From the Heartland Institute

Climate Change not Causing Unnatural Extinction Rate - Contradicting alarmist’s claims, a paper by Tim Ball, Ph.D. shows there is no evidence global warming is causing an unnatural increase in the number of species extinctions. To posit human activities are causing an unnaturally high extinction rate, one must first have a good estimate for the number of species in existence and a good understanding of the natural extinction rate, but environmentalists have neither, Ball notes. We don’t have any idea how many species exist, and one of the most commonly used models for estimating the number and rate of extinctions is based on false assumptions and simplistic mathematics. The model hasn’t proved correct when tested against actual, measured extinctions. - Read more at,  Watts Up With That

 New Climate Science Society - Climate scientists and meteorologists unhappy with the climate activist bent of traditional professional climate science societies have formed a new professional organization: The Open Atmospheric Society. With an international membership and a guiding motto “verum in luce” meaning “truth in the light,” the society will study, discuss, and publish about topics in atmospheric-related earth sciences, including meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, and climatology. They will publish the first cloud-based, fully transparently peer-reviewed online journal, providing an outlet for scientists who have been underrepresented or shut out of other professional journals due to the push for climate alarmism orthodoxy in those forums. - Read more at, The Open Atmospheric Society

 Naomi Klein Admits Climate Change is About Changing Society - In a telling interview in The Atlantic, Naomi Klein, long a patron of progressive causes, admits those who reject the global warming orthodoxy are correct about some implications of the climate alarm movement: Fighting global warming requires a wholesale remaking of society, a huge expansion of the state, and a massive redistribution of wealth both within and among nations. Klein complains her liberal allies don’t understand half-measures such as emission caps and cap-and-trade programs will not prevent dangerous warming. Instead, the climate crisis should be viewed as an opportunity to transform society fundamentally and bring about a humane economy.  -Read more at, The Atlantic