China’s energy production is in turmoil—but probably not because it is cutting back on fossil fuels. Although President Xi has claimed the country will cut back, it hasn’t so far. The causes of the current energy crisis are multiple. Reuters lists some: “China is in the grip of a power crunch as a shortage of…
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People Will Die This Winter. But Don’t Blame the Greens, says Thomas Friedman
Instead, says the New York Times columnist, blame governments for mishandling the switch to renewables.. On the one hand, they are doing the right thing: “phasing out dirtier fuels like coal.” On the other, they are doing it in “totally uncoordinated ways.” He predicts a cold winter with sky-high energy prices, people dying in Europe…
The Doctors Should Know Better
An editorial appeared in 200 health journals this month, including prominent medical journals such as the New England journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal. Its title was “Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health.” It contended that global warming is a crisis on the corder of…
No Oil from Federal Lands but Low-cost Leases for Renewables
Last January, a week after he became president, Joe Biden suspended oil and gas leasing on public lands, pending a full Interior Department review. That suspension was put on hold by a federal court in June after 14 states sued to overturn it. Now, the Biden administration is trying to open up federal lands for…
Do I Want an Electrical Vehicle? My Personal Assessment
Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. (hburnett@heartland.org) is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois. I’ve been thinking about electric vehicles a lot lately. My wife and I take pleasure trips every year—sometimes three- or four-day getaways, sometimes week-long vacations, sometimes longer journeys. Many of these trips are…
Are Cloth Totes ‘Environmentally Friendly’?
In the past there was a debate over whether cloth diapers were really environmentally better than disposable diapers. The answer: not in areas where water and energy are scarce, because rewashing cloth uses more resources (water and heat) than do plastic and cellulose production and landfill disposal. Now the New York Times poses another environmental…