Roger Pielke, Jr., is a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Recipient of the Eduard Brückner Prize for interdisciplinary environmental research, Pielke is a critic of wild claims about the effects of climate change. In a new video and blog post, Pielke discusses the latest report of the…
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Should Yellowstone Grizzlies Get Off the Endangered List?
Five Republican senators are asking Democratic committee heads to hold hearings on a bill that has been tied up in committees since April. The bill would remove one group of grizzly bears from listing under the Endangered Species Act. That group is the population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the area that includes and surrounds…
‘Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class’
In a hard-hitting Newsweek commentary on the publicity surrounding the Glasgow summit on climate change (currently underway), Joel Kotkin lambastes western elites for their hypocrisy, their rhetoric, and failure to appreciate the world’s ability to adapt. “The climate industrial complex, as economist Bjørn Lomborg has aptly called the climate doomsday crowd, has persuaded the media to…
Watch Out for the Feds, Even If It’s Your Property and Even If It is a Church Camp for Troubled Youth
The U.S. Federal Claims Court decided on October 25 that the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) does not need to compensate a Nevada property owner for damages when it diverted a Nevada stream that had flowed onto the property. Flooding followed four times, but the court concluded that the diversion and the floods were not…
U.S. Coal Use Surged by 35 Percent in First Six Months of 2021
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released statistics on energy production for the first six months of 2021, comparing it to the same period in 2020. Coal was the winner. Commenting on the figures, the Institute for Energy Research wrote recently: “Coal is up an impressive 35 percent while the higher price of natural gas…
China Has It Both Ways: No More Coal Plants Abroad but Plenty at Home
In September, China’s president Xi Jinping told the United Nations that the country would stop financing coal plants outside China. However, it’s full speed ahead for coal at home. First, from Valerie Volcovici and David Brunnstrom, Michelle Nichols at Reuters on September 21: “‘China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green…