R. J. Smith reports on the sylvan species outside his window: There are plenty of trees here. Can anyone identify the very tall but little-spreading tree across the street from my apartment? (See photo.) It’s 75′ to 80′ tall. The autumn leaves are never brilliant red. Or even red. Dirty brownish-yellow. The District’s Department of…
Category: The Environmental Blog
Monday’s Links: Climate Change and Cancer . . .
Latest alarm: Climate change is reducing cancer survival rates? Sterling Burnett critiques. The Environmental Optimism of Elinor Ostrom: A new book looks at how polycentric institutions can protect the environment. Environmentalists hold two contradictory ideas : climate change is an existential crisis and renewable energy will resolve it. By Stephen Davies. And about BlackRock ….
Links: Michael Moore’s Latest . . .
The fur flies over Planet of the Humans, Michael Moore’s apostasy: The Left attacks Planet of the Humans. Sterling Burnett discusses on Cornwall Alliance site. The producer of Planet of the Humans defends it against the Left. Free market environmentalists Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak critique his defense.
The Breached Michigan Dam Was Supposed to Save Mussels?
Thirteen years of regulatory oversight? From the Detroit News: Numerous violations and longstanding concerns that the Edenville Dam could not withstand a significant flood led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to revoke its license for power generation in September 2018. *** “Thirteen years after acquiring the license for the project, the licensee has still…
The Environmental Harm of Big Batteries
By H. Sterling Burnett I recently wrote about the impossibility of relying on giant storage batteries to enable the nation to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Physics tells us batteries can store only a minuscule amount of the power we would need for backup. A recent Heartland Institute study by Paul Driessen gives us…
‘BlackRock Discovers the Joy of Other People’s Money’
Ben Zycher on the hypocrisy of BlackRock’s ‘sustainability’ initiative: Blackrock—the largest asset manager in the world—has announced in the form of a public letter from its CEO Larry Fink to corporate managements that henceforth “Sustainability [will serve] as Blackrock’s New Standard for Investing.” It is unsurprising that nowhere in the various materials issued by Blackrock in support of…