The governor of North Carolina has adopted the Biden administration’s push toward renewables. He is requiring the state to aim at supplying 8.0 gigawatts of electricity from offshore wind by 2040. Those turbines will be near Brunswick County and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and thus near some of the state’s most appealing tourist spots. That…
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This Morning’s Links
- Small Pacific Islands aren’t shrinking from sea level rise; many are growing.
- ‘The sites for mining materials required to build wind, solar, and EV batteries are under minimal-to-nonexistent labor, wage, environmental, reclamation, and worker health and safety regulations.’
- Columnist Deroy Murdock calls out ‘Emperor’ Biden’s new clothes.
- Bangladeshi are innovating in agriculture—but not due to climate change, as NPR claims.
- ‘There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023.’
- ‘Atmosphere warming at half the rate predicted by climate models.’
Too Much Recycled Cardboard?
The usual story is that people don’t recycle enough. But now there is an oversupply of recycled cardboard (in the trade called OCC for Old Corrugated Cardboard), writes Katie Pyzyk for Waste Dive. Demand from companies for recycled cardboard has fallen dramatically—in February prices for the recycled cardboard were 74 percent lower than in February…
Canadian Official Says Climate Change Will Reduce the Country’s GDP, But Only a Little
Let’s begin with the obvious: It’s hard to believe that Canada will suffer from rising temperatures. It’s cold much of the year in Canada (average annual temperature, averaged across the country, is 22F.) But the Canadian government says climate change will hurt the nation’s economy by reducing labor productivity (even though it will increase tourism)….
Monday Links
Not a joke: Greta Thunberg wants a wind farm dismantled to protect reindeer. AOC wants the U. S. to consider nuclear.
New study says geographical range of malarial mosquitoes is growing . . . but, says James Taylor, malaria’s range is down and so are deaths.
Turmoil in Alaska:
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- The Biden administration is trying to compromise on the Willow oil drilling project planned by Conoco, which has a strong legal case against additional restrictions.
- Senator Manchin reveals an Interior Dept. effort to prevent oil and gas leasing in Cook Inlet, contrary to requirements of “Inflation Reduction” Act. . . .
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Tuesday Highlights
- Land is being reclaimed from the ocean as countries build ports and resorts.
- Three reasons why electric vehicles cannot prevent climate change.
- Could offshore wind turbines be causing the surge in East Coast Atlantic whale deaths?
- Scranton, Pa., rejects proposal for a solar farm—the sixth solar rejection this year.
- Is CO2 really a danger to human welfare? No, says lawsuit against the EPA.
- Antarctica sea cover is lowest in 40 years . . . But Antarctica is not getting any warmer.