The American Petroleum Institute, the leading U. S. trade association for the oil and gas industry, has changed its position on carbon pricing. On March 25, it announced that it now supports “sensible legislation that prices carbon across all economic sectors while avoiding regulatory duplication.” The API’s statement of principles on carbon pricing set some…
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Climate Frenzy: A Modern Version of the Crusades
William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton and an expert on climate, recently explained why today’s “climate frenzy” is not a crisis. Happer spoke at a seminar sponsored by Hillsdale College. Among the highlights: “The best way to think about the frenzy over climate is to consider it a modern version of the medieval…
The Grim Debate over Deaths from Air Pollution
Some very smart people are trying to figure out whether, where, and to what extent air pollution is a killer. Most recently, Tyler Cowen wrote in Marginal Revolution about a new study claiming that 10.2 million people die from pollution by fine particulates (particles 2.5 microns or lower) each year. Sixty-two percent of those premature…
Laugh a Little: Climate Predictions and How They Panned Out
Paul Homewood of the Global Warming Policy Forum has put together recent predictions of climate change. A few: A Looming Ice Age. Numerous reports in the 1970s reflected concern that the Earth was heading towards a new ice age. These are nowadays often dismissed as mere newspaper gossip, but they were far more than that….
Supreme Court Nixes Sierra Club FOIA Request, Protects ‘Deliberative Process’
Although most non-classified documents are available to the public, there are exceptions. The Supreme Court told the Sierra Club on March 3 that it could not have access to draft documents prepared in 2013 by staff members of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Amy Coney Barrett wrote the 7-2…
Media Link Texas Outages to Climate Change
As expected, prominent media are linking the disastrous storm that sent temperatures plunging in Texas and shut off power for millions to “climate change.” The New York Times wrote on February 16: “The notion that the global phenomenon of a hotter planet could be sending a shocking cold wave into the southern United States might…