A new explanation for warming: fossil fuel drilling heats the Earth from below the surface. California bill would force insurance companies to continue to insure in wildfire-prone areas. Steve Milloy: “Fee-and-dividend” carbon tax is just virtue-signaling by elites.
Category: The Environmental Blog
Is Plastic Good for the Environment?
John Tierney writing in the Wall Street Journal: Evidence mounts that banning plastic is both a waste of money and harmful to the environment. If you want to protect dolphins and sea turtles, you should take special care to place your plastic in the trash, not the recycling bin. And if you’re worried about…
Wednesday’s Links
Planners claim: We’ll have to move cities, retrofit old ones, and build new ones to cope with climate change. ‘Europe’s anti-science plague descends on Africa.’ H-T Benny Peiser. How much did CFCs (ozone-depleting substances that have been banned for years) contribute to global warming?
Tuesday’s Links
California new solar-panel rule: A misguided effort at virtue-signaling? Michael Shellenberger: Why do environmentalists fight the best ways to reduce carbon emissions (nuclear and natural gas)? California wants more hunters—to pay for protecting public lands.
Will the Anti-Hunters Pay for Their Pleasure?
By Wallace Kaufman This is Part III of a three-part article. Part I is here; Part II is here. The anti-hunters, of course, have yet to put significant money in play. More wildlife and wildlife habitat have been preserved and restored by hunters than by anti-hunting environmentalists. (Environmentalists tend to focus on nearly extinct species…
Monday’s Links
Environmentalists’ latest climate solution: Dam the North Sea. One firm fights against plastic bans. BP says it will reach net zero in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Steve Milloy: How Republicans are trying to appease climate alarmists.