Joel Kotkin discusses California on RealClearEnergy: “One is often at a loss to explain California to people from other planets—like, say, earth.” The problem: “This is a state that issues mandates for electrification of everything while reducing its generating capacity. It blames devastating fires on climate change, without taking the blame for forestry practices that…
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Record Crop Yields . . . California’s ‘Hubris on an Historic Scale’ . . .
HEADLINES. ClimateRealism: Washington Post says the Farm Belt is drying up, but crop yields are getting better nearly every year. . . . Are the costs of wind energy going down—or up? A study from “Briefings for Britain” decides. . . . Global fire acreage has been in decline for nearly 20 years, according to…
Christians Should Be Realistic When Protecting God’s Creation
It’s harvest season in much of America, and the nation’s houses of worship are filled with prayers of thanksgiving for nature’s bounty. Calls for commitments to honor God’s creation are highly appropriate. How can we best accomplish this rewarding but difficult environmental mission? A good beginning is to separate pious but unrealistic pronouncements from prudent…
Wind Power vs. Birds . . . Maybe We Should Give in to Fires? . . . When Faith Turns to Policy . . .
HEADLINES: Wind power vs. birds: environmentalists split over renewable energy. A RealClear Investigation by Vince Bielski… Randal O’Toole on the forest fires: “All the prescribed burning in the world won’t save your home if a burning ember from a lightning‐caused fire 8 miles away lands on your lovely cedar‐shake roof.” On Cato’s site… When faith…
Hurricane Trends Steady . . . Charleston S.C. Sues Oil Producers . . . Germany Resists Climate-Change Targets
HEADLINES: The real story on hurricane trends. On CO2 Science . . . Another city (Charleston) sues fossil fuel producers for keeping climate change a secret. In the Charlotte Observer. . . European Union combines coronavirus relief and climate change funding, reports Reuters. . . . . . but Germany is resisting the EU climate-change…
Wood Pellets Deforesting Europe? . . . Criminals Infesting Waste Market?
HEADLINES: “CO2-friendly” wood pellets are deforesting Europe, says Pierre Gosselin on NoTricksZone. HT-Benny Peiser . . . Interpol finds “criminal trends in the global plastic waste market,” says Resource Recycling . . . Trump’s EPA is carrying out its promise to reactivate the Superfund program, says Politico . . . What’s wrong with ESG (environmental,…
States Want to Use Covid-19 Stimulus Funds for Climate Change
Some states want funds from the Covid-19 stimulus package to help them cope with climate change. They are quite open about it. In a fascinating compilation of examples, Inside Climate News and the Nation have found such desires as these: In Maine, the state wants money for a heat-pump program that provides incentives to install…