Claiming no privileged information, this writer is enormously optimistic that incoming Trump pick to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, will terminate funding of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in concert with DOGE waste-cutting, space program redirection, and pro-drilling energy priorities.The Wall Street Journal purports to have a clearer inside picture “based upon interviews with nearly three dozen people close to Elon Musk, the Trump administration, NASA, … [Read more...]
Costs of Climate Alarmism Are Ones We Can’t Afford
As previously discussed in my March 20 column, following three decades of cooling from the mid-1940s to late '70s that prominent scientists and media sources warned was a terrifying harbinger of the next Ice Age, a mere decade of warming temperatures later became trumpeted by some of those same experts as a reverse threat, one dramatized by then-Sen. Al Gore during his theatrically staged 1988 U.S. Senate hearings on the matter.For example, a 1978 New York Times headline had urgently warned that … [Read more...]
Climate Agendas and Alarmism Reek of Activism, Flawed Science, and Corporate Rent Seeking
Although a favorite attack on those — including me — who challenge alarmist predictions of global warming doom is to brand them as "climate change deniers," no one I know has ever denied that climate changes and has done so for billions of years.On the other hand, I’m also unaware of any respected climate science organization that claims any ability to confidently predict how much it will change in the future, whether warmer or cooler, much less that any disaster is imminent.Take, for example, … [Read more...]
So Much for an ‘Orderly Transition’ — Biden Bans Oil, Gas Drilling
So what happened to that goodwill promise President Joe Biden made in the White House Rose Garden on Nov. 7 to do everything he can to support an orderly transition to the upcoming Trump administration?Calling on people to bring down the temperature after the heat of the presidential campaign, he said, “We accept the choice the country made. I’ve said many times, you can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree.”The gap here between generous … [Read more...]
Left’s Climate and EV Craze Couldn’t Make China Happier
We can safely bet that no one is more gleeful about America’s leadership vacuum than President Xi Jinping, of China.Why?The possibility of a Harris-Walz administration continuing in the rutted green energy tracks of the of the former Biden-Harris White House, while embracing the trading away of American energy independence.A scenario for reliance upon imported rare earth minerals needed for transitioning away from petroleum fueled cars to electric vehicles (EVs).China’s Communist Party (CCP) … [Read more...]
Power Outages Bring Hurricane of EV Buyers’ Remorse
Hurricane Beryl reminded millions of us Houstonians how lucky we are to have reliable petroleum-fueled cars when power is interrupted.As it happened, my wife, Nancy, and I had our return flight canceled from a conference we attended in El Paso, Texas, on the day before the storm hit.Accordingly, we drove a rental car across hundreds of miles of very hot desert sparsely populated with distant small towns and no apparent charging stations for unfortunate EVs.The terrible thought of being stranded … [Read more...]
EV’s Amount to a Gov’t Wealth Transfer You Pay For
Plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) are great so long as generous taxpayers can afford to buy them for us and we don’t plan long winter trips to visit wayward brother Bubba who barely eeks out enough poultry chicken feed to sell inflationary $11 sandwiches to other country rubes at his local bar and grill.According to an October 2023 Texas Public Policy Foundation report, "Overcharged Expectations: Unmasking True Costs of Electric Vehicles," as much as $48,000 of the real cost of an … [Read more...]
How Green Energy, EVs Actually Endanger America
This article draws upon narratives and information in the author’s book Cyberwarfare: Targeting America, Our Infrastructure, and Our Future, Stairway Press, 2020.Consider some inescapable self-inflicted scenarios from hell that government “experts” never warned you about regarding utopian visions of carbon-free vehicles powered by friendly breezes and sunbeams.So, imagine it’s one of those warm, beautiful days when the first news breaks about a big hurricane or tropical storm heading your … [Read more...]
Climate Agenda Makes Vital CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant
To get some sense of powerful political agenda influences on global climate and environmental policies, it's instructive to revisit the acid rain hysteria of the late 1960s, which led quite directly to the demonization of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a "climate pollutant."Photo: Creative Commons under UnsplashThis second manufactured scare continues today, thanks to active assistance from "experts" who should — many probably do — know better.Both agendas have involved the same sorts of … [Read more...]
Bad Climate Data Brings Wrong Conclusions
Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashTwo new internationally peer-reviewed studies published in major scientific journals have documented misleading Northern Hemisphere temperature data and attribution analyses indicating inadequate considerations of Urban Heat Island (UHI) influences on climate records and dominant influences of the sun in producing warming and cooling changes.Published in August by the journal Climate, the first of these studies concludes that global warming influences … [Read more...]
