Environment
Special deals. Special laws. Once the state starts taking this sort of step, we’re well past the point of reasonable accommodation for an incipient industry: State lawmakers are attempting to breathe new life into a stalled proposal for an eight-turbine wind farm in waters off Block Island through legislation that would allow the project to…
I suppose another unelected panel and some municipal and state mandates can only do so much additional harm: Rhode Island may take another step toward addressing climate change issues if the General Assembly passes legislation initiated by students in the environmental studies program at Brown University. The bill, introduced by Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, calls…
… okay, possibly not everywhere. But definitely in one of the many, many areas – California – that President Obama has just ruled off limits to exploration and drilling. One of the side affects of offshore oil production has been the reduction of oil and gas seepage due to decreases in subsea oil-reservoir pressure. Seep…
The Newport Daily News headline for this AP report pretty well captures the spin and points to the possible problem: “New mileage rules will save drivers at the pump.” The rules will cost consumers an estimated $434 extra per vehicle in the 2012 model year and $926 per vehicle by 2016, the government said. But…
H/T Michael Graham. The main goal of Earth Hour is to raise awareness about man’s purported role in global warming. However, there have been some developments in the theory of anthropogenic global warming that Mr. Brady and others may not be aware of. * The theory itself has already proven to be badly flawed. The…
In the aptly named “Green Jobs and Rose-Tinted Glasses” (subscription required), Iain Murray argues that evidence does not suggest that the “green” subindustry is a windfall just requiring a little initial shaking: Green jobs, it would seem, are a magic bullet for the administration, solving the problems of unemployment, poverty, community degradation (and therefore crime,…
Note: I’ve been receiving regular updates on the tsunami that’s just now hitting Hawaii from Anchor Rising reader Ken Williamson. These are they, and I’ll update this post as they come in. Received 11:58 a.m. 27 Feb. 2010 at 6 AM the emergency sirens sounded. Last night about 8 PM last night a 8.8 magnitude…
For at least a decade, now, it seemed as if whatever was happening on the planet, globally, regionally, whatever, was attributed to climate change. Here’s more indication that even things that weren’t happening on the planet were being thus attributed: More trouble looms for the IPCC. The body may need to revise statements made in…
In part to give my credulous environmentalist friends a reason for their daily exclamations about our lack of credibility and in part because it relates to points that I’ve made before about the construction of consensus on global warming, I thought I’d quote from a story in National Review about the two most prominent climate…
I refuse to scrap the entirety of my brilliant post about the new analysis of problematic temperature data stations just because Justin, the smart apple, beat me to it. The most critical element of the theory of anthropogenic global warming is … well, you know, some actual warming of the globe. Data – more specifically,…
