Last October, NOAA, what Francis Menton calls our national weather bureaucracy, came out with the prediction as to the severity of the upcoming winter. According to Eric Niler at Wired, seasonal predictions rely on models using the same theories of “heat trapping” greenhouse gases as are used for the longer-term models. What was the prediction? […]
Why Every U.S. Citizen Should Be Thanking Donald Trump
Originally posted June 6, 2017. Below are three comparisons showing why the United States’ commitment to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025, which is only 8 years away, is such a bad deal for the U.S., writes Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. China—With 1.3 billion people and emissions already about […]
The G20 Climate Thing—a Total Farce
Originally posted July 11, 2017. Want to know what some of the major countries in the world are up to as part of the Paris Agreement? Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian has done the legwork for you. Just Google the letters “INDC” (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution) and the name of a country to see […]
A Heck of a Lot of Wind in Green Energy
Most of us are not aware that supposedly carbon-free energy sources–those that are acceptable to environmentalists–don’t work, writes Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian. Acceptable to environmentalists are wind and solar. Not acceptable–nuclear and hydro. Even worse, wind and solar are not even carbon-free, because it takes large amounts of carbon-based energy to make the […]
Natural Disasters or Imprudent, Shortsighted Human Decisions?
Amongst our most influential citizens, especially those living in the Boston-New York-Washington corridor, there is one thing they have in common: a house in Florida, writes Holman Jenkins, Jr. in the WSJ. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and the now threatening Hurricane Maria, here is Mr. Jenkins on the lack of proper […]
Hypocrisy Looms Large with Government Subsidy-Farming
Climate change is real, announces the headline in the Washington Post, before it moves on to explain how disappointed some industry tycoons are in Trump’s exiting the Paris Agreement. In response [to President Trump’s announcement], one corporate titan after another tweeted their disappointment at the announcement, companies issued statements committing to action on climate change […]
The Swamp Runneth over with Unratified Treaties
Why did President Trump reject the Paris Agreement? The Paris Agreement is a treaty, which was “never even submitted to the Senate, much less approved by the two-thirds supermajority that is supposed to protect us from bad deals,” explains Andrew C. McCarthy in NRO. Furthermore, writes Mr. McCarthy, “the swamp runneth over with signed but […]
Au Revoir Paris, Bonjour America
Before the likes of billionaires Tom Steyer and Elon Musk, media darlings Tom Brokaw and Paul Krugman, celebrities Bette Midler and Leo DiCaprio get too lathered up about President Trump’s cancelling of the Paris Agreement, they might want to read what Patrick J. Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the […]
Trump Admin Slashes Climate Change Pages from EPA Website
In Reuters, Valerie Volcovici reports that President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered the EPA to cut a section on climate change from its website. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly […]
Can Emerging Backlash Challenge Trump’s New Pick for EPA?
Originally posted December 9, 2016. Donald Trump has signaled that he will not bow to political correctness when it comes to his cabinet appointments. An emerging backlash from the left seeks to challenge Trump’s nominee for the head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, who currently serves as the Attorney General of Oklahoma. Progressives are anxious […]
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