Tag: Climate change
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Meteorologists Hype the Weather. It’s What They Do Best.
by Kerry Dougherty There was a time when I was fluent in Celsius. Today I have to turn to Google to translate. But back in the summer of either 1982 or 1983 I remember a headline in The Irish Press that was something like this: “Dublin Sizzles In 22-Degree Heat.” I was living in Ireland’s…
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Misleading Certitude on Climate Change
by Bill O’Keefe The Richmond Times-Dispatch meteorologist, Sean Sublett, recently wrote an article, “What to make of the National Climate Assessment.” He makes little of it in terms of analysis, and he reposts as if the assessment is primarily fact and not scientific speculation. He provides almost nothing on the uncertainties that drive the National Assessment.…
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Support Governor Youngkin’s RGGI Repeal
by Colin M. Kelly I can only laugh at the headlines and statements being made by the media and climate alarmists about Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to pull Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The headline “Returning Millions to Virginia” really grates: The state takes money out of the consumer’s pocket with…
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American Kids Are Flabby. It Isn’t Because Of Climate Change.
by Kerry Dougherty Just when you thought the world’s climate clowns couldn’t get any zanier there’s this: Yep, these loons are now blaming America’s flabby, sedentary and out-of-shape children on global warming.
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Patrick Michaels RIP
by Bill Tracy Nationally known climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels has died, and there is certainly a huge Virginia connection. Michaels considered himself to be a “lukewarmer,” denoting a belief that there is indeed a man-made (CO2) component to climate change. But, he said “What I’m skeptical about is the glib notion that it means the end…
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How’s Your Climate Emergency Going? Hanging In?
by Steve Haner How is your climate emergency going so far? We seem to be hanging in well at my house. The media hype around this fairly typical July hot spell has been off the charts, but my favorite headline of the season appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch (home of at least one climate jeremiad…
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Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury
by Kerry Dougherty I don’t know why more people don’t visit cemeteries when they’re on vacation. You can learn a lot by strolling among the old graves. When my son went to school in Buffalo, New York I found my way to Forest Lawn Cemetery, a graveyard so beautiful that weddings are held there. President…
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The Latest Wrinkle in the Law-Enforcement-for-Rent Saga
by James A. Bacon The Office of Attorney General (OAG) under former AG Mark Herring failed to adequately conduct a search for documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act by climate-change skeptic Christopher Horner, a Richmond Circuit Court Judge has found. The court ordered the OAG, now under Attorney General Jason Miyares, to conduct…
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Virginia’s Greens Need to Change Their Strategy
by James C. Sherlock When you ask a question you have to be prepared for the answer. McKinsey Global Institute, in collaboration with McKinsey Sustainability and the Global Energy & Materials and Advanced Industries practices released in January a massive study of the costs to get the planet to net zero emissions by 2050. The study is “The Net…
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Virginia, Heed the EU’s Failed Climate Policy
by Bill O’Keefe U.S. climate policy has been heavily influenced by actions taken by European nations, even when it was obvious that many of those actions were fraught with problems. Now the European Union (EU) may be on the verge of taking steps to reverse course and allowing economic and political realities to exert a…
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The Environmentalist Case Against Renewables
If you missed the Virginia Energy Consumer Conference last week, here’s your chance to catch up. The highlight is Steve Haner’s interview of Michael Shellenberger, author of “Apocalypse Never.” Addressing the energy debate from a national perspective, Shellenberger makes the case that renewable energy sources are no panacea for the environment. Subsequent presentations in the…
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Development and Sea-Level Rise in the Tarheel State
by James A. Bacon People love living on the water. They just can’t get enough of it. If they can’t afford to live on the waterfront, they will pay a premium just to live near it. Signs of the human proclivity for water views are evident all around Beaufort, N.C. (pronounced Bow-fort, not Bew-fort), a…
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Repeal the Clean Economy Act
by Bill O’Keefe The Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) mandates a plan for the Commonwealth electric grid to become carbon free. It is one of the most ambitious climate policies adopted by any state. Dominion Energy is the primary vehicle for achieving the carbon free goal. There is only one reason for such an ambitious,…
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Trees and the Chesapeake Bay
by Dick Hall-Sizemore There was a scuffle on this blog a few days ago over the production of more hardwood seedlings by the Department of Forestry. There were some who questioned the efficacy of planting more trees in the attempt to mitigate climate change. Others questioned why the state should be subsidizing the production of…
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Legislative Bamboozle and Blind Faith
by Bill O’Keefe The Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) establishes a mandatory renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program that requires Dominion Energy to deliver electricity from 100% renewable sources by 2045. Let this sink in. Legislation passed and signed into law in 2020 imposes a mandated outcome for 25 years hence even though the legislators who…