“Let me be blunt,” says economist Ben Zycher:”The Earth Day initiatives are destructive silliness, a form of mass hysteria, and utterly unsubtle.” To summarize his many points: “The Earth Day revision of the Old Testament might read: ‘In the Beginning, Earth was the Garden of Eden. But Mankind, having consumed the Forbidden Fruit of the…
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Not a Joke: New York City Plans to Cut Carbon Emissions by Changing Diets
New York’s Mayor Eric Adams plans to reduce the city government’s “food-based [greenhouse gas] emissions” by 33 percent by 2030. And he is “challenging our private sector partners to join us by cutting their food emissions by 25 percent in the same time period.” At a press event April 17 he said the city has…
How Visible Are Off-Shore Wind Turbines?
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…
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.’
Monday Highlights
- A carbon tax would save lots of money during the “transition” but politicians prefer subsidies, however expensive.
- If alarmists can’t scare you with climate change, telling you that your garden is killing the earth might.
- The Federal Reserve has 400 economists studying climate change but they are conducting “shockingly poor analysis.”
- Optimistic about electric vehicles? Consider the fate of another government-nurtured industry.
Are There Profits in Landfill Gas? One Big Waste Firm Says Yes
Waste Management, the nation’s largest waste hauler, has a big idea: Invest heavily in extracting natural gas from landfills. Natural gas has a lower “carbon footprint” than other fossil fuels, and Waste Management (WM) has a lot of landfills. Landfills emit methane, a greenhouse gas. But it can be captured and used or sold as…