The need for active management of western forests has a new champion: The Los Angeles Times. Hayley Smith reports that a third of the forests in California’s southern Sierra Nevada Mountains have been devastated over the past decade. And she recognizes that to prevent further incursions by fire and blight, active management is needed, including prescribed…
Decades Late, Even Greenpeace Recognizes Plastics Recycling Is a Waste
It started with a cautious conclusion from two Atlantic writers: Recycling plastics doesn’t work. Now the environmental group Greenpeace has sealed the deal. From its Oct. 24 press release: “Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated…
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…
Are the Media Waking Up to Climate Realism? Well, Maybe
Columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. of the Wall Street Journal detects a shift in news media coverage of climate change, after decades: “I can’t help but wonder how events might have been different if climate news coverage over these many decades had not veered into moronic nonsense, from which it is only fitfully starting to…
What Energy “Transition”? Coal and Oil Are Surging, Says Robert Bryce
The media keep talking about a transition to renewable energy, but it isn’t happening, says Robert Bryce, writing in Quillette. “[D]espite more than $2 trillion in spending on renewables over the past three decades, there is scant evidence that an energy transition is underway. Last year, according to data from the BP Statistical Review of World…
How Social Media Oligopolies Suppress Climate Facts. Part II: What Role for Government?
In Part I, I discussed the lengths to which high-tech social media companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, and others go to disparage and prohibit materials their “fact checkers” don’t like. Nowhere is this more true than with prominent scientists who differ from the politically dominant views on climate change. This post will look at possible remedies….