Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Wednesday that the Arctic ice sheet extends 25 percent further than it did last summer, with 1.82 million square miles of ice at its annual low. Arctic ice coverage reaches…
George Will got it right in a recent column on climate change. The movement is driven by the progressive Left to further its anti-capitalist hatred of the petroleum, natural gas, and coal industries. The liberal Left in the United States and the…
I’m playing around with an idea of which I’m not particularly convinced, but in which I do think there could be some truth. That idea, specifically, is that given what’s happening at the moment it might not be such a…
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters Dr. Steven Koonin (BenBella Books, 240 pages, $25) If politicians’ positions on public policy were guided by knowledge and honesty, the entire “national conversation” and congressional debate…
With the wave of executive orders and legislation coming from the Biden administration, and the cultural antics of his woke supporters, Biden’s war on fossil fuels has received insufficient attention. Yet energy is the lifeblood of our economy, and making…
Domestic climate debates are clouding our reasoning on energy exports. The latest example of this problem is the climate movement’s vocal opposition to a proposal from Sempra, a San Diego–based energy infrastructure company, to send natural gas to Mexico for…
The United Nations is one of those organizations that set out to stop the apocalypse but only ever end up raising the price of plastic bags. They are a dynamic bunch, however, and they know their target audience. So, perhaps…
Many on the left love to talk about the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, but what about the social benefits? A new study by climate, economics, and statistical experts raises serious questions about the most popular social cost of carbon models and finds that…
Global warming has been characterized by its critics (and occasionally by followers like Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono) as a religious movement. While this is correct, it is a religious movement of a special kind, that is, an apocalyptic movement. And…
