News reports of summer heatwaves often perversely misrepresent a modern climate favorable to human flourishing in order to fearmonger the false narrative of catastrophic global warming.The geological epoch of the Holocene, which roughly corresponds to the last 11,700 years, is a time of warmth that has been vital in fostering the diversity and adaptability of…
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The “Energy Transition” Isn’t All It Claims To Be
We are inundated with claims about the “energy transition.”In February, E&E News, reporting on the State of the Union speech, said, “President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the energy transition Tuesday night.” In March, a reporter for Politico declared, “The U.S. energy transition is well underway.”Also in March, during a speech at the…
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The European War On Food Ignores Water PollutionBy Duggan FlanakinAccording to the World Health Organization, 31 million Europeans have no access to public sanitation, and 48 million do not have piped water at home. At least 300,000 Europeans follow San Francisco’s practice of defecating openly – but in the countryside rather than on public streets.…
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An Easy Guide to Rational Energy Policies
By Ronald SteinThere are extensive technical and lengthy discussions and proposed solutions—both pros and cons—about climate change, rising oceans, extreme weather events, the impact of emissions, net-zero, EV mandates, wind and solar mandates, pollution, temperature change, and energy subsidies.The elephant in the room that is seldom discussed is the simple and an easy-to-understand fact of…
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The Practical Impossibility of Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage
By Steve GorehamThe Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would set stringent limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from US power plants. Utilities would be required to retrofit existing plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or to switch to hydrogen fuel. Others call for the use of CCS to…
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A Permanent Policy of Higher Prices?
Research from the Wall Street Journal reveals that the Biden administration has leased less federal land for drilling than any other administration going back to the very beginning of the government’s modern oil-and-gas program. Though this is the result of a deliberate policy decision made by President Biden, that has not stopped him from trying to spin the rise in…