The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in West Virginia vs. EPA on Monday, February 28. Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan Adler calls this case “the most important environmental case in the 2021-2022 term.” “In this case, the justices will consider the scope of the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the power…
Latest Cancellation Suggests Climate Alarmists Are in ‘Panic Mode’
Robert L. Bradley Jr. discusses the efforts by Andrew Dressler, a Texas A & M professor, to “cancel” Steven Koonin, a theoretical physicist at New York University and author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters. Koonin’s book applies objective analysis to climate change issues, reducing alarm about…
Don’t Worry about Greenland’s Melting Ice
Greenland ‘s ice mass is melting—but more slowly than it did a decade ago, and its level right now is about the same as in the 1930s. That’s from Steven Koonin, writing in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Koonin cites measurements of ice conducted by the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet,…
Good News for Fish, But Not for Peer Review
Many people are concerned that if the oceans increase their uptake of carbon dioxide, the result will be ocean acidification that harms fish. But Alex Tabarrok reports in Marginal Revolution on a meta-analysis paper on 91 studies of such harm. The paper found that the bigger and more recent the studies are, the less the…