by Gordon J. Fulks
Real Clear Energy
“A gaggle of experts chosen by someone with political motives certainly has no monopoly on the truth. In fact, political motives usually guarantee that ‘the science’ is being so heavily misused as to be worthless,” according to Real Clear Energy.
“From Covid to Climate, Take Nobody’s Word for It — Including the ‘Experts’” Read Full Article »
by Robert Hefner
Real Clear Energy
“In Norway, wind farms are starting to be treated as a public health issue by community organizers seeking to block them. The Norwegian Helsepartiet (‘Health Party’), for example, was founded in 2016 in direct response to the societal and environmental issues posed by wind farms, with one of their explicit policies being ‘no wind farms,’” according to Real Clear Energy.
“Climate as a Public-Health Issue Could Just as Easily Backfire” Read Full Article »
by Jonathan Lesser
Real Clear Energy
“It’s true that damages caused by hurricanes and wildfires have increased. But the reasons are far from conclusive, and likely have far more to do with bureaucracy than with climate change. Regardless, the rhetoric from our political class should be exposed for what it is: a thin attempt to shift blame away from their own bureaucratic failures,” according to Real Clear Energy.
by Bjorn Lomborg
The Wall Street Journal
“The data show that humanity has overcome much larger threats over the past century. In 1900, if humanity had gotten rid of air pollution—mostly indoor pollution caused by smoky fuels like wood and dung—the benefit would have been equivalent to global gross domestic product rising 23%. To a young audience, that might look like an insufficient measure of well-being, but higher GDP means better health, lower mortality, greater access to education and in general a better standard of living. By 2050 the problem of air pollution will be mostly solved. And that’s only one of the many issues humanity has shorn down over the last 100 years, according to data 21 top economists and I gathered,” according to author Bjorn …
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by James Davey
Reuters
“A jump in gas prices has forced several domestic energy suppliers out of business and has shut fertiliser plants that also make CO2 as a by-product of their production process. The CO2 gas is used to stun animals before slaughter, in the vacuum packing of food products to extend their shelf life, and to put the fizz into beer, cider and soft drinks. CO2’s solid form is dry ice, which is used in food deliveries,” according to Reuters.
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by Josh Siegel
Washington Examiner
“‘The simple reality is you can’t achieve some of these ambitious, almost herculean, energy transition targets without imposing massive and abrupt increases in costs of energy,’ said Bob McNally, a former top energy official in the George W. Bush administration who now leads the research group Rapidan Energy. ‘How political leaders respond to the energy emergency in Europe this winter will offer some clues on whether they will be willing and able later this decade to accept massive transition costs,’ McNally told me,” according to the Washington Examiner.
“UN climate talks and European energy crisis juxtaposed” Read Full Article »
by Rupert Darwall
The Spectator
“As siblings, the two share characteristics, most obviously an inability to confront unwelcome facts. In Afghanistan, there was a large constituency led by the Pentagon invested in the mantra of proclaiming progress in the fight against the Taliban. Climate has its own industrial complex of NGOs, climate scientists, renewable energy lobbyists profiting from the energy transition, eager helpers in the media, and politicians posing as world saviors,” according to The Spectator.
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by Steve Milloy
Real Clear Energy
“‘Reflecting the severity of the moment, this editorial appears in health journals across the world. We are united in recognizing that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies will reverse our current trajectory,’ they wrote in their essay titled, ‘Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health.’ What could they be talking about? If only they knew,” according to Real Clear Energy.
by David Harsanyi
PJMedia
“This reality is probably difficult for a generation subjected to decades of fearmongering to accept, but climate anomalies are nothing new. When a freak snowstorm hit Texas earlier this year, the administration used it to push draconian policy ideas. But the Texas storm was no different than the rare 1973 blizzard that hit the South. It happens. And there’s nothing we can do about it,” according to PJMedia.
by Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk
The Hill
“The so-called clean electricity payment program, a central component of the party’s climate agenda, could be in jeopardy unless Democrats find a way to sell it to the key swing vote senator,” according to The Hill.
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Phys.org
“Researchers warned in a study published in the journal Nature this week that 89 percent of global coal reserves—and 95 percent of Australia’s share—must be left untouched. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday Australia’s energy exports were needed to power developing countries, and predicted technology would enable them to be burned ‘in a much more climate-friendly way’ in the future,” according to Phys.org
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by Sharon Udasin
The Hill
“Drought in California, coupled with population growth, is accelerating the need for energy-intensive water projects — driving up greenhouse gas emissions and thwarting the pace of statewide decarbonization efforts, a new study has found,” according to The Hill.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
by Jude Clemente
Real Clear Energy
“1. Oil obviously has no alternative. 2. Companies want to produce more with less jobs. 3. Higher-cost, less-reliable energy isn’t a climate solution. 4. The domestic benefits of U.S. climate policies should be questioned. 5. Renewables are ‘supplemental,’ not ‘alternative,‘” according to Real Clear Energy.
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