Commentary The New South Wales government has only itself to blame if it does not like the ruling from the state’s Land and Environment Court, which has ordered the state’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to develop goals and policies to ensure the environment is protected from climate change. The landmark ruling came after a challenge…
Politicians, Environment Protection Authority Hoisted by Their Own Petard
Doubling Down on Crises
Commentary If a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, how terrible would it be to waste two simultaneous crises? While still in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and the Delta variant (isn’t “crisis” overused and thus losing its power?), comes a report from a panel of scientists assembled by the United Nations Intergovernmental…
What’s Ripping American Families Apart?
Commentary In my last column, I published comments written by New York Times subscribers about how proud they were of their children for deciding not to have children of their own. Though they acknowledged how much they ached to be grandparents, they nevertheless reveled in the fact that this would never happen. Why did these…
Wrong Predictions Don’t Deter the Predictors
Commentary We have always had them among us: fortune tellers, diviners, readers of palms, tarot cards, tea leaves, stars, horoscopes, discerners of animal entrails, calling on gods of wood and stone, and all sorts of other “seers” who have attempted to convince the gullible that they have the power to predict the future. To some,…
False Labelling in COVID Origin Scrutiny Reminiscent of Climate Change Debate, Observers Say
News Analysis The way the discussion on the origin of COVID-19 was derailed by conspiracy labelling reminds environmental economist Ross McKitrick of the debate around climate change. “There are ideas that were never disproven and actually have a lot of evidence to support them, but for political reasons and cultural reasons within the university they…
Happy Birthday, Global Warming: Climate Change at 33
Commentary This month, climate change celebrates its 33rd birthday. On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified that the greenhouse effect had been detected. “Global Warming Has Begun,” The New York Times declared the next day. Indeed, it had. A year older than Alexander the Great when he died, climate change took less than one-third of a century to…
South Dakota Rocked Again as a Wind Turbine Plant Shuts Its Doors
June 22, 2021
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Commentary John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice of jobs either in the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind blade manufacturing plant located in…
Decarbonization: It’s the Demand Side, Stupid
Commentary By any standard, the London meeting of finance ministers of the Group of Seven leading Western economies a week before the G7 leaders’ summit was historic. By committing to transformative structural change to meet net-zero greenhouse gas targets and other environmental objectives, G7 finance ministers turned themselves into adjuncts of their environment ministries. Considerations…
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin
Commentary On Jan. 8, 2014, at New York University in Brooklyn, there occurred a unique event in the annals of global warming: nearly eight hours of structured debate between three climate scientists supporting the consensus on manmade global warming and three climate scientists who dispute it, moderated by a team of six leading physicists from…
PA Senate ERE Committee Wants to Keep PA Out of Greenhouse Gas Program
May 24, 2021
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is pressing for his state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a program intended to cap and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector. However, State Senate Environmental Resources and Energy (ERE) Committee Chairman Gene Yaw (R) told The Epoch Times that Wolf’s proposed plan to enter Pennsylvania…
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