321? It would be funny if not so sad. =============== The sprawling Ivanpah solar power station in the Mojave Desert probably never would have been built without environmental activists and the subsidies and mandates they created, so there’s more than a little irony that BrightSource Energy, Google GOOGL +0.02% and another clean-tech utility are now getting an education in the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Australia Repeals Carbon Tax
July 17 | Posted by mrossol | EnvironmentWow. I did not expect this move. =========== CANBERRA, Australia—After almost a decade of heated political debate, Australia has become the world’s first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions. In a vote that could highlight the difficulty in implementing additional measures to reduce carbon emissions ahead of global climate talks next year in Paris, Australia’s Senate... Read more
A Climate Activist Bags Himself
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingFor my friends on the left – the right is not the only ‘camp’ with ‘duds’. ============= In “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” a Hemingway story, a man goes big game hunting who should have stayed home. Tom Steyer maybe should have stayed home. The hedge-fund king has sought to propel himself to the top circle of Democratic money men and... Read more
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingI commend Mr Rossiter for speaking up. ======== “Western policies seem more interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy.” Every year environmental groups celebrate a night when institutions in developed countries (including my own university) turn off their lights as a protest against fossil fuels. They say their goal is to get America and Europe to look from space like Africa: dark,... Read more
Cannot See the Forest for the Deer
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EnvironmentGotta love Bambi.. don’t you? ============= By Al Cambronne The U.S. now has 30 million deer, a hundred times more than a century ago. From California to Long Island, the rising deer population has resulted in widespread property damage and crop losses, as well as an increase in Lyme disease and often fatal deer-car collisions. The causes are clear: a lack of natural... Read more
Stuck on a ship of cold fools
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingNot that you hear anything at all about ‘the mission’ on the ‘major media’. ================= YOU have to feel a touch of sympathy for the global warming scientists, journalists and other hangers-on aboard the Russian ship stuck in impenetrable ice in Antarctica, the mission they so confidently embarked on to establish solid evidence of melting ice caps resulting from climate change embarrassingly... Read more
