For 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
Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
Birth of a Climate Mafia
July 2 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Science, Tax Issues===== July 1, 2014 6:40 p.m. Holman Jenkins Can something good come from a U.S. splurge of climate pork that, in itself, would have no discernible effect on global climate or atmospheric carbon dioxide? A probable answer is no. It would actually end up making our putative carbon challenge worse. But Paul Krugman and others say a carbon tax is politically impossible,... Read more
A Constitutional Tutorial for Obama [and EPA]
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Liberal Press, ObamaHmm. The President of the United States of America… vowes to uphold and defend the constituation, as well as all the laws of this country. ======== The Obama Administration’s abuse of executive power is emerging as this Supreme Court term’s defining theme, and on Monday the Justices applied some basic constitutional law to the White House’s anticarbon agenda. In Utility Air Regulatory Group... Read more
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
May 22 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Global Warming, Science, Technology“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
‘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
