“If COVID has taught us anything, it is that the technocratic class has little compunction about restricting freedom. Moreover, once they grab power, they are very reluctant to give it back. But our would-be overlords have one big problem. The pandemic that they argued justified restrictions on individual liberty will eventually ebb. So, the search…

“Woe is the Science Establishment. They’re wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth because a reputable poll from the University of Chicago found that only 48 percent of the public has a ‘great deal of confidence in the scientific community.’ Unsurprisingly, the distrust is not evenly divided throughout society. According to the poll, 64 percent of Democrats expressed…

“[D]on’t buy into the myth that electric vehicles are ‘zero-emission.’ Electric vehicles are built using fossil fuels, and manufacturing batteries is an especially dirty business.  Only 20% of the electric power source is from renewable energy sources (but again, remember it takes fossil fuels to construct renewable sources of energy).  The remaining 80% of the power…

“In Australia and California, which are both prone to bush fires, the plant and animal life have evolved over hundreds of years to adapt to wildfires. This does not support the claims that the fires in Australia are because of CO2. Everyone demands proof that this is not caused by CO2 instead of demanding that…

“The last major refinery to be built in the US was in 1977. And by major, I mean more than 100,000 barrels a day. There’s been some small ones put in, and some specialty ones here and there. But by and large, because of environmental pressure, the US has not made a new refinery at…

“As president, Obama declared, ‘I am a firm believer that climate change is real and that it is impacted by human behavior and carbon emissions. As a consequence, I think we have an obligation to future generations to do something about it.’ Of course, to Obama and other ruling elites, ‘doing something’ means imposing expectations on…

“Several of the rivers in and around Yellowstone Park experienced record-breaking flows [last] week[.] … [T]here are two main elements behind the Yellowstone flooding:  (1) the melting of an extreme snowpack and (2) heavy localized rain.   And to make this happen in such an extreme way, a lot of moving pieces had to come together.”…

“[On] June 16, CEI submitted two comment letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on its proposed rule: ‘The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors.’ The letter prepared by CEI colleague Richard Morrison is here. The letter prepared by Heritage Foundation data scientist Kevin Dayaratna, CEI colleague Patrick Michaels, and your humble…

“Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores—a social credit framework for sustainability reporting—are being used as the primary mechanism to achieve the shift to a stakeholder model. They measure both financial and non-financial impacts of investments and companies and serve to formally institutionalize corporate social responsibility [including climate alarmism]. … In August 2019, The Business Roundtable…

“According to most forecasters, oil and gas will continue to be a large component of the world’s energy mix in the next decades even in the most conservative estimations. … Canada’s federal government plans to cap the greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry—without creating a corresponding permit market—on top of its already…

“[S]takeholder capitalism [is] the idea that companies should focus less on profit (shareholder capitalism) and more on workers, communities and social and environmental issues such as climate change[.] … Milton Friedman, the Nobel prize-winning economist and a key proponent of shareholder capitalism, warned that corporations that sought to pursue [so called] socially desirable ends ‘would…

“Anyway, you have to love how [UC Santa Cruz] gift us two new over-certainty generating ideas. The first was to label points in history ‘Coolhouse’ which were much warmer than they are now, accepting the plot as true. … Their second method was to plot the most panicked predictions of future 2020-like points (and not…