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The coming El Niño could be a glimpse of a grim future

by Mark Gongloff Thanks to El Niño, the world is about to experience something like time travel to the year 2050. It won’t be pleasant. But rather than devolve into panic at the grim climate future it portends, we should use it as a warning about the need to do more to slow global ...

Fight over gas stoves heating up

Federal bureaucrats aren’t the only ones looking to ban gas stoves. Plenty of state and local officials want to do just that, including here in Nevada. Last Monday, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission was considering a ban on gas stoves. Richard Trumka ...

Strange weather becoming normal

Too many people believe that snow and cold weather are proof that “global warming” is a hoax, but no one ever said climate change meant no more snow. Rather, while winters have become more mild, the weather — when it does hit — has become more severe. As evidenced by the bomb cyclone ...

Climate change lies is its own industry

by T. Nelson Thompson Over the holidays too many years ago, when I was little more than a toddler, I was caught in a baldfaced lie after having exhausted the freshly baked treasures of a kitchen cookie jar. I denied “the truth and the whole truth” by claiming maybe to have only ...

Beyond razor wire: A connected planet

by Robert Koehler EDITOR'S NOTE: This space will be filled with various syndicated columnists this week and next week. After the New Year, Froma Harrop will be the Thursday columnist. OK, he’s a politician — Doug Ducey, the exiting governor of Arizona, who recently began erecting ...

Can scientists moonlight as activists?

by Nicholas Goldberg Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chained himself to the doors of the Wilson Air Center in Charlotte, N.C., a couple weeks ago as part of a protest against private jets and the carbon emissions they spew. He and several ...