November 17, 2025
The Last Gasp of the Climate Thought Police
Following my lecture last week at Cornell, one Cornell professor, a well-known climate activist, called for the firing of the director of the Cornell Atkinson Institute for Sustainability — an accomplished scientist himself — simply for hosting my visit. Gavin Schimdt, a NASA scientist and another well-known climate activist, took to social media to complain that I had cited…
November 17, 2025
Congress Can Help Update our Infrastructure by Passing the SPEED Act
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is the basic law governing federal reviews of construction projects’ environmental impacts. Unfortunately, it has evolved into an environmentally destructive monstrosity. Why? Because the left-wing environmentalists have used it in endless litigation to oppose even projects that clearly would yield important environmental improvements over existing infrastructure. New infrastructure…
November 14, 2025
Science Evolved. The Narrative Didn’t.
I spent this week in Ithaca, New York visiting Cornell University. It was a fantastic visit. I met with faculty, researchers, students, staff, administrators, and taught a few classes. I was warmly welcomed and had a chance to discuss, debate, listen, learn, agree, disagree, and break bread with many colleagues. In short, my visit revealed…
November 12, 2025
When Less Warming Means More Fear
Something curious is going on in the world of climate advocacy. As THB readers know, projected future carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion have been consistently revised downward in recent years, resulting in less projected warming. Yet rather than acknowledge this encouraging development, climate campaigners have shifted the goalposts by lowering the threshold of what they…
November 12, 2025
Comment Submitted to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Summary: BLM proposes “to rescind” the 2024 final “Conservation and Landscape Health Rule” adopted on May 9, 2024. Despite the promise in the 2024 final rule that it “defines the term ‘ecosystem resilience,’” no such definition actually is presented in the 2024 final rule. Instead, there are numerous references to such concepts as ecosystem health,…
November 7, 2025
Good Reads
My fall university tour continues with a visit to Johns Hopkins this week, Cornell next week, and the University of Wyoming on November 19. If you are local please come and say Hello, and a few of my talks will be live-streamed and/or recorded. In addition, I’ll be posting on some of my lectures. Today, I share some great…
November 6, 2025
The Global Population Crisis that Never Was
Thomas Malthus was a fan of pandemics. Writing in 1798 in his famous treatise on population growth, Malthus encouraged the spread of fatal diseases: “Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits.” He criticized “benevolent, but much mistaken men” who were seeking to eliminate fatal diseases, rather than see them as a way…
October 31, 2025
‘Adaptation’ Is Another Climate Boondoggle
Alex Flint and Kalee Kreider admit that ordinary central planning won’t reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet despite “the incredible ingenuity of people and markets,” they suggest a different form of central planning is needed: namely, adaptation in the form of “changing where and how we grow crops, and where people can safely live,” among other government-driven dislocations (“We Can’t…
September 24, 2025
More Problems with Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment
When Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) was released last week, headlines such as the above announced that “climate change could cost Australians $40 billion per year by 2050.” It turns out that claim is demonstrably false. Let’s take a close look. The NCRA asserts the $40 billion cost on p. 102: The Colvin Review (2024) projected disaster costs…
August 26, 2025
Extreme Non-Event Attribution
Last week, Hurricane Erin was a massive Category 5 storm that shot the gap between the U.S. east coast and Bermuda before heading out to sea. Imagine an alternative universe, where Erin’s track was just a bit further west — tracking over Miami, along the U.S. east coast, and then making a direct hit on…