Montana’s glaciers are shrinking, but they have been shrinking since the 1850s (and faster before 1966). A new poll “obliterates the notion that 97 percent of scientists believe we are facing a severe climate crisis.” The Swiss are considering banning electric vehicles if it gets very cold this winter. The New York Times blames private…
Tag: Climate Change
Does Climategate Live On?
Robert Bradley Jr. retells the fascinating story of Climategate—the 2009 leak of emails among well-known climate scientists that showed “bias, data manipulation, dodging freedom of information requests, and efforts to subvert the peer-review process.” On his blog MasterResource Bradley includes some of the highly disturbing email quotations. In case you’re not familiar with Climategate, here’s…
The Latest Green Energy Flaws and Failures
In the news: Big British solar company goes bankrupt. Owns 53 solar farms; borrowed £655 million over the past four years.—ZeroHedge on Oil Price. [Britain is not a very sunny place.] “Skyrocketing fossil fuel energy prices are driving the deforestation of Europe as citizens try to keep warm.” —Pierre L. Gosselin on NoTricksZone. Biden won’t…
Is Joe Biden Wearing “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
William Happer, emeritus physicist at Princeton, had a little fun with Joe Biden’s messaging at the president’s recent trip to the climate conference (COP27) at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Biden announced a new regulation on methane emissions. “Before leaving for a week of virtue-signaling at the COP27 climate conference with other world elites, President Joe Biden…
A Gardener’s View of Climate Change
While the discussion of climate change often takes place on a global scale, I’ve come upon a refreshing review on a local basis, written by a North Carolina gardener with no axe to grind. Tom Packer has published a remarkably thorough examination of local historical climate trends. He observes that as recently as 2015 the…
Despite a Warning from the Supreme Court, SEC Proceeds with Its Over-Arching Climate Rule
Rupert Darwall, writing in The Hill, warns that the SEC’s rule on climate change disclosures, still in the proposal stage, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The rule would require companies to disclose any material impacts of climate change or climate-change regulation on their business. In addition, it would require companies to disclose all their…