The following is a guest article by Chris Martz.To Senator Sanders:Hi there Colonel Sanders. Do you like facts? I hope you do, because you’re about to be sacked with some. Here we go. . . First, climate change does not cause forest fires. That isn’t how this works. Fires require an ignition source and fuel. Ignition sources may be natural (e.g., lightning) or it can be man-made (e.g., by accident from improperly disposed cigarette butts, improperly discarded pellet / wood … [Read more...]
Gases from Asthma Inhalers Cause Negligible Warming
The following is a guest article by Frits Byron Soepyan. If you prefer to read this document as a Word file, one is attached. Abstract Various educational and medical institutions, as well as policymakers, have expressed concerns regarding the use of metered-dose inhalers to prevent or treat shortness of breath associated with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as these inhalers use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are greenhouse gases, as propellants. In response, … [Read more...]
Assigning Responsibility for the Tragic Los Angeles Fires
First understand Southern California is naturally dry. Its Mediterranean climate means it rarely rains in the summer and has a limited winter rainy season. Three deserts in the region attest to its dry climate. As a result, the vegetation around Los Angeles primarily consists of one-hour fuels that can dry in as little as 60 minutes, including dead grasses, leaves and pine needles, and 10-hour fuels that include dead small branches, 1/4 inch to 1 inch in diameter. Able to retain moisture … [Read more...]
Illinois Electricity: Subsidies, Mandates, Inflation
“If Illinois wants an affordable and reliable grid, the answer is to end subsidies and mandates for all forms of generation. And to eliminate regulations that are taking the most affordable and reliable fuels out of the generation mix. Nothing else will work.”Electricity prices are climbing in Illinois. As is the public’s concern about them. To address this, Governor JB Pritzker and governors from four other states recently asked the PJM Interconnection to do something about the … [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...]
Why California Wildfires are NOT Climate Driven: A Historical and Meteorological Perspective
The tragic wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles have reignited the predictable chorus blaming climate change for natural disasters. As articles from outlets like Axios, Newsweek, and the BBC demonstrate, there’s a growing tendency to tie every fire, flood, or storm to climate change. However, a closer look at history, meteorology, and land management reveals that these claims are often oversimplified by low-information journalists, and fail to address more immediate, … [Read more...]
And Then There Were NONE! JPMorgan becomes last of the Big-6 U.S. banks to quit Net-Zero Banking Alliance
The following is a guest article by Simon Jessop.LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – JPMorgan (JPM.N), opens new tab said on Tuesday it was leaving the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, the latest U.S. lender to quit the sector’s biggest climate coalition amid rising U.S. political pressure.The move means the six biggest banks in the world’s largest economy – Goldman Sachs (GS.N), opens new tab, Wells Fargo (WFC.N), opens new tab, Citi (C.N), opens new tab, Bank of America (BAC.N), … [Read more...]
The Senate should free US from the Paris Climate Agreement
The following is a guest article by Bonner Cohen.President-elect Trump’s pledge to renew his quest for American global energy dominance promises to shake up the geopolitical landscape while revitalizing the U.S. economy.There are many pathways leading to this goal, including tossing Biden-era regulations specifically designed to restrict the nation’s production of fossil fuels, revisiting the Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA that allowed the agency to regulate CO2 as … [Read more...]
Manufacturing Consensus on Climate Change
Modern political movements have not infrequently laid claim to being based in science, from immigration restriction and eugenics (in the U.S. after WWI), to antisemitism and race ideology (in Hitler’s Germany), to Communism and Lysenkoism (under Stalin). Each of these falsely invoked a scientific consensus that convinced highly educated citizens, who were nonetheless ignorant of science, to set aside the anxieties associated with their ignorance. Since all scientists supposedly agreed, there was … [Read more...]
More Road Crashes Ahead in Britain’s Dim Future
The following is a guest article by Alexander Gonzales and Austin Gae.Of all the changes that could be made in the name of fighting climate change, it’s hard to imagine something more hazardous than making streets darker at night. Yet that’s exactly what the U.K. is about to do.Although only one-quarter of travel by car occurs between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m., 40% of crashes with fatal or serious injuries occur in this time frame, according to Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of … [Read more...]
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