Class conflicts and hypocrisy: that’s wind-energy siting in New York and New England, says Robert Bryce on RealClearEnergy. Renewable energy surpasses coal. North America set 233 low-temperature records in May. From Electro-Verse.
How Companies Claim They Are Green
In the Wall Street Journal, Steve Milloy reveals that many companies are using their required financial disclosure filings for “greenwashing.” Companies tell the Securities and Exchange Commission they are making contributions to reducing climate change when those contributions are minuscule. Writes Milloy: Companies often tout what they are doing to “save the planet” or “combat…
Links: ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost’ . . . California Cuts Climate Change Spending . . .
Steve Hayward on ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost,’ an analysis of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans. Planet of the Humans dropped from YouTube. In the Guardian. HT-RealClearEnergy. California budget cuts billions from climate change funding. HT-GWPF.
Electric Vehicles Get a Boost in Columbus, Ohio
Here’s what it cost: $40 million from a U. S. Department of Transportation grant $10 million from a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Here’s what it did: Raised the number of electric vehicles in Columbus to 1.8 percent from 0.4 percent That’s 3,323 automobiles
Yes, There Are Trees in Downtown Washington, D.C.
R. J. Smith reports on the sylvan species outside his window: There are plenty of trees here. Can anyone identify the very tall but little-spreading tree across the street from my apartment? (See photo.) It’s 75′ to 80′ tall. The autumn leaves are never brilliant red. Or even red. Dirty brownish-yellow. The District’s Department of…
Monday’s Links: Climate Change and Cancer . . .
Latest alarm: Climate change is reducing cancer survival rates? Sterling Burnett critiques. The Environmental Optimism of Elinor Ostrom: A new book looks at how polycentric institutions can protect the environment. Environmentalists hold two contradictory ideas : climate change is an existential crisis and renewable energy will resolve it. By Stephen Davies. And about BlackRock ….