- Small Pacific Islands aren’t shrinking from sea level rise; many are growing.
- ‘The sites for mining materials required to build wind, solar, and EV batteries are under minimal-to-nonexistent labor, wage, environmental, reclamation, and worker health and safety regulations.’
- Columnist Deroy Murdock calls out ‘Emperor’ Biden’s new clothes.
- Bangladeshi are innovating in agriculture—but not due to climate change, as NPR claims.
- ‘There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023.’
- ‘Atmosphere warming at half the rate predicted by climate models.’
Monday Highlights
- A carbon tax would save lots of money during the “transition” but politicians prefer subsidies, however expensive.
- If alarmists can’t scare you with climate change, telling you that your garden is killing the earth might.
- The Federal Reserve has 400 economists studying climate change but they are conducting “shockingly poor analysis.”
- Optimistic about electric vehicles? Consider the fate of another government-nurtured industry.
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