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Mineral Privatization for the Masses: Remembering Guillermo Yeatts (1937–2018)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 12, 2019

“The major international energy issue should not be climate change. It should be, per Guillermo M. Yeatts, country-by-country privatization of subsurface mineral rights to benefit the mass of surface owners and would-be entrepreneurs.”

He was a true friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and goodwill for all. He was a successful entrepreneur in the US and Latin America. He was a thinker and doer, building up an intellectual case for public policy reform and acting on it. And for a lot of us, he was a good friend. In my case, he introduced my work to Latin America.

Guillermo M. Yeatts died a year ago just short of his 81st birthday. Born in Buenos Aires, he studied in America and successively rose in business in the US and in Argentina (see Appendix A).…

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Morano Climate Testimony before the Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee (October 28, 2019)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 11, 2019

“Invited witnesses compar[ed] climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers, racists…. Prof. [Irana] Marinov … heckled me during my testimony.”

“Hopefully my testimony and the testimony of Kevin Dayaratna of The Heritage Foundation, Climatologist Dr. David Legates, and Geologist Gregory Wrightstone, helped educate Prof. Marinov on the realities of climate change.” (Marc Morano, Climate Depot)

In October, Pennsylvania’s House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee held its third hearing debating the science and policy of global climate change. Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe called the hearings to evaluate Penn Governor Tom Wolf’s executive order for his state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s (RGGI) cap-and-trade program. (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont currently participate in this power-plant-emission program.)

Some highlights from Marc Morano’s submitted written testimony follow:

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“I am not a scientist, although I do occasionally debate scientists on TV.…

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“No Significant Trend in U.S. Hurricanes Over the Period 1900–2017” (article review)

By -- December 10, 2019

Editor Note: The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season was slightly above normal, with 18 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 3 major (3-5 category) hurricanes versus norms of 12, 6 and 3 respectively, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA, however, noted that 2019 was “the fourth consecutive above-normal Atlantic hurricane season,” the last being 1998–2001.

But what about past hurricane activity? This recent article review at CO2 Science by Craig D. Idso (Ph.D.) follows.

Truchelut, R.E. and Staehling, E.M. 2017. An energetic perspective on United States tropical cyclone landfall droughts. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 12,013-12,019.

One of the more often cited claims of climate alarmists is that CO2-induced global warming is increasing both the frequency and magnitude of hurricane events. Rarely does a hurricane event occur these days without the media quoting someone who places blame for its existence on CO2 emissions.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: December 9, 2019

By -- December 9, 2019
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Climate Futility at COP 25: The China Syndrome

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 5, 2019
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“Green Groups at COP 25 Warn Against Market-Driven Solutions to Climate Emergency”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 4, 2019
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Climate Conundrum: Revisiting a 2016 Discussion (when Hillary was going to win)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 3, 2019
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Some Climategate Recollections

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 2, 2019
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A Politically Incorrect Thanksgiving List

By Roy Cordato -- November 27, 2019
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Letter to His Holiness Pope Francis About the Weather

By Lord Christopher Monckton -- November 26, 2019
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