Bitter Cold Blasts Chicago, a City Fighting Climate Change
Keep up the good work, Chicago. With the ample snow and bitter cold, your efforts to fight global warming appear to be working!
Author: Steve Goreham
National Renewable Electricity Standard: Why Raise Electricity Prices?
Earlier this month, Representatives Jared Polis (D Colorado), Ben Ray Luján (D New Mexico), and Ann Kuster (D New Hampshire) introduced the National Renewable Electricity Act of 2013 (RES Act) into the US House of Representatives. If the law is passed, it will raise electricity prices for Americans for questionable environmental gains.
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World Agricultural Output Continues to Rise, Despite Predictions of Decline
The year 2013 has been a great year for global agriculture. Record world production of rice and healthy production of wheat and corn produced strong harvests across the world. These gains were achieved despite continuing predictions that world agricultural output is headed for a decline.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured · Government · Regulation · Science
United Nations to Business: Support Us on Climate Change
Since climate change is dominated by natural, not man-made factors, there is no United Nations agreement that will have a measurable effect on Earth’s climate.
Wood-burning Power Plants: Misguided Climate Change Solution?
Is wood the best fuel to generate electricity? Despite wood’s low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and abroad are switching from coal to wood to produce electrical power. The switch to wood is driven by regulations from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other international organizations. These regulations are based on the false assumption that burning wood reduces carbon dioxide emissions.
Climate Policies Lock Chains on Developing Nations
Today, more than 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Government · Regulation · Science
Carbon Capture and Storage: the Edsel of Energy Policies
When the dust of history settles and the ideology of Climatism fades away, failed Carbon capture and storage projects will be remembered as the Edsel of energy policies.
Sea Level Rise: Climate Change and an Ocean of Natural Variability
Could it be that our leading scientists must endorse sea-level rise to support the ideology of man-made global warming?
US Citizens Pay for “Solar School” Foolishness
Solar systems are being installed at hundreds of schools across the United States. Educators use solar panels to teach students about the “miracle” of energy sourced from the sun. But a closer look at these projects shows poor economics and a big bill for citizens.
Vanishing Snow: Should There Be A Law?
What makes otherwise sensible people fear that snow is disappearing when snowfall is actually increasing? It’s the ideology of Climatism?
A Science-Based Rebuttal to Global Warming Alarmism
The science presented by the CCR-II report directly challenges the conclusions of the IPCC. Extensive peer-reviewed evidence is presented that climate change is natural and man-made influences are small.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Hot Weather and Climate Change—a Mountain From a Molehill?
The alarm about climate change is all about one degree.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
President Obama’s Climate Initiative—The Bad News and Good News
Contrary to predictions by all 73 of the world’s top climate models, global temperatures have failed to rise over the last 15 years.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Revisiting Climategate as Climatism Falters
Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, is on the wane. Once riding high, the ideology of man-made climate change is losing its influence in governments[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Is it a Failure to Communicate, or Faulty Climate Science?
The reason for lukewarm public acceptance of the theory of man-made warming is not a failure to communicate, but that the science is rotten.
Obama Administration Supports Fracking and Natural Gas, Despite Environmental Opposition
Last Thursday, the US Department of the Interior released a draft proposal that would “establish common-sense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands.” Last Friday, the US[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Taxes
Does Solar Energy Actually Make Massachusetts Safer?
Earlier this month, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced that his state reached the goal of 250 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity. “When we set ambitious goals and invest in[...]
Is it Time to End Ethanol Vehicle Fuel Mandates?
Last week, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers introduced legislation in the House of Representatives calling for major changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS is the reason[...]
Pacific Export Terminals: The Raging War on Coal
Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra Club and three other groups announced that they would file suit[...]
Climate Change: Key Mission for the US Navy?
The United States Navy has embraced climate change ideology. In an interview with the Boston Globe on March 9, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the Navy’s top officer in the[...]
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