Climate Madness Might Cost Elections: Lessons from the Canadian Carbon Tax Fiasco

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Politicians who favor policies to fight global warming that will impose big costs on consumers might take a lesson from what’s happening in Canada. The Trudeau government imposed a new carbon tax on its citizens effective April 1, 2019. (Yes, indeed, April Fool’s Day!) But it faces legal challenges in the provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan, […]

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Can Government Agencies Protect Us from Lying Scientists and Sycophantic Media?

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Newspapers, politicians and pressure groups have been moving smoothly for decades from one forecast apocalypse to another (nuclear power, acid rain, the ozone layer, mad cow disease, nanotechnology, genetically modified crops, the millennium bug…) without waiting to be proved right or wrong. So wrote Matt Ridley at the start of “Lying with science: a guide

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Beyond Partisan Ideology and Big-Oil Interests: Why Climate Skepticism Thrives

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It is easy to associate climate skepticism with the Republican Party and climate alarmism with the Democratic Party. It’s also easy to brand skeptics as beneficiaries of big oil and proponents of unfettered capitalism and alarmists as in the pocket of big wind and solar and boosters of socialist central planning. But attitudes about climate

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Wind and Solar Energy—Never Meant to Work?

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What would you think if someone told you that one of the most important early champions of wind power touted it precisely because he thought it couldn’t work for advanced, industrialized societies? “Aww, can’t be true”? Well, it can be, and it is. In “The Question Concerning Technology” (1954), Martin Heidegger—one of the twentieth century’s

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If Global Warming Won’t Kill Us, Will Ocean Acidification?

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As the stretch of years with no statistically significant global warming lengthens, environmentalists scratch their heads and ask, “Well, if we can’t scare people with global warming, what can we use?” And one of their stock answers has become, “Ocean acidification!” Acid, you know? Nasty stuff! That’s what very bad people throw in the faces

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Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan – Crippling costs for no benefit

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On April 29, 2019, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf released the latest version of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Climate Action Plan, announcing that Pennsylvania would join the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 24 states committed to implementing policies that support the Paris Agreement — an international collaboration from which the U.S. has withdrawn.

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Why Does Global Warming Happen at the Poles though Few People Live There?

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Some people wonder, “Why is global warming happening down/up there at the poles if it is because of man? There aren’t too many of people living there to cause any problem.” Good, common-sense question. But there’s actually a solid answer to it that suits both alarmists and skeptics about anthropogenic global warming. Local anthropogenic warming,

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