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Do humans harm the environment?

By Andy May This is the first of seven posts on the potential costs and hazards of human-caused global warming and the impact of humans on the environment in general. The IPCC WGII AR5 Technical...

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Despite What You’ve Heard, Global Warming Isn’t Making Weather More Extreme

From Investors Business Daily Climate Myths: We keep reading about how the extreme weather of 2017 is the “new normal” thanks to global warming — even if the weather in question is frigid air. But the...

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Reality check: Global Weather Related Disaster Losses

There’s a belief among alarmists that losses from weather related disasters is on the rise, and this it yet another reason why we have to “take action now”. For example, in an article by the New York...

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Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion...

by Risk Frontiers July 31, 2017 Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado Boulder) Roger is a long-term Research Fellow of Risk Frontiers and recently it was our pleasure to be able to host...

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New paper by Pielke Jr. – weather related disasters are decreasing in costs

This new paper from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. is likely not going to be popular with the doomer crowd, because it takes the wind out of their sails when it comes to exclaiming that “Climate change is making...

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New York Times Suggests Global Warming Might Be Worse Than Biblical Plagues

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor 2:48 PM 11/19/2018 | Energy The New York Times suggested future global warming would be worse than the plagues unleashed on Egypt in the Bible’s...

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Inverse Hockey-Stick: climate related death risk for an individuals down 99%...

Bjørn Lomborg writes on Facebook about some new and surprising data that turn climate alarmist claims upside down. Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is clearly...

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Evidence Mounts Against Climate Prediction That Inspired ‘Day After Tomorrow’...

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor New evidence suggests climate model predictions are way off when it comes to the Gulf Stream. Scientists warned global warming could halt the...

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100 Years Later: The Flu

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen One hundred years have passed since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 swept around the world, circumnavigating at least twice between 1918 and 1920, killing outright...

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Climate Disaster Confusion

  Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Since May of 2019,  Christopher Flavelle, has been covering “climate adaptation for The New York Times, focusing on how people, governments and businesses respond to the...

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NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years

Estimated to be about 1,100 feet (340 meters) across, Apophis quickly gained notoriety as an asteroid that could pose a serious threat to Earth when astronomers predicted that it would come...

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Next Doomsday “Crisis”: GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE…Meat Lockdown Needed, Potsdam...

That’s the aim: to turn everyone into vegetarians. The meat lockdown is in the pipeline.

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Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards

Results show a clear decreasing trend in both human and economic vulnerability, with global average mortality and economic loss rates that have dropped by 6.5 and nearly 5 times, respectively, from...

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Where Have All The Disasters Gone?

I read today that the EU is using an estimate of US$68 per tonne of CO2 emissions for the purported cost of the damages done by CO2. This is known…

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EM-DAT Disaster Database Creating Data Disasters

These UN reports themselves are “Data Disasters” – in that the data upon which they are based is so flawed that it is not fit for purpose. The flaw is, or should be, obvious to anyone even glancing at...

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It’s Better than We Thought

"Let me end with an absolutely incredible statistic......"

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Climate Crisis? Ever Fewer People Dying of Climate Disasters. There’s Hype,...

Today we present some charts to show that we are not in a “climate crisis”

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EM-DAT:  The International Disaster Database

“EM-DAT defines disasters as situations or events which overwhelm local capacity, necessitating a request for external assistance at the national or international level. Disasters are unforeseen and...

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21st Century Global Disasters

A new peer-reviewed paper out this week by Alimonti and Mariani asks whether global disasters have increased. Their answer is that they have not The post 21st Century Global Disasters first appeared on...

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Natural Disasters Are Not Increasing — Really

The fact that natural disasters are not increasing and not killing more people – due to climate change or any other fanciful cause — has once more been firmly entered into the peer-reviewed literature...

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