NASA’s Jim Hansen has gained a lot of attention for asserting that the Bush administration is suppressing his ideas on climate change. Most recently in the February 8 New York Times, Hansen accused his employer of destroying our democracy by…

Readers of recent news reports may think it’s news that U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the main global-warming gas, are at an all-time high. The real news would be if they dropped steeply, which could only occur with a very…

After years of promoting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, British Prime Minister Tony Blair his finally seen the light: the Protocol is simply not the way to deal with planetary warming, and it will take away capital that would…

Five named storms before July 15! Obviously we’re headed for some kind of record year. Or are we? And what does all of this have to do with planetary warming? The answers aren’t clear. Hurricane (and tropical storm) data are…

The inexorable drumbeat of climate disaster stories goes on, but no one seems interested in checking the facts. The most recent assault on common sense comes from Alaska. There, Republican senators Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski are said to be…

Dr. Christopher Landsea, a scientist at the Hurricane Research Division of the U.S. Department of Commerce and one of the world’s foremost experts on hurricanes, has publicly resigned from authorship of an upcoming United Nations report on climate change. Landsea…