Daren Bakst writes in the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal: “The ‘EPA science massacre’ took place just over a month ago. EPA Administrator Michael Regan dismissed all of the advisers from two legally required panels: the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. It was a complete housecleaning, with not one person left standing. “This shocking move,…
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A Climate-Change Warrior’s Last Word
Fred Singer, a battle-seasoned warrior of the climate science debates, died last year at the age of 95. The third edition of his highly readable and scientifically sound book, Hot Talk, Cold Science, has just been published, by the Independent Institute. David R. Legates and Anthony R. Lupo are coauthors who also wrote an afterword….
Some Skeptics You May Not Know
Steven Koonin, a Harvard physicist, has written a book challenging the view that climate science is “settled” —indeed, the name of his book is Unsettled, and Sterling Burnett’ reviewed it on this blog. The book has garnered attention in part because of Koonin’s Obama-era credentials. He served in the Obama administration as undersecretary for science…
An Unsettling Book about the State of Climate Science and Policy
On May 4, the day of its release, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by physicist Steven E. Koonin, became the top-selling book on Amazon Kindle in the categories “Weather,” and “Climatology.” In just over 12 hours since its official launch Unsettled was the second-best selling book in…
Trouble in EV Paradise
Nearly twenty percent of Californians who bought electric vehicles have replaced them with gasoline-powered vehicles, reports the Business Insider. (H-T Benny Peiser.) The reason: It took too long to charge their cars at home. Writes Dominick Reuter: “Standard home outlets generally put out about 120 volts of power at what electric vehicle aficionados call ‘Level…
Warren Buffet Stands Up to Climate Alarmists
From Joe Smith of the Energy and Policy Institute (a group that advocates in favor of more renewable energy): “The Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors is opposing a proposal from major shareholder groups that the company publish an annual report disclosing the climate risks it faces, even as the company’s energy subsidiaries remain heavily invested…