Useless Myths: Daylight Savings Time and Groundhog Day
For many of us, tired from a long and dreary winter – and this past one has seemed longer and drearier than most – Daylight Savings Time throws us back on our heels.
Category: Environment/Energy
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation · Science
Wealthy Environmentalists Push Democrat Harry Reid to Lean-In to Green Energy
Democrats have decided to lean-in, not back-away, from so-called clean energy. Despite the embarrassing history of government-funded green-energy failures, “wealthy environmentalists are pushing Democrats to take bolder positions on climate change”—and global warming, as an issue, provides the impetus for more green-energy spending.
The Boston Globe reported on a recent “summit between Washington’s liberal elite and San Francisco’s climate intelligensia” that included “Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, six other senators, and … Al Gore.” The Globe points to new efforts by Democrats to “make global warming a central issue during the midterms.”
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Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
What’s The Deal With Global Warming? A CPAC Panel
Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast on Thursday moderated an excellent panel discussion about the current state of climate science at CPAC 2014.
EPA Attacks Prospect of World’s Largest Copper Mine
I could write every day about some new obscene Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to thwart energy the nation needs, forcing the shutdown more coal-fired plants and the mines that supply them. Goodbye thousands of jobs, goodbye electrical energy. The White House has delayed the construction of the Keystone Xl pipeline to transmit oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
John Kerry’s Climate Policy is the Same as Bloodletting: Patients are not Cured, and Sometimes Die
Fossil fuel use is the lifeblood of developed industrial nations. It has eliminated hunger, poverty, lack of shelter, drudgery, and provided healthier, more comfortable, and longer lifespans. The United States is blessed by having over one hundred years or more supply of inexpensive or moderate cost deposits of each of the fossil fuels–coal, oil, and natural gas. Secretary Kerry, along with President Obama and his supporters, want to eliminate use of the nation’s abundant, reliable, and economical fossil fuels and replace them with renewable energy sources–wind and solar–whose present state of technology make them expensive, unreliable, and impractical to scale up to the size of present fossil fuel capabilities. These policies will substantially lower the standard of living for Americans and condemn developing nations to perpetual poverty.
Will the Supreme Court Permit EPA Climate Fraud?
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency. The case will determine how far EPA can extend its regulatory overreach, to control “climate changing” carbon dioxide from power plants and other facilities – by ignoring the Constitution’s “separation of powers” provisions, rewriting clear language in the Clean Air Act, and disregarding laws that require the agency to consider both the costs and benefits of its regulations and what it is regulating.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
Yellowstone’s Bison and Sustainable Management
While some groups are upset by the bison herd management practices used by the National Park Service, it’s important to remember that Yellowstone and the surrounding areas have a variety of interests that need to be taken into consideration.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
The Period Of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming
The actual, observed science of global warming does not justify the costs of reordering the world’s economies.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
America’s Constitutional Crisis
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
About that Persistent Polar Vortex
The theory that ‘global warming’ is causing this year’s persistent polar vortex is contradicted by the theory of Rossby waves. This matters.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Science
Huffington Post Means Well, but Insults Naomi Klein, Gives Heartland Too Much Credit
Huffington Post writer Bill Shireman thinks The Heartland Institute can shape the writing and rhetoric of prominent leftist Naomi Klein. We should be so lucky.
Why It’s So Hard to Sell Climate Change
Is it any wonder that the American public is getting increasingly skeptical about man-made climate change?
Environment/Energy · Featured · Legal Affairs · Media · Science
San Jose Mercury News Hangs Peter Gleick’s ‘Crimes’ Around His Neck
One does not have to wait for history to see Peter Gleick’s legacy. The San Jose Mercury News helped its readers show Gleick for what he is now.
Democrats’ Climate Change Emphasis is Hurting Their Own
The Democrats think that climate change is a winning issue for them in 2014—and, if they handle it correctly, this could be a winning issue for the Republicans.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
Obama Wants to Waste a Billion on Climate Change
There is climate change and it has been going on for 4.5 billion years on planet Earth. It has everything to do with the Sun, the oceans, volcanic activity and other natural factors. It has nothing to do with the planet’s human population.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
A Brutal Chicago Winter, Global Warming, and Just Weather
I’m not so vain to believe this season’s anomalies in Chicago and elsewhere prove a given climate theory. Weather does not equal climate — though that is what the alarmists always say.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Carbon Benefits Exceed Costs by up to 500:1
EPA “cost of carbon” analyses ignore huge benefits of hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
Want A Government Official To Change His Mind? Hire Him!
Now that he’s out of government, former Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar feels free to change his tune about the Keystone XL pipeline.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Do We Really Need Nuclear Fusion For Power, or Might its Quest Be Another Government Spending Boondoggle?
The lab results fell short of what is considered the “holygrail of fusion: ignition — the point at which more energy is produced than was used throughout the process.”
On Fox: Debate Over Climate Change Heats Up
Charles Krauthamer rightly calls the left’s adherence to climate change as the cause of all calamities a “religion.”
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