US Senate refrigerant bill not cool

The Caesar Rodney Institute’s David Stevenson explains why the latest bi-partisan climate bill — a legislative effort to circumvent the non-ratifiable Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol for the benefit of multinational rentseekers– is bad for Americans.

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Wildfires offsetting California’s expensive cap-and-trade emissions cuts

California’s failure to manage its forests so as to limit wildfires offset much if not all of the state’s expensive efforts to reduce its greenhouse emissions. Three charts from the California government and some back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate this.

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Joe Bast sets Washington Post straight on Trump appointment of David Legates to NOAA

Former Heartland Institute chief Joe Bast corrects the fake news on David Legates from the Washington Post. (Editor’s Note: One of the authors of the Post article, Andrew Freedman, was a political science major and is now a political science hack reporter… obviously qualified to pass judgment on Dr. David Legates.)

University of Delaware climatologist Dr. David Legates was just appointed to a leadership role at NOAA.

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Arctic warming up — in 1955 — reports Chicago Tribune

In 1955, atmospheric CO2 was at 314 ppm. That’s about a 100 ppm CO2 ago — and 36 ppm CO2 below the James Hansen-claimed ideal CO2 level of 350 ppm. (Note NYTimes update at end of post.)

Other points made in the Chicago Tribune article:

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New York Times debunks climate-caused California wildfires

California can either manage its forests better or watch them burn for another 200 years — according to the New York Times.

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Obama-Biden lied about banning coal in 2008; Biden is lying about banning fracking in 2020

Joe Biden said today in Pittsburgh, PA that, “I am not banning fracking.” Don’t believe it. Obama-Biden said the same thing about coal in 2008. Then they banned it.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 24, 2008

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