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therightinsight.org/Anti-Science
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12/8/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
skepticism
1 : an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object
2a : the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain
2b : the method of suspended judgment...
therightinsight.org/Astroturf
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12/17/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Demonstrations regarding a variety of issues are becoming more common in the US and several other countries. Climate change is one of the issues which is a focus of these demonstrations. Spontaneous demonstrations are frequently referred to...
therightinsight.org/1984-in-2020
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3/3/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
George Orwell’s novel, 1984 describes a dystopian future in which history is routinely rewritten to fit the requirements of the government and in which independent thought is actively discouraged. Orwell intended 1984 as a warning, ...
therightinsight.org/2019-Retrospective
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12/24/19 at 6:01 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The EPA 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding is still in effect and provides the basis for multiple government climate change initiatives.
The EPA Clean Power Plan has been replaced by the EPA Affordable Clean Energy Rule, though the new ACE Rule...
therightinsight.org/2020-Prospective
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12/31/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Yogi Berra, American philosopher
The new year, 2020, is an election year in the US. While there are numerous issues which divide the two parties, climate change is sure to ...
therightinsight.org/2020-Retrospective
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12/29/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.”, Robert Burns
The past year has been a rollercoaster ride for the issue of climate change. The year ...
therightinsight.org/2021-Climate-Prospective
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1/5/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Dichotomy 1 : a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
Future US climate policies currently face a clear dichotomy. The policies which will be pursued depend on the outcome of a still contested ...
therightinsight.org/A-CERES-Possibility
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1/15/19 at 6:45 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
NASA launched the first of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellites in 1997. CERES is managed by NASA’s Langley Research Center. The CERES surface datasets include a dataset of the upwelling longwave ...
therightinsight.org/A-Failure-of-Belief
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8/18/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are — for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable — ...
therightinsight.org/A-Failure-of-Proof
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10/6/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In the previous commentary, A Failure of Belief, I asserted that neither science nor authority should require belief, but that both should require proof. I also asserted that both science and authority had demonstrated that they did not ...
therightinsight.org/A-Little-Perspective
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1/17/17 at 7:33 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The angst-ridden, consensed climate science community is focused on an increase in global average near-surface temperature of approximately 0.7°C (1.3°F) per century, or a total increase of approximately 0.9°C (1.6°F) since ...
therightinsight.org/A-Look-Back-The-Coming-Ice-Age
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12/5/16 at 8:52 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A friend brought this to my attention today. It is almost 60 years old. (Note the name of the authoress of the article.)
Very interesting. I had not seen it previously. I don&...
therightinsight.org/A-Stake-Through-the-Heart-Trumps-View-of-Existing-Climate-Change-Activities
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6/20/17 at 6:25 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Trump Administration has raised a number of questions regarding the US and global efforts to limit climate change. Each of these questions must be addressed calmly, carefully, and comprehensively. The Administration must be extremely ...
therightinsight.org/A-Way-Forward
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7/14/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don&...
therightinsight.org/Adaptation-and-Survival
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4/9/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The universe is estimated to be approximately 13.7 billion years old. Our solar system is estimated to be approximately 4.6 to 5 billion years old, while the earth is estimated to be approximately 4.3 to 4.6 billion years old. Earth’s...
therightinsight.org/Additional-Perspective-Temperature-Anomaly-Record
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3/28/17 at 7:31 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
It is generally acknowledged that human influence on global climate was minimal prior to approximately 1950. Therefore, virtually all climate change prior to 1950 is considered to have been the result of natural climate variation or a ...
therightinsight.org/Advance-the-Science
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12/11/18 at 5:53 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
An open memo to key organizations skeptical of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
To: American Enterprise Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council
Cato Institute
Competitive ...
therightinsight.org/Alarmism-Skepticism
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9/1/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A recent study raised issues regarding climate alarmism and climate skepticism and disinformation. The following statement from the study is the subject of this commentary.
"... the amount of literature examining climate change ...
therightinsight.org/America-First-Trumps-Climate-Change-Budget
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5/2/17 at 6:29 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Trump Administration has released “America First, A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again”. The blueprint is long on direction and short on details. The implications of this document for climate change are significant...
therightinsight.org/An-Engineers-Observations
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11/22/16 at 8:21 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several aspects of government-funded climate science appear both curious and disturbing. The current level of government funding of climate science is certainly adequate to support rigorous scientific investigation, data gathering and ...
therightinsight.org/Analytical-Caution
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9/29/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The previous commentaries on coincidence and causation regarding temperature anomalies and sea level referred to two interactive composite graphs (here and here). These graphs each combine paleoclimatic estimates of historical conditions ...
therightinsight.org/Anomalous-Anomalies
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10/25/16 at 9:41 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
NASA GISS and NCEI have released their June Climate anomalies; and, they are anomalous. GISS and NCEI both have access to all of the same near-surface temperature data; and, both use the same sea surface temperature anomaly product, ...
therightinsight.org/Another-One-Bites-the-Dust-Judith-Curry-Resigns
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2/14/17 at 7:19 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Dr. Judith Curry has resigned her position at Georgia Tech, in frustration over “the politics and propaganda that beset climate science”. Dr. Curry explained,
“the deeper reasons have to do with my growing disenchantment ...
therightinsight.org/Asymptotes
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7/24/18 at 8:19 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Atmospheric physics establishes that the impact of incremental additions of CO2 to the earth’s atmosphere approaches zero asymptotically, as shown in the graph below.

This means that any increase in the global average surface ...
therightinsight.org/Attribution-Absurdity
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4/23/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In the current mantra of the consensed climate science community, every adverse weather-related event is alleged to have been caused by, or worsened by, climate change. Unverified climate models are being used in attribution studies to ...
therightinsight.org/Barely-Measurable
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8/6/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several recent media articles have suggested that even if the US adopted the Green New Deal, or somevariant thereof, which reduced or eliminated US CO2 emissions, the impact on global warming would be “barely measurable”. These ...
therightinsight.org/Biden-Climate-Plan
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10/20/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-1
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5/19/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A group of climate change activists and anti-capitalists has sent an “Open Letter and ...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-2
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5/26/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary and those that follow will analyze the programs in each policy proposal which...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-3
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6/2/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary and those that follow will analyze the programs in each policy proposal which...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-4
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6/9/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary and those that follow will analyze the programs in each policy proposal which...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-5
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6/16/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary and those that follow will analyze the programs in each policy proposal which...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-6
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6/23/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Government Under the Blue/Green New Deal
1. Housing, Buildings, Civic ...
therightinsight.org/Bootleggers-Baptists-and-The-Jones-Act
Suppose that a freak Atlantic storm pummels the city of Boston, leaving it flooded for days and cut off from services by land and air—trucks cannot reach it and planes cannot land. But a Canadian transport ship happens to be passing ...
therightinsight.org/Building-Anxiety
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7/23/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The consensed climate science community, the media and progressive politicians are experiencing high anxiety regarding climate change. However, they have been relatively unsuccessful in building similar high anxiety among voters in the US, ...
therightinsight.org/Californias-Drought
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4/18/17 at 7:10 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The past several years featured a never-ending stream of stories about California’s never-ending drought and its supposed roots in climate change. The past few weeks have featured a stream of stories about California’s experience with an ...
therightinsight.org/Chinese-Climate-Leadership
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8/15/17 at 6:52 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Numerous recent articles have asked questions in this general form: “Will America Let China Lead the World?” These articles suggest that the US had the leadership role on climate change and that US withdrawal from the Paris ...
therightinsight.org/Clean-Power-Plan-Redux
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11/14/17 at 6:04 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has signed an order rescinding the Clean Power Plan. This action will trigger an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding potential future emissions reductions and reduction strategies. This action ...
therightinsight.org/Climaskeptiphobia
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2/25/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
-phobia (noun combining form) (Merriam Webster)
- exaggerated fear of
- intolerance or aversion for
The consensed climate science community has not been particularly congenial to, cooperative with or even tolerant ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Insensitivity
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12/1/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The consensed climate science community has consensed on the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are largely or totally responsible for the recent increase in global average surface temperature. Some even refer to CO2 as the climate...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Alarmist-Creed
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11/20/18 at 6:18 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
We believe in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (the founder of global warming / climate change alarmism).
We believe in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (the aggregator and promoter of consensus ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-and-Climate-Model-Observations
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5/8/18 at 7:08 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Anybody having to make a decision about climate science needs to understand the full spectrum of what we know and what we don’t know.” Dr. Steven E. Koonin, former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
&...
therightinsight.org/Climate-and-Game-Theory
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7/28/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Zero-sum, positive-sum, and negative-sum are all game theory terms that refer to the outcomes of a dispute or negotiation. They refer to the actual amount of wealth (money, land, vacation time) -- measurable rewards -- that each party ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-and-the-First-Amendment
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2/20/18 at 6:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Anticipation
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11/24/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The UN, the signatories to the UN FCCC, the parties to the Paris Accords, the administrators of the Green Climate Fund, the IPCC, the consensed climate science community, climate activists, developing nations, not-yet-developing nations, ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-2017-Year-in-Review
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12/19/17 at 6:21 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The year 2017 was a good year regarding climate change in the US, at least from the perspective of this skeptic. The US inaugurated a President with a healthy skepticism regarding CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) and climate...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Attribution
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6/5/18 at 6:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Earth’s climate system is extremely complex, chaotic and not particularly well understood. The factors which have caused climate change over the past millennia continue to cause climate change today and will likely continue to cause ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Commune-ification
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1/23/18 at 7:09 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The ultimate goal of those promoting the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming meme is the establishment of a global vegan commune of approximately 1 billion souls, run by some subset of the tinpot despots represented in the United ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Debate
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11/7/17 at 8:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Professor Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, creator of the (in)famous hockey stick and self-appointed spokesperson of the consensed climate science community, apparently has no ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Debate-Year-in-Review-2018
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12/18/18 at 5:39 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United States has still not terminated its participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as required by current US law, as the result of the UNFCCC granting state-level recognition to the ...
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