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Food fight: CO2 makes us fatter107 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 months ago: Well, this is amusing. But, after looking at some numbers on food production, it may simply be that … more →

Tags: carbon dioxide, Humor, ridiculae, Satire, Green Revolution, Hersoug, Norman Borlaug, pH, University of Copenhagen

Climate skepticism blamed on the economy, stupid139 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 2 months ago: Of course, things like lack of any warming trend for a decade couldn’t have anything to do wit … more →

Tags: climate data, Christine Buckley, climate change, global warming controversy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Late-2000s recession, Lyle Scruggs

The Simon-Erlich Wager at Seven Billion People157 comments

David Middleton wrote 4 months ago: Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the p … more →

Tags: Energy, alarmism, environment, curious things, John Holdren, julian simon, Simon, copper, Paul Erlich

La Niña and flu50 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 4 months ago: From the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Does the La Niña weather patter … more →

Tags: 2009 flu pandemic, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, El Niño Southern Oscillation, Harvard School of Public Health, la niña, Pacific Ocean, swine influenza

Another alarming climate myth bites the dust - mosquito borne malaria does NOT increase with temperature91 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 5 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Back in 2001, the University of Florida wrote one of those “science by pre … more →

Tags: alarmism, Michael E. Mann, New York Times, Andrew Revkin, malaria, Parasitism, Mosquito, plasmodium, Infectious Disease

To the Guardian: You cannot make good public policy on mistaken premises34 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 5 months ago: Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Damian Carrington’s Environment Blog at the Guardian proclaims: Clima … more →

Tags: Climate, climate change, united states, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the guardian, developing country, Stern Review

Malaria and global warming - no linkage39 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 7 months ago: From World Climate Report: Malaria Declines Despite Local Warming “Spreading tropical disease” is hi … more →

Tags: climate change, malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Crawford School of Economics and Government, East Africa

The Amazing Decline in Deaths from Extreme Weather in an Era of Global Warming, 1900–201084 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 8 months ago: Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Summary Proponents of drastic curbs on greenhouse gas emissions claim … more →

Tags: Weather, climate change, Global Warming, extreme weather, Reason Foundation

Is economic "graceful decline" the true agenda of some warmists?102 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 9 months ago: Bill McKibben - Image via Wikipedia Guest commentary by Indur Goklany Sometimes the true agenda is l … more →

Tags: Opinion

Johns Hopkins succumbs to heat wave mania80 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: From Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Health, where they apparently haven’t looked at this da … more →

Tags: Weather, Heat Wave, Heat Wave, Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health

Are biofuel policies to help Mother Earth killing her most vulnerable children instead?172 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Biofuel life cycle Image: LBL.gov Guest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper — Could Bi … more →

Tags: Indur M. Goklany, World Health Organization, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Extreme Nonsense by Krugman112 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Krugman's Graph of density distribution fron his NYT article Guest post by Indur M. Goklany 1. … more →

Tags: Agriculture, alarmism, disaster, climate change, extreme weather, Paul Krugman

Poo Gloo Gaia Pans70 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Sorry for the title, I couldn’t resist. This article is calling to Mike Rowe, of “Dirty … more →

Tags: bio dome, dirty jobs, Mike Rowe, Sewage Treatment, university of utah, wastewater

You know it's bad California when green companies move out of Berkeley51 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Excerpts via Bloomberg: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC By BILL DRAPER The Associated … more →

Tags: Energy, California, Kansas City International Airport, Nordic Windpower

New peer reviewed study: global warming lowers death rates136 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: From South Dakota Politics - they should know - click The doom and gloom, hell and high water howlin … more →

IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth”146 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010 Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environm … more →

Tags: Politics

A better idea on fighting malaria60 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 year ago: Immunizing Mosquitoes To Fight Malaria By Jesse Emspak, International Business Times   (Photo: … more →

Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War99 comments

jeez wrote 1 year ago: Was it warmer in Virginia in 1781 than it is today, or has our capacity to cope been enhanced? In fa … more →

How Wicked Is This Problem?63 comments

thomaswfuller wrote 1 year ago: by Tom Fuller, Let’s start with proper attribution of Wikipedia’s definition: “ … more →

Tags: Politics


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