Tag: Climate change
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No, Virginia, Heat Waves are Not More Common
A bit of hard data as the Virginia and national media go into hysterics over a very typical Virginia heat wave and repeat endlessly the claim that this is becoming more frequent. Uh, no, no it’s not. From the CO2 Coalition’s recent updated compilation on “climate stability” in Virginia, worth reading and sharing. While you…
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Europe Sizzles While Americans Stay Cool
by Kerry Dougherty If 1967 was the summer of love, 1985 was the summer of sweat. For me, anyway. I spent a lot of time on the beach 31 years ago. Over the roar of the surf I could hear Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” blaring from boomboxes, vying with Huey Lewis’ “The Power of Love.”…
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Virginia’s Return to RGGI: Another Ratepayer Rip-Off in the Making
Governor Spanberger just made every Virginian’s household more expensive. by Jeff Reynolds Virginia has jumped back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and residential ratepayers will feel the pain—again. The last time the state was in the program, under the last Democratic governor, it cost Virginians more than $600 million over three years. Every…
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If The World Is Getting Hotter…
Why On Day 14 After Paralyzing Ice Storm Does SWVA Still Look Like Frozen Tundra With Wind Chills Of 0 Degrees? by Scott Dreyer Full disclosure: One, I am not a climatologist. Two, I understand the difference between weather (short-term conditions) vs. climate (long-term trends). But just as an observer, it’s been really cold here around Roanoke for a long time.…
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Another Week of Misleading Media to Scare Americans on Climate
A Critic Answered, a Narrative Destroyed By Steve Haner The propensity of American news outlets to spread outright falsehoods about extreme weather and the claimed (but easily refuted) link to “climate change” has been on full display this week. Any observant person who spends even a day driving in the Texas Hill Country can see…
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Bacon Bits: Sickly, Sinking Feelings
A 4.7% unemployment rate next year? Virginia could lose 32,000 jobs this year due to federal spending cuts, as a result of which the state’s unemployment rate could rise to 3.9% this year and 4.7% in 2026, according to a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The study counts…
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“Hottest Year Evah!” Must Be Over
You may be starting to pine for a return to the hottest year evah! A recent data dump from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that January 2025 was in the running for one of the coldest Virginia January average temperatures in more than a century. The graph above captured on their tracking website…
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Meteorologists Hype the Weather. It’s What They Do Best.
by Kerry Dougherty There was a time when I was fluent in Celsius. Today I have to turn to Google to translate. But back in the summer of either 1982 or 1983 I remember a headline in The Irish Press that was something like this: “Dublin Sizzles In 22-Degree Heat.” I was living in Ireland’s…
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Misleading Certitude on Climate Change
by Bill O’Keefe The Richmond Times-Dispatch meteorologist, Sean Sublett, recently wrote an article, “What to make of the National Climate Assessment.” He makes little of it in terms of analysis, and he reposts as if the assessment is primarily fact and not scientific speculation. He provides almost nothing on the uncertainties that drive the National Assessment.…
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Support Governor Youngkin’s RGGI Repeal
by Colin M. Kelly I can only laugh at the headlines and statements being made by the media and climate alarmists about Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to pull Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The headline “Returning Millions to Virginia” really grates: The state takes money out of the consumer’s pocket with…
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American Kids Are Flabby. It Isn’t Because Of Climate Change.
by Kerry Dougherty Just when you thought the world’s climate clowns couldn’t get any zanier there’s this: Yep, these loons are now blaming America’s flabby, sedentary and out-of-shape children on global warming.
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Patrick Michaels RIP
by Bill Tracy Nationally known climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels has died, and there is certainly a huge Virginia connection. Michaels considered himself to be a “lukewarmer,” denoting a belief that there is indeed a man-made (CO2) component to climate change. But, he said “What I’m skeptical about is the glib notion that it means the end…
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How’s Your Climate Emergency Going? Hanging In?
by Steve Haner How is your climate emergency going so far? We seem to be hanging in well at my house. The media hype around this fairly typical July hot spell has been off the charts, but my favorite headline of the season appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch (home of at least one climate jeremiad…