John Tierney writing in the Wall Street Journal: Evidence mounts that banning plastic is both a waste of money and harmful to the environment. If you want to protect dolphins and sea turtles, you should take special care to place your plastic in the trash, not the recycling bin. And if you’re worried about…
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Wednesday’s Links
Planners claim: We’ll have to move cities, retrofit old ones, and build new ones to cope with climate change. ‘Europe’s anti-science plague descends on Africa.’ H-T Benny Peiser. How much did CFCs (ozone-depleting substances that have been banned for years) contribute to global warming?
Wednesday’s Links
Note: We apologize for being offline earlier this week due to a major outage caused by a fiber cut. Welcome back! Georgetown University to divest fossil fuel stocks. Will sanity (about climate change) make a comeback? Old wind-power turbines are going into landfills.
Thursday’s Links
Boris Johnson says Britain will ban gas, hybrid, and diesel cars by 2035. ‘Why not embrace policies and practices that focus on climate mitigation and adaptation?’ Can humans prevent climate change? Probably not, says Rex Tillerson.
Wednesday’s Links
Are droughts getting worse? Republicans move toward a climate change bill. (Think “trees.”) Roger Pielke explains the “Great Climate Scenario” debate.
Why Should We Endorse Trump’s NEPA Reforms?
By H. Sterling Burnett You may have heard that the Trump administration is proposing changes in the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which mandates federal regulatory environmental oversight of major infrastructure projects. These changes are appropriate and overdue. Here’s why. NEPA requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of their proposed actions before…