“The major international energy issue should not be climate change. It should be, per Guillermo M. Yeatts, country-by-country privatization of subsurface mineral rights to benefit the mass of surface owners and would-be entrepreneurs.”
He was a true friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and goodwill for all. He was a successful entrepreneur in the US and Latin America. He was a thinker and doer, building up an intellectual case for public policy reform and acting on it. And for a lot of us, he was a good friend. In my case, he introduced my work to Latin America.
Guillermo M. Yeatts died a year ago just short of his 81st birthday. Born in Buenos Aires, he studied in America and successively rose in business in the US and in Argentina (see Appendix A).…
“Invited witnesses compar[ed] climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers, racists…. Prof. [Irana] Marinov … heckled me during my testimony.”
“Hopefully my testimony and the testimony of Kevin Dayaratna of The Heritage Foundation, Climatologist Dr. David Legates, and Geologist Gregory Wrightstone, helped educate Prof. Marinov on the realities of climate change.” (Marc Morano, Climate Depot)
In October, Pennsylvania’s House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee held its third hearing debating the science and policy of global climate change. Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe called the hearings to evaluate Penn Governor Tom Wolf’s executive order for his state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s (RGGI) cap-and-trade program. (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont currently participate in this power-plant-emission program.)
Some highlights from Marc Morano’s submitted written testimony follow:
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“I am not a scientist, although I do occasionally debate scientists on TV.…
The battle against dense, mineral energies is stymied because of a simple concept that the climate alarmists (including the mainstream media) do not want to comprehend: energy density.
Consumers want the best energies, while an intellectual/political elite scheme for and mandate inferior substitutes. And the crusade is further complicated because carbon dioxide (CO2) is the green greenhouse gas, hardly the satanic gas the anti-industrial Left wants to ban.
As energy density drives the world’s daily work, how are the climate crusaders responding? One major complaint concerns the frontal push of China to coal-fired generation.
Jennifer Layke of the World Resources Institute deals with the elephant in the room as follows:
…As the world turns attention to the UN climate meetings this week, news from China has captured global headlines: From January 2018 to June 2019, the country added 43 gigawatts (GW) of net new coal power capacity to its existing 1,000 GW coal fleet, while the rest of the world collectively reduced coal capacity by 8 GW.