from Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union government leaders declined on Friday to set tougher targets for fighting climate change, dashing hopes they would inject momentum into a United Nations climate conference in Chile in December. At a two-day EU summit in Brussels, which was largely dominated by Brexit, discussion on climate was relegated to…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Shocking – its almost like company boards and many of their shareholders have decided climate change does not pose a threat to their operations. Investors struggle to make US companies change tack on climate change Number of shareholder-backed environmental proposals tumbles Chris Flood Barely a dozen proposals on environmental issues…
Guest post by Dr Paul Rossiter Following my earlier two essays that looked at the new grand narrative of the green/left and the corruption of the cause, I now turn to the main engine driving the climate movement from day to day: the money. I became quite despondent while putting this together as I started…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart; President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade, suggesting she has no idea of the cost of what she is demanding. “I may disappoint you but I do not share everyone’s enthusiasm about Greta Thunberg’s speech [to the UN]. You know, the fact that young people, teenagers…
Reader Mumbles McGuirk sent this in. I received an email from the American Meteorological Society announcing that their dues will now be based on the member’s income! But it will be voluntary, you choose what income level you say you have. What could go wrong with that! So social engineering comes to the scientific community.Here…
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter September 05, 2019 1:32 PM ET Climate economist Martin Weitzman died Aug. 27 from a suicide about a year after being passed over for a Nobel Prize, as he reportedly grew despondent about his ability to contribute to his field. The Massachusetts medical examiner’s office ruled Wednesday…
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The UN has been pursuing global emissions policy for decades that are intended to provide for the establishment of global government schemes allowing it to control world emissions. No fewer than 24 United Nations Climate Change Conferences have been held at various global locations since 1995 under its Conference of…
Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD We visited a wind farm in southern Utah recently. I’ve always been curious about the costs, profitability, and physical size of these things as well as the footprint and environmental impact. I had 3 meetings with the man in charge of maintenance of the wind farm, a landowner…
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Los Angeles Times cavalierly suggests based upon a UCI study published in the journal Nature that the world needs to retire its fossil fuel plants to meet the Paris Agreement’s politically driven schemes requiring the pipe dream of global abandonment of fossil energy. The article grossly misrepresents the magnitude…
guest post by Joel O’Bryan PhD NPR news is running this story on Green New Deal financing by writer Scott Horsley: When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled out her “Green New Deal,” calling for clean energy, universal health care and guaranteed jobs, one of the first questions she got was: How do you plan to pay…