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 important articles in this issue are:
Confessions of a Climate Change “Denier”
Congressional Testimony: Science is a Process
By the Numbers: Ending the Social Cost of Carbon
There is no such thing as a Conservative CO2 Tax Plan
Take-aways from the Heartland Climate Conference
Video of President Trump’s Inspiring NASA Talk
Sun’s impact on climate change quantified for first time
Witnessing wind industry’s influence on the Legislature
A Requiem for the 2015 Clean Power Plan: It had more flaws than a cheap dirigible
Energy Policy Will Be About Cutting Costs, Not Emissions (!)…
Continue Reading“Radical environmentalists will fight the [new executive] order in every way they can, in Congress, in the courts, in the media, and apparently in the streets. As a citizen, you need to stay informed of the stakes and tactics in this battle, and we at the Cornwall Alliance need your support to keep up the good fight.”
In a recent post, E. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation provided this update in the moral trenches of the climate-change public policy debate.
“Environmentalists Vow to Fight Trump in the Streets Over Climate Policy”
If you pay attention to news sources outside the typical conservative camp, you’ll have noticed two things in the last couple days: First the titles are all ridiculous in their alarmism (we are all going to die, etc.…
Continue Reading“… getting 195 countries to establish the same price on carbon would be an impossibility as each country would attempt to establish a price that would benefit itself in international trade.”
One could say two former Republican secretaries of state, Messrs. Baker and Shultz, are naive and badly informed. Their proposal for a carbon tax smacks of fools rushing in.
Their proposed carbon tax is part of a proposal by the Climate Leadership Council. This “carbon tax” is a tax on CO2 emissions, based on the supposed need to cut CO2 emissions to prevent a climate catastrophe.
Major Flaws
A “carbon tax” is fundamentally a bad proposal for several reasons.
First, Baker and Shultz propose to return a dividend to the poor, because it’s the poor who are hurt the most by any attempt to cut CO2 emissions.…
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