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Climate Sensitivity

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Alarmists

Does Climate Science Really Compel Us Toward Urgent Action?

Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin.

Gene Epstein | 9.9.2022 2:54 PM

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Climate Change

12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence

The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.

Aaron Brown | 4.30.2021 1:38 PM

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Climate Change

How Much Will the Planet Warm If Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Doubles?

A doubling of carbon dioxide all but guarantees warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius, says a new study.

Ronald Bailey | 7.23.2020 4:00 PM

The end is never as nigh as prophets say

Climate Change

We're All Gonna Die: Climate Change Apocalypse by 2050

Worst-case scenarios mislead far more than they enlighten.

Ronald Bailey | 6.5.2019 10:20 AM

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Oceans

An Alarming New Study Suggests the Oceans Are Warming 60 Percent Faster. A Statistician Disagrees.

Is the study's worst-case climate scenario wrong?

Ronald Bailey | 11.8.2018 12:05 PM

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Climate Sensitivity

Global Warming Likely to Be 30 to 45 Percent Lower Than Climate Models Project

A new study in the Journal of Climate compares global temperature data trends since 1850 with model outputs.

Ronald Bailey | 4.24.2018 4:05 PM

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Climate Sensitivity

Global Warming Less Likely to Be Catastrophic, Says New Nature Study

That would mean more time to address whatever problems man-made climate change may cause

Ronald Bailey | 1.19.2018 5:30 PM

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Temperature Trends

Climate Scientists Manipulated Temperature Data to Fool Politicians and Public, Claims 'Whistleblower'

Another update on the 'settled science' of climate change

Ronald Bailey | 2.6.2017 1:20 PM

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Computer modeling

Send Around This XKCD Climate Change Web Cartoon, But Really Look at It First

You'll see the average global temperatures now are about where they were 9,000 years ago

Ronald Bailey | 9.14.2016 6:01 PM

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Climate Sensitivity

Climate Change Prediction Fail?

What did 'climate hero' James Hansen actually predict back in 1986?

Ronald Bailey | 6.17.2016 1:30 PM

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Climate Sensitivity

Global Warming Scaled Back, Say Two New Studies

Climate models may be running 2 to 4 times too hot

Ronald Bailey | 5.27.2016 10:02 AM

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Climate Sensitivity

Global Warming Hiatus Is Real

The rate of temperature increase has been dramatically slower than predicted, says Nature Climate Change.

Ronald Bailey | 2.24.2016 2:01 PM

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Paris Climate Change Conference

Bottom-Up Paris Climate Accord May Surprise Activists and Skeptics

Third dispatch: What happens if global temperature doesn't go up?

Ronald Bailey | 12.9.2015 10:03 AM

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Climate Sensitivity

Global Temperature: What Do You Want It to Be?

New study suggests "hiatus" could last 30 more years.

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2015 3:07 PM

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Climate Sensitivity

Man-made Global Warming Likely to Be Moderate, Says Study

Alternatively: model-predicted catastrophic warming is unlikely

Ronald Bailey | 4.28.2015 10:35 AM

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Climate Sensitivity

Detection of Enhanced Greenhouse Warming: What the IPCC Said Back In 1990

Changing goal posts or better science?

Ronald Bailey | 4.8.2015 11:03 AM

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Climate Sensitivity

Ronald Bailey Asks: What Would Convince You That Man-Made Global Warming Is Real?

Scientific evidence does not mandate any particular policy.

Reason Staff | 4.3.2015 1:30 PM

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Temperature Trends

New Climate Model Simulations Project Global Warming At Rates Unprecedented For At Least the Past 1,000 Years by 2020

A falsifiable prediction finally - only five years away

Ronald Bailey | 3.9.2015 5:03 PM

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Temperature Trends

Temperature Record Chicanery: An Overhyped Scandal

The real scandal is climate model failure

Ronald Bailey | 2.11.2015 10:03 AM

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Temperature Trends

2014 One of the Warmest Years, But Maybe Not the Warmest, Say U.K. Climatologists

The British data best describe a constant global average temperature for the past 18 years, says Global Warming Policy Foundation

Ronald Bailey | 1.27.2015 11:33 AM

Climate Sensitivity

Do Researchers Really Know Why Global Warming Is On Pause and When It Will End?

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2014 3:06 PM

Science & Technology

2013 Was 4th Warmest Year on Record, or 7th Warmest

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2014 12:32 PM

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Politics

Ugly Climate Models

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can't explain the last 15 years.

Ronald Bailey | 12.18.2013 1:30 PM

Temperature Trends

Climate Science Is Settled. Really?

Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2013 12:10 PM

Climate Sensitivity

Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in the Atmosphere Reach New Record

Ronald Bailey | 11.6.2013 11:40 AM

Science & Technology

Parsing the Benefits of Climate Change

Ronald Bailey | 10.21.2013 12:03 PM

Policy

Can We Trust the U.N.'s IPCC Climate Models?

Many simulations produce four times more warming than actually occurred over the past 15 years.

Ronald Bailey | 10.4.2013 4:30 PM

Climate Sensitivity

Ronald Bailey Wonders If the U.N.'s IPCC Climate Models Can Be Trusted

Reason Staff | 10.4.2013 4:30 PM

Policy

Humans Are the Certain Cause of Climate Change

So says the new IPCC report on the science of global warming.

Ronald Bailey | 9.27.2013 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Impending Climate Catastrophe May Be Called Off, Suggest Leaked Copies of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's New Report

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2013 2:23 PM

Science & Technology

Observed Rate of Global Warming Half of What the Models Predict

Ronald Bailey | 8.30.2013 12:32 PM

Science & Technology

Climate Scientists 95 Percent Certain that Global Warming Is Man-Made

Ronald Bailey | 8.19.2013 3:20 PM

Policy

The Social Cost of Carbon: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Combined climate and econometric computer models produce any desired result.

Ronald Bailey | 8.2.2013 1:30 PM

Climate Sensitivity

Future Global Temperature Forecasts Trending Downward?

Ronald Bailey | 7.19.2013 4:02 PM

Fracking

Ronald Bailey on Glenn Beck Talking About Fracking and Climate Change

Ronald Bailey | 7.11.2013 2:01 PM

Science & Technology

President Obama: Why the Rush to Ration Carbon? Temperature Increases Are Slower and the Models Are Too Hot

Ronald Bailey | 6.25.2013 4:33 PM

Science & Technology

Future Global Warming Likely Lower: Second Chance for Humanity?

Ronald Bailey | 5.21.2013 9:06 AM

Climate Sensitivity

Climate Sensitivity Trending Down: Is A Climate Apocalypse Becoming Less Likely?

Ronald Bailey | 4.26.2013 3:22 PM

Science & Technology

Climate Change Researcher James Hansen Becomes a Full-Time Activist

Ronald Bailey | 4.2.2013 11:06 AM

Climate Sensitivity

Climate Sensitivity Estimates Trending Down? Less Future Warming?

Ronald Bailey | 2.4.2013 12:09 PM

Climate Sensitivity

34 Years of Satellite Temperature Data Show Global Warming Is on a Plateau

Ronald Bailey | 12.26.2012 12:06 PM

Climate Sensitivity

Man-Made Global Warming Likely Benign, Reports WSJ Columnist Matt Ridley

Ronald Bailey | 12.19.2012 10:31 AM

Policy

Three Weeks Before U.N. Climate Meeting: It's Worse Than You Think

Ronald Bailey | 11.8.2012 3:01 PM

Science & Technology

Arctic Sea Ice Levels May Hit New Low

New record expected by end of August.

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 9:15 PM

Politics

Beltway Storm: Blame Global Warming…Or Obama?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.3.2012 5:35 PM

Politics

The Sky Is Falling Less?

A new climate study suggests global warming may not be as dire as predicted.

Ronald Bailey | 11.29.2011 4:30 PM

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