Millions of wood pellets from trees grown in North Carolina are providing fuel for the United Kingdom. Under current international climate-change rules, burning wood does not produce carbon-dioxide emissions. Of course it does, but the claim is that it is offset by carbon sequestration when the trees are replaced. “Billed as a clean fuel that…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
‘Theatre of the Absurd’? Commentary on COP26
Robert Lyman. a long-time Canadian diplomat and civil servant, comments on the UN Summit on Climate Change in Glasgow, which has just concluded. Lyman’s remarks are found on the Friends of Science Calgary website. “As an international treaty-making occasion . . . COP 26 was a non-event. However, that does not mean that it was…
Attorney General Didn’t Know about Interior Department Break-in
On October. 14, climate change protesters calling themselves “Build Back Fossil Free” successfully broke into the Interior Department building in Washington, D.C. Fifty-five people were arrested, one security officer went to the hospital, and there were “multiple injuries,” according to an Interior Department spokesman. But Attorney General Merrick Garland, who spoke at a House Judiciary…
Do I Want an Electrical Vehicle? My Personal Assessment
Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. (hburnett@heartland.org) is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois. I’ve been thinking about electric vehicles a lot lately. My wife and I take pleasure trips every year—sometimes three- or four-day getaways, sometimes week-long vacations, sometimes longer journeys. Many of these trips are…
Are U.S. Subsidies Bringing Innovation to Renewable Energy?
No, says Ross Marchand in two segments of a three-part series from RealClearEnergy. Problem One: Failures plus Unnecessary ‘Successes’ These green companies (among others) failed: Abound Solar, Range Fuels, Solyndra. Others are considered successes but they didn’t need government guarantees: NextEraEnergy: “When the DOE greenlit the guarantee 10 years ago, NextEra had revenues totaling more…
Green Jobs a Far Cry from ‘Good, High-Wage Jobs’
‘Green jobs’ are not what the Biden administration is claiming they are, says Noam Scheiber in the New York Times. “The Green New Deal, first introduced in 2019, sought to ‘create millions of good, high-wage jobs.’” President Biden repeated the promise in March, says Sheiber.. “’My American Jobs Plan will put hundreds of thousands of…