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Dennis Avery

Dennis Avery is a former U.S. State Department senior analyst and co-author with astrophysicist Fred Singer of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years

Most Recent Articles by Dennis Avery:

Easter Island myths and realities

Easter Island myths and realities In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof misleads us about the awful history of Easter Island (2,300 miles west of Chile), whose vegetation disappeared in the cold drought of the Little Ice Age. In doing so, he blinds modern society to the abrupt, icy climate challenge that lies in our own future.
- Saturday, April 7, 2018

EPA endangerment finding endangers USA

Nine years ago, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency issued an "Endangerment Finding." It claimed that methane leaks from natural gas production and pipelines, and manmade carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, cause dangerous global warming that poses an imminent danger to the health and wellbeing of Americans.
- Monday, October 2, 2017

Nearly doomed by too little CO2

Aside from protests by Al Gore, Leonardo Di Caprio and friends, the public didn't seem to raise its CO2 anguish much above the Russians-election frenzy when Trump exited the Paris Climate Accords.
- Friday, June 30, 2017

Science Recommends Climate Model Re-Start

An article in the June 13, 2014 issue of Science admits the computer climate models are not effective at forecasting either future or past temperatures.. The Science piece says the current models are “bloated with data,” but still cannot represent such huge variables as clouds and shifts in ocean currents. Statisticians are recommending a re-start.
- Monday, July 7, 2014

A World Turns Against Biofuels

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has suddenly reversed its support for biofuels. The panel now admits growing crops for fuel “poses risks to ecosystems and biodiversity.”
- Saturday, May 31, 2014

Carbon dioxide won't cause famines

Historian Geoffrey Parker is the author of Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the 17th Century. In a recent opinion piece, he suggested that the desperate climate from 1600 to 1700 is a template for human collapse in our twenty-first century. There are two massive flaws in his theory.
- Friday, May 30, 2014

FDA: No Low-Dose Chemical Dangers

The Food and Drug Administration has just loudly re-endorsed perhaps the oldest truth in science--that the dose makes the poison. Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, told us 500 years ago, "All substances are poison. There is none which is not a poison. The right dose makes the difference between a poison and a remedy."
- Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Obama and Economic Suicide

Churchville, VA—President Obama is demanding, by Executive Order, what congress will not give him by vote. With winter approaching and the “ObamaCare” mess hanging over his shoulder, he is now ordering the U.S. economy to hitch itself to more and more of the costly and erratic “renewable” energy sources. These have already bankrupted Spain and are about to bankrupt Great Britain and Germany.
- Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Does Global Warming Science Matter?

The European Union’s top climate official says the EU is pursuing the right renewable energy policies—even if the scientists are wrong about the cause of global warming! Why?
- Friday, October 11, 2013

Arctic grabs gullible sailors

Churchville, VA—The naïve advice of ardent activists can kill. Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer. (So did Britain’s BBC network) This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled Northwest Passage.
- Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Global Warming: It’s Happening Again

Churchville, VA—Senator Boxer recently held a hearing entitled, “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now.” To honor historic truth, the title “It’s Happening Again” would have suited better.
- Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ten Billion and Catastrophe?

The polls say we no longer fear man-made global warming very much. However, now that the scaremongers can’t make us afraid of GW they’re recycling their most reliable scare—overpopulation. Two new books, Ten Billion, by Stephen Emmot and Population: Ten Billion, by Dan Dorley, claim too many people will bring on disaster. They claim humanity will be doomed by the combination of overpopulation, climate change and species loss.
- Thursday, July 18, 2013

A Climate Debate: Both Sides Showed Up!

Churchville, VA—I just took part in a remarkable event: a public debate over manmade global warming in which both sides appeared—and the Associated Press reported on it! I have been invited to many of these events over the past six years, but the warmists always canceled when they found a skeptic was part of the deal.
- Saturday, June 15, 2013

Prince Charles: Too “Green” to be King?

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Prince Charles recently made his most outspoken criticism yet of the world’s failure to reduce CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, British families have seen no global warming trend in 16 years, while their electric bills have doubled to support expensive and unreliable wind turbines.
- Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A Climate Cycle Delivered Our Cold Spring

Churchville, VA: Lots of us are commenting on the U.S. having the second coldest spring in the official thermometer record (starting ca. 1860) and the coldest since 1975. Remember, too, that in 1975 major news magazines were predicting a sudden return to the next Ice Age! This cold spring highlights another climate cycle that has nothing to do with CO2.
- Friday, May 10, 2013

Billionaire “forcing” climate change

Churchville, VA—A Wall Street billionaire is pledging to spend “whatever it takes” to make manmade global warming the “defining issue of our generation.” Most recently, he sent airplanes with banners over Boston that read “Steve Lynch for Oil Evil Empire.” Lynch, a fellow Democrat and Senate candidate, favors the Keystone pipeline and the jobs it would create.
- Friday, April 19, 2013

The Dam is about to Break

Churchville, VA—When a dam is about to break, the first sign of collapse is a little trickle of water over its top. Last, week Geoffrey Lean of London’s Telegraph scooped a little trickle of water over the top of the man-made warming dam—which has been holding back human hopes for decades. Lean has been an environmental correspondent for 40 years, and no one had more loudly demanded lowered CO2 emissions “to protect the planet.”
- Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Is Warming the “Civilization-Killer”?

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Author Eugene Linden writes books on the far edge of the environmental movement. He recently wrote, a bit hysterically, in The Daily Beast: “we need leaders with the courage to steamroll the deniers and the vested interests . . . Climate change is a civilization killer, and if we go on down the climate rapids…” I am not sure what “steamrolling entails; but I do know that the warmer periods are the civilization savers.
- Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Geologist says Marcott’s CO2 thesis failed

Geologist Don Easterbrookhas commented on a new computer study that claims “current global temperatures of the past decade . . . are warmer than during 75 percent of the Holocene temperature history.” [ia]Easterbrook says the Marcott paper is “totally at odds with the Greenland ice core data, the ‘gold standard’ of paleoclimate research, as attested by hundreds of real-world studies of past global temperature proxies.” [ii]
- Friday, March 22, 2013

Britain narrowly escapes “green” blackout

For years, many of us have warned the “green energy” craze would throw First World countries into blackouts, factory knockouts, more deaths among the elderly and all manner of avoidable tragedies. It nearly happened to Britain in January, as bitterly cold weather put a massive strain on Britain’s creaking power plants.
- Friday, March 1, 2013

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