On May 4, the day of its release, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by physicist Steven E. Koonin, became the top-selling book on Amazon Kindle in the categories “Weather,” and “Climatology.” In just over 12 hours since its official launch Unsettled was the second-best selling book in…
Trouble in EV Paradise
Nearly twenty percent of Californians who bought electric vehicles have replaced them with gasoline-powered vehicles, reports the Business Insider. (H-T Benny Peiser.) The reason: It took too long to charge their cars at home. Writes Dominick Reuter: “Standard home outlets generally put out about 120 volts of power at what electric vehicle aficionados call ‘Level…
Warren Buffet Stands Up to Climate Alarmists
From Joe Smith of the Energy and Policy Institute (a group that advocates in favor of more renewable energy): “The Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors is opposing a proposal from major shareholder groups that the company publish an annual report disclosing the climate risks it faces, even as the company’s energy subsidiaries remain heavily invested…
Earth Day Surprise: Scientists’ Alarmist Views of Climate May Be Fading
Some scientists are backing off the apocalyptic scenarios of climate change, says Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. “A drumroll moment was Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peter’s 2020 article in the journal Nature partly headlined: “Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome.” “This followed the 2017 paper by…
Yellowstone Shores Up Employee Housing—A Good Thing, Says PERC
Yellowstone National Park is giving high priority to upgrading employee housing. That is proving a good strategy, writes Shawn Regan of PERC in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. It is essential for keeping quality employees who are often alone or nearly alone in isolated parts of the 2.2 million-acre park. When he became Yellowstone’s superintendent in…
Does Solar Energy Depend on Forced Labor in China?
The evidence is increasing that the rare-earth minerals used in solar panels may be produced by forced labor. Most of the minerals come from Xinjiang, the area where China is known to be persecuting the Muslim Uygurs. Phred Dvorak and Matthew Dalton write in the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall): “About half the world’s…