Robert Samuelson has a great piece on President Obama’s counterproductive bias against domestic oil and gas production in favor of unrealistic “green” jobs: In 2007, wind and solar generated less than 1 percent of U.S. electricity. Even a tenfold expansion will leave their contribution small. By contrast, oil and natural gas now provide two-thirds of [...]
In The New York Times, John Tierney has an excellent column about why getting rich is the best way to improve the environment: As their wealth grows, people consume more energy, but they move to more efficient and cleaner sources — from wood to coal and oil, and then to natural gas and nuclear power, [...]
Tags: earth day, Economics, energy, environment, environmentalism, nuclear
Scott Johnson has a deeply skeptical look at Sen. McCain’s new “climate change” policy . From a standpoint of policy, that skepticism is well warranted. The political story, however, is entirely different. The political reality is this: global warming concerns are part of the political landscape now. Too many voters have bought into the hype [...]
Tags: 2008, cap and trade, environment, global warming, GOP, McCain
ABC News has a piece on this year’s unusually active tornado season. While ABC was careful to note that there’s no real scientific evidence tying an increase in tornados to global warming, a lack of scientific evidence has never stopped the environmentalist lobby from making dire pronouncements before. In somewhat related news, a majority of [...]
Jerry Pournelle has a suggestion for how we can make this country energy independent: As to whether American ingenuity can use that technology to help win us energy independence, I have to say it again: cheap energy will cause a boom. The only cheap energy I know of is nuclear. Three Hundred Billion bucks in [...]
Tags: Economics, energy, environment, nuclear
Jim Geraghty of NRO’s Campaign Spot blog notes a survey that show that global warming is a major political issue in New Hampshire. While much of the global warming issue is alarmist hype, that hype has sunk in. However, even for global warming skeptics the necessity for a smarter energy policy is clear. We can’t [...]
Tags: 2008, energy, environment, global warming, nuclear energy, policy, Politics