Category: climate change

Greening the Financial System

Commentary The Federal Reserve, soon after the November 2020 presidential election, declared climate change a potential threat to the U.S. financial system, joining a club of central banks that seek to “mobilize” more capital for green energy. The Biden administration and top Fed officials announced their plans to introduce regulations to address climate-related financial risks,…


BC Floods Show We Need a Plan to Deal With Natural Disasters, Not a Carbon Tax

Commentary Climate change is a fact of life—the climate has been changing since time immemorial. Mother Nature does what Mother Nature does, and I doubt that mankind can do much to change her ways. Globally, governments have fiddle-faddled with multiple conferences over the last 30 years in an attempt to modify the climate, with little…


Carbon Tax or Climate Tax?

Commentary Climate change is a fact of life—the climate has been changing since time immemorial. Mother Nature does what Mother Nature does, and I doubt that mankind can do much to change her ways. Globally, governments have fiddle-faddled with multiple conferences over the last 30 years in an attempt to modify the climate, with little…


Biden and Company Misleadingly Link Deadly Tornado Outbreak to Climate Change

Commentary In the aftermath of the terrible and deadly multiple tornado strikes across Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee on Dec. 10, President Joe Biden and those on his climate team wasted no time in politicizing the tragedy, linking the recent tornado disaster to climate change. In his Saturday afternoon media briefing discussing the tragedy,…


Restraint and the Tornado Tragedy

Commentary Some politicians and government officials can’t let a crisis go to waste. In the matter of the tornadoes that devastated parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, restraint was called for, but went unanswered. Asked about the cause of such devastation, President Biden said, “We all know everything is more intense when the climate…


Experts Rebuke Claims Linking Deadly Tornadoes to Climate Change

Experts have pushed back against claims that this weekend’s tragic tornadoes in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee can be clearly linked to manmade climate change. In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, professor and climate economist Richard S.J. Tol of the University of Sussex explained why it is so difficult to connect weather…


Experts Refute Claims Linking Deadly Tornadoes to Climate Change

Experts have pushed back against claims that this weekend’s tragic tornadoes in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee can be clearly linked to manmade climate change. In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, professor and climate economist Richard S.J. Tol of the University of Sussex explained why it is so difficult to connect weather…


Climate Policy and the Expansion of Government Power

News Analysis Christmastime is here—well, almost—but talk of global warming hasn’t slowed down with the cooling weather. In fact, it seems like concern about the climate influences everything these days. In Washington, the solidly Democratic House has given a divided but Democrat-controlled Senate an expensive new piece of legislation. The $2 trillion “Build Back Better…


Climate Change-Related Disasters ‘Not Very’ Impactful on Bank Financial Stability: New York Fed

A new study from the New York Federal Reserve examining the impact of climate change via extreme weather events on bank financial stability throws cold water on the heated rhetoric around climate change, finding that the threat to banks from natural disasters is trivial while suggesting that a bigger danger to financial institutions comes from…


Labor Pledges to Boost Jobs, Cut Emission 43 Percent by 2030

The Australian Labor party has pledged to reduce Australia’s emissions, generate jobs, and cut power bills if it wins power at the next election. Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese on Friday unveiled the long-awaited emission policy, which he said will help to cut emissions by 43 percent by 2030 and keep Australia “on track for net-zero…