Latest alarm: Climate change is reducing cancer survival rates? Sterling Burnett critiques. The Environmental Optimism of Elinor Ostrom: A new book looks at how polycentric institutions can protect the environment. Environmentalists hold two contradictory ideas : climate change is an existential crisis and renewable energy will resolve it. By Stephen Davies. And about BlackRock ….
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The Breached Michigan Dam Was Supposed to Save Mussels?
Thirteen years of regulatory oversight? From the Detroit News: Numerous violations and longstanding concerns that the Edenville Dam could not withstand a significant flood led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to revoke its license for power generation in September 2018. *** “Thirteen years after acquiring the license for the project, the licensee has still…
The Environmental Harm of Big Batteries
By H. Sterling Burnett I recently wrote about the impossibility of relying on giant storage batteries to enable the nation to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Physics tells us batteries can store only a minuscule amount of the power we would need for backup. A recent Heartland Institute study by Paul Driessen gives us…
Going Green with C02 . . . Fossil Fuel Divestment a Bad Idea . . . and More
Pat Michaels: Carbon dioxide is already helping the world “go green.” Democrats to make climate change an election priority. College fossil fuel divestment is a bad idea.
The Problem with Batteries (Big Batteries)
By H. Sterling Burnett These days we may be distracted by the COVID-19 virus, but climate issues move on. Recently, Wired magazine published an article about big batteries, or more precisely linked battery packs located in enormous battery farms. They will be needed if we want to generate energy from sources that emit no carbon…
The Return of the Plastic Bag . . . Planet of the Humans . . . Fossil Fuels ‘Redefined’
John Stossel on how Covid-19 is “unbanning” the plastic bag. ‘We disagree with you, so shut up.’ David Kreutzer on the Left’s reaction to Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans. European officials are trying to redefine fossil fuels so they don’t have to divest oil and gas. HT Benny Peiser.