Planting trees to sequester carbon and prevent carbon dioxide emissions has become very popular (whether it is accomplishing much or not). Now the New York Times reports that the effort to save the world is causing local ecological harm by bringing in non-native species. Writes Catrin Einhorn: “[C]ompanies and countries are increasingly investing in tree…
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African Leaders Say No to Renewables
Reuters reported from the prestigious CERAWeek energy conference this month: “Some 900 million people in the world, most of them in Africa, still have no access to energy for basic needs, Nigeria’s oil Minister Timipre Marlin Sylva said during the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. “‘We are still in transition from firewood to gas,’…
Cap-and-trade? Yes. Government Overreach? Probably.
The Biden administration plans to require power plants in 26 states to further reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxides. The draft plan will introduce a cap-and-trade program so utilities can trade their emission rights—a policy designed to reduce costs. Even so, says Sean Riley of Greenwire, the cost will be $1.1 billion by 2026; benefits,…
‘Temporary Chaos’ as Judge Rejects Biden’s Social Cost of Carbon
Update: On March 16, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (in New Orleans) reversed the district court’s ruling. That means the chaos was just temporary. It’s back to $51 as the “social cost of carbon” (explained below). In February a Louisiana court rejected the Biden administration’s $51-per-ton estimate of the “social cost of carbon” (really,…
Latest Cancellation Suggests Climate Alarmists Are in ‘Panic Mode’
Robert L. Bradley Jr. discusses the efforts by Andrew Dressler, a Texas A & M professor, to “cancel” Steven Koonin, a theoretical physicist at New York University and author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters. Koonin’s book applies objective analysis to climate change issues, reducing alarm about…
A Half-Century of Disproven Pessimism
Writing on his blog Master Resource, Robert L. Bradley, Jr. points out that “an optimistic view of future climate has a strong basis in settled science (CO2 fertilization, modest primary warming), just as climate pessimistic has a more speculative basis (as in debated feedback effects to elevate the initial warming).” Bradley reviews “the poor track…