Better forest management, including prescribed burns and strategic logging, are essential to preventing western wildfires, says Ryan Zinke, former Interior Department secretary and former Montana congressman. “Radical environmentalists would have you believe forest management means clear cutting forests and national parks. But their rhetoric could not be further from the truth. They make outdated and…
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Don’t Believe the Hype Over IPCC Climate Predictions
Are we headed for disaster? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems to say so in its latest report. Or does it? “As usual, the media and politicians are exaggerating and distorting the evidence in the report,” writes Steven Koonin in the Wall Street Journal. He is a former energy official in the Obama…
Is This Nobel Prize-Winner’s Book on Climate Worth Reading?
Joakim Book of AIER.org reviews William Nordhaus’s new book on green economics. Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018, primarily for his work on climate change. Book writes: “This year, Professor Nordhaus came out with an ambitious, all-encompassing yet somewhat confused book: The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in…
Cold, Not Heat, Caused the Most Deaths
Did you know that the number of temperature-related deaths went down between 2000 and 2019 despite rises in global temperatures? That finding appeared in a study in The Lancet: Planet Health, part of the prominent Lancet medical journal chain. Cold-related deaths declined while heat-related deaths increased just barely, saving tens of thousands of lives as…
Are U.S. Subsidies Bringing Innovation to Renewable Energy?
No, says Ross Marchand in two segments of a three-part series from RealClearEnergy. Problem One: Failures plus Unnecessary ‘Successes’ These green companies (among others) failed: Abound Solar, Range Fuels, Solyndra. Others are considered successes but they didn’t need government guarantees: NextEraEnergy: “When the DOE greenlit the guarantee 10 years ago, NextEra had revenues totaling more…
What Do Climate Activists Really Want? The Answer Is Chilling
They want to overturn capitalism. That is the import of an article by H. Sterling Burnett on the Heartland.org site. His article, “Climate Alarmists Call for ‘Eco-Dictatorship,’” provides examples from leading figures. First, he quotes Christiana Figueres in 2015, when she was executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change “‘This is the…