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Marking Environmental Progress On Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary - Part II

We can be optimistic about our future

… We have repeatedly questioned the so-called consensus narrative on climate change. But for those who remain concerned that human-caused climate change presents a potentially catastrophic challenge to our continued survival, …

No Place for Alarmism on Earth Day

… softened over the years, climate change. Depending on which climate change believer you read, listened … Those who challenged the climate change crowd were subjected to … years since catastrophic climate change was declared settled science. … Times recently folded its climate-change blog; The Economist, the …

Legal expert calls Michigan's oil and gas lawsuit ‘utterly unethical’

Attorney seeks $475 an hour or 25% of recovered settlements

… gas companies for allegedly contributing to climate change. Climate change decreases tourism, harms agriculture and depletes … oil and gas companies for contributing to climate change. In Colorado, a judge refused to dismiss …

Climate Negotiations Carry a Chilling Message

… climate conferences in Stockholm and Cancun have revealed what the global climate change issue is really all about — the transfer of wealth from developed nations … plants to support their rapidly escalating economy.    The global climate change crowd, many who consider themselves progressives, are actually stuck …

Time for a Full and Independent Review of Climate Science

Signing onto a letter supporting the President’s Commission on Climate Security

… anything covering the so-called science of climate change will immediately recognize the pattern. No … — and respect for — the actual science of climate change. We often hear that the “science is settled.” … and widespread concerns about the science of climate change being called on to support massive changes …

Is There Anything Global Warming Can’t Do?

Water doesn’t boil and freeze at the same time...yet

… Dwindling Away,” and “Flooding in Detroit: How Climate Change has Affected Michigan.” More and more, it … increased riverine flooding to human-induced climate change.” In 2019 and 2020, many reports warned that … Development, Reducing Inequality, the Impact of Climate Change, and the Cost of Climate Policies, author …

Michigan’s broadband spending program day late, dollar short

State internet office finally has application process off the ground, but next federal administrator is likely to reject its funding plan

… internet infrastructure, and for mandating that recipients perform climate change assessments. All of these criticisms apply to the MIHI funding approval … the ways that they’ve imposed extra legal requirements. There’s also climate change regulations, union mandates, wholesale access requirements... all kinds …

Center Issues & Ideas Forum on Environment and Economics

… Challenges." Thorning, vice president and chief economist for the American Council for Capital Formation, discussed the impact cap-and-trade and other climate change legislation would have on Michigan's economy. Earlier that day, Thorning and Jack McHugh, senior legislative analyst, were guests on The Frank …

Climate Agreements and Corporate Responsibility

… pledging to uphold the agreement and to “take aggressive action on climate change.” And 25 U.S.-based companies — including Google, Apple, Facebook, … pullout makes it clear that no matter what Washington, D.C., does on climate change, a growing number of organized groups will act. But what about the …

Climate Hustle 2 Movie Screening

Rise of the Climate Monarchy

… syndicated columnist Cal Thomas: “No film debunks the faith of the climate change cult better than Climate Hustle 2. And it does it with facts!” Movie … Climate Hustle 2 looks at both popular scientific claims surrounding climate change and examines motivations of those clamoring for immediate action. Featuring …

Clearing the Forest for Solar: A Green Mistake in the Making

… policies. Replacing state forests with solar undermines the state’s lofty climate goals. Forests remove carbon dioxide from the air — a key goal of climate change policies — and return oxygen when they photosynthesize. Choosing solar panels over forests halts this basic process. In an essay for The Detroit …

Disaster Losses From Global Warming Debunked

… natural disasters and climate change. She went on to opine … losses from disasters and climate change. The report "Have disaster … increased due to anthropogenic climate change?" was written by Laurens … disaster losses in light of climate change. The author concluded … of the facts regarding climate change than by fear-mongering. …

'Consensus' on Global Warming is a Manmade Concept

International panel selectively chooses scientists it knows will push a 'melting planet' agenda

… “scientific consensus” that climate change is manmade. Numerous … Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which involves work done … a catastrophic view of climate change because the full range … Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the email scandal … to in arguments about climate change. This is a form of ‘argument …

Just the Facts

… Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The only skeptics, according … consequences of global climate change. Moreover, the accuracy … in characterizing the climate change debate as settled. Headlines … uncertainty about the status of climate change. A pre-publication review … of human influence on climate change was dramatically overstated …

Grand Rapids seeks feedback on climate action plan

Proposal calls for eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions by 2040

“The climate change crisis is one of the City’s top priorities,” the city of Grand Rapids says, and it is developing a plan to act on that belief. The draft of the climate action and adaptation plan aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage electrification. It has six chapters: Energy (more …

Media Smokestack Images And Air Pollution Spin

Those billowing white clouds coming out aren’t what you may think

… recently ran a news story about climate change. The image used to illustrate … stories that touch on potential climate change. And it is very misleading. … for a media outlet to report on climate change and then use a picture showing … really has nothing to do with climate change.

Hard Science Being Traded for Political Science

… total spending on global climate change has grown from a few million … man in causing global climate change simply are not going to … world that the global climate change issue has little to do … lingering doubts about global climate change being a scientific issue … thundering applause from the climate change delegates. The scientific …

Court Ignored Sound Science in Carbon Dioxide Ruling

… based on speculation about climate change rather than scientific … between carbon dioxide and climate change; predictions of future … effects may result from climate change. What warming has occurred … credible evidence that climate change is responsible for "severe … United Nation’s report on climate change in 1990. More than 2,000 …

Should 'An Inconvenient Truth' be shown in science class? Yes.

Let students analyze the evidence

… disagreement. The issue of global climate change is current, significant … included as "Unit 8 — Climate Change" in the Michigan high … potential impact of global climate change requires an understanding … and the construction of climate change models." In this case, … which surround global climate change. One of the goals in …

Some Greens Rejoice Over Environmental Effects of COVID-19 Restrictions

There is no “silver lining” to impaired human well-being

… global climate collapse. In a January 2019 speaking engagement, Ocasio-Cortez warned, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it? … This is the war — this is our World War II.” Now, in the midst of the coronavirus-fueled …