- Land is being reclaimed from the ocean as countries build ports and resorts.
- Three reasons why electric vehicles cannot prevent climate change.
- Could offshore wind turbines be causing the surge in East Coast Atlantic whale deaths?
- Scranton, Pa., rejects proposal for a solar farm—the sixth solar rejection this year.
- Is CO2 really a danger to human welfare? No, says lawsuit against the EPA.
- Antarctica sea cover is lowest in 40 years . . . But Antarctica is not getting any warmer.
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Friday Highlights
- Will offshore wind energy overwhelm the electric grid? Here’s why it might.
- Adviser to multi-million-dollar climate change group is an official of the Chinese Communist Party.
- Iowa legislature is considering strict limits on solar facilities (such as requiring a 1250-foot setback from a residence or livestock facility).
- ‘The Environmentalist Assault on Civilization.”
- Is nuclear power about to make a comeback? Here’s why it might not.
- Are lawsuits against oil companies for “greenwashing” just efforts to suppress free speech? Yes.
- Al Gore gave us “pork and propaganda.”
Cashing In on Climate Change Subsidies: It Helps to Be Rich
Somini Sengupta of the New York Times has candidly shared an analysis of “how to get government aid to ditch fossil fuels.” Here’s a sample (Sengupta cites research by two colleagues). “How do you cash in?” she asks. Her answers: “For those of you who own a single-family home, if you can fork out the…
Some Conservatives Seem to Support “ESG.” This Is Not Good News.
ESG stands for “environmental, sustainable, governance.” It is a vague standard of corporate conduct that some forces want to use to guide investment. Yes, they want to expand the standards used when selecting stocks beyond financial criteria. Most free-market supporters see this as a violation of traditional standards of fiduciary management. Rupert Darwall of RealClearEnergy…
Tuesday Links
- Whew! Grid reliability is “job number one,” says acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Transmission expansion and environmental justice are next.)
- Meet the “foot-soldiers of leftist orthodoxy enforcement.” You’ll be surprised at who they are.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the first small modular reactor (SMR) design, raising hopes for reasonably-priced nuclear power.
- It’s called thermal storage, but it’s just ice, as in ice boxes. Read Canary Media’s enthusiastic endorsement as a way to save energy and money in air conditioning.
- World Trade Organization wants “a global carbon pricing scheme. . . to mitigate concerns about competition.” (Is that price-fixing?)
Thursday Links
- Proposed: 75 percent rebates for electric bikes for low-income locals in Washington DC .
- Buried in the IRA: an end to outrageous tax write-off conservation easements.
- The media swallowed an unlikely “gas stoves” narrative.
- Times writer tries to spend a day without plastic to prove . . . what?
- YouTube shuts down Heartland channel just before interview with climate scientist Judith Curry.