Economist David Friedman makes three important points in his recent Substack column: According to mainstream predictions, global warming will cause worldwide per capita income by the end of this century to be a few percentage points lower than if there were no warming. “If you go by expert opinion, William Nordhaus or the body of the IPCC…
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Urban Warming May Explain Up to 40% of Global Warming
The authors of an article in Climate, a peer-reviewed journal, suggest that urban warming may be much more important than estimates assume. From the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES): “A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming…
Straight Talk on Nuclear Power
Two prominent analysts raise doubts about nuclear power as the “answer” to climate change alarm. Ben Zyker warns conservatives about the costs. “Recent analysis from the Energy Information Administration reports estimates of prospective nuclear electricity production costs more than double those of natural gas-fired electricity. (If we include the cost of backup generation to avoid…
An Interview I’m Glad I Didn’t Miss
I don’t usually recommend videos about the environment, especially hour-long ones. But this was worth my time and perhaps yours: an interview with Steven Koonin, author of Unsettled. The location is Uncommon Knowledge, a Hoover Institution program on Youtube. Peter Robinson is the interviewer. Koonin’s book, published in 2021, has attracted great interest because he…
How I Plan to Vote on Environmental Issues
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute.
“Elections have consequences,” former President Barack Obama once rightly said, and we are in an election cycle. In choosing whom to vote for, I always consider how closely a current officeholder has adhered to his or her constitutional oath while in office—has he or she voted as often as possible to limit the federal government to its constitutionally enumerated role?
Twisted Logic: China Must Burn More Coal to Meet Demands of Green Energy
“My first thought was that I had stumbled onto a Babylon Bee article,” writes Ed Ireland on Substack. Then he quotes Bloomberg Green: “Expanding coal-fired power is China’s only real option in the short term to meet rising electricity demand, including from new energy vehicles, according to ANZ Group.” Ireland replies: “Here’s my interpretation of…