Originally posted December 3, 2015. So 40,000 people—each one on the taxpayer dime—are meeting in Paris to (a) save the planet, and (b) to suppress any dissent to the orthodoxy of climate change. “And yet all of them somehow fly to Paris on planes burning massive amounts of fossil fuel, not noticing any contradiction between […]
Large-Format Battery Technology an Answer
Catrina Rorke explains to The American Conservative readers the promising prospects for Green Growth: Prices for photovoltaic solar, wind, and battery-stored power are coming down quickly, reflecting advances in manufacturing, materials, and installation. If the experience of smaller lithium-ion batteries is any example, prices for large-format battery technology may drop by an order of magnitude […]
The Science of Intimidation
In 2006, Al Gore announced that unless “drastic measures” were taken to reduce greenhouse gasses, the earth in 10 years would reach “a point of no return,” in which notably the Arctic Ocean would be largely free of sea ice. Guess what? The ice is still there, writes Richard W. Rahn in The Washington Times. […]
A Brown Shirt Witch Hunt
In the high-stakes politics of climate change, science seldom fares well, writes Holman W. Jenkins in the WSJ. “… it’s bizarre to watch green campaigners attack anybody who questions the thinly based science that keeps down our best carbon-free energy choice.” From the editors at NRO on the fraud case involving Exxon: On March 29, […]
Deliberate Obfuscation at the EPA
Last August, the EPA’s hazmat team breached a retaining wall at an abandoned Gold Rush-era mine near Durango, Colorado. With that breach, three million gallons of toxic sludge flowed into a creek that is a tributary of the Animas River. “New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean about what happened,” writes the WSJ. The […]
Hot Air and Paris’ Huge Carbon Footprint
Despite the grandiose claims coming out of Paris, the political elites who want more control over the private economy in the U.S. and around the world are the last people on earth to save the planet, writes the WSJ. … nothing coming out of a gaggle of governments and the United Nations will save it. […]
Bogus Studies and Climate Dystopia
There is something incongruous, if not ironic, about the large number of world leaders meeting in Paris to fight the notional enemy of climate change in a city that was just recently mortally wounded again by a real enemy—Islamic terrorists. The dominant liberal project of the 21st century endeavors “to persuade people that climate change […]
No Investigation? No Accountability?
In early August, the EPA accidentally released over three million gallons of toxic waste water into one of America’s most scenic river systems—a tributary of the Animas River near Durango, Colorado. The EPA knew for over a year the risk involved in the cleanup, yet not one EPA employee is going to face criminal charges. […]
The EPA Debacle
After the catastrophic accident that allowed millions of gallons of toxic wastewater to befoul the Animas River in Colorado, the serious question is why was the Environmental Protection Agency managing this waste in the first place? Rhett Larson, associate professor of law at Arizona State University, writes in the WSJ that mining companies that have […]
“Superfund Blitzkrieg”
The Wall Street Journal writes in Notable & Quotable: From a letter to the editor in the Silverton (Colo.) Standard published July 30 regarding an Environmental Protection Agency plan to plug a leaking mine in the area; on Aug. 5 the EPA, trying to stop a leak at the nearby Gold King mine, accidentally released […]
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