“With us gone, I believe ecosystems will be restored and there will be enough of everything. No more fighting over resources. The idea wasn’t as well received as I had hoped.” – Les Knight, The Guardian, 2020.
“What can be said in response to this humankind-hate? It is a humbling reminder that climate madness is at the center of the deep-ecology movement against modern, high-energy civilization. Expect the eco-nutty to seek-and-destroy persons and property as their ideas are rejected by the world.” RLB, below
Deep ecology — putting animals and plants equal or ahead of humans — is a dangerous religion. It breeds dangerous anger, social withdrawal, and calls for authoritarian government. And in climate terms, deep ecology has reached the point of premeditated property destruction, such as advocated by Andreas Malm in his book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021).…
Continue ReadingMarlo Lewis, Jr. is a fellow you want to meet and spend time with. A Harvard University PhD., he has long been a voice of rationality in the climate debate from his home base of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He is all around fun and plays swing mandolin in a band, Old Town Tradition.
Lewis recently proposed “Expressing the Sense of Congress on the Paris Agreement” for serious debate now that Net Zero is fantastical. Global-government central climate planning must stop. No target should be set for carbon dioxide for reasons that are scientifically sensible and well articulated. Let the market decide with methane too, a market rich in pipeline capacity and end-user growth to naturally reduce natural gas release/flaring.
Lewis’s draft for Republicans and consumer-and-taxpayer-friendly Democrats follows:
Whereas the Paris Agreement is a global framework for pressuring U.S.…
Continue Reading“Climate change is no hoax, because the climate always changes. Modest global warming might be beneficial for the globe. But not all climate change is beneficial. Cooling would be disastrous.”
“The American Geophysical Union … displays a diminishing interest in science, that is, in the disinterested pursuit of knowledge. Instead, it revels in an escalating interest in politics, including much talk about nebulous ideas like ‘environmental justice’ and mobilizing scientists to be ‘change agents.’
Since November 2020, the price of gasoline has steadily increased like a rising tide. A good portion of the pain at the pump that Americans, and people around the world, have felt, and increasingly feel, is due to enormous monetary expansion coupled with disastrous energy policies. The energy-price emergency began long before Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.…
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