HEADLINES. ClimateRealism: Washington Post says the Farm Belt is drying up, but crop yields are getting better nearly every year. . . . Are the costs of wind energy going down—or up? A study from “Briefings for Britain” decides. . . . Global fire acreage has been in decline for nearly 20 years, according to…
Tag: Climate Change
NPR Attacks David Legates. Heartland Issues Point-by-Point Rebuttal
Whatever one’s views about climate change, nothing can justify National Public Radio’s recent brutal and uninformed attack on David Legates, a professor at the University of Delaware and former Delaware state climatologist. Legates has just been appointed to a high position at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and that was enough to bring…
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…
It’s Cold up on Cairn Toul
Typical August? Four men were rescued in August in Scotland, one of them hypothermic, after the temperature declined to about 14 F. Here’s what the BBC said about the rescue. “Four walkers taking part in a fundraising event have been rescued in the Cairngorms. The four men became exhausted during the hike and Braemar Mountain…
Opponents of Trump’s Methane Decisions Are All Wet, Says Ben Zycher
President Trump is rescinding the Obama-era rules requiring the oil and gas industry to tighten up its controls on leakage of the greenhouse gas methane. Trump’s proposed action outraged some people, such as Catherine Rampell, columnist for the Washington Post. But the uproar is ridiculous, writes Ben Zycher in National Review: “Neither the Obama rule…
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…