President Joe Biden’s grandiose plans for offshore industrial wind facilities lining the nation’s coasts have more than a few hurdles to clear before they can become reality. One of those is the fate of endangered North Atlantic right whales, whose migration route is in the bullseye of the offshore wind proposals.
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Reminder: The U. S. Has Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions More Than Any Other Country
Earlier this fall, Jon Sanders put together some often-ignored facts that should give one pause as we get knee-deep into climate change mandates and social carbon costs and electric vehicles. I quote Jon: The United States has been cutting CO2 emissions. Anyone only familiar with the apocalyptic rhetoric from media, politicians, academics, and environmentalists would think otherwise….
Environmental News: Weekend Picks
- Montana’s glaciers are shrinking, but they have been shrinking since the 1850s (and faster before 1966).
- A new poll “obliterates the notion that 97 percent of scientists believe we are facing a severe climate crisis.”
- The Swiss are considering banning electric vehicles if it gets very cold this winter.
- The New York Times blames private owners for failing to allow access to public land (the problem stems from nineteenth-century government policy).
- Relying on wind and solar power requires “staggering” amounts of storage and the idea of electrical grids relying on them is”completely impractical and unaffordable.”
The Human Rights Issue Facing the Solar Industry
Three writers from the Breakthrough Institute plead for the solar industry to stop relying on solar panels made by oppressed Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China. Seaver Wang and Juzel Lloyd and Guido Núñez-Mujica write: “[E]xtensive evidence of government-organized forced labor programs and numerous other crimes against humanity in the XUAR [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] has come to…
Is Joe Biden Wearing “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
William Happer, emeritus physicist at Princeton, had a little fun with Joe Biden’s messaging at the president’s recent trip to the climate conference (COP27) at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Biden announced a new regulation on methane emissions. “Before leaving for a week of virtue-signaling at the COP27 climate conference with other world elites, President Joe Biden…
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…