President Joe Biden’s climate and energy policies are one critical factor in his sinking poll numbers and in the dwindling chances that the Democrats will keep either house of Congress in the mid-term elections. Biden’s and the Democrats’ fortunes are falling almost as fast as the average American’s energy, food, and fuel prices are rising….
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How to Reduce Carbon Emissions and Hurt Poor Countries in the Process
More fallout from COP26: Wealthy countries agreed to stop paying for fossil fuel projects in Third World. The Breakthrough Institute reports: “At COP26 in Glasgow, rich nations including the US, UK, Canada, and France pledged to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad, essentially restricting development options in poorer countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa…
In Praise of Styrofoam, Plastic Grocery Bags, and Carbon Dioxide
Roy Cordato’s “politically incorrect” Thanksgiving list includes many items people love to hate. Writing on MasterResource, the economist says: “I love Styrofoam containers, especially in the winter. I like my coffee to be piping hot and I want it to stay that way to the very last drop. Paper cups just don’t do it, plus…
Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Climate Alarmists
Global elites regularly decry the supposedly “existential” threat purported human-caused climate change poses to the environment, civilization, and even human survival. These same elites propose policies intended to avert global climate disaster, almost all of them involving ending the use of fossil fuels and fundamentally changing how people live—forcing people to live in high-density urban…
No, Climate Change Does Not Threaten Banks
A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York disputes the growing claim that climate poses risks to the financial system. “We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks’ performance,” it says. From John Cochrane, the “Grumpy Economist”: “This is a courageous paper…
The ‘Academic Mobbing’ of a Senior Climate Scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder
I recently wrote a post about a lecture given by Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. The lecture was based on the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and indicated that carbon dioxide emissions are less than previously expected and that most kinds…