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Much has been written lately about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The CEOs of the three leading AI companies, Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Elon Musk (xAI), have all warned about the dangers of pursuing rapid development of autonomous super-intelligent AI models without “guardrails.” Most of those writings deal with…

As a matter of principle, I believe in the limited role of the government in the lives of its citizens. However, there are activities that the central government is better equipped to manage: national security, foreign relations, immigration, and interstate...

Sir Isaac Newton published his magnus opus, titled Principia Mathematica, in 1687.  In Principia, Newton introduced his three laws of motion — the law of inertia, the law of acceleration, the law of action-reaction — and the law of universal gravitation.  It is...

After President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, he began a series of trips around the world to apologize for American hegemony. His topics included apologizing to the Muslim world for the War on Terror, to Europe for American arrogance in foreign and economic policy, to the countries in the Americas for not engaging our neighbors, and for the mistakes of

The goal of scientific research should be to pursue the truth, not confirm a personal or institutional bias. But many analyses of the global warming hypothesis begin with the assumption that man has caused global warming and then proceed to try to prove the thesis, employing pseudoscience in the effort.

In my book, I strongly advocate for the concept of adhering to the scientific method of inquiry and the first principles of science, ab initio, as a discipline in the conduct of scientific research. The scientific method has been the foundation of legitimate scientific research for over 400 years and has served to advance man’s understanding of the natural world.

The primary heat transfer mechanism to cool the Earth’s surface is convection. However, at night, when the temperature of the Earth’s surface approximates the temperature of the air above it, the Earth begins to cool by emitting long wave infrared (LWIR) photons into the lower troposphere (the first 8 km of the Earth’s atmosphere).

Frequently, I read where a politician like John Kerry; Al Gore; Joe Biden; or António Guterres, the secretary general of the U.N., has stated: "We must keep the increase of the average temperature of the Earth to 1.5°C or less; it has already risen 1.1°C since the...

As vice president, Al Gore led the negotiations to establish the U.N. Kyoto Protocol in 1998. The Kyoto Protocol was a “climate treaty” ostensibly designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the signatories during the period 2005–2012 to a level equivalent to 95% of each country’s 1990 emissions.

On February 15, 2023, David Malpass, the president of the World Bank, announced that he would retire one year early on June 1, 2023.  On July 21, 2023, Pablo Moreno, the director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, read the...

On Tuesday, April 25, 2023, Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, warned U.K. citizens that they need to accept that they are poorer and stop pushing for higher wages.  “Yes, we’re all worse off,” he said, saying that seeking to offset rising prices...

It began with Governor Gavin Newsom in California. In September 2020, thenewly elected governor issued an executive order imposing a ban on the sale of new gas and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. In August 2022, California’s Air Resources Board enacted rules to...

The threat of global warming has morphed into a catastrophe of impending climate change, leaching into many areas of our society: education, government, transportation, energy, and civil liberties, just to name a few. Anyone who speaks out against the narrative of...

The European Union (EU) and the State of California have much in common. They both tried to solve a problem that does not exist, and in the process, created a much bigger problem. Now, they are both going to have to change their thinking in order to solve the bigger...

Know why no creature was stirring, not even a mouse? It was dark and cold in the house. Over 1.6 million people were without power on Christmas Eve 2022 in the U.S. Most of those affected were in the eastern half of the country, with half of all those...

If a movie titled “No Easy Way Out” had been made by Hollywood in the 1970s, it would have starred Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood as FBI agents. In the concluding scene, the good guys (Bronson and Eastwood) would have the bad guys (Russian mafia) trapped in a...

On Oct. 16, 1938, Winston Churchill, a member of Parliament and an opponent of the policy of appeasement concerning the aggression of Nazi Germany in Czechoslovakia, made the above statement in a radio broadcast from England directly to the American people...

History may well judge Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to be a great gift to Western civilization.  That is not to say that Russia’s invasion of that sovereign country was not unwarranted and a crime against humanity.  Clearly, it has been...

On September 26, 2022, seismologists in Denmark and Sweden recorded underwater seismic activity in the Baltic Sea between 2.1 and 2.3 on the Richter scale, equivalent to an explosion of several hundred pounds of TNT.  After investigations, authorities in...

In his book Unsettled, Dr. Steve Koonin uses publicly available data to refute all of the claims of the proponents of the global warming hypothesis as relates to increasing extreme weather events and rising sea levels.  In my book Global Warming: The Great Deception,...

On May 15, 2013, “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature” was published in “Environmental Research Letters” by a group who referred to themselves as “citizen scientists.”  In the “letter” that reported their findings,...

Today, about two hours outside Berlin, residents of a small town in Germany are foraging for wood in a nearby forest. In Poland, people are lined up in front of coal mines, hoping to buy fuel for the coming winter. In France, President Emmanuel Macron, an ardent...

P.T. Barnum might not have said there is a sucker born every minute. But, if he didn’t, he should have, because it is true. In the Southwestern U.S. in the late 1800s, snake oil salesmen traveled from town to town in buckboard wagons, peddling snake oil...

In 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson claimed to have discovered the "missing link" between ape and man, known as "The Piltdown Man."  He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown village in Sussex, England.  Dawson...

Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden joined the war on the carbon atom by opening a front against the US energy sector. He cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline project permit and froze the leasing of prospective oil and gas producing properties in the...

In the previous article in this series on alleged man-made global warming, we discussed how climate scientists have used inherently unreliable data to “prove” their case. We explained that the analog surface temperature readings that have been used to calculate...

In the last article in this series on Anthropogenic Global Warming (“AGW”), I made the statement that “the concept of an average temperature of the earth is a figment of the climate scientist’s imagination.” Since that article was published, I have had numerous...

This is the sixth in our continuing series of articles demonstrating the fallacy of man-made, or “anthropogenic,” global warming (“AGW” for short). The previous article in this series exposed the raison d’être for the Paris Climate Accord: the lucrative business of...

In previous articles, we have seen there is no consensus among the world’s scientists on the premise of man-made global warming. The position statements of a number of the world’s leading research universities and academic societies demonstrate that AGW remains an...

In a previous article, I exposed the origins of the oft-repeated but untruthful claim that “97% of the world’s scientists believe that man has caused global warming.” This claim was first put forward in an unscientific 2013 study whose lead author John Cook, an...