Activists for renewables are horrified that rural America isn’t eager to have wind turbines or solar panels as part of its landscape. They’re blaming fossil-fuel industry “Astro-turf” groups for stirring up rural resistance. In December, in a (paywalled) New Yorker piece, “From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution,” Bill McKibben describes the work to be done…
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Biden Hypocrisy Overflows, Harming Lobster Fishers and Right Whales
Hypocrisy abounds in the White House when it comes to ocean wildlife along the East Coast of the U.S. On December 1, President Joe Biden hosted a state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron, at which more than 200 Maine lobsters were served. As noted by The Guardian, just days earlier the retailer Whole Foods…
A Carbon Tax? Not So Fast
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, usually considered skeptical about taking action on climate change, has issued a paper called “It Pollutes, So Tax it: Need We Say More about Carbon Dioxide?” That would seem to recommend a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and to an extent it does. But the paper by Peter Hartley of…
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….
The Secret of Environmental Protection
Yes, data from the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Index send a resounding message: Economic freedom brings about environmental protection. Why? Because economic freedom leads to prosperity and only prosperous countries can truly protect their environment. Are you skeptical? As the graph above shows,…
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…