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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Abandoning Fossil Fuels Without a Replacement Helps China

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Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components. Renewables offer NO energy independence, as America has never imported electricity from foreign countries. Wind and solar just generate intermittent electricity.  Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Further, the raw materials that are essential for

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Countering the World’s Rigged Conversation about Energy and Climate

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Today’s conversation about energy and climate is “rigged” with bad thinking methods, misleading terms, false assumptions, and anti-human values—all of which serve to promote deadly policies. Our rigged conversation about energy and climate Just as legal systems can be rigged, so can cultural conversations We are all familiar with the idea of a legal system that

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U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy: Stuck on Stupid!

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The gullibility of the human species is a sight to behold. Take these examples, from a list of superstitions. According to Joshua Partlow, Washington Post Mexico bureau chief, putting two mirrors in front of each other opens a threshold for the devil. In Lithuania, it is forbidden to whistle indoors, because the noise is believed to summon demons.

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Three Cheers for Refrigeration—and Four, Once Everyone Has It

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The following is a guest article by Ben Lieberman. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash It is difficult to overstate the benefits of refrigeration. Even more than its technological sibling air conditioning, refrigeration has dramatically improved public health and the quality of life wherever it has become widespread. And unlike air conditioning, the utility of which is questioned

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New Claims of Record-Setting Temperatures Are Nothing but Hot Air

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Recently headlines in mainstream media such as the BBC, CNN, Forbes, and The Washington Post blared the consistent message that July 4, 2023 was the hottest day in history, or at least in the past 125,000 years. The headlines and stories show just how gullible the media is, or alternatively, that they are so wedded

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The Urban Heat Island Effect in GHCN Station Temperatures: Urban Locations Show Large Spurious Warming Effects

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It has been a while since I have posted progress on our DOE-funded research into the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in the GHCN station temperatures used to monitor land-based global warming. It should be remembered that everything I post on this subject is (as is usually the case) a work in progress. What I

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Education Game-Changer

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Last week, for the first time, a major state formally rebuked one of the core elements of the Left’s scheme to undermine our education system (see below). If other states are paying attention, this could be the beginning of an extraordinarily significant awakening and rejection of the stranglehold that the Left now has on our K-12

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