The United States is entangled in expensive, and ultimately, useless and inefficient United Nations climate change treaties, wrote author Donn Dears. Dears, a former General Electric (GE) executive, wrote a book which is being promoted…
Topic: climate change
Barnard College Aims to De-Invest from ‘Climate Deniers’
The board of trustees for Barnard College voted to de-invest from ‘climate deniers,’ but has not outlined what that means just yet: The move comes after years of activism by the student group Divest Barnard, which…
Oft-Repeated ‘Warmest Year on Record’ Claim is Erroneous, say Climate Scientists
From The College Fix: Recent stories from a variety of sources, including NASA, the Financial Times, and the New York Times report that Earth’s temperature reached a record high in 2016. The high frequency of these claims cast the…
George Washington Students want President Trump to Talk about Liberal Talking Points before Congress
In GW Today (an e-mail newsletter to George Washington University students), a handful of George Washington University students were interviewed and they were asked the question of what they would want President Donald Trump to…
“Craziness” of Climate Science Activism Drove Georgia Tech Professor to Retire
From The Daily Caller: Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson she was so sick of politicization of global warming in academia she resigned from her tenured position at Georgia Tech. “I’ve…
Professor’s Op-Ed says Trump’s Anti-Climate Change Agenda should Disqualify Him from Using Science
From The College Fix: In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, California State University, Sacramento’s Joseph Palermo argues that because Donald Trump “rejects the science of climate change,” he shouldn’t be permitted to make use of…
Study Calls into Question Key Climate Change Metric
From Mike Bastasch at the Daily Caller: Meteorologist Anthony Watts and amateur scientist Willis Eschenbach released new research suggesting “global climate sensitivity to increased carbon dioxide, and the potential feedback mechanism of increased water vapor…
Study: Biofuels could Cause More Carbon Emissions than Gasoline
That’s quite the counternarrative, if the study’s results hold up in future studies conducted on the same subject: Motor vehicle “biofuels” like ethanol made from corn and soybeans may cause more carbon emissions than gasoline,…
Drop the Class if You’re a Climate Change Denier, says Professor
Quelling dissent and encouraging students to drop out due to difference in opinion on climate change/global warming…that is a bold move: Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at…
Johns Hopkins Expert Advocates for Limiting Childbirths to Save the World from Climate Change
From the College Fix: In a Thursday story at NPR.org, Travis Rieder of Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics says “[m]aybe we should protect our kids by not having them” in this precarious era of…