Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, shares “17 talking points” from his new book, Fossil Future. Here are a few (his emphasis, and footnotes to his sources are included): After 100 years of vigorous competition from alternatives, fossil fuels provide 80% of the world’s energy, including over 90% of the world’s transportation…
Search Results for: global warming
Climate Change Activists Should Read the IPCC Report
Roger Pielke, Jr., is a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Recipient of the Eduard Brückner Prize for interdisciplinary environmental research, Pielke is a critic of wild claims about the effects of climate change. In a new video and blog post, Pielke discusses the latest report of the…
Why Is the Economist Magazine Pessimistic about Agriculture when the Climate News Is Good?
According to the Economist, some investors are betting that, as the climate warms, agriculture will become more profitable in high-latitude regions such as Canada’s Manitoba. Russia is already leasing uncultivated acreage on its eastern edge to Asian investors to produce soybeans. Furthermore, more carbon dioxide (the supposed cause of warming) helps vegetation grow. “The buildup…
Don’t Believe the Hype Over IPCC Climate Predictions
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…
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…