Whatever happened to fears over ‘peak oil’?

Written by Michael Lynch

Very few people realize that the entire concerns about peak oil were based on misinformation or junk science.

A decade ago, the media was filled with stories about peak oil, numerous books were published on the subject (such as Half Gone and $20 a Gallon!), and even the Simpsons mentioned it in an episode about doomsday preppers.

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Fake News: ‘Global Heat Wave’ Is Melting Polar Bear Sea Ice!

Written by Dr Susan J Crockford

polar bear hunting seal

According to The Guardian, there is a “global heat wave” going on right now.

In Siberia, the heat is supposedly “completely unprecedented” and will surely (we are told) impact Arctic sea ice — the habitat of the iconic polar bear. Yet a comparison of previous years shows little to no impact on sea ice: there is more ice present than there was in 2007.

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Imagine… Our Electric Car Future…

Written by Hans Schreuder (Analytical Chemist)

… if all these cars were electric, the many billions of tons of extra batteries …
… the mountains of vile byproducts to make those extra billions of batteries …
… the mountains of vile waste from recycling those extra billions of batteries …
… if just 10 of them ran out of battery power in a traffic jam …

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Post-Modernist Takeover Of Science In Academia

Written by Heather Heying

The revolution on college campuses, which seeks to eradicate individuals and ideas that are considered unsavory, constitutes a hostile takeover by fringe elements.

Last spring at the Evergreen State College, where I was a professor for 15 years, the revolution was televised—proudly and intentionally—by the radicals.

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Sacred Peer-Review Process Takes A Big Hit

Written by cfact

Global warming alarmists suffered a big hit this week in their effort to deify shoddy “peer-reviewed” climate papers.

Stanford University medical professor John Ioannidis, in an interview with Agence France Presse (AFP), blew the lid off the trustworthiness of the peer-review process.

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Arctic Ice Holds Steady For A Decade!

Written by Pierre Gosselin

Lately, Arctic sea ice volume has been a topic which climate skeptics have been looking at quite closely.

According to Al Gore and a number of climate ambulance chasers, Arctic sea ice in late summer should have long disappeared by now.

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Arctic Ice Volume Holds Steady For A Decade!

Written by Pierre Gosselin

Arctic sea ice volume data show earlier projections of ice-free Arctic summers were a sham. Sea ice now steady 10 years.

Lately Arctic sea ice volume has been a topic which climate skeptics have been looking at quite closely.

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