“Regulations and foreign aid policies restricting low-cost coal power, intended to reduce CO2 emissions, drive up costs and reduce the availability of electricity. In poor parts of the world, this leaves millions more still exposed to much denser and more dangerous indoor air pollution.”
The energy race is on, with separate lanes for teams advancing wind, solar, gas, coal, and oil sands technologies.
Across the world enterprises race to discover and develop new energy-rich places and raw materials, searching for pathways to lower costs, reduce waste, and boost yields. For energy, the master resource, engineers from solar to oil sands test new materials, chemicals, and processes for transforming sun, wind, water, and earth to energy.
Windmill teams design ever larger, more efficient blades, more efficient power transformers, and hopefully more resilient to storms and corrosion.…
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“Climate denial is a deeply cynical enterprise; the people misrepresenting evidence and sifting through emails for ‘gotcha’ quotes have to know that they’re not being honest. Yet their rage against ‘elitists’ who continue to point out inconvenient truths is very real — because it’s a fact of life that many people feel special hatred for those they’ve mistreated.”
– Paul Krugman, “The G.O.P.’s Climate of Paranoia.” New York Times, August 20, 2018.
In his recent “The G.O.P.’s Climate of Paranoia,” Paul Krugman invokes sound bites and invective on the subject of climate science and climate policy. The New York Times columnist is all-in regarding climate alarmism and forced (government) energy transformation. He knows he is right and just fusses at the rest of us.
Krugman’s statements are in red; my response is indented in black.…
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“Opposition to a 3.5 mile pipeline … has nothing to do the environment. It is ideology and special interests, not facts, that drive the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.”
“So, 35 million gallons of raw sewage is no problem if there’s a flood to carry it away. Who knew? And New York, the professed protector of the environment via its fracking ban, didn’t think it was important enough to notify Pennsylvanians. Where are the environmentalists? Why haven’t we heard from them?”
The first speech I ever gave, way back in the 1960s as part of a Future Farmers of America (FFA) regional high school speaking contest, was about conservation. That was the sensible term used then, before the first Earth Day when a bunch of virtue-signalling folk turned such commonsense into “environmentalism.”
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