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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… until the other comes and examines him.

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Has the climate-change controversy reached a milestone? That depends in part on whether President Donald Trump follows through with his desire to appoint a President’s Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) under the National Security Council (NSC). The PCCS would be tasked with assessing the pros and cons of various perspectives on climate change—subjecting them to

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How Do Hard Data and Computer Climate Models’ Dire Predictions Compare?

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman explained “the key to science” this way: In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result

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A Humorous and Devastating Critique of Green Economics

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Just a brief note to recommend the reading of Tim Worstall’s Chasing Rainbows: How the Green Agenda Defeats Its Aims. For fullest enjoyment, understand from the start that you must imagine its whole text being said aloud by an Englishman in a tone riddled with sarcasm. Think of Fawlty Towers or some such. Worstall, a Fellow of

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Keeping People in the Dark is Easy—Just Keep Them in the Dark

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It’s long been clear that electricity, by putting enormous power at the fingertips of billions of ordinary people, has been crucial to their conquest of poverty. Just now, though, a short article by energy journalist Robert Bryce turned a new light on for me: Electricity is crucial to keeping people free, too. Why? Because information

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What Do You Get When You Mix Socialism with Pursuit of Profits from Renewable Energy?

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The latest from the climate alarmism’s anti-capitalism department: Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (parent of the 2015 Paris climate agreement) and now a leader in “Mission 2020,” an international cooperative effort to get global carbon dioxide emissions on a downward trend by 2020, is upset with

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