Global elites regularly decry the supposedly “existential” threat purported human-caused climate change poses to the environment, civilization, and even human survival. These same elites propose policies intended to avert global climate disaster, almost all of them involving ending the use of fossil fuels and fundamentally changing how people live—forcing people to live in high-density urban…
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Burning Wood Is Zero Emissions? Yes, in Climate-Speak
Millions of wood pellets from trees grown in North Carolina are providing fuel for the United Kingdom. Under current international climate-change rules, burning wood does not produce carbon-dioxide emissions. Of course it does, but the claim is that it is offset by carbon sequestration when the trees are replaced. “Billed as a clean fuel that…
‘Theatre of the Absurd’? Commentary on COP26
Robert Lyman. a long-time Canadian diplomat and civil servant, comments on the UN Summit on Climate Change in Glasgow, which has just concluded. Lyman’s remarks are found on the Friends of Science Calgary website. “As an international treaty-making occasion . . . COP 26 was a non-event. However, that does not mean that it was…
Climate Change Activists Should Read the IPCC Report
Roger Pielke, Jr., is a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Recipient of the Eduard Brückner Prize for interdisciplinary environmental research, Pielke is a critic of wild claims about the effects of climate change. In a new video and blog post, Pielke discusses the latest report of the…
‘Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class’
In a hard-hitting Newsweek commentary on the publicity surrounding the Glasgow summit on climate change (currently underway), Joel Kotkin lambastes western elites for their hypocrisy, their rhetoric, and failure to appreciate the world’s ability to adapt. “The climate industrial complex, as economist Bjørn Lomborg has aptly called the climate doomsday crowd, has persuaded the media to…
U.S. Coal Use Surged by 35 Percent in First Six Months of 2021
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released statistics on energy production for the first six months of 2021, comparing it to the same period in 2020. Coal was the winner. Commenting on the figures, the Institute for Energy Research wrote recently: “Coal is up an impressive 35 percent while the higher price of natural gas…