Climate Change

by John Cochrane
National Review

“Climate policy is ultimately an economic question. How much does climate change hurt? How much do various policy ideas actually help, and what do they cost? You don’t have to argue with one line of the IPCC scientific reports to disagree with climate policy that doesn’t make economic sense,” according to National Review.

“Climate Policy Should Pay More Attention to Climate Economics” Read Full Article »

by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

“Medical journals are supposed to be forums for doctors to publish research and debate ideas. But like traditional media outlets, many are finding it harder to control their political bias. Now some 200 journal editors are showing their political hand on climate change in an apocalyptic and misleading joint editorial this week that could have been ghost-written by Greta Thunberg,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“Doctors Join the Climate Lobby” Read Full Article »

by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
The Wall Street Journal

“After 41 years of promoting a fuzzy and unsatisfying estimate of how much warming might result from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, the world’s climate science arbiter has finally offered the first real improvement in the history of modern climate science,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“Media Can’t Handle the Climate Truth” Read Full Article »

by Bjorn Lomborg
The Wall Street Journal

“Airplanes and satellites have dramatically increased the number of storms that scientists can spot at sea today, making the frequency of landfall hurricanes—which were reliably documented even in 1900—a better statistic than the total number of Atlantic hurricanes,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“Hurricane Ida Isn’t the Whole Story on Climate” Read Full Article »

by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

“It’s become popular for progressives to proclaim that climate change is the top threat to America’s national security. China’s Communist Party, by far the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, has taken note. This American delusion turns climate change into a major source of strategic leverage for Beijing,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“China Plays the Climate Card” Read Full Article »

by Stephanie Armour
The Wall Street Journal

“The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an office that will treat climate change as a public-health issue, designed to address what the White House says are health risks, including those that disproportionately affect poor and minority communities,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

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by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

“President Biden’s climate plans could soon be advancing through the administrative state, and the place to watch is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. This obscure outfit oversees America’s natural-gas pipelines and electricity markets, and Democrats are poised take control,” according to The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal.

“Biden’s Coming Climate Commission” Read Full Article »

by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

“The pictures of Hurricane Ida’s wreckage across Louisiana are grim, and the storm isn’t over. But the good news is that New Orleans appears to have weathered the tempest as well as could be expected thanks to its post-Katrina flood-protection investments. This is a reminder of how hardening infrastructure against unpredictable Mother Nature pays off,” according to The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal.

“Hurricane Ida’s Climate Resilience Lesson” Read Full Article »

by Kevin Mooney
The Daily Signal

“If an independent panel votes down proposed regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions in Pennsylvania, state lawmakers will have added leverage to prevent Gov. Tom Wolf from joining a multi-state initiative to address climate change,” according to The Daily Signal.

“Climate Regulations Reach Critical Turning Point in Pennsylvania” Read Full Article »

by Ted Nordhaus and Morgan D. Bazilian
The Wall Street Journal

“White House encourages oil production even as it warns of an existential crisis—giving it room to pursue needed practical solutions,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“Biden’s Welcome Hypocrisy on Climate Policy” Read Full Article »

by Peter Murphy
CFACT

“‘It’s getting late early,’ said that great 20th century philosopher, Yogi Berra.  For President Joseph Biden, this nugget from the New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher sticks like butterscotch as his policy blunders pile up and Americans increasingly feel their baleful effects. They include the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, menacing inflation, the human tidal wave over the open southern border, the new coronavirus outbreak, and his war on American energy,” according to CFACT.

“Biden climate change policy a ‘house of cards’” Read Full Article »

by Ryan Dezember
The Wall Street Journal

“Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has agreed to limit logging in the Lower Peninsula forest known as the “Big Wild” over the next four decades to create carbon offsets, a climate-change currency that companies use to compensate for emissions,” according to The Wall Street Journal.            OUR COMMENT: “In four decades the forest will turn into a brush-choked fire trap due to gross mismanagement.”

“Carbon Offset Deal Helps Michigan Cash In on Its Trees—by Not Cutting Them Down” Read Full Article »

by Joe Bastardi
CFACT

“First of all, what is hot and how do you use that to describe an entire planet. The warmth out dueled cool in such a way the temp was near the highest average on record but a large part of the input was where no one lives and where even with it above normal its dang cold. So headlines like that are like calling someone a climate denier, a deception. No one denies climate or that climate changes. And a global temp of .35C above the average is not a hell hole hothouse,” according to CFACT.

“Hottest July and month ever? Interesting” Read Full Article »

by H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Realism

“Climate alarmists have a problem presenting a consistent narrative on the dangers supposed human-caused climate change poses.  Instead, they follow Lewis Carroll’s irrepressible and violent Red Queen down the climate change rabbit hole, as when in response to Alice’s statement that ‘one can’t believe impossible things,’ she proudly proclaimed, ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice. When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,’” according to Climate Realism.

“Impossibly Inconsistent Climate Disaster Claims – an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Fantasy” Read Full Article »

by Stephen E. Koonin
The Wall Street Journal

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its latest report assessing the state of the climate and projecting its future. As usual, the media and politicians are exaggerating and distorting the evidence in the report. They lament an allegedly broken climate and proclaim, yet again, that we are facing the “last, best chance” to save the planet from a hellish future. In fact, things aren’t—and won’t be—anywhere near as dire,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“Climate Change Brings a Flood of Hyperbole” Read Full Article »

by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

The world awoke Monday after a logy August weekend to some alarming news: The climate Apocalypse is nigh, humanity is to blame, and unless the world remakes the global economy, havoc and death are inevitable. Repent of your sins all ye who enter here,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

“A Climate of Catastrophe” Read Full Article »

by Josh Siegel
Washington Examiner

“‘Instead of punishing U.S. imports, our European allies should work with us to advance a common approach in curbing overseas emissions, particularly those from China,’ wrote the Republicans, who also include Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Marco Rubio of Florida, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Tim Scott of South Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, and more,” according to the Washington Examiner.

“Republicans call on Biden to fend off EU’s ‘green protectionism’ carbon tariffs” Read Full Article »