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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Is This Nobel Prize-Winner’s Book on Climate Worth Reading?
Joakim Book of AIER.org reviews William Nordhaus’s new book on green economics. Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018, primarily for his work on climate change. Book writes: “This year, Professor Nordhaus came out with an ambitious, all-encompassing yet somewhat confused book: The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in…
What Do Climate Activists Really Want? The Answer Is Chilling
They want to overturn capitalism. That is the import of an article by H. Sterling Burnett on the Heartland.org site. His article, “Climate Alarmists Call for ‘Eco-Dictatorship,’” provides examples from leading figures. First, he quotes Christiana Figueres in 2015, when she was executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change “‘This is the…
Why You Don’t See Climate Taxes on the Ballot
If carbon taxes were ever put to a vote, they would lose, says the National Review‘s “Capital Note.” That’s why activists “attempt to bypass the democratic process when it comes to their attempt to work for changes that would have a truly, probably irreversible, transformative effect on society.” NR continues: “The latest reality check came…
Climate Skeptics: Not to Worry. Climate Activists: Get Real
The seemingly preposterous plans for climate change mitigation are just that: preposterous, says Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian. “While we realists may not have the megaphone at the moment, I am very confident that energy realism will ultimately win out, and much sooner than you might think. The reasons are simple: the magical “renewables” don’t…
An Unsettling Book about the State of Climate Science and Policy
On May 4, the day of its release, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by physicist Steven E. Koonin, became the top-selling book on Amazon Kindle in the categories “Weather,” and “Climatology.” In just over 12 hours since its official launch Unsettled was the second-best selling book in…