Climate Change Dispatch In the month since Republicans took control of the House, Senate and White House, they’ve been talking a lot about taxes. Unfortunately, the talk is about adding two entirely new taxes to the code. Earlier in the year, House Republicans spent several days talking up the idea of a new 20% border tax, the folly […] http://ift.tt/2kWEQ8y

Climate Change Dispatch South Australia’s wind farms fail again, grinding out just 2 per cent power when the wind’s die in a heatwave. Result: blackouts to 40,000 homes as the temperature soars above 40 degrees. And lives put in danger by this green madness. –Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, 8 February 2017 The Australian Energy Market Operator says it […] http://ift.tt/2kcjWhb

Climate Change Dispatch One of the biggest post-election winners on Capitol Hill is Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. This soft-spoken Texas Republican has become an unlikely warrior against dubious science used to justify costly federal regulations imposed on American industry, particularly from the Environmental Protection Agency. Over the past eight years, […] http://ift.tt/2kWXKfl

Climate Change Dispatch 75% Of Total Modern Glacier Melt Occurred Before 1950 “[T]he retreat of the glaciers after about 1925 became rapid.  It was almost entirely during the [pre-1950] twentieth century warming that the Alpine glaciers disappeared from the valley floors up into the mountains.  Similarly great retreats occurred in Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, in the Americas, and on […] http://ift.tt/2kclc43