LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch New research found there was, in fact, a nearly 15-year “hiatus” in global warming in the early part of the 21st Century, suggesting it could have been caused by natural variability in the atmosphere’s energy balance. What’s more is climate scientists with Germany’s Max Planck Institute found there’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A new study published in the highly influential journal Nature suggests rising global temperatures during the 19th and 20th centuries may be linked to greater plant photosynthesis, reports the Blaze. Researchers estimated based on models that “the sum of all plant photosynthesis on Earth grew by 30 percent…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Former chief scientist Sir David King admitted Wednesday he was wrong in advising the U.K. government to encourage diesel vehicles to fight global warming. King said the government overestimated the effectiveness of its programs to encourage diesel vehicles. King was the U.K.’s chief scientific adviser from 2000…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Three senior House Democrats asked U.S. teachers Monday to destroy a book written by climate scientists challenging the environmentalist view of global-warming. The Democrats were responding to a campaign by the conservative Heartland Institute copies of the 2015 book, “Why Climate Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” to about…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett An Indian court declared Himalayan glaciers “legal persons” under law in a bid to save them from global warming. The court’s two judges claimed Indian law must gives glaciers “living entity” status to keep them from melting. “The rights of these entities shall be equivalent to the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Prominent scientist and environmental activist Michael Mann used a congressional hearing this week to raise money for his political action committee and to belittle various climate change skeptics in Congress. Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University, spent most his testimony before The House Science Committee criticizing Republican…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Former Vice President Al Gore claimed 10 Republican senators are ready to turn on President Donald Trump on global warming policy. “There’s a new development, there are now 30 Republican members of the House of Representatives who have changed sides on this issue and have become part…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A UK-based climate policy group has put out an annual climate assessment “exclusively on observations rather than climate models” to serve as a counterpoint to those put out by the United Nations and government agencies that warn of unabated global warming. The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s climate…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A new poll shows that while most American adults believe human activities are warming the world, about half do not think global warming will negatively impact their lives. Fifty percent of American adults believe global warming will harm them “not at all” or “only a little,” according…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A Boston-based news network fired a science reporter after colleagues raised concerns her views on vaccines and man-made global warming challenged the scientific consensus on those issues. WGBH recently announced Misha Michaels “is not a good fit” and would not be working for the network. Michaels, a…