An unusual battle is unfolding in Maine. Voters will decide on Nov. 7 whether the state can buy the state’s two for-profit utilities and turn them into a publicly owned utility, “Pine Tree Power.” (Currently, the for-profits are state-regulated monopolies.) The conflict is extraordinary because it involves many claims of savings, climate success, and eminent…
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A Closer Look at What Biden Calls an “Existential Threat”
Economist David Friedman makes three important points in his recent Substack column: According to mainstream predictions, global warming will cause worldwide per capita income by the end of this century to be a few percentage points lower than if there were no warming. “If you go by expert opinion, William Nordhaus or the body of the IPCC…
The New York Times Gets It—Well, On the Other Hand, Maybe Not
The New York Times has noticed that the current electricity grid is not sufficient for all the wind and solar energy that the Biden administration thinks it should be carrying. Write Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer: “The climate stakes are high. Last year, Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars for solar panels, wind turbines,…
Good night, Earth Day. Thank you, Net Zero Watch and GWPF.
We are grateful to the Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation for their “Earth Day 2023” cartoon. If you read carefully you can see messages about changes over the past 53 years (since Earth Day 1970) such as these: Life expectancy has increased 30% to 72. Extreme poverty has halved. Food has…
A Carbon Tax? Not So Fast
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, usually considered skeptical about taking action on climate change, has issued a paper called “It Pollutes, So Tax it: Need We Say More about Carbon Dioxide?” That would seem to recommend a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and to an extent it does. But the paper by Peter Hartley of…
A Gardener’s View of Climate Change
While the discussion of climate change often takes place on a global scale, I’ve come upon a refreshing review on a local basis, written by a North Carolina gardener with no axe to grind. Tom Packer has published a remarkably thorough examination of local historical climate trends. He observes that as recently as 2015 the…