Obama Administration Greenlights Disastrous Gas Development Project in Pristine Wilderness
The Obama administration’s decision on March 16 authorizing nearly 1,300 new natural gas wells in Utah’s Desolation Canyon wilderness and other remote areas will degrade the pristine region’s air quality and hurt the state’s tourism industry, according to a coalition of environmental groups. In approving the so-called Gasco development project, the Department of the Interior … Read more
Heat Wave Sizzles On, Toppling More Than 2,000 Records
By Andrew Freedman Records continue to fall across much of the U.S., as the extraordinary March heat wave rolls onward. The warm weather, with daytime high temperatures close to 40°F above average in some places, set the stage for severe thunderstorms that spawned rare, damaging March tornadoes near Detroit. The warm weather is the result … Read more
Stages of Denial: ‘The temperature record is unreliable’–But temperature trends are clear and widely corroborated
Objection: The surface temperature record is full of assumptions, corrections, differing equipment and station settings, changing technology, varying altitudes, and more. It is not possible to claim we know what the “global average temperature” is, much less determine any trend. The IPCC graphs only say what the scientists want them to say. Answer: There is … Read more
