- U.S. and Canada compete in subsidies! Canada will pay Volkswagen $750 million to help it build a battery factory, plus billions based on future battery production.
- Biden promises $1 billion for international “Green Climate Fund,” plus $500 million to slow deforestation in Brazil (if Congress is willing).
- Gary Galles: Property rights provide profit incentives to reduce environmental costs and damage.
- “There is no tipping point beyond which Mother Earth wrestles control of the whole climate system away from human beings and proceeds to punish us for our sins.”
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What a Farmer Thinks about ‘Climate Solutions’
(Guest author Blake Hurst raises soybeans, corn, and greenhouse crops on his family farm in Tarkio, Missouri.)
Nestled among all the other items in the optimistically named Inflation Reduction Act are 369 billion of your dollars to encourage “climate solutions and environmental justice.” I’ll leave it to readers to imagine what environmental justice might look like, but I’m pretty sure that whatever portion of the 369 billion is spent on environmental justice it won’t be enough.
More “Billion-dollar” Disasters Don’t Mean the Climate Is Worse
Roger Pielke Jr. explains that NOAA’s rising count of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more does not mean that the weather events have increased or worsened. Inflation, insurance, and economic growth are better explainers. “The billion-dollar disaster tally is easy to understand, simple to communicate, but in actual fact, incredibly misleading. It is…
Does Climategate Live On?
Robert Bradley Jr. retells the fascinating story of Climategate—the 2009 leak of emails among well-known climate scientists that showed “bias, data manipulation, dodging freedom of information requests, and efforts to subvert the peer-review process.” On his blog MasterResource Bradley includes some of the highly disturbing email quotations. In case you’re not familiar with Climategate, here’s…
Despite a Warning from the Supreme Court, SEC Proceeds with Its Over-Arching Climate Rule
Rupert Darwall, writing in The Hill, warns that the SEC’s rule on climate change disclosures, still in the proposal stage, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The rule would require companies to disclose any material impacts of climate change or climate-change regulation on their business. In addition, it would require companies to disclose all their…
Are the Media Waking Up to Climate Realism? Well, Maybe
Columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. of the Wall Street Journal detects a shift in news media coverage of climate change, after decades: “I can’t help but wonder how events might have been different if climate news coverage over these many decades had not veered into moronic nonsense, from which it is only fitfully starting to…