The Economist is an impressive magazine that offers a balanced view of most topics. The topic of climate change is, however, an exception. The magazine linked the coronavirus to climate change in its May 23/29 editorial “Seize the Moment.” Its subtitle states: “The covid-19 crisis reveals how hard it will be to tackle climate change—and…
Category: The Environmental Blog
Links: More about Moore, Green New Deal, the Size of Trees . . .
Paul Dreissen on dress rehearsal for Green New Deal? Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal writing about Michael Moore’s movie. (Story is behind a paywall, but if you don’t have access, read this movie review by Sterling Burnett.) No, climate change is not making trees shorter and younger, reports James Taylor at Heartland.
Tuesday’s Links
Class conflicts and hypocrisy: that’s wind-energy siting in New York and New England, says Robert Bryce on RealClearEnergy. Renewable energy surpasses coal. North America set 233 low-temperature records in May. From Electro-Verse.
How Companies Claim They Are Green
In the Wall Street Journal, Steve Milloy reveals that many companies are using their required financial disclosure filings for “greenwashing.” Companies tell the Securities and Exchange Commission they are making contributions to reducing climate change when those contributions are minuscule. Writes Milloy: Companies often tout what they are doing to “save the planet” or “combat…
Links: ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost’ . . . California Cuts Climate Change Spending . . .
Steve Hayward on ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost,’ an analysis of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans. Planet of the Humans dropped from YouTube. In the Guardian. HT-RealClearEnergy. California budget cuts billions from climate change funding. HT-GWPF.
Electric Vehicles Get a Boost in Columbus, Ohio
Here’s what it cost: $40 million from a U. S. Department of Transportation grant $10 million from a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Here’s what it did: Raised the number of electric vehicles in Columbus to 1.8 percent from 0.4 percent That’s 3,323 automobiles