A sample of where the “IRA” money is going: The Department of Energy is conditionally planning to lend $700 million to an Australian company, Ioneer, to create a “massive lithium mine in western Nevada,” reports Jeff St. John for Canary Media. (The company will lead an international consortium.) Lithium is a material critical to the…
Tag: Climate Change
More “Billion-dollar” Disasters Don’t Mean the Climate Is Worse
Roger Pielke Jr. explains that NOAA’s rising count of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more does not mean that the weather events have increased or worsened. Inflation, insurance, and economic growth are better explainers. “The billion-dollar disaster tally is easy to understand, simple to communicate, but in actual fact, incredibly misleading. It is…
A Carbon Tax? Not So Fast
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, usually considered skeptical about taking action on climate change, has issued a paper called “It Pollutes, So Tax it: Need We Say More about Carbon Dioxide?” That would seem to recommend a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and to an extent it does. But the paper by Peter Hartley of…
Millions Here and Millions There, Federal Money for Green Interests Starts to Add Up
Special (green) interests can range from renewable energy to recycling. The money is flowing to companies, municipalities, airports, you name it. In October, the Biden administration gave school districts $913 million to buy new buses (mostly electric). In addition, it put $27 million into electrifying buses and equipment at airports. (This after awarding $300 million…
Reminder: The U. S. Has Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions More Than Any Other Country
Earlier this fall, Jon Sanders put together some often-ignored facts that should give one pause as we get knee-deep into climate change mandates and social carbon costs and electric vehicles. I quote Jon: The United States has been cutting CO2 emissions. Anyone only familiar with the apocalyptic rhetoric from media, politicians, academics, and environmentalists would think otherwise….
Environmental News: Weekend Picks
- 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 owners for failing to allow access to public land (the problem stems from nineteenth-century government policy).
- Relying on wind and solar power requires “staggering” amounts of storage and the idea of electrical grids relying on them is”completely impractical and unaffordable.”