Are we headed for disaster? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems to say so in its latest report. Or does it? “As usual, the media and politicians are exaggerating and distorting the evidence in the report,” writes Steven Koonin in the Wall Street Journal. He is a former energy official in the Obama…
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Cold, Not Heat, Caused the Most Deaths
Did you know that the number of temperature-related deaths went down between 2000 and 2019 despite rises in global temperatures? That finding appeared in a study in The Lancet: Planet Health, part of the prominent Lancet medical journal chain. Cold-related deaths declined while heat-related deaths increased just barely, saving tens of thousands of lives as…
Earth Day Surprise: Scientists’ Alarmist Views of Climate May Be Fading
Some scientists are backing off the apocalyptic scenarios of climate change, says Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. “A drumroll moment was Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peter’s 2020 article in the journal Nature partly headlined: “Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome.” “This followed the 2017 paper by…
The Coming Green Disaster
With Trump out of the way, the green movement may be unstoppable. Joel Kotkin explains in Real Clear Energy. “The real power of the environmental movement derives from those who occupy ‘the commanding heights’ of our society—at the corporate, media, and academic realms. Though arguably not holding views as economically ludicrous as AOC’s, mainstream corporate…
It’s a Strange World, Environmentally Speaking
A FEW HEADLINES: Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates and part of OPEC, is building its first—what? A coal-fired power plant . . . The one-hour dishwasher is back, says the Dept. of Energy. CEI declares victory; Consumer Reports is unhappy . . . William Happer and William van Wijngaarden: CO2 is saturated…
Climate Change Sinks as an Issue . . . Nuclear Energy Just Around the Corner?
Gallup poll: Only one percent of Americans think climate change is the biggest issue today. On Climate Change Dispatch. HT: Benny Peiser . . . Ditto Harris poll, and the Harris CEO is unhappy about it, he writes in Fortune . . . Biden plan would start U. S. on ‘road to serfdom,’ says Sterling…