May 9, 2008
| Myron Ebell, CEI
If this level of government support were given to horse-drawn carriages and wagons, the era of the automobile would soon be a brief interlude in the age of the horse.
May 9, 2008
| Chris Horner, CEI
That mean George Bush and those nasty filibustering Republicans are blocking a climate bailout. Or, maybe not so much. As my CEI colleague Myron Ebell characterizes this: thieves fall out when it comes time to split up the loot.
May 8, 2008
| Iain Murray, CEI, posted on National Review Online
The NRDC has a full-page ad in the New York Times today hailing "The Economic Stimulus Plan that can Save the World." This miracle piece of legislation is none other than the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill. NRDC's premise is put quite simply in the ad — Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! In other words, shifting over from old-energy technology to new-energy technology will create jobs aplenty.
May 8, 2008
| Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation
If the same category four cyclone (or "hurricane" in the Atlantic) hit an industrialized country, the storm would have been harmful but not even remotely close to the devastation that exists today in Myanmar.
May 7, 2008
| Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
You know your state is in trouble when the chairman of your commission to address the global warming crisis cites one of the newsweaklies as grounds for established scientific fact. That is the case with the University of Iowa's Jerald Schnoor, who chairs the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council.
May 7, 2008
| Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
Martin Watcher, the marvelous mysterious blogger in Maryland, does the math today on the Public Service Commission's compact fluorescent light bulb program. The upshot is that the major utilities, Baltimore Gas & Electric and Allegany Power, have reaped nearly $1 million per month from the program thanks to surcharges on their customers' bills.
May 7, 2008
| Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
Every Chesser deserves his five minutes of glory in the blogosphere, so here's Uncle Wes with his celebration of Earth Day, Al Gore, and windmills in his best Dave Barry-esque form.
May 7, 2008
| Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
...now it's the Koalas.
May 7, 2008
| Pat Michaels, World Climate Report
We see a rise in sea level that is below the estimate of the IPCC and we see no acceleration through the past five decades. Basically, nothing seems to be happening with sea level that is remotely out of the ordinary. IPCC certainly seems to be exaggerating the best estimate of sea level rise, and it make us wonder what else they might be exaggerating.
May 6, 2008
| Julie Walsh, CEI
For those concerned about our “dependence upon foreign oil,” Leiberman-Warner’s cap and trade tax bill would increase—no—double it.
