Many people are concerned that if the oceans increase their uptake of carbon dioxide, the result will be ocean acidification that harms fish. But Alex Tabarrok reports in Marginal Revolution on a meta-analysis paper on 91 studies of such harm. The paper found that the bigger and more recent the studies are, the less the…
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How Much Did Biden’s Energy Policies Add to Family Expenses?
“The average U.S. household in 2021 spent an extra $600 in higher gasoline costs and $70 in higher electricity costs due to the Biden administration’s energy policies,” write Linnea Lueken and James Taylor for the Heartland Institute. And that’s not all. “Further, households that use natural gas spent an extra $300, on average, and those…
Climate Change: Fulfilling Our Need for an ‘Existential Crisis’?
James E. Hanley wonders if climate alarmism is satisfying a need for an existential crisis. After all, the impacts of climate change are not likely to be “existential.” “[T]he most important news in terms of human well-being is very positive. Total annual climate-related deaths have declined precipitously over the past century, even as the global…
A Half-Century of Disproven Pessimism
Writing on his blog Master Resource, Robert L. Bradley, Jr. points out that “an optimistic view of future climate has a strong basis in settled science (CO2 fertilization, modest primary warming), just as climate pessimistic has a more speculative basis (as in debated feedback effects to elevate the initial warming).” Bradley reviews “the poor track…