Energy
Climate expert explains why the alarmist view skews the story
MIT emeritus professor Richard Lindzen offers a brief, but useful, summary of the current debate over global warming.
Richard Lindzen
American physicist
Liberty
Senate’s Eco-intimidators launch assault on JLF
View in your browser. Last week the John Locke Foundation received a letter from three US Senators as part of a nationwide witch-hunt targeting scientists, universities, advocacy groups, and think…
Energy
About that climate change ‘consensus’
You’ve likely heard some variation of the argument that 97 percent of climate scientists agree with alarmists’ doom-and-gloom predictions. Steven Hayward sheds some light on that statistic for the Powerline…
Energy
Wall Street Journal probes prophets and profits tied to climate alarmism
Bret Stephens explains in the Wall Street Journal why he remains unconvinced about the imminent danger of global warming after hearing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speak on the…
Energy
MIT’s Lindzen calls global warming scare a ‘dream come true for politicians’
Richard Lindzen of MIT downplays global warming “catastrophism” in an interview with a Boston television station. While Gov. Deval Patrick and others painted a dire picture of what global warming…
Liberty
16 years, 11 months of no warming plus other cool facts (pun intended)
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. This newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Energy
Politics over science in the global warming debate
One suspects that people who are particularly worried about gloom-and-doom predictions from climate alarmists might benefit from reading Rupert Darwall’s new book, The Age of Global Warming: A History. Wayne…
Energy
Forbes column probes holes in climate alarmists’ arguments
Larry Bell discusses in a Forbes column some of the problems underlying climate alarmists’ key arguments. The banner claim of this 2013 Summary for Policymakers (AR5) release is that “Human…
Energy
Superstorm Sandy helps ramp up warming wackiness
The latest National Review offers this blurb about the political impact of the recent storm that battered New York and New Jersey: The case for being worried about climate change,…
Liberty
A set of facts on NC sea level rise that the alarmists are not refuting
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Liberty
A set of facts on NC sea level rise that are hard to dispute
The note below was written by Dave Burton in response to a blog post by William Chameides, Dean of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. If there were errors in…
Energy
Lindzen’s prediction seems especially prescient today
Reading the following Associated Press copy on page 3A of this morning’s News & Observer … WASHINGTON — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves…