Climate Change IQ Question 4: Will Manhattan and Florida soon be under water if humans do not curtail use of “fossil fuels”?

Answer: No. For the past 150 years, sea level has been rising slowly at a rate unaffected by carbon dioxide level or the amount of fuel burned. Some of the most memorable moments in Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth show the effects of the sea level rising by 20 ft. This number was based … Continue reading “Climate Change IQ Question 4: Will Manhattan and Florida soon be under water if humans do not curtail use of “fossil fuels”?”

Climate Change IQ Question 1: Would lowering atmospheric CO2 prevent or mitigate hurricanes?

Answer: No The Galveston hurricane and floods of 1900, half a century before humanity could have influenced climate to any measurable extent, killed 8,000-12,000 people and remains to this day the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. [1]

Witches, whisky, and bad weather

Video, Audio and Slides from Presentation, “Witches, whisky, and bad weather,” by Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. 23rd annual meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, held Jul 16, 2005. Audio recording:  https://archive.org/download/WitchesWhiskyAndBadWeather.SallieBaliunasPh.d/05baliunas_64kb.mp3 Slide presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6nmn7qC9bcHdmFHTHdqc0doSkE/view

Prophecies, Errors, and Lies

DDP Newsletter November 2015 Vol. XXXII, No. 6 [published March 7, 2016] The whole global warming/climate change furor is based on predictions of a computer model, which only a select few are deemed qualified to understand, and based  on which a world government is to determine diet, land use, energy use, population targets, housing, anything related to … Continue reading “Prophecies, Errors, and Lies”

Climatist Jihad

DDP Newsletter May 2015 Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 At the 10th annual meeting of DDP in 1992, Petr Beckmann spoke about “The Dangers of the (Green) Established Church” (http://tinyurl.com/pwcgl6h). This increasingly powerful religion is waging the equivalent of holy war on all who dare dissent from its dogma. Upon resigning as chairman of the UN Intergovernmental … Continue reading “Climatist Jihad”

Cuban Missile Crisis Without the Public Awareness

DDP Newsletter, March 2014, Vol. XXXII, No. 2 At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Americans started digging in their back yard, and all attention was focused on the world situation. The situation in the Ukraine is said by some to be more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis, but most people are preoccupied … Continue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis Without the Public Awareness”

Evidence-Based Forecasting for Global Warming. J. Scott Armstrong, PhD

From DDP 31st Annual Meeting, July 14, 2013, Houston Texas. J. Scott Armstrong (Ph.D., MIT, 1968), professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, is a proponent of evidence-based management. He is the founder of the Journal of Forecasting , the International Journal of Forecasting, and the International Symposium on Forecasting. He is the author … Continue reading “Evidence-Based Forecasting for Global Warming. J. Scott Armstrong, PhD”