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EPA, IPCC Push Ahead Even as Global Warming Theories Crumble
Opinion -Ten days ago the Environmental Protection Agency issued its proposed rule for the implementation of regulations of carbon dioxide on utilities’ coal-fired power plants. -
Congress’s Dubious Obamacare Exemption
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #384Technically, the issues with Congressional staff subsidies within the health insurance exchange market is a special consideration under the law’s requirements, so it’s not exactly a waiver – but either way, the Obama -
Climate Change Conversation Aborted
Opinion -An editorial essay by American Chemical Society (ACS) officers Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell (Science 5 April 2013) extends a gracious invitation for a "respectful conversation" about Climate Change. -
Margaret Thatcher: Global Warming Provides Excuse For ‘Worldwide, Supra-National Socialism’
Opinion -In honor of Margaret Thatcher’s memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: “Global warming ‘provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism. -
BP: Back to Petroleum and Beyond Puff-power
Opinion -British Petroleum is still one of the world’s biggest oil companies. But as early as the late 1990s they didn’t want you think of them that way. -
Seasonal Flow Regimes of UK Rivers
Opinion -Analyses of river flow records since 1969 reveal there is “no compelling evidence for a decrease in overall runoff or low flows” in the summer, which finding “is contrary to trajectories of most future [model] projections”... -
Tropical Fish May be Well Prepared to Cope with Global Warming
Opinion -And they appear to be prepared to do it rapidly, as the authors of this report discovered that offspring phenotypes fully adapted to the increase in temperature within a mere two generations, which finding, in the words of the authors, “could indicate -
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
Opinion -On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement saying it had "complete[d] the process of implementation of a set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), the group created by the -
Green Welfare, Green Taxes, Green Poverty
Opinion -What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors' houses and stealing their family jewels and life savings? You would arm yourself, and your family members of sufficient age, to defend your property. -
New Emissions Data Dampen Warming Fears
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Jan. 23, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. -
New Emissions Data Rebut Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Monday, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. -
Research & Commentary: The FutureGen Project
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In the past few decades the federal government has spent millions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing the development of new energy technologies, including large-scale sequestration of carbon emitted from coal-burning power plants. -
America’s Energy Future is Bright, If Government Doesn’t Shut It Down
Opinion -With the exception of our declining public education system, the single greatest obstacle to our nation’s future economic growth is a near-total lack of understanding of our vast energy resources. -
Death of an Entrepreneur
Opinion -Seldom is the passing of a corporate leader the stuff of front-page headlines and numerous commentaries. Steve Jobs, however, wasn't just any corporate leader. -
Study: EPA Overestimating Methane Emissions from Fracking
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overestimating the amount of methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing production of natural gas, concludes a new study from an independent energy analysis firm. -
Waxman-Markey Bill Would Raise Electricity Prices $846 Billion
Opinion -The Waxman-Markey bill to restrict carbon dioxide emissions would cost $846 billion in the next decade alone, in the form of required payments for emissions allowances, according to a June 5 report from the Congressional Budget Office. -
Congressman Mark Kirk Wrong on Cap-and-Trade
Opinion -Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk is expected to announce soon that he will seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator in the February 20, 2010 primary election. The seat currently is held by appointed Democrat Sen. -
Energy Economics 101
Opinion -Yes, energy prices are still high. During the July 4, 2008 weekend, gasoline at the pump averaged nationwide more than $4 a gallon, and crude oil was over $145 per (55-gallon) barrel. -
Congressmen See Energy Answer in Oil Shale
Opinion -Western congressmen, fully aware of rich oil shale resources concentrated in the Badlands of Wyoming, eastern Utah, and extreme western Colorado, are supporting legislation to remove federal prohibitions on oil shale recovery. -
Cap-and-Trade Plans Will Require Draconian Lifestyle Restrictions
Opinion -Imagine every American being given a plastic debit card entitling them to release carbon dioxide (CO2). Filling the gas tank would debit the card for the CO2 caused by the amount of gasoline purchased. -
A Must-Read Book on Global Warming
Opinion -The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud by Lawrence Solomon Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 240 pages, $27. -
Global Smearing
Opinion -By any standard, atmospheric physicist Dr. S. Fred Singer is a remarkably accomplished scientist. But his outspoken questioning of global warming alarmism has just earned him one of the most outrageous mainstream media smear pieces I’ve ever seen. -
Economic Markets and Political Markets
Opinion -Former Tribune editor and publisher, Jack Fuller, has described two markets for energy. One is political and the other is economic. He correctly describes how political markets often add substantial counterproductive costs on the energy markets. -
California Senate Rejects Dam Proposal
Opinion -California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) plan to build two new hydroelectric dams has foundered, at least temporarily, as the California Senate on April 24 voted against the governor's $4 billion proposal.
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