Just as Elon Musk was working out details with Twitter, the company shared its policy on dealing with disinformation on climate change in Twitter advertising. The Earth Day announcement reaffirmed the company’s commitment to “people around the world use Twitter to connect with others passionate about protecting our planet.” Specifically, wrote two officials, “misleading advertisements…
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‘Unjust, Ineffective, and Disastrous’: IMF and World Bank to Pressure Poor Nations on Climate Change
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are creating funding programs that will push poor countries to cut back on carbon emissions, report two authors in Foreign Policy magazine. Vijaya Ramachandran and Arthur Baker, both of the Breakthrough Institute, write that the two institutions “are under pressure from their rich donor governments to…
The SEC Drops Its Climate Change Bomb
On March 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission (by a 3-1 vote) told public companies they must disclose the risks that climate change may have on their financial future. In its press release, the SEC said the requirement “would include disclosure of a registrant’s greenhouse gas emissions, which have become a commonly used metric to…
Climate Change: Fulfilling Our Need for an ‘Existential Crisis’?
James E. Hanley wonders if climate alarmism is satisfying a need for an existential crisis. After all, the impacts of climate change are not likely to be “existential.” “[T]he most important news in terms of human well-being is very positive. Total annual climate-related deaths have declined precipitously over the past century, even as the global…
What’s Wrong with Solar Geo-engineering to Fight Climate Change? Roger Pielke Answers
Governments should agree not to use solar geo-engineering to attack climate change, says Roger Pielke, Jr., a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Solar geo-engineering is a collection of potential techniques for reducing the temperature of the Earth by reflecting some of the incoming energy of the sun back into space….
Will Climate Change Spur a Government Takeover of the Banking System?
American Enterprise Institute scholar Paul Kupiec thinks it may. In May President Biden authorized the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to look into how the banking system should be regulated in light of risks from climate change. Writing in The Hill, Kupiec says the latest report of the council suggests a plan could be brewing…