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Climate Change

NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are Not Evidence of Climate Change

Weather and climate disaster losses as a percentage of U.S. GDP have not increased between 1990 and 2019, a new study finds.

Ronald Bailey | 4.25.2024 2:10 PM

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Climate Change

Global Warming Trend Is 'Only One-Half of the Climate Model Simulations,' Says New Paper

A new satellite global temperature data series bolsters the case that climate models are running way too hot.

Ronald Bailey | 4.27.2023 11:45 AM

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Surveillance

Charter Boat Captains Don't Have To Share Their Location Data With the Government, Court Rules

Plus: More lawmakers move to decriminalize psychedelic plants, Tennessee's "adult cabaret" law, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.6.2023 9:30 AM

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Hurricanes

Here's What the Media Get Wrong About Hurricanes

No, a big storm does not require big government.

John Stossel | 10.5.2022 12:30 AM

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NOAA

2019 Was Second Warmest Year on Record Says NOAA

The past five years have been the warmest of the last 140 years.

Ronald Bailey | 1.15.2020 1:20 PM

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NOAA

NOAA Climate Change Data Manipulation Charge: Scandal or Nothing to See Here?

Settled science and confirmation bias all the way down

Ronald Bailey | 2.8.2017 11:15 AM

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NOAA

2016 Hottest Year Since Good Record Keeping Began in 1880, Says NOAA and NASA

16 of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001

Ronald Bailey | 1.18.2017 11:30 AM

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Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic Sea Ice At Second Lowest Extent in Modern Record

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at twice the rate they are at lower latitudes.

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2016 2:30 PM

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Temperature Trends

August and Year-to-Date Are Second Hottest in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade

Ronald Bailey | 9.2.2016 11:50 AM

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Sea Level

Assume 6 Feet of Sea Level Rise: Predict Catastrophe

Useful science or worst case scaremongering?

Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2016 12:02 PM

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Temperature Trends

2015 Warmest Year in Instrumental Record, Says NOAA, NASA, and the U.K.'s Met Office

2015 third warmest year since 1979 according to UAH satellite temperature data

Ronald Bailey | 1.21.2016 10:02 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

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Temperature Trends

2014 Hottest Year on Record, Says NOAA: Climate Models Still Wrong on Trend

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2015 2:03 PM

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Science & Technology

Feds Try to Mail $400K Drone to Themselves, Send It to the Wrong Guy

Zenon Evans | 5.6.2014 1:36 PM

Science & Technology

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

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2014 12:32 PM

Temperature Trends

Global Temperature Trend Update—July 2013

Ronald Bailey | 8.7.2013 1:24 PM

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Economics

NOAA Fishery Regulations Relentless, Vindictive, Overzealous, Not Based on Science, Says Massachusetts Democrat

Regulation? Not in their backyard

Ed Krayewski | 5.31.2013 10:14 AM

Temperature Trends

2012 Hottest Year on Record in U.S.—Surface and Satellite Temperature Measurements Agree

Ronald Bailey | 1.9.2013 11:21 AM