“Good thing that Jimmy Carter’s Administration did not act on this to join their other sins, from price control to conservationism to creating the Department of Energy to synthetic fuel.”
Do the math with the 1977 climate memo to Jimmy Carter (below). In the next 60 years (to 2037), the memo predicted that increasing CO2 emissions would increase global average temperatures between 0.5 and 5.0 C (midpoint is 2.75 C).
Warming nearing the 50-year market is about 0.8C. Assume the total warming in the next 12 years brings the total to 1C anthropogenic. That makes a mockery of the high end of the estimate, which is the basis of “the possibility of a Catastrophic Climate Change.” And it is around one-third of the midrange of 2.75C.
It gets worse. Some of the warming in the 60-year period is undoubtedly natural, not anthropogenic.…
Continue Reading“What would happen if CO2 doubled from the current approximately 400 ppm in the atmosphere to 800 ppm? Crop yields worldwide would increase by about 40%, based on empirical findings of how CO2 concentrations affect crop yields.” (Lindzen and Happer, below)
“Greenhouse Gases and Fossil Fuels Climate Science” by Richard Lindzen (MIT) and William Happer (Princeton University) contains many arguments against climate alarmism and thus the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, now subject to reversal. This particular section of the recent Lindzen/Happer study (April 2025) concerns real science, CO2 science, versus non-testable, causality-errant climate models. This testimony in regard to the repeal of the CO2 endangerment finding will be important.
Lindzen/Happer’s general conclusion is (p. 43): “The common belief that CO2 is the main driver of climate change and the EPA Endangerment Finding assertion that ‘elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated’ to endanger the public health and welfare are scientifically false.”…
Continue Reading“IER/AEA have thousands of individual donors, reflecting the intellectual case for a free market and the goodness of civil society. This is a proud fact.”
A Mother Jones article from 15 years read: “Meet the 12 loudest members of the chorus claiming that global warming is a joke and that CO2 emissions are actually good for you.” And number 12 of the “dirty dozen” was the educational nonprofit Institute of Energy Research and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance.
IER/AEA would surely make the list today–and be ranked higher. This is a badge of honor. The message of classical liberalism applied to energy remains strong and consistent. Consumers matter. Taxpayers matter. Energy resource efficiency matters. Respect for the energy decisions of voluntarily consenting adults matter.
Here is the piece by Josh Harkinson from December 5, 2009, verbatim, with my critical comments.…
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