In the annual Global Warming Policy Foundation lecture, Lord Frost warns that the Government's goal of achieving Net Zero by 2050 will involve vast waste, inefficiency, cronyism and economic decline.
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Your methane bridge to nowhere (source)by Gaius PubliusI've seen this report referenced several times, but none of those mentions is getting traction. So time to repeat.
Forty years ago tonight, President Jimmy Carter delivered an address making dark predictions of an imminent shortage of natural energy resources. But instead of ridiculing Carter’s speech, we should learn from it. It shows the power of markets to deal with resource constraints.
Making America Great Again, by returning to a past that never existed at all (source).by Gaius PubliusIn a previous piece, "Climate Change in the Age of Trump: A Profit-First Energy Plan," we looked at the Trump "energy" plan and found it
Dirty coal is going down in Oregon (source)by Gaius PubliusShort and very sweet. There are two states that don't use coal at all to generate energy, Vermont and Hawaii. All of the rest burn some coal, and no state has banned coal completely; until now; until Oregon. My emphasis below:
Greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plantsby Gaius PubliusIt's amazing what can be done by a government determined to do it. In the U.S., our approach to the climate crisis is to use the "invisible hand" of the market and be careful not to get in the way of "wealth creation" (for billionaires).
Data: LSE | *Metric tonnes CO2 equivalent (click to enlarge). Note Canada's emissions in 1990, the Kyoto benchmark year, and in 2005, Obama's benchmark year.by Gaius PubliusThe push to get nations to commit to carbon emissions savings is much in the news lately, so I'd like to take a moment to make two points.
"The game is rigged." Doesn't sound much like a "market" to me. And "capitalism" isn't the word you're looking for either.by Gaius Publius(This is part one of several pieces on what Bernie Sanders can accomplish if elected president. At the end I offer an example of a Sanders-like "What I will never do" speech.
