My cousin in California is excited about buying a Tesla. “It is environmentally friendly” he says. Maybe you agree. My friends in India, too, are excited about buying electric cars. They think doing so will help them prevent global warming. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Almost every environmental policy now makes reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the only way to “go green.” Advocates have even persuaded school children to strike against fossil fuels. But as a climate … [Read more...]
The Pop Culture Transition from Population Growth to Global Warming
For many of us Millennials, especially in densely populated developing countries like India and China, it was a no-brainer. Population growth was the world’s biggest problem. At least, so we learned in our schools. But as we grew into our 20s, the focus of the world turned more toward climate change. Was population growth really a problem? Is it still? Why are we now so obsessed with climate change instead? There are always two kinds of environmentalists: those who genuinely care for … [Read more...]
Is Brazil’s Climate Stance Justified?
The 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change was scheduled to take place in Brazil this year. Not anymore. Brazil pulled out. Brazil once offered to host this year’s Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week. It just withdrew the offer. Brazil has also declined an invitation to attend the on-going UNDP-sponsored Good Growth Conference in Lima, Peru. And recently President Jair Bolsonaro fired Alfredo Sirkis from his position at the top of … [Read more...]
Some Tricks Climate Alarmists Play
When empirical data show so clearly that computer climate models grossly exaggerate the warming effect of carbon dioxide, how do climate alarmists maintain public alarm? Tricks. Among the more famous was “Mike’s Nature trick.” University of East Anglia climate scientist Phil Jones wrote that he had used “Mike’s Nature trick” of “adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie [sic] from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] for Keith's to hide the decline" [emphasis added]. The … [Read more...]
The Global Nuclear Push: Pathway to a Bright and Secure Energy Future
I believe the future of energy is nuclear. Many others do, too. Despite the unfounded fears surrounding their safety, almost all major economies in the world have embraced nuclear technology with both arms. Here is a look at the current nuclear energy scenario and recent developments that offer a hope of a bright and secure energy future. Nuclear Energy: Standing Tall and Strong In 2017, nuclear plants supplied 2,487 Terra Watt-hours (TWh) of electricity, constituting nearly 11 … [Read more...]
Whose Business Is It Anyway? When I Got Climate-Bullied on Twitter
The hate level on Twitter can far exceed any other on social media. But many sane, civilized, intelligent people on Twitter continue to make our world a better place. They share ideas and communicate life-altering, life-saving information to the larger public. Twitter also provides a platform to engage with peers. As a climate researcher, I love the fact that Twitter allows me to connect with other climate scientists. Climate Alarmists One such person is Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, a … [Read more...]
Climate Madness Might Cost Elections: Lessons from the Canadian Carbon Tax Fiasco
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, Manitoba, and New Brunswick, none of which has its own carbon tax, which is why the federal tax went into effect in them. Even provinces like Alberta, … [Read more...]
Beyond Partisan Ideology and Big-Oil Interests: Why Climate Skepticism Thrives
It is easy to associate climate skepticism with the Republican Party and climate alarmism with the Democratic Party. It’s also easy to brand skeptics as beneficiaries of big oil and proponents of unfettered capitalism and alarmists as in the pocket of big wind and solar and boosters of socialist central planning. But attitudes about climate change transcend political ideologies, and they should. Here are a few reasons why I, as a climate scientist, am a skeptic. 1. Will the Real Climate … [Read more...]
Wind and Solar Energy—Never Meant to Work?
What would you think if someone told you that one of the most important early champions of wind power touted it precisely because he thought it couldn't work for advanced, industrialized societies? "Aww, can't be true"? Well, it can be, and it is. In "The Question Concerning Technology" (1954), Martin Heidegger---one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers, argued that "modern technology ... puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy which can be … [Read more...]
How the Wind Industry Gains by Losing
So you want to make a profit by selling what you produce. What do you do? Sell it for more than it costs you. But that's so old fashioned! Nowadays, you just get into the wind industry. You find state or local policymakers eager to virtue signal by supporting your renewable-, zero-carbon energy tech. And you get them to sign a contract that guarantees you get positive payment for your product even when its market price is negative. Rate- and taxpayers in Georgetown, TX, a small town … [Read more...]
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