The Democrats recently announced a major climate change plan to be adopted if they win Congress in the fall. They want “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050, which would require heavy investment in renewable energy. But their plan would kill endangered species and waste millions of acres of land, says Michael Shellenberger, writing in Forbes. “There…
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Monday’s Links: Suing Exxon (Again). . . Changing Cities. . . Nuclear Power
Minnesota AG sues Exxon, Koch, and Petroleum Institute over climate change. (Shifting attention maybe?) Climate activities must adopt nuclear power, says Michael Shellenberger in Quillette. City Journal tells us how the urban environment will change. Think: decaying malls. High-flying shale oil company seeks bankruptcy. protection.
Michael Shellenberger Critiques Radical Environmentalists
John Tierney and Joel Kotkin review Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, by Michael Shellenberger. Tierney (in the Wall Street Journal) writes: “He chronicles environmental progress around the world and crisply debunks myth after gloomy myth,” writes Tierney. “No, we are not in the midst of the ‘sixth mass extinction,’ because only 0.001%…
Two Problems, Worlds Apart
The Economist is an impressive magazine that offers a balanced view of most topics. The topic of climate change is, however, an exception. The magazine linked the coronavirus to climate change in its May 23/29 editorial “Seize the Moment.” Its subtitle states: “The covid-19 crisis reveals how hard it will be to tackle climate change—and…
Tuesday’s Links
Class conflicts and hypocrisy: that’s wind-energy siting in New York and New England, says Robert Bryce on RealClearEnergy. Renewable energy surpasses coal. North America set 233 low-temperature records in May. From Electro-Verse.
Links: ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost’ . . . California Cuts Climate Change Spending . . .
Steve Hayward on ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost,’ an analysis of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans. Planet of the Humans dropped from YouTube. In the Guardian. HT-RealClearEnergy. California budget cuts billions from climate change funding. HT-GWPF.