“To compel the switch from fossil fuels to wind and solar power is to consign billions of people to a life of poverty and darkness.” Sounds like an interesting book. =============== Book Review: ‘Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper’ by Robert Bryce Reviewed by Arthur Herman May 21, 2014 7:01 p.m. ET At the heart of the computer revolution is Moore’s law, named after Intel’s INTC -0.19%... Read more
Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Global Warming, Science, Technology‘What’s the Worst That Can Happen?’
May 21 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Global WarmingJohn Kerry makes a revealing statement in the form of a question. May 20, 2014 7:22 p.m. ET Secretaries of State may want to stop making statements in the form of questions, à la “Jeopardy.” First Hillary Clinton declared “what difference at this point does it make?” regarding the reasons that four Americans died in Benghazi. Then on Monday John Kerry told... 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
Personal Score-Settling Is the New Climate Agenda
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, The LeftWas it ever about ‘the truth’? ========= Surely, some kind of ending is upon us. Last week climate protesters demanded the silencing of Charles Krauthammer for a Washington Post column that notices uncertainties in the global warming hypothesis. In coming weeks a libel trial gets under way brought by Penn State’s Michael Mann, author of the famed hockey stick, against National Review,... 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
Climate of Uncertainty
October 3 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming======== Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than doubled in size—to some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. That’s the good news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global surface temperatures have remained essentially flat. That’s the mystery: If... Read more