An Open Request to Resources for the Future (RFF)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 27, 2016 3 Comments
Previous posts at MasterResource have documented the lack of open intellectual inquiry at Resources for the Future (RFF) regarding the physical science of climate change and the case for government-led transformation of energy sources.
A third post yesterday documented RFF’s buy-in to resource pessimism and gapism (more government intervention in place of price and allocation decontrol) in the pivotal 1970s.
Trends can change. They should change. RFF as a scholarly organization should:
1. Recognize the physical science of climate change as highly unsettled and thus open to contrary public policy positions.
Implication: Consider ‘global lukewarming” as a base case for economic analysis.
2. Recognize the benefits, the positive externalities, associated with the anthropogenic influence on climate.
Implication: Open a research program on the benefits of carbon dioxide emissions/concentrations, not only costs, as has been the case with RFF’s analytics to date.
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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 25, 2016
By John Droz, Jr. -- January 25, 2016 2 Comments
The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:
Five Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Subsidize Wind or Solar
Study: 3.8 Million US Jobs will be Lost in the Transition to Renewables
Turbine Noise Calculations for 1238 Homes
New Research on Turbines Killing Bats
Broken Wing: Birds, Blades and Broken Promises
Recycling: An Energy Loser
No Matter Where It’s Sited, Industrial Wind Energy is a NET loser
MIT PhD writes op-ed on some Wind Limitations
Community once in favor of wind energy, now overwhelmingly opposed
Climate Alarmists now Attacking Satellite Data
Climate Change Science & the Climate Change Scare
Paris Agreement: Recycled Socialism
Conservatives, Climate Change, and the Carbon Tax
1400 CEOs – Climate Change Not a Major Worry
1001 Reasons why Global Warming is so Over in 2016
New Scientific Study: “A New View on Climate Change”
The Corrosion of Conformity on Campus
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Greed Energy Economics:
Five Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Subsidize Wind or Solar
Study: 3.8 Million US Jobs will be Lost in the Transition to Renewables
Pope Francis and the Climate for Giving
60 Minutes: China is behind The Great Brain Robbery
Insurers: Global Warming Makes Natural Disasters Less Expensive
The Gov’t Has Spent a Lot on Electric Cars — Is it Worth it?…
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No Global Warming Pause! (NOAA study captures media, including WSJ)
By E. Calvin Beisner -- June 8, 2015 2 Comments
That’s how most of the media are treating a new study, anyway. Even the Wall Street Journal ran a news piece titled “Study Finds No Pause in Global Warming.”
The source? “Possible artifacts of data bias in the recent global surface warming hiatus,” published this week in Science, by long-time global warming alarmist Tom Karl et al.
Abstract:
Much study has been devoted to the possible causes of an apparent decrease in the upward trend of global surface temperatures since 1998, a phenomenon that has been dubbed the global warming “hiatus.” Here we present an updated global surface temperature analysis that reveals that global trends are higher than reported by the IPCC, especially in recent decades, and that the central estimate for the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century.
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‘The New Science & Economics of Climate Change’ (Heartland’s 10th Coming up in Washington, DC)
By Jim Lakely -- May 12, 2015 2 Comments
“If there’s any chance at a rational policy on climate, two things must happen. First, intelligent laymen must take back the debate, by pushing currently out-of-bounds science back onto centre stage. They must stop letting ‘experts’ do their thinking for them. Second, political attacks on scientists must be stopped. Those must be pushed out of bounds.”
– Christopher Essex (Ph.D), Financial Post, February 26, 2015.
On June 11-12, 2015, in Washington, D.C., The Heartland Institute of Chicago, Illinois will host its Tenth International Conference on Climate Change, titled The New Science & Economics of Climate Change. “The debate over climate change is changing,” our conference brochure states. “Can you feel it?”
Yes, a growing number of scientists say the climate is less sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought. Most Americans do not believe global warming is a major threat.…
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