November 7, 2008
The price of carbon allowances in the European Union’s European Trading Scheme has fallen more than 40% since July, thereby destroying the argument that a cap-and-trade program provides “a measure of certainty to the energy industry in estimating the future price of carbon for the purpose of planning investments in new power generators.”
October 31, 2008
On October 29, the U. S. broke 168 cold-temperature records and 63 snowfall records. The first snowfall in October in London since 1934 started at about ten PM on October 28, just as the British House of Commons passed a new climate bill that mandates 80% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
October 23, 2008
Unseasonably cold weather chilled Al Gore’s keynote speech at Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration this week. While Al blathered on about the immediate dangers posed by catastrophic global warming, temperatures in Cambridge, Massachusetts neared record lows.
October 17, 2008
The most sophisticated computer models in the world predict a temperature increase in this decade of about 0.2C due to increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases.
But this is not at all what we have seen, according to statistician Bjorn Lomoborg. Temperatures in this decade have not been increasing. They have actually decreased by between 0.01 and 0.1C.
October 10, 2008
The U. S. faces the prospect of demand-driven blackouts as soon as 2009, according to a report issued last week by the NextGen Energy Council. The study, “Lights Out in 2009?,” says that U.S. base-load generation capacity reserve margins "have declined precipitously to 17 percent in 2007, from 30-40 percent in the early 1990s." A 12-15 percent capacity reserve margin is the minimum required to ensure reliability and stability of the nation’s electricity system. Compounding this capacity deficiency, the projected U.S. demand in the next ten years is forecast to grow by 18 percent, far exceeding the projected eight percent growth in baseload generation capacity between now and 2016.
October 2, 2008
According to Leila Abboud of the Wall Street Journal, greenhouse gas emissions have increased 15 % in Norway since the country enacted the world’s first carbon tax twenty years ago. That’s slightly less than the increase in the United States over the same period.
September 26, 2008
The Democratic and Republican nominees also spoke at the annual pow-wow of the Clinton Global Initiative this week. Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Az.) presented almost indistinguishable plans to ration energy with a cap-and-trade program and save us from global warming. They also both vowed to reduce global poverty and revive the U. S. economy. The little difficulty that no one asked them about is that cap-and-trade will create chronic economic stagnation and increase poverty around the world.
September 17, 2008
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) last week posted a devastating exposé of the Pelosi plan. As announced last week, the plan would:
September 12, 2008
In the News
The Lawnmower Police Are ComingChris Horner, Human Events, 9 September 2008
The Pickens Plan: Questions UnansweredReece A. Epstein and David A. Ridenour, National Center for Public Policy Research, September 2008
Drilling for Dollars
September 5, 2008
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August 29, 2008
Congress won’t return until after the Republican Party Convention next week, but it’s becoming a little clearer what legislation the Democratic leadership will try to move in the three weeks or so left before they leave town again for the election campaign. First, they’ve given up on passing the twelve appropriations bills to fund the federal government in the 2009 fiscal year, which begins October 1st. Instead, they’ll pass a continuing resolution that continues FY 2008 funding either past the election into late November or perhaps into January or February.
August 21, 2008
The first half of 2008 was the coolest in at least five years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. According to the WMO, the whole year will almost certainly be cooler than recent years.
August 15, 2008
According to Dr. Nina Pierpont of Malone, N.Y., living within two miles of a wind turbine causes serious health problems, including headaches; difficulty sleeping; tinnitus, or ringing in the ears; learning and mood disorders; panic attacks; irritability; disruption of equilibrium, concentration and memory; and childhood behavior problems. Dr. Pierpont has coined the phrase "wind turbine syndrome" to describe these effects, which are caused by the low-frequency noise and vibration generated by wind machines.
August 8, 2008
EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson has denied the request from Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) to suspend the ethanol mandate. From Texas Governor Rick Perry ® to suspend the ethanol mandate. Johnson decided that the economic harm being done was not severe enough to waive the 2008 mandate of 9 billion gallons or the 2009 mandate of 11.1 billion gallons, as the law allows.
August 1, 2008
Global warming alarmists often cite low lying Bangladesh as a climate disaster in the making. They claim that rising sea levels will inundate the impoverished, densely populated country, causing catastrophe. In fact, Bangladesh is gaining land mass at a rate of almost 8 square miles a year.
