Myron Ebell on a left-wing movie that chastises those who profit from green energy: “Planet of the Humans,” the new documentary film from director Jeff Gibbs and executive producer Michael Moore, contains a stunning evisceration of so-called green energy and the people profiting from it. It was released on April 21st for free viewing on YouTube and as of the afternoon of Friday,…
Category: The Environmental Blog
Here’s Why There’s No Megadrought
Here’s Sterling Burnett on the “megadrought”: The establishment media is hyping a new paper claiming climate change is contributing to a megadrought throughout the western United States. Federal government data compiled by the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), however, show the claim is false. Reporting on the study, published in the journal Science,…
An Earth Day Lesson . . . Plastic Bags Are Back . . . The First Human-caused Megadrought?
Earth Day taught us that we are interdependent. From John Baden. Coronavirus brings back plastic bags. From Sterling Burnett. Eco-reality strikes back on Earth Day. From Steve Milloy. The first human-caused megadrought? Anthony Watt says that claim is nonsense.
Coronavirus Models and Climate Change Models Have Limits
Coronavirus models and climate change models both have their deficiencies. Here are excerpts from Ken Haapala’s latest thoughts on the topic, from the SEPP website (Science and Environmental Policy Project): In the midst of the lock-down of much of the U.S. public and the collapsing economy; some Americans are learning a few important lessons….
A Laffer Curve for Pollution?
Most of us naturally assume that some pollution is the price we must pay for economic progress. That may be true, but studies show that more pollution is bad for health, IQ, productivity and employment. That means that pollution reduces human capital. There may be a “Laffer Curve” for pollution, just as there is for…
New Links: Fuel Efficiency Standards, Nondisposable Waste, Bugs That Eat Plastic…
Life-saving benefits from less rigid fuel efficiency standards. ‘Bugs that eat plastic.’ NASA still says 97 percent of climate scientists accept human-caused warming; rejects request for modification.