Just as the federal government is about to open the Gulf of Mexico to offshore wind projects, the industry is running into trouble, says Maria Galucci of Canary Media (a news outlet favorable to renewables). “The August 29 [Gulf] auction comes at a deeply ambivalent moment for offshore wind. On the one hand, there’s unprecedented…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
Weekend Highlights
- “What will happen when the grid goes down?” From physicist John Droz Jr.
- Judge upholds Montana children’s claim that the state is not doing enough to combat global warming.
- “There is no climate emergency,” says a statement from 1600 international scientists and other climate-knowledgeable professionals.
- Facebook censors Shellenberger post on offshore wind and whale deaths.
- Holman Jenkins: “Green” subsidies lead to more carbon dioxide emissions! (behind a paywall).
How I Plan to Vote on Environmental Issues
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute.
“Elections have consequences,” former President Barack Obama once rightly said, and we are in an election cycle. In choosing whom to vote for, I always consider how closely a current officeholder has adhered to his or her constitutional oath while in office—has he or she voted as often as possible to limit the federal government to its constitutionally enumerated role?
A Carbon-Reduction Plan an Economist Can Love—and One Invented It
Robert Litterman, a well-known economist —a “legend on Wall Street”— has an idea for spurring government and private investment into reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. Peter Coy, a New York Times columnist, discusses the “carbon-linked bond”: “The problem Litterman is trying to solve is that many private investors are unwilling to invest heavily in climate solutions because…
You Knew the Media Were Biased on Climate Change. An Academic Study Shows It.
Our thanks to Roger Pielke Jr. for bringing attention to a new study that quantifies the media bias on climate change. Pielke summarizes the study this way: “In 2020, scholars published more than 50,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change in almost 6,000 journals. A new study by Marie-Elodie Perga and colleagues looks at how these papers…
Think Globally, Act Locally
“Repair Cafés” will not solve very many recycling problems, but they are a sign of community spirit and how hidden talents can be used to keep some aged products from being dumped. Modern industry often can’t use the old-fashioned ability to fix minor mechanical problems. It’s not cost-effective. The Repair Café’s little nuggets of voluntary…