In recent months, Climate Change Weekly has extensively covered the twists and turns of the saga of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) efforts to bias the nation’s judiciary in climate lawsuits filed by dozens of cities and counties against fossil fuel producers for “climate damages” (here, here, here, and here, for
National Academy Climate Bias Saga Continues Learn More »
Two advocacy groups have called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withdraw all support for the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ), a United Nations initiative to reduce methane and other greenhouse gases from the dairy industry supply chain. Launched during Climate Week in September of 2021, P2DNZ counts as members the largest
Big Dairy’s Climate Agenda Puts Independent Farmers at Risk Learn More »
I’ve written in prior Climate Change Weekly posts about President Donald Trump’s moves to rein in the regulatory state, promote sound climate science, advance U.S. energy dominance, and claw-back national sovereignty. It is one thing when I, a long-term advocate for such moves, discuss Trump’s actions, describing them in guardedly glowing terms. It’s another thing entirely when radical environmental activists and climate
Climate Panickers Bemoan Realists’ Inspired Policy Wins Learn More »
For more than a decade, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5), the high-emissions climate-model scenario, dominated climate research and policy, treated as the “business-as-usual” pathway. It projected global temperatures to rise by 4.3℃ or more by 2100. Many climate researchers were on the record noting from the outset that RCP8.5 was “implausible” and shouldn’t be
They Knew: Impossible Climate Model Scenario Widely Used, Despite Known Flaws Learn More »
It’s hurricane season again, and a few things about it are as certain as death and taxes. First, some named storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones will form somewhere, sometime, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Second, one or more of those storms will cause some degree of damage in some country or another. Third,
It’s Hurricane Season, and Nothing Is New Learn More »
In comparison with traditional electric power generating sources, such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric, solar power has a tremendous land footprint per amount of electricity generated. In general, as discussed in “Energy at a Glance: Solar Power” and “Affordable, Reliable, and Clean: An Objective Scorecard to Assess Competing Energy Sources,” research shows solar power
Reliable Solar Has Larger Land Footprint Than Previously Thought Learn More »
A friend and former colleague of mine, the late Jay Lehr, Ph.D., longtime science director at The Heartland Institute, used to say with regard to environmental lawsuits, “If the law is on your side, pound the law; if the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if neither are on your side, pound the
Congress, States Probe Attempts to Mislead Judges on Climate Change Learn More »
New research published in the journal Nature confirms what The Heartland Institute and our allies in the free-market environmental community have long argued: wind and solar power have low power density and thus impose huge environmental footprints. The new study acknowledges the environmental footprint of wind and solar is even larger than industry promoters have admitted. As
Study: Net Zero Wind and Solar Buildout Needs Huge Amount of Land Learn More »
I was honored a couple of weeks ago to be invited by Charlie Du, president of Columbia University Global Dialogue and founder of the World Salon series and website, to participate as a panelist on a World Salon Fireside Talk Series livestream discussion titled “Policy to Plate: Climate-Smart Solutions for Agriculture.” The panel consisted of
Agriculture and Climate Change Learn More »
A colleague of mine, Chris Talgo, recently penned an op-ed titled “Windmills and Solar Panels Aren’t Ready for Prime Time,” a title similar to my own from CCW 462, “Green Technologies Are Dangerous, Not Ready for Prime Time.” Both articles, and others I have written periodically across the past couple of decades, make the point
Recent Headlines Prove Wind, Solar Still Aren’t Ready for Prime Time Learn More »
