Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands

October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming

WSJ 10/14/2016 By Bjorn Lomborg Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change. Their dispatches are often filled with raw emotion and suggest that residents are fleeing... Read more

The Climate Police Blink

June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Global Warming, Law, Obama

Well, well. Where are all the “News Releases!”? ======= WSJ 6-16-2016 The Climate Police Blink There are few more rewarding sights than a bully scorned, so let’s hear it for the recent laments of Attorneys General Claude Walker (Virgin Islands) and Eric Schneiderman (New York), two ringleaders of the harassment campaign against Exxon and free-market think tanks over climate change. Consider Mr. Walker’s recent retreat... Read more

What Kills More People Cold or Heat?

April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, Obama, Science

Something your mother probably never taught you. ========= WSJ 4/7/2016 By Bjorn Lomborg The Obama administration released a new report this week that paints a stark picture of how climate change will affect human health. Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans. The report is subtitled “A Scientific Assessment,” presumably to underscore its reliability. But the report... Read more

Animas River Accounting?

February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US Constitution

You want to talk about ‘hall passes’ or what? ============= WSJ – 2/17/2016 If a private company dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into Colorado waterways, we’d be flooded with daily media updates for months. Yet the press has by now forgotten the disaster unleashed in August when EPA contractors punctured an abandoned mine. New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean... Read more

February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment

When it’s in your backyard… But I thought everyone was in love with “Green”? ===== By Robert Bryce Feb. 7, 2016 4:30 p.m. ET 895 COMMENTS Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in December introduced a sweeping renewable-energy plan that would, among other things, require tens of thousands of new wind turbines. Sen. Sanders’s “people before polluters” proposal may help rally his followers, but it won’t be... Read more

Obama’s Wind-Energy Lobby Gets Blown Away

August 22 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, Liberal Press

Where are all the “windmill huggers”? ======== By Robert Bryce WSJ Aug. 18, 2015 7:09 p.m. Chalk one up for the bald eagle. The avian symbol of American freedom has beaten the Obama administration and the wind industry in court, though the majestic birds still don’t stand a chance when flying near the subsidy-fueled blades of green-energy production. On Aug. 11, a federal judge in... Read more

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