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Exactly two years after Hurricane Harvey blew through Houston, Texas, the state government approved a “Rainy Day Fund” earmarked for flood prevention projects and resilient infrastructure...

  Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Since May of 2019,  Christopher Flavelle, has been covering “climate adaptation for The New York Times, focusing on how people, governments and businesses respond to the effects...

Major oil corporation Chevron spilled 800,000 gallons of crude oil and water into a dry creek in Southern California. While the spill is estimated to contain mostly water, experts estimate that between 240,000 and 265,000...

Two Jim Beam warehouses in Kentucky erupted in flames last week, spilling nearly 45,000 barrels of bourbon into the Kentucky River. In an apocalyptic scene, the fire spread to the alcohol on the river’s surface, consuming...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen One hundred years have passed since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 swept around the world, circumnavigating at least twice between 1918 and 1920, killing outright between 50 and 100 million...

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor New evidence suggests climate model predictions are way off when it comes to the Gulf Stream...

Bjørn Lomborg writes on Facebook about some new and surprising data that turn climate alarmist claims upside down. Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is clearly opposite of what you...

From the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. ‘We simply don’t have enough tradespeople to rebuild after an event’   David Burke · CBC News · Posted: Dec 30, 2018 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December...

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor 2:48 PM 11/19/2018 | Energy The New York Times suggested future global warming would be worse than the plagues unleashed on Egypt in the Bible’s Old Testament...

This new paper from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. is likely not going to be popular with the doomer crowd, because it takes the wind out of their sails when it comes to exclaiming that “Climate change is making the weather worse!”....

There’s a belief among alarmists that losses from weather related disasters is on the rise, and this it yet another reason why we have to “take action now”...

From Investors Business Daily Climate Myths: We keep reading about how the extreme weather of 2017 is the “new normal” thanks to global warming — even if the weather in question is frigid air...

By Andy May This is the first of seven posts on the potential costs and hazards of human-caused global warming and the impact of humans on the environment in general...

by Risk Frontiers July 31, 2017 Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado Boulder) Roger is a long-term Research Fellow of Risk Frontiers and recently it was our pleasure to be able to host him, once again, in Sydney...

From the AFP July 18, 2017   Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – Natural catastrophes worldwide were less devastating in the first half of 2017 than the average over the past 10 years, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, while...