by Scott Waldman E&E News President Trump doubled down on his denial of climate change yesterday by saying that scientists are wrong and claiming that the world will "start getting cooler." The remarks, delivered during a brief visit to California to discuss the state's historic wildfires, run counter to mountains of research on global warming [...]
by David Charter & Ben Hoyle The Times of London President Trump and his rival Joe Biden clashed over the cause of wildfires consuming America’s west coast as their competing views on climate change became the focus 50 days before the US presidential election. Mr Trump, on a visit to California, said that the forests [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on cnsnews.com A new study has completely debunked recent hyped and unfounded claims from Harvard University researchers that air pollution increases the risk of death from COVID-19 and that the Trump EPA was making the pandemic worse by not further tightening national air pollution [...]
by Myron Ebell, CEI Director, Center for Energy and Environment As Appearing on the Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Researchers at Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health in late April published a draft or preliminary study that concluded, “A small increase in long-term exposure to PM2.5 leads to a large increase in the COVID-19 death [...]
by Valerie Richardson The Washington Times Harvard researchers publicly walked back Monday a key finding in a highly touted but hotly contested paper linking air pollution exposure to deaths from the novel coronavirus, slashing the estimated mortality rate in half. The preliminary study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health made a [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe They weren’t using ‘science’ for climate change decisions? “Assemblywoman Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) introduced legislation that would ensure the state’s actions and investment on climate change adaption is science-based,” reads a press statement from Friedman. “The measure, Assembly Bill 2371, creates an advisory team of distinguished scientists [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing in the Washington Examiner Few Republican politicians are interested in wrecking the economy with pointless climate regulations. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be pressured into less harmful but equally pointless regulations, such as carbon capture and storage. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on RealClear Markets Many of America’s corporate and academic elites have united to advocate for a carbon tax. With all the money and brains behind the self-anointed “Climate Leadership Council” (CLC) you would think it would be able to figure out ¾ the math is [...]
by Myron Ebell, Director, Center for Energy and Environment Competitive Enterprise Institute House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA.) and several senior Republicans announced on February 11 that they were going to introduce four bills to address climate change. On the bright side, none of the bills includes a tax on carbon dioxide emissions or mandatory [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on American Greatness However you slice it, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is an expensive futility and greenwashing boondoggle masquerading a policy alternative for managing the climate hysteria via technology. House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is releasing a climate bill this [...]
