Winter Woes – Green New Deal Turns Deadly
[ad_1] Over 150 million Americans are under a winter chill advisory due to life-threatening temperatures. Every state besides Hawaii has issued some form of caution to residents as nearly 80% of the nation faces below-freezing weather. Extreme weather highlights the importance of fossil fuels, as there is NO reliable alternative. Texas is on the verge […]
How to sell free trade to green types
[ad_1] Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Environmentalists do not get on with free-traders. Suspicion is the norm, if not the outright hostility on display at the “Battle of Seattle” in 1999, which took place between riot police and activists outside […]
Wall Street Journal: “Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition”
[ad_1] Just because you heard it at the Wall Street Journal does not make it wrong. Your truly (and a few lonely commentators of broadly similar view) have criticized the snake oil sold by the Green New Deal type and other Green Transition hopium peddlers as at least as dangerous as doing nothing. They hyped […]
The false promise of green jobs
[ad_1] “When I think climate, I think jobs—good-paying, union jobs,” proclaims Joe Biden, America’s president. Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, says that her “Green Deal” offers a “healthy planet” for future generations, as well as “decent jobs and a solemn promise to leave no one behind”. Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s […]
Maersk unveils world’s first vessel using green methanol
[ad_1] Copenhagen, DENMARK — Shipping giant Maersk on Thursday presented its first container vessel moved with green methanol, a landmark moment for one of the world’s most polluting industries. The new container ship, ordered in 2021, has two engines: one moved by traditional fuels and another run with green methanol — an alternative component, which […]
When Greenland Was Green: Ancient Soil From Beneath a Mile of Ice Offers Warnings for the Future
[ad_1] By Paul Bierman and Tammy Rittenour. Bierman is a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont. Rittenour is Professor of Geosciences and Director of Luminescence Lab, Utah State University. Originally published at The Conversation. About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. […]
Picking Winners Before the Green Flag is Waved
[ad_1] Within mainstream economics, there is an adage that if you subsidize a thing, you get more of that thing. This notion has been used by politicians to justify the government promotion of new technologies that promise to solve major social, economic, and environmental problems. The logic for subsidizing new technology rests upon the idea […]
Phase 2 of Kofi Annan’s uniquely African green revolution
[ad_1] July 24 to 26, 2023, in Rome, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a U.N. Food Systems Stocktaking Moment, the first global follow-up to the 2021 Food Systems Summit. The event will provide opportunities for nations to review commitments made during the summit and share success stories and evidence of transformation. Africa will likely […]
European business groups attack US over latest green investment move
[ad_1] European business groups and lawmakers have hit out at the White House after it announced fresh measures aimed at promoting investment in homegrown green technology. The support for American-made electric vehicle chargers, unveiled by the administration on Wednesday, comes after the US in August passed the $369bn Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, containing hundreds […]
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
[ad_1] To many activists, Lutzerath, an abandoned hamlet in Germany, encapsulates the nightmare of the global energy crisis. For months campaigners blocked the site’s demolition, after Robert Habeck, the country’s energy minister, allowed a utility firm to mine for lignite—the dirtiest form of coal—under its graffitied houses. As a giant excavator swallowed its way closer, […]