By Michael Bastasch The world is on the verge of another ice age. Well, at least that’s what scientists told us in the 1970s: burning fossil fuels like coal would cause the world to plunge into another ice age in the 21st Century. “The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away…
By Michael Bastasch Published: April 3, 2015 Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen bets 2015 will be the hottest year on record because of a developing El Niño. “A substantial developing El Niño will add to the global warming trend, and should make 2015 easily the warmest year in the instrumental record,” Hansen wrote in…
By Michael Bastasch There are government scientists and researchers who are skeptical of man-made global warming — they just won’t speak up about it, according to two seasoned climate scientists. “There are skeptics in NASA and NOAA, a good number. But they are quiet. They know in this administration, they don’t speak out,” John Christy,…
By Michael Bastasch Published: March 26, 2015 A top U.K. government scientist warned in 2004 that mankind’s only option to survive a world ravaged by global warming would be to head south to Antarctica. Sir David King, the government’s chief scientist at the time, warned that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were reaching levels not seen in…
Is climate change going to kill us all? Today’s Freedom Report welcomes back one of our favorite guests the Science Babe, a research chemist and debunker of all things woo. Science Babe and The Libertarian Republic’s editor spar over the best solutions to combat the problem… and whether climate change is really a problem at…
by: Avens O’Brien They appear often as small italics at the top of articles, blog posts or other publications: Trigger warning: this post discusses abuse, or violence, or other traumatic events. A trigger warning. The term appears to come from “trauma trigger”, an idea sometimes used in therapy, often referencing post-traumatic stress disorder. The concept…
By Michael Bastasch Much like today, scientists in the 1950s were warning that warming temperatures will melt the polar ice cap, raise sea levels and flood major coastal cities. The difference is that scientists in the 1950s were warning this will lead to another ice age. In 1958, Harper’s magazine ran a lengthy story on “The Coming…
By Michael Bastasch What a scorcher! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that February 2015 was the warmest it’s been in 17 years, but Antarctic sea ice is way above normal for this time of year. Antarctica was 250,000 square miles above its 1981 to 2010 average during the February, the sixth largest…
By Katie Frates We are now living 15 years after the global warming apocalypse. Well, at least according to a top United Nations official who warned that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth” by the year 2000 if nothing was done to stop global warming. The dire warning came from a top…
By Michael Bastasch A new study out of Denmark found that fluctuations in the Earth’s orbit around the sun, called Milankovitch cycles, have been causing periods of dramatic, short-term global warming for at least 1.4 billion years. Fluctuations in Earth’s orbit are even behind the long-term warming of today’s climate, conclude researchers. While they acknowledged that…