It’s hard to keep up with what environmental activists are against. (See Ron Bailey on solar geoengineering.) Now it’s carbon capture. Carbon capture (CCS) is the largely experimental technology for removing carbon dioxide during or after a combustion process and then storing it, usually underground. The Biden administration is promoting carbon capture, and this month Energy…
Tag: Climate Change
Can the Media Tell the Truth about Climate Change? Apparently Not.
From Steven Koonin in the Wall Street Journal: “[T]he media goes with this angle: ‘A “doomsday glacier” the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought.’ A correct headline would read: ‘Thwaites Glacier retreating less than half as rapidly today as it did in the past.’” Koonin, author of Unsettled, a book that questions the…
So-called Analysis of Pakistan Floods and Human-Caused Climate Change Is ‘Misleading Hype’
Go step-by-step with David Whitehouse through the report of the Weather Attribution Project, as he shows that the report’s impression of a link between Pakistan’s recent flooding and human-induced climate change is just that—an impression. “The question is, of course,” writes Net Zero’s Whitehouse, “if human-induced climate change has had anything to do with making…
What? California to Ban Gas Cars, Fine Automakers $20,000 a Car for Missing EV Targets
Update: California is warning residents not to use electrical charging because of heat wave. What kind of world are we living in? From the New York Times: “The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of greenhouse gas emissions like…
It’s Hot Out. Why Don’t Europeans Have Air Conditioners?
Writing for the Goodman Institute Health Blog, Devon Herrick observes that 90 percent of American homes have air conditioning, compared to 10 percent of European homes. “Why have Europeans shunned air conditioning? There are many reasons, some practical, some due to cost, some due to architecture while some is due to geography. Culture is also…
Climate Change Bonanza in New Law? Not Really
The “Inflation Reduction Act” is a political win on climate change for the Democrats, says James E. Hanley, but “on the actual policy level, the gains appear to be much more marginal than revolutionary.” Writing for the American Institute for Economic Research, the policy analyst says: “[M]any of these policies are continuations of old policies, rather…