BOOK REVIEW: ‘Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response’

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What was once tagged the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer” is now deemed “global boiling” by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. With such hyperbole, it looks like the United Nations is tagging another aphorism: “Make hay while the sun is shining.” The hot summer weather has increased the hysteria surrounding the global warming hypothesis to […]

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Green Posturing: Grandstanding or Goofball?

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Two years ago, industrial ecology guru Roland Geyer, writing in The Guardian, made his case for an immediate ban on fossil fuels. His reason? “Time is running out to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and avoid catastrophic climate change.” Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Geyer assesses pollution prevention strategies based on reuse, recycling, and

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An Insider’s Prudent Advice to America’s Electric Power Industry

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When in June of this year the Cornwall Alliance offered to send Robert Bryce’s book A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations free as our thanks when people donated, one donor, Thomas J. Myers, responded with a note we just had to share. He writes from experience within the electric power industry.

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Hot Summer Due to Many Factors—Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Not One of Them

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Let’s state the obvious and get it out of the way. It’s hot out there. Yeah, it’s summer, and summer is typically hot, but it has, as a matter of fact, been “hotter than [usual in] July” (hat tip to Stevie Wonder) across much of the globe. Hundreds, if not

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Bloomberg Finances and Coopts State Attorneys General

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash When you’ve built a financial information and media empire and become the world’s seventh richest person, you get to say dumb things, like suggesting that farming is easy: “You dig a hole, put a seed in, put dirt on top, add water – and up comes the corn.” Being ultra-wealthy also shields

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Deadly Hawaii Fires Are Result of Political and Policy Failures—Not Climate Change

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Hawaii has suffered through one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent American history. Predictably, the left-wing political and media narrative-making machine has sought to turn the Hawaii fires into another lesson about climate change. The facts draw a drastically different picture. The extent of the damage on the

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Time to Cool Climate Panic Over Summer Heat

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There is some hysteria over recent declarations of worldwide, record-breaking heat based on woefully limited climate data. Perspective is badly needed to calm the air. Official proclamations cannot change the climate or alter the state of the atmosphere, but they can lead to undue panic. The assertion that the exceptionally voluminous quantity of air that

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Jurassic Mammoths?

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The following is an excerpt from an article by Heather Frank. Shaggy-coated and large-tusked, woolly mammoths once roamed the cold tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths became extinct thousands of years ago, but now Colossal, a biosciences and genetics company, wants to bring these pachyderms back to life. Using cutting-edge genetic engineering technology,

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The Disastrous Potential of The EPA’s Proposed Rule for Model Year 2027

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Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Rule on “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” Summary The benefit/cost analysis published by the Environmental Protection Agency in its proposed rule “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” is fatally flawed; accordingly, the proposed

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