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Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
Speaking Truth to Power on Electric Vehicles: The Switch Is a “Colossal Mistake”
Writing in Spiked, Joel Kotkin lists many reasons why shifting to electrical vehicles is a “colossal mistake.” A few:
- “[T]he UK government is already looking to ban people from charging their cars at home during peak hours.”
- “In California, the epicentre of green zealotry, policies banning the sale of non-electric vehicles mean the state will face ‘acute electricity shortages’ over the coming decade, according to one recent analysis.”
New Study Bashes IEA’s Claim of Seamless Move to Renewable Fuels as “Unrealistic” and “Internally Inconsistent”
The International Energy Agency (IEA), a nonprofit organization formed in 1974 in response to the OPEC oil embargo, has become a well-quoted source on other energy-related issues. Two years ago it predicted that the world could move easily to “zero-carbon” fuel. But writing in Forbes, Tilok Doshi says a new study by the Energy Policy…
A Carbon-Reduction Plan an Economist Can Love—and One Invented It
Robert Litterman, a well-known economist —a “legend on Wall Street”— has an idea for spurring government and private investment into reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. Peter Coy, a New York Times columnist, discusses the “carbon-linked bond”: “The problem Litterman is trying to solve is that many private investors are unwilling to invest heavily in climate solutions because…
You Knew the Media Were Biased on Climate Change. An Academic Study Shows It.
Our thanks to Roger Pielke Jr. for bringing attention to a new study that quantifies the media bias on climate change. Pielke summarizes the study this way: “In 2020, scholars published more than 50,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change in almost 6,000 journals. A new study by Marie-Elodie Perga and colleagues looks at how these papers…
Think Globally, Act Locally
“Repair Cafés” will not solve very many recycling problems, but they are a sign of community spirit and how hidden talents can be used to keep some aged products from being dumped. Modern industry often can’t use the old-fashioned ability to fix minor mechanical problems. It’s not cost-effective. The Repair Café’s little nuggets of voluntary…