‘Peak Negativity’: Climate Fear Doesn’t Work Unless you also Tell People What to Do
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/31/peak-negativity-climate-fear-doesnt-work-unless-you-also-tell-people-what-to-do/ Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Conversation, there is no point journalists frightening people into obedience if they don’t also include clear instructions on what they should do to alleviate that fear. Climate change or climate crisis? To really engage people, the media should talk about solutions May 30, 2019 10.33pm AEST […]
Polar bear habitat update: open water primarily due to winds pushing pack ice
http://polarbearscience.com/2019/05/31/polar-bear-habitat-update-open-water-primarily-due-to-winds-pushing-pack-ice/ by susanjcrockford Here is a look at what polar bear habitat looks like this year at the end of May compared to previous years. It helps put any predictions of impending doom into perspective. This is the time year when declining sea ice gets some people all worked up. However, declining ice is normal […]
AOC Links DC Tornado Warning To Climate Change; Gets Embarrassed By Meteorologist
AOC Links DC Tornado Warning To Climate Change; Gets Embarrassed By Meteorologist by Jeff Dunetz Sometimes I feel bad for Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but this is not one of those times. Once again she Tweeted about a subject she knows little about and got eviscerated by an expert on the subject. In her latest descent […]
Why Advanced Nuclear Reactors May Be Here Sooner Than Many Imagine
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/why-advanced-nuclear-reactors-may-be-here-sooner-than-many-imagine#disqus_thread Advanced nuclear reactors are moving toward commercialization faster and with less government support than many realize. Their smaller size and advances in computing are helping. TED NORDHAUS AND JESSICA LOVERING MAY 24, 2019 The old guard. 702 Over the last several years, there has been growing recognition that nuclear energy is an important climate mitigation […]
Environmentalist Shellenberger: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised Renewables Make Energy Expensive Since That’s Always Been The Greens’ Goal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/27/we-shouldnt-be-surprised-renewables-make-energy-expensive-since-thats-always-been-the-greens-goal/#5159d33b4e6d By Michael Shellenberger The Green Party’s success in last weekend’s European elections will likely result in demands to expand and extend decades-old subsidies to renewables. Like a lot of people, I used to think that subsidies to promote the switch from fossil fuels to solar and wind would be a one-time thing. Once a solar […]
Climate Change – Hollywood & Leonardo DiCaprio Continue To Take A Stance – Celebrities, Filmmakers, Entertainment Leaders Speak Up
https://www.hollywoodinsider.com/hollywood-climate-change/ Climate change is without any doubt one of the most serious yet polarizing topics in society today. Every party, organization, industry, or any other coalition of people seem to have a stance on this issue. Often, the initial position is simply choosing whether to accept or deny its existence. Hollywood, as one of the […]
Roy Spencer: Why so many tornadoes this year? It’s not what AOC, Bernie Sanders think – ‘U.S. is close to 2 degrees F below normal’
Roy Spencer: Why so many tornadoes this year? It’s not what AOC, Bernie Sanders (or maybe even you) think https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/roy-spencer-why-so-many-tornadoes-this-year-its-not-what-aoc-bernie-sanders-or-maybe-even-you-think/ Roy Spencer: Why so many tornadoes this year? It’s not what AOC, Bernie Sanders (or maybe even you) think by Paul Homewood NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THATYesterday, 05:42 By Paul Homewood Progressive politicians […]
Greta’s very corporate children’s crusade – ‘Green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-academics’ – ‘Companies preparing for the biggest bonanza of govt contracts in history: the greening of the Western economies’
Greta’s very corporate children’s crusade https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/gretas-very-corporate-childrens-crusade/ Greta’s very corporate children’s crusade by Paul Homewood NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THATToday, 12:56 Turns out she’s not quite the little innocent we were told: Greta Thunberg is just an ordinary 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl whose fiery visions have convinced the parliaments of Britain and Ireland to declare […]
Delingpole: To Survive, Britain’s Conservatives Must ‘Get Rid of the Green Crap’
Delingpole: To Survive, Britain’s Conservatives Must ‘Get Rid of the Green Crap’ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/29/delingpole-to-survive-britains-conservatives-must-get-rid-of-the-green-crap/ From Breitbart JAMES DELINGPOLE28 May 2019 Besides the Brexit Party, one of the big winners of the European Parliament elections — in Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK — were the Greens. There’s a lesson buried […]
Socialism Is Bad for the Environment
Socialism Is Bad for the Environment https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/29/socialism-is-bad-for-the-environment/ From The National Review By Shawn Regan May 16, 2019 9:47 AM A metalworking plant in Chelyabinsk, USSR, 1991 (Peter Turnley/Contributor/Getty Images) And markets are much better As the Soviet Union began to collapse, the socialist economist Robert Heilbroner admitted that central planning had failed economically but said […]