“8). Do you support a carbon tax? Do you support the Obama administration’s use of the social cost of carbon in rulemakings?
A. No and No.
9). Do you think federal agencies have abused the cost-benefit process to suit their political agenda? Would your administration end the process of underestimating costs and inflating benefits of agency regulations?
A. Yes and Yes.”
President candidate Donald Trump responded to ten questions submitted by the free-market energy advocacy group, American Energy Alliance (the advocacy arm of the Institute for Energy Research, of which I am founder and CEO). Overall, there is great promise of market-oriented reform, reinforcing Trump’s earlier statements about reigning in the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Trump is weak on ethanol mandates and pretty good on most other issues. A particularly weak sentence is: “Until this nation sets its sights on total energy independence, we must support all energy sources.”…
“Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and ‘we expect that [real-world] warming will resume in the next few years,’ the Hadley Centre group writes…. Researchers … agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer.”
– Richard Kerr. What Happened to Global Warming? Scientists Say Just Wait a Bit.” Science, October 1, 2009.
Debates over the ‘pause’ or ‘hiatus’ of global warming since its El Nino-driven peak back in 1998 should not forget the false confidence of leading alarmist scientists were saying less than a decade ago about how the warming slowdown was surely coming to an end. After all, model-predicted warming was the best indication of reality if the models had the right physics in them (a Big if).…
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual worldwide celebration of human progress is tomorrow, March 19th. Turn on the lights and celebrate the wondrous ability of natural gas, coal, and oil to overcome Obama energy policy and forced renewable penetration to keep the lights on in despite-all fairly affordable way.
As CEI explains:
…Human Achievement Hour is a time to celebrate innovations that help us all live better, fuller lives. Human Achievement Hour is also the counter-event to Earth Hour, where participants symbolically renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology by turning off their lights for an hour. We believe it’s a misguided effort that ignores how access to affordable energy helps people around the world.
How to celebrate with us? Share your favorite human achievement or innovation that makes your life easier!