New York City “is fighting a constant yet seldom-acknowledged battle against an unwavering adversary: trash,” writes Arpit Gupta writes in a Manhattan Institute policy brief. “A veritable arms race between creation and disposal, New York’s trash battle is a tale of human ingenuity and resilience, as the city relentlessly pursues better methods to keep its…
Climate Change Narrative Is “Corruption of Science,” says 2022 Physics Nobel Laureate
John Clauser, one of three recipients of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, does not mince words. He has just joined the CO2 Coalition, a group critical of global warming extremism. In its announcement he was quoted as saying:
“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. . .
Hottest Day in Earth’s History? Probably Not
Don’t be too sure that July 4 was the “hottest day ever.”
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…