Myron Ebell put together Amy Coney Barrett’s comments on the environment for CEI. Here’s her spectacular answer to Kamala Harris’s supposedly Socratic questions on climate change: “In the most revealing exchange, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) asked Judge Barrett whether she believed that COVID-19 virus is infectious and whether smoking causes cancer. Barrett replied that it’s obvious that the virus…
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States Want to Use Covid-19 Stimulus Funds for Climate Change
Some states want funds from the Covid-19 stimulus package to help them cope with climate change. They are quite open about it. In a fascinating compilation of examples, Inside Climate News and the Nation have found such desires as these: In Maine, the state wants money for a heat-pump program that provides incentives to install…
Audubon Cancels Audubon . . . Climate Change Could Increase Rice Yields . . .
Headlines: The National Audubon Society cancels John James Audubon. On the Audubon site . . . ‘Climate change could increase rice yields,’ say Japanese scientists writing in the Agronomy Journal. From the AAAS’s Eurekalert . . . Apple’s recycling policies offer both “a breath of fresh air and major obstacles” for electronics recyclers. Stewart McGrenary…
Don’t Panic over Climate Change, Says Bjørn Lomborg
Since the publication of his book The Skeptical Environmentalist in 1998, Bjørn Lomborg has been a thorn in the side of climate alarmists who call for a rapid decarbonization of the world economy to prevent apocalyptic global warming. His new book, False Alarm, drives that thorn deeper. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us…
Climate Change Sinks as an Issue . . . Nuclear Energy Just Around the Corner?
Gallup poll: Only one percent of Americans think climate change is the biggest issue today. On Climate Change Dispatch. HT: Benny Peiser . . . Ditto Harris poll, and the Harris CEO is unhappy about it, he writes in Fortune . . . Biden plan would start U. S. on ‘road to serfdom,’ says Sterling…
More Climate Change Myths
‘Worse than we thought’—it was climate models, not the climate, that turned out to be worse, Pat Michaels writes in RealClearEnergy.