Combating elite Manhattan political ideologies on climate change, the purpose of government, New York state news, and the basic principles of economics.
What could be better than generating electricity from the wind? I mean, it's perfectly clean and completely free! Carbon emissions? Zero! Just put up a few mills to catch the wind and voilà!, energy utopia. It's such a simple story, and so obvious. Pretty much everybody falls for it.
Somehow real world experience doesn't seem to support the narrative.
Read MoreEvery day you read about the crisis of climate change and fossil fuel usage and CO2 emissions, and commitments from politicians around the world to "act" to "save the planet." Surely then, CO2 emissions are in steep decline and headed for zero.
The truth is of course the opposite. In the developed world, rapidly increasing use of "renewables" like intermittent wind and solar energy only serves to drive electricity prices through the roof, while having only the most marginal effect on reducing emissions.
Read MoreMann, of course, is the guy who got caught red-handed engaging in clear scientific misconduct in connection with the Hockey Stick controversy -- undoubtedly the scientific controversy with the largest potential for economic damage of our era. It is beyond incredible that the AAAS has not called him out for the misconduct, let alone that it has now chosen to give him this award.
Read MoreIt's now more than 10 months ago -- April 2017 -- that my client the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council filed a Petition with the EPA calling upon it to reopen and reconsider the so-called Endangerment Finding (EF). Follow this link for a copy of that original Petition. The EF -- that's the regulatory power grab by which the bureaucrats at the Obama EPA decided that the colorless, odorless, non-toxic trace atmospheric gas CO2 was a "danger" to human health and safety, which danger could somehow be ameliorated it they orchestrated a scheme to double or triple your cost of electricity, gasoline and air travel.
Unfortunately, despite what you may have read about the hostility of the Trump administration and EPA to "climate"-driven regulation, nothing has yet happened on our Petition for reconsideration.
Read MoreEver since the Mueller investigation of Russian "meddling" or "interference" or "collusion" or something like that began a year or so ago, you have probably been wondering, What the heck is the crime? Granted, there are 5000 or so supposed federal crimes out there. Nobody has any good idea what all of them are, and plenty of them are so vague that they might criminalize brushing your teeth on an angle. But still -- "meddling" or "collusion"? How could such things even be illegal?
So probably you are thinking, the answer must be in this indictment. Don't get your hopes up. As far as I can tell there is nothing real about this indictment at all.
Read MoreIt has now been a few days since Senators Grassley and Graham released a letter they had sent to ex-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, demanding information from her about a meeting held in the White House on January 5, 2017, and attaching to their letter a redacted copy of a remarkable email describing the meeting that Rice sent to herself on the government email system on January 20, 2017 at 12:15 PM.The Grassley/Graham letter and attached Rice email can be found here.
You will recognize January 20 at 12:15 PM as being about 20 minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as President, and therefore the same number of minutes after Susan Rice's term as National Security Advisor had ended. She had no further government business to do, and therefore had no possible legitimate purpose related to government business to write herself this email on the government email system.
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Combating elite Manhattan political ideologies on climate change, the purpose of government, New York state news, and the basic principles of economics.
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