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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NPR Attacks David Legates. Heartland Issues Point-by-Point Rebuttal
Whatever one’s views about climate change, nothing can justify National Public Radio’s recent brutal and uninformed attack on David Legates, a professor at the University of Delaware and former Delaware state climatologist. Legates has just been appointed to a high position at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and that was enough to bring…
A Century of Poor Forest Management Explains the Ferocity of California Fires
No, Governor Newsom, it’s not climate change that is intensifying California fires; it is poor forest management, says Michael Shellenberger, writing for Forbes. He is responding to statements by Newsom such as “What we are experiencing is an existential climate crisis.” Shellenberger sees other reasons. “California’s leading forest scientists say that fire suppression and the accumulation of wood…
Plastics Laws in California . . . Who’s Bankrolling Latest Suit vs. Exxon?
HEADLINES: California is still California. Its legislature will require recycled content in plastic bottles, reports Plastics Recycling Update . . . Feds approve a small nuclear power plant, says the Associated Press. H-T Benny Peiser . . . Who’s bankrolling the Hoboken climate change lawsuit against Exxon Mobil? William Allen of Energy in Depth discusses.
It’s Cold up on Cairn Toul
Typical August? Four men were rescued in August in Scotland, one of them hypothermic, after the temperature declined to about 14 F. Here’s what the BBC said about the rescue. “Four walkers taking part in a fundraising event have been rescued in the Cairngorms. The four men became exhausted during the hike and Braemar Mountain…
Bans on Plastic Bags are Back . . . Ross McKitrick on What ‘the Science’ Means . . . A New Way to Get Rid of Cars . . .
Headlines: New York State is re-instating its ban on plastic bags. Covid-19 dangers made them safer than reusable bags. So has Covid-19 disappeared? (See the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) . . . Ross McKitrick: Believing the science of climate change doesn’t justify drastic control policies to deal with it. On Cornwall Alliance . . . …