Michael Shellenberger: Anti-Energy Nihilism Behind Economic Crisis: ‘Is it a coincidence that the people who said Western civilization was unsustainable are making it so?’
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/anti-energy-nihilism-behind-economic?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By Michael Shellenberger Progressives say that, by restricting fossil energy production, they are defending civilization from climate change, which they say is causing heatwaves, droughts, and flooding. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refuse to significantly expand natural gas production to aid energy-hungry allies in Europe. The European Commission rejected a plan to help […]
WaPo: Did Senate Dems sell us a bill of goods on climate change too? ‘Questions loom over impact’
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/08/08/wapo-did-senate-dems-sell-us-a-bill-of-goods-on-climate-change-too-n488133 BY ED MORRISSEY So what exactly does $369 billion buy us in climate-change impact? “Questions loom,” reads the sub-head at the Washington Post, and for good reason. After Senate Democrats spent the day bragging about passing the biggest package of spending to fight global warming, the Post immediately tried to downplay expectations: A wide range […]
UK environmental activist urges ‘shutting down animal farming altogether’ because ‘it’s one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown’
On Ireland state-run TV – RTE – Prime Time program – July 19, 2022 – Miriam O’Callaghan Rough Transcript: RTE Host Miriam O’Callaghan: George has a big emphasis on agriculture and how agriculture needs to cut its emissions. And I know it’s an issue you feel very strongly about. You’ve said that agriculture is arguably […]
Analysis: Biden’s 50% emissions reduction target for 2030 (if achieved) would have a ‘nearly unmeasurable’ impact on overall global CO2 emissions
Via Michael Shellenberger: What about its impact on climate change? Roger Pielke ran the numbers and found that, even if it achieved Biden’s 50% emissions-reduction target for 2030, which it almost certainly won’t, the impact on overall global emissions would be nearly unmeasurable. “In fact, that small level of emissions impact is well within both emissions measurement […]
Court blocks Pennsylvania’s regional CO2 emissions plan – ‘Unlawful tax’
https://apnews.com/article/climate-pennsylvania-tom-wolf-state-courts-695f04cc8efd922a1b363d1ddc7eb876 A state court temporarily blocked Pennsylvania from participating in a regional carbon pricing program to combat climate change, ruling Friday in favor of coal-related interests that argue the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf is seeking to impose an unlawful tax. Commonwealth Court granted a preliminary injunction that prohibits the Wolf administration from “implementing, […]
Flashback 2021: Tesla Made More Money Selling Emission Credits and Bitcoin Than Cars
https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36266393/tesla-made-more-money-selling-credits-and-bitcoin-than-cars/ Tesla posts net income of $438 million on a Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) basis in first quarter of 2021, mostly thanks to sales of emissions credits. Tesla sells $101 million worth of bitcoin after buying $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency several months ago, and is accepting it as payment for cars. Increase in […]
Biden is a Net Zero: The dangerous Executive Order no one is talking about
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-executive-order-no?justPublished=true By Alex Epstein 1 Last month, President Biden issued an Executive Order that threatens the very existence of our nation. And yet he has received very little pushback. Here’s what the Order says and why it’s so scary. The Biden Administration recently issued an Executive Order that commits the Federal Government to reduce emissions […]
Radical resetters publish plan to wreck America and the free world
https://www.cfact.org/2021/07/05/radical-resetters-publish-plan-to-wreck-america-and-the-free-world/ By Craig Rucker Apparently the problem with the world is that you are too free. Americans must slash our energy use 87% and abandon limited government and our free economy if we are to live “sustainably” and meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord. That is according to a peer-reviewed study by five […]
‘Joe Biden’s Climate Denialism’ – ‘Why would we aspire to make life worse for billions of people?’
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/bidens-climate-denialism/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-04-22&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart Joe Biden’s Climate Denialism By DAVID HARSANYI In anticipation of Thursday’s virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, a two-day global gathering of more than 40 world leaders, President Joe Biden declared that the United States had a “moral imperative” to adopt an “ambitious” goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 percent […]
UN again claims ‘time is fast running out’: As Biden prepares for climate summit, U.N. says the world is ‘on the verge of the abyss’
https://news.yahoo.com/as-biden-prepares-for-climate-summit-un-says-the-world-is-on-the-verge-of-the-abyss-194222171.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=tw By David Knowles Just days before President Biden kicks off a climate summit with world leaders, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization released a report Monday warning that “time is fast running out” to keep global temperatures in check. Titled “State of the Global Climate 2020,” the report finds that concentrations of greenhouse gases […]