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Great Lakes Won't Cooperate With Climate Alarmists

Rising water levels confound global warming claims

… set fewer records than previous low-water spells, it was repeatedly portrayed by environmentalists and their media allies as clear evidence of climate change. This contention became untenable when water levels began increasing rapidly in the second half of 2013. Instead of accepting that their arguments …

Study: Ontario Should Look to Michigan

… the Wolverine State,” the report examines how the neighboring state and province have done economically before and after the dramatic business climate changes enacted in Michigan beginning in 2011. A state economic resurgence has followed in the wake of the reforms, which included an overhaul of the …

Newspapers, Experts Agree: Climate Causes Plummeting, Record High Water Levels

Looks like a Great Lakes consensus

… Radio reported recently that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is proposing $70 million in grants for projects “to combat the effects of climate change connected to high water levels.” The Detroit Free recently reported that “changing climate conditions” have “caused water levels in the Great …

US Oil Boom Happened Despite Obama, Not Because Of Him

AP 'fact check' lacks context

… Institute for Energy Research, a free-market energy research nonprofit. “Of course not. He wants his environmental legacy to be around action on climate change. In fact, his administration did what they could within executive and regulatory authority to stop fossil fuel production, coal included.” Yet …

Whitmer’s Support Of Nuclear Power Shows How Renewable Energy Has Fallen Short

Asking feds to help keep Palisades nuclear plant’s reactor in service

… Club has opposed nuclear power. Its website states, “The Sierra club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy. Nuclear is no solution to Climate Change and every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on truly safe, affordable and renewable energy sources. Help us work to phase out nuclear …

Study on Ann Arbor-to-Traverse City railway rests on flimsy data

Yet it’s the foundation for $2.3 million in taxpayer funds for a second-phase study

… Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, launched the proposal. The environmental group says public transportation systems are needed to curb climate change. The 2018 study, conducted by Transportation Economics Systems, included overly optimistic numbers for passenger traffic, based on Amtrak and …

The people we serve

You don’t agree with the Mackinac Center on everything. But you agree with us on something. Let’s talk about those things.

… who wants to be left alone by the government to live her life in peace. The newlyweds who won’t have any children for fear that they’ll worsen climate change or bring up their children in a dying world. The young parents sitting at their dinner table, looking at a huge energy bill, and deciding between …

Michigan bills aim to abolish environmental rules oversight

Lawmakers disdain Environmental Rules Review Committee as ‘corporate polluters’

… and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.” Charles Lippstreu, president of the Michigan Agri-Business Association, whose Green Agri-Business Program “recognizes proactive sustainability …

Mackinac Center in the news: Whitmer brings on the night

Jason Hayes tells inconvenient truths about governor’s energy plan

… amended bills will continue to impose substantial costs on the average Michigan family while achieving little to nothing to actually address the climate change issue politicians claim they want to solve. Estimates show that taking the state of Michigan to net-zero emissions by 2050 would only reduce global …

The market speaks – against electric vehicles

Ford lost $3.7 billion on its EV sales

… motor companies so that someone else can get a better deal on a second car. It doesn’t become right just because progressives do it in the name of climate change.

Michigan to sue industry that’s provided $1.3B to parks since 1976

Similar climate lawsuits filed in 15 other states

… industry, press secretary Danny Wimmer told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email. The department alleges that the industry contributes to climate change. “The team made up of Sher Edling LLP, DiCello Levitt LLP, and Hausfeld LLP brings an exceptional mix of skilled attorneys who have experience …

The market speaks — against electric vehicles

Ford lost $3.7 billion on its EV sales

… motor companies so that someone else can get a better deal on a second car. It doesn’t become right just because progressives do it in the name of climate change.

The True Costs of EPA Global Warming Regulation

… unanimously resolved to reject any international climate change treaty that unduly burdened the U.S. economy … "The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation," Heritage Foundation Center for … [3] Ben Lieberman, "The Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act: A Solution Worse Than the Problem," Heritage …

New Nukes

… truth' of global warming." The high cost of fossil fuels and claims of climate change have a sparked a new discussion of energy trends in the United States. … power, which is what we have now, and you factor in the emphasis on climate change and other global goals and challenges, there is absolutely no way that …

Global Warming: Can Politicians Take the Heat?

… exposed to more CO2, a phenomenon greenhouse operators have observed for years. Indeed, a committee of the U.N.'s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated that a world warming of 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit would so dramatically boost agricultural and forest growth that the resulting gains …

X. Suggested Readings: Studies in Progressive Environmentalism

… Simon and Herman Kahn, eds., The Resourceful Earth: A Response to the Global 2000 Report (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984). S. Fred Singer, Global Climate Change (New York: Paragon House, 1989). Robert Jastrow, William Nierenberg and Frederick Seitz, Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem (Ottawa, …

A Convenient Deceit?

… warming may be occurring, but is neither solely caused by humans nor catastrophic in nature. The Earth is not a closed system, and is prone to climate change due to many factors, including shifting of the Earth’s axis, activity on the surface of the sun, seismic activity, climate fluctuations such as …

On Carbon Dioxide Emissions, the Supreme Court Should Look to the Law

… primarily from the Northeast and West Coast, along with several environmental groups, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Given the position on climate change of most environmental groups, and their general aversion to fossil fuel-powered cars, it is not surprising they would appeal the circuit court …

Corny Energy Plans

State politicians ratify ethanol incentives

… they used gasoline only. As a global warming remedy, ethanol also falls short — even by the standards of those who blame fossil fuel burning for climate change. Jeff Goodell of Rolling Stone magazine is one such critic. He writes in the June 24, 2007, issue, "Ethanol doesn’t burn cleaner than gasoline." …