Can the Media Tell the Truth about Climate Change? Apparently Not.
From Steven Koonin in the Wall Street Journal: “[T]he media goes with this angle: ‘A “doomsday glacier” the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought.’ A correct headline would read: ‘Thwaites Glacier retreating less than half as rapidly today as it did in the past.’” Koonin, author of Unsettled, a book that questions the…
So-called Analysis of Pakistan Floods and Human-Caused Climate Change Is ‘Misleading Hype’
Go step-by-step with David Whitehouse through the report of the Weather Attribution Project, as he shows that the report’s impression of a link between Pakistan’s recent flooding and human-induced climate change is just that—an impression. “The question is, of course,” writes Net Zero’s Whitehouse, “if human-induced climate change has had anything to do with making…
Bjorn Lomborg: Truths about Electric Cars
“Politicians are spending hundreds of billions of dollars and keeping consumers from the cars they want for virtually no climate benefit.” That’s the bottom line of Bjørn Lomborg’s assessment of electric cars. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus says: “The climate effect of our electric-car efforts in the 2020s…
Justice Delayed—and Delayed—Is Justice Denied
After nearly a decade of litigation, the family of Sidney Longwell may be able to use a Montana oil lease he purchased in 1982. Longwell died in 2020. The 10-square-mile lease is in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana (the forest covers 2,912 square miles). Drilling on the site has been bitterly opposed…