This is the first of a series of articles in which Cornwall Alliance board member and senior fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer explains the importance of distinguishing urban heat island effect from global temperature increase and of recognizing that by choosing to live in warmer regions of the world and in cities rather than in cooler and rural or wilderness areas, people demonstrate their preference for warmer temperatures. After years of dabbling in this issue, John Christy and I have finally … [Read more...]
Brewing Truth: Climate Doomsayers’ Cooked up Coffee Crisis
Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Every day, people across the world wake up to news about climate change affecting their lives. With the seeming randomness of a capricious roulette wheel, the doomsday clique of the climate world daily selects a fresh topic to sow seeds of anxiety among the populace. Popular things easily recognized — even cherished — by people are continually identified as being at risk of being damaged or destroyed by climate change. Coffee, for example, is a … [Read more...]
World Leaders Ignore Growing Safety Issues with Green Energy
The nations of the world are pursuing an unprecedented energy transition. Efforts are underway to force a shift from coal, oil, and natural gas to renewable energy sources by 2050. However, key elements of the proposed transition suffer from major safety issues. These are batteries for electric vehicles and electricity storage and hydrogen fuels for industry. Most energy sources involve safety risks. Gasoline cars can explode or burn, especially after collisions. Natural gas pipelines and … [Read more...]
Electric Truck Conundrums
The California GREEN movement, at any cost, is progressing at warp speed. Image: Creative Commons via Unsplash Earlier this year, California passed regulations that would turn the trucking industry upside down. Zero emission mandates would disrupt the industry, raise shipping costs, and put trucking companies out of business. A group including 19 states and several trucking organizations recently filed suit to block the California regulation. A little background on the EV Truck … [Read more...]
EV Buses—Investors and Taxpayers Beware
Some folks only learn through experience. That can be a tough process. Far better to learn from those who learned the hard way—and gain knowledge from observing others. Your state might want to keep that in mind when it comes to the electric-bus fad. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash In August, Delaware Governor John Carney (D) signed into law House Bill 10, which “establishes targets for annual purchase of electric school buses through fiscal year 2030.” Like Delaware’s school bus … [Read more...]
Legal Hunting Reduces Deer Collisions and Should Be Encouraged
An average American may not realize that the chances of bagging a buck on the highway while driving are much greater than when hunting with a rifle in hand. Deer hunting seasons are now open in a majority of our states. But it is many the unfortunate driver who has already slain a deer with a vehicle. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash A Cornell University study explored the growing problem of individual or small groups of deer venturing onto our highways. Collisions are … [Read more...]
The Left’s Green Dreams Are Going Up In Smoke
The following is a guest article by Stephen Moore. One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales. But one big thing went wrong. Nobody ever bothered to ask car buyers what THEY thought of the … [Read more...]
Beijing’s Coal Boom Is Here to Stay
News of record installations of so-called renewable energy electric generation in China may have kindled the hopes of those supporting the “green” agenda and hostile to fossil fuels. However, China is in no position to give up hydrocarbons, particularly coal. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash During the first half of 2023, China approved 52 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power, which was more than all the approvals issued in 2021. These new approvals are in addition to the 136 GW of … [Read more...]
Bad Climate Data Brings Wrong Conclusions
Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Two new internationally peer-reviewed studies published in major scientific journals have documented misleading Northern Hemisphere temperature data and attribution analyses indicating inadequate considerations of Urban Heat Island (UHI) influences on climate records and dominant influences of the sun in producing warming and cooling changes. Published in August by the journal Climate, the first of these studies concludes that global warming … [Read more...]
Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies
African priorities differ from those of Europe and North America. Among the Dark Continent’s most daunting challenges are poverty, malnutrition, lack of healthcare and proper education, unemployment, inferior transportation infrastructure, and underdeveloped technologies for energy, information, and communications. Image: Creative Commons via Unsplash Therefore, Africans do not have the option to adopt unscientific and unachievable climate policies that address none of these issues in a … [Read more...]
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