Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: 'It is possible that a shift to the cold phase of the AMO is underway, which would extend the warming hiatus for ~2 decades.'

"The 'average' world temperature for June 2018 was +0.21 deg C above the 1981 – 2010 mean.  That represented a decline of about 0.65 deg C from the all-time high of this 39-year record, which was reached in early 2016.  The 0.65 deg C decline represented more than 75% of the amount by which the average temperature had exceeded the 1981 – 2010 mean at the highest point.  Suddenly the fact that some large number of “all-time highs” was being set at the end of June does not seem very significant."

Key excerpts: 'If all human CO2 emissions were stopped and nature remained constant, the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would fall by only 18 ppm. Nature’s level of 392 ppm would remain.'

'IPCC’s claim, that human carbon dioxide emissions will linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and 15 percent will remain forever -- is invalid.'

'IPCC’s basic assumption, that nature treats human carbon dioxide emissions differently than it treats nature’s carbon dioxide emissions -- is wrong'

Amy Harder of Axios: 'The EPA has (mostly) solved the most basic and widespread public health and environmental problems that plagued the U.S. back around the '60's. Climate change is now the top environmental issue in the country. That politicizes the EPA, makes it less of a big deal to average Americans and fuels antipathy from elected Republicans, most of whom don't acknowledge it's a real issue.'

'The Obama administration issued a steady stream of major regulations on climate change...It was one of the most aggressive EPA's ever'

'Most past Republican presidents nominated EPA administrators who were more to the left on environmental issues than the Republican Party writ large.'

Study claims: Fossil fuel industry spent nearly $2 billion to kill U.S. climate action

Jo Nova rebuttal: In one of the more pointless and inane “scientific” publications of the year, Brulle et al have added up climate lobbying dollars across the years and sectors but missed the two largest sectors and blended friend and foe unto homogenized pap. (See Fossil fuel industry spent nearly $2 billion to kill U.S. climate action, a new study finds) Even Brulle admits that gas companies lobby for climate legislation, while coal companies lobby against it, yet Brulle still lumps them all into the archetypal ogre called “Fossil Fuels”. Let’s perpetuate a mindless stereotype, eh?...

The biggest players in this debate are Big-Government itself and Big-bankers. Government departments and grant-getting scientists have an obvious vested interest in increasing the size of their government department and their budgets.  Let’s talk real money: when the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act4 was signed into law, it contained some $110 billion5 in clean energy investments in the bill. Do we think none of that money went right back into lobbying? The EU by crikey gives 20% (sic) of their budget to climate change. As for Bankers, the numbers are extreme. Brulle gets excited about two billion dollars spent on lobbying over 16 years, but  Bank of America is spending $50 billion to save the world.  Citigroup committed $100 billion to “climate change”. DeutscheBank built giant clocks of doom and wrote 50-page scientific reports.

Jay Lehr's book review: Morano's 'Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change' covers almost every climate change topic imaginable, exposing the lies and hypocrisy behind the scare along the way.'

'Morano documents the false use of statistics behind the fraudulent claim 97 percent of scientists agree humans are causing catastrophic climate change'

Richard Lindzen of MIT concurs, saying in Senate testimony in 2007 “controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.”

'Funding from governments and billionaire donors dwarfs the financial support for real science in the climate change debate.'

“It’s just the most recent in a long chain of eco-scares—overpopulation, deforestation, the ozone hole, resource scarcity, and so forth—for which the solution is always the same: global regulation by central planners,” Morano writes.

Morano also uses the centuries of existing data to expose pseudo-scientists’ attempts to scare the public about rising seas.

Morano also exposes unethical scientists’ attempts to fool the public into believing some of our recent years have been the warmest on record

Morano takes the reader step-by-step through Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann’s development of his notorious “hockey stick”

Climate Depot Note: This is very confusing! The internet is both threatened by climate change and causing it! Flashback: Why your 'internet-connected devices' are contributing to climate change - 'Could produce 3.5% of global emissions within 10 years and 14% by 2040'

'Warmer waters off Rhode Island have caused a spike for this species, and loosened regulations are reeling fisherman in...Commercial fishing value for the fish has tripled in 9 years to more than $12 million'

Alan Carlin: "It has become evident that the Pruitt EPA did not want to challenge the scientific climate “consensus,” either because they did not think that they could win the ensuing battle or because they wanted to avoid angering voters who accept the scientific “consensus” on climate."

'Jamie Margolin can’t remember a time in her life when climate change wasn’t a crisis.'...

She decided to mobilize a youth climate march in Washington, D.C., on July 21, and along with three fellow teen co-founders, launched the organization Zero Hour to emphasize the urgency needed to act on climate change.  A diverse group of students is spearheading the march. They’ve created a platform shared exclusively with HuffPost that recognizes the environmental impact of climate change on marginalized communities such as indigenous, homeless, queer and trans people, communities of color, and people with disabilities...

“You really can’t fight for climate justice without fighting all of these other systems of oppression, because those systems of oppression are why we’re here in the first place,” said Margolin. More than 40 groups have endorsed the movement, including the global grassroots climate organization 350.org, which described the upcoming event as the largest youth-of-color-organized climate march in U.S. history. '

Climate Depot note: The New York Times survey found that climate 'worry' comes in at 11% -- 2nd to last out of 18 reasons cited -- for why young adults are not having kids.  So much for all the claims that people were forgoing having kids due to climate fears! (Flashback: A weatherman breaks down in tears and considers having a vasectomy, vows NEVER to fly again due to grim UN climate report: Eric Holthaus tweeted ‘no children, happy to go extinct’)

By The New York Times | Source: Morning Consult survey of 1,858 men and women ages 20 to 45

'Arctic sea ice volume data show earlier projections of ice-free Arctic summers were a sham. Sea ice now steady 10 years.'

“Over time the fervent deniers [of human-influenced climate change] are being pushed out” of the administration, says David Bookbinder, chief counsel at the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank promoting an open and free society.