Global Warming-Energy-Environment
World Bank “Abandons The Poor”
By News on the Net | October 12, 2017
The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank's Regressive Energy Policies
Ensuring a Resilient Grid Requires Less Government, Not More
By Institute for Energy Research | October 12, 2017
"Reliability and Resilience” in electricity generation
IER Response to EPA’s Clean Power Plan Repeal Proposal
By Institute for Energy Research | October 11, 2017
"The Clean Power Plan was never about clean power"
The “Amazon Effect” Is Coming To Oil Markets
By Oilprice.com --Irina Slav | October 10, 2017
Tech startups are quietly ushering in a new era in oil and gas: the era of the digital oil field
Wood Burning Pollution
By Jack Dini | October 10, 2017
"EU has created a subsidy which costs a packet, probably does not reduce carbon emissions, and does not encourage new energy technologies"
Politicized sustainability threatens planet and people
By Paul Driessen | October 8, 2017
It drives anti-fossil fuel agendas and threatens wildlife, jobs, and human health and welfare
Can Mali Maintain Its Gold Mining Status?
By Oilprice.com -- Joao Peixe | October 6, 2017
3.4 million ounces of gold remain stuck in the hard-rock at Sadiola
Hockey Stick Revisited
By Jack Dini | October 6, 2017
"There is nothing unprecedented or unusual about today's climate. Modern temperatures are still well within range of what has occurred naturally"
President Trump has good reason to want a do-over when it comes to the Paris Agreement and the "green" financial commitments made by Barack Obama.
Ensuring Resilient and Efficient Electricity Generation
New York’s Clean Energy Standard: Costly and Ineffective
By Institute for Energy Research | October 4, 2017
New York's Clean Energy Standard to be "an exercise in symbolic environmentalism. It will provide almost no measurable benefits, while imposing huge costs, including disproportionate costs on lower-income residents"
The Next Big Offshore Boom Is About To Happen Here
By Oilprice.com -- Irina Slav | October 4, 2017
Brazil seems to be something of a Goldilocks oil industry location, although Mexico and Argentina are breathing down its neck with relaxed foreign investment tax regimes and incentives, and with estimates of huge reserves
EPA endangerment finding endangers USA
By Dennis Avery | October 2, 2017
Trump must reverse EPA's climate change "Endangerment Finding"
No Need for a Carbon Tax in Any Tax Reform Plan
By Institute for Energy Research | September 30, 2017
There's no need to "fix it" by adding in a giant new tax on energy and transportation, which is what a carbon tax means in practice
The Jones Act: Distorting American Energy Markets Since 1920
By Institute for Energy Research | September 30, 2017
Defenders of outdated, protectionist legislation like the Jones Act often claim they put American jobs and the American people first, yet their policies do no such thing
Trump’s Solar Tariff Confusion Creates An Opportunity
By Oilprice.com -- Irina Slav | September 30, 2017
First Solar could turn out to be one of the very few winners from the Suniva/SolarWorld case, so even though it's lost over 5 percent this week, there's room for a reversal
Hurricanes not the result of climate change
By Guest Column -- Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar and Tom Harris | September 30, 2017
Focus should be on building more storm shelters
What natural disasters should teach us
By Steven Lyazi | September 29, 2017
Hurricanes, landslides and other disasters show Africans why we need fossil fuels
Making olive oil produces lots of wastewater; a new environmentally friendly process could help transform this pollution into useful products
The Oracle of Apollo
By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser | September 26, 2017
"War will destroy a great empire."
Renewables and Electricity Prices
By Jack Dini | September 25, 2017
The growing dependence of Australia on green energy
Now it’s a war on pipelines
By Paul Driessen | September 24, 2017
Efforts to block and sabotage pipelines hurt jobs, economic growth, middle class, human safety
Science, people!
Irma illusions—and realities
By Paul Driessen | September 22, 2017
If human emissions made Irma worse, did they also bring the 12-year lull in Cat 4-5 hurricanes?
Shouldn't Al be happy?
Taxes on Capital Are Very Harmful
Finally, some commonsense western fire policies
By Paul Driessen | September 17, 2017
New DOI and DOA policy to cut overgrown, diseased, dead and burned trees is long overdue
The Hunt for October
By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser | September 17, 2017
Century-old cat-and-mouse submarine-game is still in full swing. Another “October” may be close by
Wind Turbines Reduce the Productivity of Surrounding Vegetation
By Institute for Energy Research | September 15, 2017
Wind power is not only bird-killing, noise-polluting, eyesore-causing, cost-prohibiting, vegetative-decreasing, but its intermittency leads to periods of overproduction or power shortages that require reliance on traditional technologies as backup
Temperature Record Shenanigans
By Jack Dini | September 15, 2017
One reason for this discrepancy is that NOAA has been cherry-picking its raw data