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Can we recover from the ‘most significant climate change law ever’?

New study shows how Inflation Reduction Act is creating a nation of rent seekers

… anything to do with reducing inflation. Instead, Biden chided Congress by saying lawmakers “should have named it what it was” — the “most significant climate change law ever.” Cato further clarifies that the bill is a massive, multi-trillion-dollar subsidy scheme to decarbonize the U.S. economy. Fisher and …

'Big Oil' and Climate Change

Debunking an urban myth

… the belief in man-made climate change. This idea only makes … the theory of man-made climate change. In reality, the oil industry … cash in on the man-made climate change dogma. Funding available … argument that man-made climate change is bunk (if there is any … efforts to dispute man-made climate change, the politics surrounding …

Don’t Confuse Cold Weather Snap for Climate Change

Swings in temperatures have always happened in Michigan

… Gov. Whitmer claimed that climate change-induced extreme temperature … – and a reminder that climate change and extreme weather are … National Climate Assessment - Climate Change Indicators - U.S. Heat … absolutely proves that climate change-induced extreme weather … Climate Assessment's “Climate Change Indicators” page contained …

Exploring the Political Climate of Climate Change

"Average" and "normal" are not synonymous

… voters believe in man-made climate change but also how much they … possible. Even man-made climate change advocates don’t dispute … who believe in man-made climate change and those who don’t?  … of science. Man-made climate change dogma has been built on … those who promote man-made climate change dogma. It is the use of …

Don’t panic over the reefs

How are coral populations enduring ‘runaway climate change’?

… Global Ecology, told USA Oceana. Climate change advocates like Caldeira say that … tipping point, “after which runaway climate change intensifies beyond humanity’s … articles, shows “little evidence for climate change affecting reefs in a linear fashion.” … reef expansion and decline to climate change fail to explain why previous temperature …

Climate Change Panel Examines the 'Changing Debate'

Henry Payne, editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News, writes about the Mackinac Center's climate change panel, in which he participated, at National Review Online. You can watch the event here.

The Public Gets It on Climate Change. Why Don't Politicians?

… news story in Politico; only 4 percent ranked climate change as the top issue. The poll conducted by Public … with other recent polling that shows global climate change low on the priority list of most Americans. … that they proceed at their own peril with climate change legislation that is clearly not a priority …

Teslas are being burned and vandalized

So much for the ‘existential threat’ of global warming

… that global warming or climate change is an “existential threat” … Pelosi, have all referred to climate change as an existential threat. … greatest achievement of the climate change era. Environmental activists … But if the threat of climate change genuinely endangers our … explanation is that while climate change is a professed existential …

Media Missed Opportunity to Enlighten Public on Current Climate Change Science

… Fourth Annual International Conference on Climate Change, held in Chicago May 16-18 and sponsored by … marine biologist, on ecological responses to climate change; Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, Stockholm University, … humankind's carbon dioxide emissions drive climate change were underrepresented, as many of them declined …

Renewable energy or bust?

Strategic infrastructure can play an important role in dealing with climate change

American taxpayers are spending billions of dollars to fight climate change with more renewable energy. But is putting all our eggs in this basket distracting … leaders take the path of least resistance by blaming every problem on climate change rather than examining the adequacy of protective infrastructure. In …

Global Warming Will Lead to Alien Invasions?

Climate change alarmists have been busy blaming every conceivable threat to mankind and the planet on global warming. The mainstream media eagerly report … composition can be observed from other planets.” It’s not surprising that climate change alarmists would turn to science fiction to support their cause. They …

The feds can’t find the Supreme Court leaker. You think they can fix climate change?

Government is not in the problem-solving business. It can’t even plug leaks.

… happen after a law is passed. When the U.S. president stands at a podium and announces a plan for regime change in foreign lands, or to eradicate climate change, you should know that’s far beyond their paygrade. They’ll spend your tax money, sure. But government is not in the problem-solving business.  …

Only who can prevent forest fires?

Dry brush was burning, and burning bigger, long before anybody heard of global warming or climate change

… response is to claim that climate change is supercharging wildfires. … fire, quite literally, is climate change.” Canadian Minister of … intensify wildfires. But climate change is not to blame for this … seems more likely that climate change is the primary cause of … out that there’s nothing climate change can’t do. Whether you’re …

Rational Environmentalism in 2020

Find a balance between human welfare and environmental concerns

… vehicles, solar panels, climate change, animal rights and many … issues. Some perspective on climate change: the early Earth experienced massive climate change for hundreds of millions … pre-eminent in discussions about climate change. No matter the damage … be at the center of any climate change action. Though we may …

Climate panic is an old wine in a new bottle

Today’s eco-anxiety looks a lot like a similar scare tactic from long ago

… feeling of hopelessness” when they think about climate change, according to the London-based organization … Nearly half reported that “their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning.” … 127 legacy media outlets by the Media and Climate Change Observatory indicated that the number of climate …

Michigan Pays for Fudged Climate Data

Fake news, meet settled science

… confirmed that the impacts of climate change are getting stronger and stronger.” … accuracy and transparency of climate change research federal agencies used … than previously thought, making climate change an even greater threat. Thomas … temperature data in its 2016 Climate Change Indicators report. Those EPA …

The Façade is Falling

Environmental researchers and activists are rebelling

… the environment and stop climate change. But four key works published … years if we don't address climate change.” Four new works, though, … Lomborg, “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, … scientific consensus over climate change. He also supports an international … Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he approaches climate …

Forest Management is More Effective Than Climate Virtue-Signaling

Governors across the country should take note

… these massive fires on climate change. In a heated press conference, … counterparts, using the climate change diagnosis as the impetus … seeing the impacts of climate change right now,” she said, … fires’ real causes. If climate change were the main culprit, … “borders can’t contain climate change” and that these fires …

Caught With Their Swimming Trunks Down

Great Lakes levels prove climate alarmists wrong

… alarmists presented the situation as undeniable evidence of impending climate change doom. A major element of this Chicken Little message was that we — … misrepresentation will be allowed to escape once more. The manmade climate change/global warming industry is powerful enough to keep the debacle of the …

State courts are not the place to set climate policy

New Jersey court dismisses case making same claims as Nessel lawsuit against oil companies

… the state. Nessel claims that climate change, most of which occurs outside … alleged role in accelerating climate change. This case was brought by the … addressing the injuries of global climate change and seeking damages for such alleged … All three of the Empire State’s climate change lawsuits have now been dismissed. …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Climate Lawsuits Expose Contradictory Government Policies

City reverses original claim on climate-related damages

… financial claims related to climate change demonstrates this reality. … will occur as a result of climate change, specifically, flooding … believe fossil fuel-induced climate change will cause. But ExxonMobil … rise or other impacts of climate change will occur.” So San Francisco … the potential harm of climate change in an effort to market …

'Climategate' Raises Questions About Money in Science

… views. Harding said the reason people may have done this is money. "Climate change has become a huge business for researchers. They are not going to get … The most recent issue of MichiganScience includes a book review of "Climate Change Reconsidered," which examines the overall issue and critiques the methods …

Delaying CO2 Requirements Helps Politicians, but Not Americans

… Bypassing Congress, the Obama administration finalized a rulemaking process on December 7, 2009 — just ahead of the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change — that would require the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The impact of the EPA's unpopular regulation of GHGs has now been conveniently …

Trump’s orders boost American energy

Reasons to be bullish on president’s opening days

… the “legally binding international treaty on climate change” after President Biden re-entered the agreement … funding for the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, “which oversees the implementation of the … orders as a step backward on environmental and climate change issues, these policies are a return to a more …

Once again, it's not the climate, it's the fuel

More foresters step forward to correct the record on wildfires

… drawn inexorably into the climate change hysteria as dueling experts … forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke.” The author, Ross … ignored.” They continue, “Climate change doesn’t make fires more … intensify wildfires. But climate change is not to blame for this … out that there’s nothing climate change can’t do. Whether you’re …

League of Women Voters' Stance on Energy Policy Hurts Women

… states, "Women around the world are disproportionately affected by climate change." They would have it right if their statement read: Women around the world are disproportionately affected by climate change policy. Having access to electricity may be the single biggest factor …

Environmentalism Is a Threat to Liberty

… individual liberty for central government control. Fighting global climate change, which has become the defining issue for environmentalists, is the … they control virtually every aspect of modern life in America. Global climate change is also the perfect issue to advocate for one-world governance, as …

Attorney General Nessel Smears Fossil Fuel Companies

Wants to sue the entire industry, but only lawyers, bankers and bureaucrats to benefit

… compensation for the alleged climate change harms described by the … their contributions to climate change. Nessel said Michigan … emissions contribute to climate change. Other states may be preparing … California previously filed a climate change lawsuit in 2006 against … Forbes. These previous climate change lawsuits appear to have …

Cap-and-Trade Dead; Long Live Cap?

… any warmer for the last eight years, global warming became global "climate change." Global climate change has proven to be an equally hard sell. Now Americans are being told …

Michigan made better choices on forest management

Good Neighbor Authority has proven to be a good choice

… management prescriptions, claiming that stopping climate change is the primary — or only — means of addressing … one conditionally accepts the theory that climate change is the reason for the massive fires, reducing … method of reducing fire risk. In fact, if climate change were making California’s droughts more extreme …

Earth Day 2021

Our future is bright

… economy to stop or limit the impacts of runaway climate change. In response, we would first encourage readers … actions that people who are concerned about climate change can take in their own lives. MyClimatePledge.com … several “mythconceptions” that are common in climate change discussions. For example: Is climate science …

Green energy policies create shortages, high prices

Socialist policies like the nationalization of the energy industry would be dangerous

… mixed concerns over high energy prices and climate change, several progressives have eschewed free market … bailed out, Nelson argued the need to address climate change entails “massive investments in renewable … industry’s drawdown,” the now obvious end goal of climate change policies. Former presidential candidate Bernie …

Michigan shouldn’t worry about becoming a ‘climate haven’

And we aren’t running out of water

… Business, WOOD-TV, WIRED and many others. “Climate change continues to impact the world,” MLive’s video … Additionally, there’s little available evidence that climate change is forcing vast swaths of people to relocate. … People move for a variety of reasons, but “climate change” is rarely one of them. Having more people …

Politicians Begin to Choke on Ethanol Myths

… politicians can be taught to throw in the towel when a green energy swindle has finally jumped the shark. How many years before the rest of the climate change agenda gets to this point? Below is a fun video from Reason and some recent Mackinac Center and Michigan Capitol Confidential work regarding …

The Michigan Climate Coincidence: Channeling Goldfinger

Michigan is not officially part of the two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which the New York Post says aims to "save the Earth from certain doom." While the Great Lakes state will miss out on hobnobbing with notable personalities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, …

Some Politicians Want It Both Ways on Environment

… voted for these waivers are on record in support of cap-and-tax legislation to limit greenhouse gasses — a key component of President Obama's climate change initiative. While the hypocrisy of congressmen flipping on this issue is glaring, their action is a harbinger of a much bigger problem. Cap and …

EPA, Not CO2, Is the Danger

… Act. This is the EPA's Christmas present to President Barack Obama as he prepares to jet to Copenhagen with a mostly empty toy bag to discuss climate change. The president had hoped to bring with him to Copenhagen a signed cap-and-trade bill; the prospect of that happening in the near future looks …

Time to Abandon Midwest Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord

… regarding regional greenhouse gas reduction accords with the state loosing almost 1 million jobs and recent revelations that the science of global climate change has been compromised by political agendas. Michigan's participation in the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord was a bad idea when it was …