“Green” investments and “green” bonds are here, but they are controversial. Clemson economist Bruce Yandle suggests in Regulation that libertarians and conservatives are understandably worried about the impact of the “soft regulatory power” that is being applied to companies—or threatening to do so. The world’s biggest fund manager, BlackRock, says it will consider the environmental…
Will Facebook Cave In?
A group of 15 activists, including two former EPA administrators, is asking Facebook to censor the writing of the CO2 Coalition. In a July 1 letter to the co-chairman of the Facebook Oversight committee, the group, Climate Power 2020, says: “Facebook is allowing the spread of climate misinformation to flourish, unchecked, across the globe.” Instead…
Monday’s Links: Suing Exxon (Again). . . Changing Cities. . . Nuclear Power
Minnesota AG sues Exxon, Koch, and Petroleum Institute over climate change. (Shifting attention maybe?) Climate activities must adopt nuclear power, says Michael Shellenberger in Quillette. City Journal tells us how the urban environment will change. Think: decaying malls. High-flying shale oil company seeks bankruptcy. protection.
The Pandemic and Trophy Hunting
Fear that the coronavirus pandemic came from wild animals has evoked calls for greater limits on trade in wildlife. But Catherine Semcer of PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center), in a thorough discussion of the issue, says that the coronavirus did not come from legal trade in wildlife and warns against further restricting trophy…
Michael Shellenberger Critiques Radical Environmentalists
John Tierney and Joel Kotkin review Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, by Michael Shellenberger. Tierney (in the Wall Street Journal) writes: “He chronicles environmental progress around the world and crisply debunks myth after gloomy myth,” writes Tierney. “No, we are not in the midst of the ‘sixth mass extinction,’ because only 0.001%…
Is Climate Change Killing People?
Numerous news sources are reporting a claim that a warmer climate is killing so many American that health departments aren’t equipped to handle the upsurge in cases. Yet the most precise measurements we have show there has been no increase in U.S. temperatures since 2005, writes Heartland Institute scholar James Taylor. He goes on to…