Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
Buy EVs, says the L.A. Times. Forget “Range Anxiety.” You Only Need 30 Miles or So.
Here’s what’s wrong with Americans and electric cars, says Bloomberg’s Ira Boudway, writing in the L.A. Times: Americans have “outsized range expectations” about their needs; they want “too much car.” Nearly two-thirds of drivers surveyed by Bloomberg expected “300-plus miles of range,” while “less than 10% would settle for 200 or less.” This means: “There…
The Absurdly Sad Furor over World Bank President David Malpass’s Views on Climate Change
It started September 20. The New York Times wrote: “President Biden should work for the removal of the head of the World Bank, former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday, calling him a ‘climate denier’ at an event coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly. “Hours later, David Malpass, the development bank’s president, defended…
Environmental Activists Oppose Carbon Capture as a ‘False Solution’
It’s hard to keep up with what environmental activists are against. (See Ron Bailey on solar geoengineering.) Now it’s carbon capture. Carbon capture (CCS) is the largely experimental technology for removing carbon dioxide during or after a combustion process and then storing it, usually underground. The Biden administration is promoting carbon capture, and this month Energy…
Can the Media Tell the Truth about Climate Change? Apparently Not.
From Steven Koonin in the Wall Street Journal: “[T]he media goes with this angle: ‘A “doomsday glacier” the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought.’ A correct headline would read: ‘Thwaites Glacier retreating less than half as rapidly today as it did in the past.’” Koonin, author of Unsettled, a book that questions the…