On July 1, an array of political activists asked Facebook to censor organizations such as the CO2 Coalition for “climate misinformation.” Now, Caleb Rossiter, executive director of the C02 Coalition, whose members include prominent scientists, explains the history behind the letter and the harassment of the coalition that began in September 2019.
More Climate Change Myths
‘Worse than we thought’—it was climate models, not the climate, that turned out to be worse, Pat Michaels writes in RealClearEnergy.
Michael Shellenberger Censored by Forbes?
Forbes has removed Michael Shellenberger’s column titled “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare.” Forbes doesn’t say why on the empty page.
Cap-and-Trade: Like Medieval Indulgences?
One of the proposed techniques for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is cap-and-trade. Companies would be allowed to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide. If they reduced their emissions further than that, they could sell the excess “right to emit” to companies that found it very costly to do so. Cap-and-trade is a form of…
Federal Court Rules on Grizzly Bear
A federal court in San Francisco has rejected the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to delist the grizzly bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Free market environmentalists had argued that the grizzlies in three states around Yellowstone National Park had made a substantial recovery, and control should be returned to the states.
Nuclear power, climate change, extreme weather . . .
The secret to clean energy is nuclear power, says Rich Trzupek in The Pipeline. ‘Washington Post lies about climate change, floods,’ writes Sterling Burnett. ‘IPCC and skeptics agree climate change is not causing extreme weather.’ says Sterling Burnett. HT-Benny Peiser.
Child Labor: Democrats’ Hypocrisy?
Increasing production of electric vehicles is boosting demand for the cobalt used in batteries. Forty thousand children mine cobalt for up to 12 hours a day under dangerous conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the United Nations. A Republican congressman, Pete Stauber of Minnesota, proposed an amendment to the giant infrastructure…
