Last week, numerous media outlets reported that Germany will extend the lives of three of its nuclear power plants. The move to keep the reactors online, which was opposed by the country’s Green Party, showed that German politicians are recognizing the need to keep reliable generation plants online to assure the country has enough electricity […]
President Joe Biden’s plans for offshore industrial wind facilities lining the nation’s coasts have more than a few hurdles to clear before they can become reality. As part of his plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, Biden has initiated efforts to build 30,000 megawatts of traditional offshore
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Editor’s note: I am delighted to read economist Donald Boudreaux’s high praise of the late Julian Simon in the article below. I read Simon’s The Economics of Population Growth and The Ultimate Resource, plus The Resourceful Earth, which he co-edited with Herman Kahn, as part of research for my book Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and
Every year, the annual UN climate conference heralds two weeks of intergovernmental pantomime. Without fail, we are told that time is running out, that it’s one minute to midnight, and that it’s the last chance to save the world from doomsday. There is an uncanny sense of déjà vu while global CO2 emissions continue to
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A relatively new global dataset of urbanization changes over the 40-year period 1975-2014 based upon Landsat data is used to determine the average effect urbanization has had on surface temperatures. A method is presented to compute the magnitude of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect on temperatures using the example of summertime 09 UTC (early morning) Integrated
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“Green” policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile UN scheme claiming to improve the climate of the world. All green energy degrades its environment. Take wind power. Wind turbines steal energy from the atmosphere and must affect local weather. Turbines are always placed on the highest
This article was written by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Utopian solutions for saving the planet are doomed to failure – and worse. We must wake up before it is too late This winter, millions of British citizens, including children, will be tipped, or dumped, into energy poverty severe enough to risk permanent damage to their
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This is a guest article by Viv Forbes. There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better and our worldwide media revels in disaster reporting, bringing tearfully tragic scenes into every living room, every
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We should mourn every death from any natural disaster. We should feel compassion not only for those who have died but also for their family and friends, who mourn their loss. Assuming that the average American has about 15 living close relatives and about 200 friends, the number of people who have lost family or
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