The Water Vapor Problem
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The Water Vapor Problem

The omission of water vapor in the basket of regulated greenhouse gases is the weakest part of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, as it is totally inconsistent with EPA’s arguments about…

Making Sense of the EPA Endangerment Finding Rule
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Making Sense of the EPA Endangerment Finding Rule

Well-intentioned but costly climate mitigation policies risk deepening the challenges faced by the world’s poor.

The Economics of Climate Adaptation Optimism
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The Economics of Climate Adaptation Optimism

Well-intentioned but costly climate mitigation policies risk deepening the challenges faced by the world’s poor.

Bad Science, Big Consequences
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Bad Science, Big Consequences

How the influential 2006 Stern Review conjured up escalating future disaster losses

Climate Lawfare Descends to New Depths
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Climate Lawfare Descends to New Depths

“The times they are a-changing,” in particular in the context of “climate” policies and initiatives. And they are not changing favorably for the ideological opponents of fossil fuels, that is,…

“Climate Change Presses On”
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“Climate Change Presses On”

The world currently has 8.2 billion people and a global economy approaching $120 trillion. The world also routinely experiences extreme weather events like tropical cyclones, floods, and tornadoes. [1] Given these facts,…

Notice of Availability of the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program:1st Analysis and Proposal
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Notice of Availability of the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program:1st Analysis and Proposal

Summary: A number of comments on the BOEM proposed OCS leasing program oppose the proposal on “climate” grounds, that is, on the purported adverse effects of the greenhouse gas emissions…

Watch Those Assumptions!
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Watch Those Assumptions!

Today I share my January column for Dispatch Energy. In it, I identify some important, but deeply buried, assumptions in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA ) most recent World Energy Outlook…

Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls
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Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls

Back in 2012, Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue, and I published the first peer-reviewed paper presenting a time series of global tropical cyclone landfalls of hurricane strength. In that paper we concluded: From currently available…

Leaving the IPCC and UNFCCC is Bad for the United States
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Leaving the IPCC and UNFCCC is Bad for the United States

Yesterday, the Trump administration announced via executive order that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international organizations, of which 31 fall under the United Nations (UN). [1] Among these organizations are the…

Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance
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Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance

Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced that it was taking steps to shut down the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). USA Today broke the story: The Trump administration is moving to…

Five Figures – December Bonus Issue
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Five Figures – December Bonus Issue

I have lots of fascinating data to share today, hence the second Five Figures of December. Before the jump, here is an excerpt from my New York Post op-ed from earlier this week, which built…

How the Financial System Invented “Climate Risk” Untethered from Climate Science
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How the Financial System Invented “Climate Risk” Untethered from Climate Science

Part 1 of the THB series on climate change and insurance focused on the recent financial performance of the insurance industry in the context of fevered claims of its looming collapse…

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A Huge Retraction, the Usual Playbook, and Reason for Optimism

Some huge news dropped today that will reverberate through climate science and policy. Nature has finally retracted “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change,” by Kotz et al. (KLW24), more than 18 months after first learning…

Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency: Visibility Protection: Regional Haze State Plan Requirements Rule Revision
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Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency: Visibility Protection: Regional Haze State Plan Requirements Rule Revision

Summary: The federal Regional Haze Program should be repealed or at a minimum scaled back dramatically so as to return haze policies to the states as reflected in their respective…