ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
I’m not a media critic, but having just watched Joe Biden’s press conference I thought he did an excellent job. I used to program such events for a former governor in days long past and in a very different climate. So let me give some personal reactions to a mostly successful performance. The present-day climate …
Emissions—the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading We may avoid the very worst climate scenario. But the next-worst is still pretty awful. ‘Collapsologie’: Constructing an Idea of How Things Fall Apart What if many of the predictions of upcoming climate disaster have been based on faulty premises? What if the worst-case scenario has been way …
Trump and the Teenager: A Climate Showdown at Davos Climate experts agree: “Steve Mnuchin should go back to college”—not Greta Thunberg Trump Roars, and Davos Shrugs Mr. Trump’s Davos insults referred to above were typically illiterate and haughty. We must reject, he said, the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They …
For the Sake of Life on Earth, We Must Put a Limit on Wealth Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns Citigroup Yields to Pressure from Environmentalists You elders may remember the famous radio sketch by Jack Benny: the mugger says, “This is a stick-up! Your money or your life!” …
Scientists Underestimated How Bad Cow Farts Are Trump’s Methane Rule Rollback Divides Oil and Gas Industry Fracking May Be a Bigger Climate Problem Than We Thought In its continuing war on all regulations—to include those on greenhouse gases and anything Obama passed—Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency last Thursday said it would basically allow “oil and gas …