More fallout from COP26: Wealthy countries agreed to stop paying for fossil fuel projects in Third World. The Breakthrough Institute reports: “At COP26 in Glasgow, rich nations including the US, UK, Canada, and France pledged to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad, essentially restricting development options in poorer countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa…
In Praise of Styrofoam, Plastic Grocery Bags, and Carbon Dioxide
Roy Cordato’s “politically incorrect” Thanksgiving list includes many items people love to hate. Writing on MasterResource, the economist says: “I love Styrofoam containers, especially in the winter. I like my coffee to be piping hot and I want it to stay that way to the very last drop. Paper cups just don’t do it, plus…
Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Climate Alarmists
Global elites regularly decry the supposedly “existential” threat purported human-caused climate change poses to the environment, civilization, and even human survival. These same elites propose policies intended to avert global climate disaster, almost all of them involving ending the use of fossil fuels and fundamentally changing how people live—forcing people to live in high-density urban…
Burning Wood Is Zero Emissions? Yes, in Climate-Speak
Millions of wood pellets from trees grown in North Carolina are providing fuel for the United Kingdom. Under current international climate-change rules, burning wood does not produce carbon-dioxide emissions. Of course it does, but the claim is that it is offset by carbon sequestration when the trees are replaced. “Billed as a clean fuel that…
No, Climate Change Does Not Threaten Banks
A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York disputes the growing claim that climate poses risks to the financial system. “We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks’ performance,” it says. From John Cochrane, the “Grumpy Economist”: “This is a courageous paper…
‘Theatre of the Absurd’? Commentary on COP26
Robert Lyman. a long-time Canadian diplomat and civil servant, comments on the UN Summit on Climate Change in Glasgow, which has just concluded. Lyman’s remarks are found on the Friends of Science Calgary website. “As an international treaty-making occasion . . . COP 26 was a non-event. However, that does not mean that it was…