My Earth Day column at RealClearPolitics.com… based on “Eco-Reality Strikes Back: Earth Day at 50”
Continue reading Earth Day at 50: Progress, Not Politics, Cleaned Up America
My Earth Day column at RealClearPolitics.com… based on “Eco-Reality Strikes Back: Earth Day at 50”
Continue reading Earth Day at 50: Progress, Not Politics, Cleaned Up America
As climate bedwetters hyperventilate about the state of the environment for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, reality strikes back. Here is my summary of the state of our environment.
In its “report” of the the Trump EPA’s decision not to tighten PM2.5 standards, the Washington Post ran this photo:
But…
Continue reading WaPo hits new low in air pollution photo fraud
A big win for all who have worked on this. We’re not done yet. But a big win nonetheless. You can read the wailings of the PM2.5 fraudsters in the New York Times coverage (Web | PDF). Incredible that the fraudsters launched their PM2.5-coronavirus study as a last minute “Hail Mary.” Also note the fake news headline — “Trump Disregards Advice.” In fact, EPA’s CASAC advised Administrator Wheeler that there was no scientific basis for tightening the standards.
By Princeton physicist Will Happer.
Regulatory agencies like EPA use cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to justify regulations. Let apply some back-of-the-envelope CBA to the current COVID lockdown.
Continue reading Cost-benefit analysis for the COVID lockdown
I bashed WHO for incompetence and corruption way before it became popular during the coronavirus crisis. Here is my FoxNews.com column from May 17, 2002.
ExxonMobil’s 2020 proxy statement (for its annual shareholder meeting) has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It includes my shareholder proposal requesting that ExxonMobil be honest about the costs and benefits of its climate-related activities. ExxonMobil insists on lying — even though the SEC agrees with me. My proposal and ExxonMobil’s response are below.
Never waste a crisis. A new study from Harvard claims that 1 microgram per cubic meter increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 15% increase in deaths from COVID19. This is totally absurd.
Continue reading Harvard Howler: Study claims PM2.5 increases risk of death from COVID19
So the Trump administration finally finished rolling back the pointlessly expensive and impossible-to-achieve 2012 Obama administration fuel economy standards. Great. But did EPA staff sabotage the rulemaking to favor certain legal challenge by environmentalists? You betcha.
Now we’re supposed to go communist because teens have been momentarily inconvenienced.