming: a sweeping rule called the Clean Power Plan. Attorneys general from 26 states and numerous business groups, however, aren’t going to stand idly by while EPA regulations threaten the closure of hundreds…