Archive for category: Climate Change
Those who are steeped in the science and folklore of climate science know of the important work of Dr....
A Conservative Discussion on Climate Change – My Interview with Bob Inglis
, , Climate Change, Free-Market Environmentalism, Art Laffer, BMW, Bob Inglis, Clean Power Plan, climate change, climate deniers, Dan Kahan, Earth Stewardship, Energy Poverty, free enterprise, GOP and climate change, Jim Presswood, Trey Gowdy, 0 I had the pleasure of recently sitting down with Bob Inglis to discuss his views of life, liberty and...
The Long Winter of Climate Realism
, , Climate Change, Bob Inglis, Carlos Curbelo, climate change, Climate Solutions Caucus, Michael Brune, Rob Sisson, Sierra Club, 0 Despite the gloomy and dire predictions by environmental naysayers, there is good news going into 2018. For starters, more...
Governor Hogan and his Environmental Chief Leading the GOP Charge on Climate
, , Climate Change, Ben Grumbles, climate change, conservatives, Cosmo Servidio, GOP, Governor Larry Hogan, Maryland, Pruitt, RGGI, Trump, 0 Proud of my friend and former EPA boss for his leadership on array of environmental issues, including climate change. ...
A Green and Conservative (and Liberal) Solution to Climate Change
, , Climate Change, Green energy, Michael Shellenberger, NRDC, nuclear energy, Powerline Blog, Steve Hayward, 0 I’m reposting in its entirety this great piece by Steven Hayward with a great TED Talk video of Michael...
EPA’s Pruitt Cleared of Violating the Agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy
, , Climate Change, climate change, scientific integrity, Scott Pruitt, Sierra Club, 0 In the midst of a scorched-earth campaign by environmental groups against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the Administrator has been...
Want to Solve Climate Change . . . Muzzle Al Gore
, , Climate Change, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Bill Nye the Science Guy, climate change, John Murdock, 0 In discussing the issue of climate change with one of my friends this week, he opined “Al Gore has...
“If They Won’t Lead, We Will . . . “
, , Climate Change, Apple, Budget, climate change, Deregulation, Economic Growth, Energy and Environment, energy independence, EPA, Janet McCabe, Jim Connaughton, Jonathan Turley, Mother Jones, Myron Ebell, Trump, Walmart, Xavier Becerra, 0 Those were the defiant and recalcitrant words of California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, this past week in response to...
Are Polar Bears Doomed Due to a Warming Climate?
, , Climate Change, climate change, melting sea-ice, polar bear extinction, 0 I am not a denier of anthropogenic global warming, but have been deeply skeptical of and disappointed in the...
Four Ways a President Trump Could Actually Help the Climate
, , Climate Change, The Environment and Politics, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Keystone XL, natural gas, Nuclear, President-elect Trump, Trump, wind and solar energy, 0 Guest Contributor: Eli Lehrer President-elect Donald Trump obviously doesn’t have very many fans on the environmental left. And he...
Is Global Warming a Crisis? – Let the public decide
, , Climate Change, anthropogenic climate change, Brenda Ekwurzel, climate change, Gavin Schmidt, Intelligence2, Michael Crichton, Philip Stott, Richard Lindzen, Richard Somerville, 0 I recently suggested the public deserves an open transparent debate – similar to the Presidential debates – on climate...
Jay Faison’s Efforts to Green the GOP (and save the Planet) Through Clean Energy
, , Climate Change, Free-Market Environmentalism, clean energy, ClearPath Foundation, climate change, conservatism, conservative principles, energy independence, environment, environmentalism, hydropower, Jay Faison, Nuclear, solar, wind, 0 I’ve long argued that the GOP’s ceding of environmental issues to the political left was not only bad for...
‘Folie à Paris:’ How Does Widening the Gap Between Collective Aspiration and Individual Obligation Advance Rational Climate Policy?
, , Climate Change, COP21, EU, Global Justice Now, global warming, Paris climate talks, President Obama, World Wildlife Fund, 0 Guest Contributor: Prof. Lucas Bergkamp The Paris Climate Agreement has been hailed as a huge success by some and...
White House Announces New Water Innovation Initiative
, , Climate Change, Agriculture, Central Valley Project, climate change, drought, infrastructure, Natural Resource Investment Center, private investment, Secretary Jewell, subsidies, water efficiency, water innovation, 0 Contributors: Reed Watson and Brent Fewell This week the White House announced a new water innovation initiative on the...
“Cleaner, Here, Now”
, , Climate Change, Big Green, climate change, ConservAmerica, COP21, James Hansen, Joshua Goldstein, Keystone XL, Kyoto Protocol, LNG, natural gas, Nuclear, Oren Cass, Paris, Politico, President Obama, Steven Pinker, 0 Just as reality set in after President Obama nixed the Keystone XL pipeline, one senses that the extreme environmental...
Paris and Climate Denialism
, , Climate Change, alarmism, climate change, climate sensitivity, coal, COP21, denialism, Energy Poverty, fossil fuels, IPCC, Judith Curry, Paris, policy solution, President Obama, 0 This coming week’s climate talks in Paris are surely to elicit some strong emotions from those who believe anthropogenic...
Pope Francis’s Laudato si: First Glance
, , Climate Change, climate change, Encyclical on climate change, environmental stewardship, Laudato si, Pope Francis, 0 Guest Contributor: Rob Sisson Over the past few weeks, we’ve read or heard many conservative voices offering advice to...
Climate Change and the Dragon Slayers
, , Climate Change, Aldo Leolpold, ClearPath Foundation, climate change, Dragon Slayers, GOP, Jay Faison, Steve Hayward, Teddy Roosevelt, 0 Provocateur and friend, Steve Hayward, penned a piece in this week’s Forbes titled, Why the Left Needs Climate Change. (included...
Apathy on Climate Change Soars – Who’s to Blame?
, , Climate Change, climate change, environmental apathy, environmental pollution, Gallup poll, global warming, Lindsay Graham, public apathy, public percpetion, 2 Linking to a new Gallup poll that shows Americans in 2015 are generally less concerned about environmental issues. Some issues...
Climate Enforcers Need to Chill
, , Climate Change, climate change, Ken Cuccinelli, NRO, Raul Grijalva, Rich Lowery, Roger Pielke, Steve Hayward, Wei-Hock Soon, 0 Rich Lowry of NRO took on this week Congressman Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, Ranking Democratic on the House Natural...
Climate Change: What If We Can’t Get There From Here?
, , Climate Change, Asian Development Bank, clean air, clean energy finance, clean water, climate change, environmental finance, private equity, public transportation, state revolving funds, urban mass transport, 0 By Guest Contributor, Michael Curley Power plants are our single largest source of greenhouse gases. Reducing emissions from power...
Climate Change – has our desire to do good overridden good science?
, , Climate Change, AGW, climate change, Daniel Botkin, EPA, House Science Committee, IPCC, Steve Hayward, 0 EPA’s major news this week to regulate CO2 has evoked a lot of emotion. Depending upon your understanding of the...
The Sun Has Just Flipped Out or Over!
, , Climate Change, climate change, solar activity, Sun Magnetic Field, Sun's Polarity, 0 This video is really cool and reinforces how complex and grand the universe is. And we are but a...
Difficult Tradeoffs and Unintended Environmental Harms From Greening the Grid
, , Climate Change, Corn Ethanol, energy grid, environmental harm, environmental impacts, Environmental Working Group, renewable energy, soil erosion, unintended impacts, water pollution, 1 Starting out the day with two bad news stories isn’t usually my MO. But the news regarding our push...
Windmills, White Nose Syndrome, and CCD – Our Nation’s Pollinators Under Serious Assault
, , Climate Change, Species Protection, bat biology, bats, birds, Mark Hayes, mortality, renewable energy, USGS, White Nose Syndrome, windmills, 1 Despite my strong support of our ongoing efforts to produce more renewable energy, I have always held reservations about...
Geoengineering a Solution to Climate Change – Lehrer Sets the Record Straight
, , Climate Change, AEI, Bjorn Lomborg, climate change, climate denier, climate skeptic, David Appell, Eli Lehrer, Geoengineering, Heartland Institute, 0 By Guest Contributor: Eli Lehrer, R Street Institute A new article in The Yale Forum by freelance writer, David Appell,...
The “War on Coal” Has a Human Face
, , Climate Change, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Daily Kos, Daniel Schrag, global warming, Hal Quinn, Miners, Obama Administration, Rally in DC, War on Coal, 0 Earlier this year, a White House climate advisor, Daniel Schrag, publicly sounded the Obama Administration’s war on coal when he told...
Good News From the Stratosphere – the ozone hole has shrunk
, , Climate Change, The Environment and Politics, Antarctic, CFC, chlorofluorocarbons, environmental protection, Montreal Protocol, NASA, ozone hole, Ronald Reagan, Stratospheric Ozone, 4 Those who are old enough, may recall the fierce political fight over the 1987 Montreal Protocol to phase out...
Linking to an interesting NPR interview this morning with David Folkenflik, author of the book, Murdoch’s World, and not...
New High-Tech Imaging Protecting the Planet and Saving Lives
, , Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, EPA, air pollution, dangerous gas leaks, enforcement, environmental protection, fugitive emissions, high-tech photo imaging, LDAR, oil and gas industry, Rebellion Photonics, 0 A revolutionary new technology is not only helping to protect the environment, but is now being used to save...
Environmentalists Debate the Costs and Benefits of Gas v. Coal
, , Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, alternative energies, climate change, coal, environmental, fracking, Kate Sinding, Michael Shellenberger, natural gas, NRDC, 0 Thought it worth posting this thoughtful and civil discussion between Kate Sinding of NRDC and Michael Shellenberger of The...
The Maddening World of Climate Change
, , Climate Change, carbon emissions, climate change, Climatism, hurricanes, oceans, Steve Goreham, The Heartland Institute, warming temperature, water cycle, Watts Up, 5 I’m not one to give credence or air time to climate change “deniers” or “alarmists.” My goal in trying to...
Contemplating a Conservative Response to Climate Change
, , Climate Change, Conservative Conservationism, The Environment and Politics, climate change, ConserAmerica, Rob Sisson, The Climate Conservative, 0 Wanted to bring attention to a new blog, The Climate Conservative, the brainchild of David Jenkins and Rob Sisson,...
Climate Skeptics May, In Fact, Be Good For The Earth
, , Climate Change, The Environment and Politics, climate change, climate skeptics, IPCC, Koch Brothers, Nordhaus, Robert Bryce, Shellenberger, Steve Hayward, The Breakthrough Institute, 2 By Brent Fewell I bring your attention to a great article by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus as the IPCC releases...
EPA Goes Big with Air and Water Proposals
, , Climate Change, EPA, Water Issues, air quality, climate change, ECOS, Gina McCarthy, jurisdiction, Lek Kadeli, Nancy Stoner, proposed rule, Rapanos, SAB, significant nexus, Supreme Court, wetlands, 0 By Brent Fewell Toward the waning hours of every administration the pace of regulating at EPA picks up –...
Climate Alarmists Continue to Scramble
, , Climate Change, alarmism, climate change, equilibrium climate sensitivity, IPCC, Matt Ridley, 0 By Brent Fewell I link to an interesting article in the WSJ titled “Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate...
The Decline of GOP Environmentalism or Decline of Environmentalism Itself
, , Climate Change, Free-Market Environmentalism, The Environment and Politics, Boston Globe, climate change, conservation, decline of environmentalism, Decline of Republican Environmentalism, Democrat, Eli Lehrer, environmentalism, George Bush, Good Samaritan, GOP, Nordhaus, Paul Sabin, politicization of environmentalism, politics, R Street Institute, Republican, Shellenberger, The Breakthrough Institute, 7 By Brent Fewell Paul Sabin has an article in this weekend’s Boston Globe titled “The Decline of Republican Environmentalism.” Sabin,...
Michael Mann v. National Review – Update
, , Climate Change, The Environment and Politics, climate skeptics, Competitive Enterprise Institute, David Rivkin, defamation, Mark Steyn, Michael Mann, National Review, Shannen Coffin, 0 By Brent Fewell Linking to Jonathan Adler’s latest update on the Michael Mann defamation lawsuit against National Review. For...
Some GOP Propose Taxing Carbon Not Income to Mitigate Climate Change
, , Climate Change, Conservative Conservationism, Free-Market Environmentalism, Art Laffer, Bob Inglis, carbon tax, climate change, GOP, 0 By Brent Fewell Art Laffer, former Reagan economic advisor, and Bob Inglis, former GOP Congressman from South Carolina, discuss...
Who you gonna believe – Rush Limbaugh or Al Gore?
, , Climate Change, Al Gore, climate change, climate deniers, Dan Kahan, Rush Limbaugh, Tamsin Edwards, trust, 0 By Brent Fewell I’ve heard from some who have grown weary of my covering climate change here – and I...
By Brent Fewell The next assessement report (AR5) of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due out...
Real Christians Don’t Believe in Climate Change – Really??
, , Climate Change, Christian Views on Climate Change, climate change, Cornwall Alliance, Environmental Envangelism, environmentalism, Evangelical Environmental Network, Green Dragon, Patrick Micheals, Richard Lindzen, Roger Pielke, Roy Spencer, Rush Limbaugh, 0 During my commute into DC yesterday for a lunch meeting, I had my radio tuned to Rush Limbaugh when...
Conservative Skepticism Not Caused by Climate Change
, , Climate Change, The Environment and Politics, Chris Mooney, climate change, conservatives, Deniers, Fox News, Mother Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Skeptics, 0 By Brent Fewell A little tongue-in-cheek there in case you missed it. But everything these days seems to get blamed...
Climate Change – “Scientific Consensus” or Pathologies in Public Discourse
, , Climate Change, Al Gore, climate change, Dan Kahan, Mike Hulme, Rush Limbaugh, scientific consensus, 0 By Brent Fewell There’s been a fair amount of controversy – some might even call it an old fashion dust...
Climate Change Makes People Meaner and More Prone to Violence
, , Climate Change, climate change, Regional Conflict, Violence, 0 By Brent Fewell Another study this week links climate change with increased violence and global conflict. Abstract for the...
Some Environmentalists Think and Behave Like Animals
, , Climate Change, The Environment and Politics, climate change, David Roberts, Grist, 0 By Brent Fewell This is where I think so many environmentalists go so terribly wrong. David Roberts over at...
I have had harsh words previously for Jim Hansen, former NASA scientist and climate change alarmist who called for oil executives...
Why All the Fuss About Tipping Points?
, , Climate Change, Uncategorized, calamity, climate change, ecology, ecosystems, environment, environmental stresses, nature, tipping point, 0 Central to concerns of climate change science is the somewhat ill-defined concept of “tipping point,” a point at which a...
Conservatives – or at least one nervous House staffer – call for GOP to lead Climate Debate
, , Climate Change, Conservative Conservationism, The Environment and Politics, climate change, Eric Bradenson, GOP, revenue-neutral carbon tax, 0 By Brent Fewell Am posting a thoughtful article by an anonymous House GOP staffer, writing under the pseudonym, Eric...
Climate Science Needs to do Some Soul-Searching
, , Climate Change, climate change, credibility matters, Economist, Nate Cohn, New Republic, scientific integrity, Will Wilkinson, 0 By Brent Fewell Historically, the scientific community has jealously guarded its reputation for credibililty, accuracy and objectivity. Just like...
China – A Growing Threat to the Earth
, , Climate Change, Conservative Conservationism, Energy and Resource Extraction, EPA, Free-Market Environmentalism, Species Protection, The Environment and Politics, Water Issues, China, conservation, conservative, Craig Simons, Diane Rehm, environmentalism, NPR, pollution, Russell Kirk, The Devouring Dragon, 1 Listened to a sobering interview yesterday on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, with Craig Simons, author of the new book, The Devouring Dragon, which...
New Big Thinking on Wicked Problems
, , Climate Change, carbon mitigation, climate change, climate denier, climate science, climate skeptic, credibility, Dan Kahan, environment, global warming, James Hansen, Keystone Pipeline, Michael Shellenberg, NRO, Roger Pielke, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Nordhaus, The Breakthrough Institute, Wicked Problems, 1 By Brent Fewell Roger Pielke Jr. has a thoughtful piece over at The Breakthrough Institute titled The Irrelevance of...
EPA Announces Formation of Technical Working Group to Review Ocean Acidification
, , Climate Change, EPA, Species Protection, Water Issues, Amena Saiyid, carbon emissions, Center for Biological Integrity, global warming, John Reis, Nancy Stoner, ocean acidification, water quality criteria, Woods Hole, 0 By Brent Fewell As first reported by Amena Saiyid over at BNA, EPA announced this week that it plans to establish a...
EDF Promotes Sustainable Fracking Practices – and draws ire of other environmental groups
, , Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, Species Protection, Center for Sustainable Shale Development, Chevron, EDF, environment, fracking, Fred Krupp, Heinz Endowments, Lenny Bernstein, nature, Paul King, PEC, Shell, 0 By Brent Fewell Environmental Defense Fund is taking heat from other environmental groups for promoting sustainable energy practices, as...
Global warming can be really really scary to kids . . .
, , Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, Water Issues, children, climate change, fear of global warming, glacial melting, global warming, modeling, nature, Petermann Glacier, 0 By Brent Fewell A new survey reveals that nearly 60 percent of children fear global warming and the dire consequences,...
An Intriguing But Not-So-Bizarre Tale Involving EPA
, , Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, EPA, Water Issues, climate change, conservation, environmentalism, Gina McCarthy, Haida Salmon Project, ocean fertilizing, Russ George, Tracy Mehan, 0 A couple of months back I posted about a promising geoengineering development here, Save the Planet – plant a...
Does Green Labeling Influence One’s Willingness to Buy – Survey Says . . .
, , Climate Change, Free-Market Environmentalism, The Environment and Politics, climate change, Dena Gromet, energy efficiency, Energy Star, environmental, Fuqua, green labeling, Grist, Howard Kenreuther, National Academy of Sciences, Richard Larrick, Tim McDonnell, Wharton, 0 By Brent Fewell Apparently so, if you’re a political moderate or conservative. A new study from the National Academy of...
Truthmaking and Credibility Matter
, , Climate Change, Alister Doyle, climate change, Dan Kahan, global warming, IPCC, science, 0 Linking to an article by Alister Doyle over at Reuters titled Climate Scientists Struggle to Explain Warming Slowdown. “The...
Rush Limbaugh is Wrong on Climate Change – Note to File
, , Climate Change, climate change, conservative, environment, Kurt Eichenwald, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, 6 By Brent Fewell This week Rush Limbaugh had a young listener – a 13-year old boy named, Alex – call...
Just Give Me The Fracking Truth!
, , Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, fracking, FrackNation, Gasland, groundwater, hydraulic fracturing, Josh Fox, Matt Damon, oil and gas, Phelim McAleer, Promised Land, U.S. EPA, water, water quality, 0 By Brent Fewell Similar to climate change, the issue of hydraulic fracturing is now deeply mired in the quagmire of...
Keystone Protesters – the New Town Criers?
, , Climate Change, climate change, David Roberts, drinking water, Grist, groundwater, Joe Nocera, Keystone XL, little platoons, natural gas, sequestration, water quality, 3 By Brent Fewell I experienced one of those out-of-body moments this week, finding myself in agreement with WaPo’s editorial...
Gina McCarthy – A Serious Contender
, , Climate Change, EPA, climate change, Gina McCarthy, Roger Martella, 0 By Brent Fewell POTUS’ nominee for EPA, Gina McCarthy, is a rare breed in DC – no doubt she’s a...
You can’t handle the truth!
, , Climate Change, Alec Rawls, Cato, climate change, IPCC, Patrick Michaels, solar influence, 5 By Brent Fewell Or so suggests the actions of apocalyptic-leaning scientists and environmentalists who continue to seek to shape public...
Save the Planet – plant a tree or feed a krill
, , Climate Change, climate change, conservation, conservatism, Craig McLain, iron fertilization, ocean, Planktos, Russ George, water quality, 3 Two years ago, I reported on an experiment by a fascinating environmentalist and eco-entrepreneur, Russ George, and his pioneering...
My new year’s wish – for less politics and more credible voices!
, , Climate Change, Conservative Conservationism, climate change, conservatism, environment, James Hansen, Larry Schweiger, Michael Mann, NRO, NWF, science, 5 By Brent Fewell My friend, Larry Schwieger of National Wildlife Federation, tweeted out his new year’s wish, “for a...
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