American Enterprise Institute scholar Paul Kupiec thinks it may. In May President Biden authorized the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to look into how the banking system should be regulated in light of risks from climate change. Writing in The Hill, Kupiec says the latest report of the council suggests a plan could be brewing…
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Self-loathing in the West Explains Climate Change Fears, says British Writer
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Janet Daley offers a reason why the West has taken such an obsessive attitude toward climate change and Covid-19: self-blame. “Let us accept for the moment that this is absolutely true: that climate change and the Covid pandemic are unquestionable phenomena just as they are described in the official doctrine…
The Crisis in Madagascar Is Not Caused by Climate Change
The Washington Post has acknowledged that the near-famine in the island of Madagascar, which has been suffering a severe drought, was not caused by climate change. Writes Rachel Pannett: “Now, new research has cast doubt on whether global warming is the main cause — underscoring the pitfalls of viewing food crises primarily as a result…
The ‘Academic Mobbing’ of a Senior Climate Scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder
I recently wrote a post about a lecture given by Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. The lecture was based on the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and indicated that carbon dioxide emissions are less than previously expected and that most kinds…
Record Cold in Antarctica. ‘A Mere Blip,’ says the Washington Post
The Washington Post routinely explains surprising weather events as caused by “climate change” (formerly known as global warming). “Hot” events like the California wildfires are blamed on climate change. Similarly, “cold” events like Texas’s 2020 winter freeze are blamed on climate change. But sometimes the cold is just too severe to explain with climate change. Or…
The Doctors Should Know Better
An editorial appeared in 200 health journals this month, including prominent medical journals such as the New England journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal. Its title was “Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health.” It contended that global warming is a crisis on the corder of…