Why “Green Energy” Isn’t “Clean Energy”—or a Good Substitute for Fossil Fuels

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Remember President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan”? It aimed to reduce global warming (aka climate change) by cutting American emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation. It never got very far, and the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) killed it. But now President Biden has his own version. He announced his “Energy Efficiency and Clean […]

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The Tide-Theory of Climate Change

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Guest article by Joakim Book I was watching the tide today and thought of climate change.  Yes, they are different phenomena; the tide is predictable, well-known, and reverses itself like clockwork roughly every six hours, whereas climate change is unpredictable, uncertain, and (still) irreversible. Nevertheless, it serves as a relevant illustration of what we are

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Pennsylvania Republican Senators Take a Stand for Constitutional Order Against Green Agenda

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Twenty-eight Republican members of the Pennsylvania senate signed a letter April 21 of which Benjamin Franklin would be proud. Protesting Governor Tom Wolf’s frequent use of executive orders to bypass the state legislature, which Republicans dominate, and impose his climate-change agenda on an otherwise unwilling state, hey gave him an ultimatum: Stop it, or we’ll

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California Governor and Mayor of Los Angeles make a great homeless team

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Governor Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies help the state achieve some of the highest costs for electricity and fuel, perpetuating energy poverty, and Mayor Garcetti spends billions solving the homeless problem. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s dysfunctional energy policies have led to the more expensive electricity and fuels in the state and laid bare the realities of

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China’s strange endorsement of ‘net zero’

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The Chinese path to supposed decarbonization starts with a lot more coal You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” schmoozed United Nations royalty last September with his unexpected pledge that his country aims “to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (Net Zero) before 2060.” Xi

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Indiana Economists Endorse “Carbon Tax”—But Should They?

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Recently fifty Indiana economists issued a public letter to their state’s legislature endorsing a “carbon tax” as an economically wise way to curb global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The fundamental premise of taxing CO2 emissions is that they cause more harm than good (and thus are what economists call a “negative externality”—a cost

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Sensible, sustainable nuclear power for Africa

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Economic, environmental and practical reasons make nuclear power Africa’s best option Article also by Knox Msebenzi. Centuries ago European countries were scrambling to take control of large pieces of Africa, to increase their wealth and colonial prestige. They brought their sophisticated, advanced ideas and methods to Africa. This changed the developmental direction of African countries,

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How to Scare and Deceive without Lying: JPL Cries Wolf about Polar Glacial Melt

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Yesterday NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published “The Anatomy of Glacial Ice Loss.” For the most part it’s an interesting, though not particularly revolutionary, discussion of the various forces that add to and subtract from glacial ice. Nothing wrong with that. But its authors took the opportunity to insert a poison pill, a little bit of

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