Thought Piece There has been a lot of recent handwringing about scientists and other climate change advocates being censored or punished for their climate change efforts over the last decade. Frankly, I can’t help but notice that names like Judith Curry, Anthony Watts, Roger Pielke, JR & SR, Eric Worrall, Willis Eschenbach, Christopher Monckton, David Schnare, [...]
Thought Piece Trump Says 'nobody really knows' if climate change real. As Al Gore Told Donald Trump . . . Forget climate change. Green handouts have become a political end in themselves. December 9, 2016 | By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street Journal During the decades we’ve been waiting for actual climate data to validate [...]
[Oops! I wrote yesterday that "Gina McCarthy has announced that the EPA has effectively stopped working on a cap and trade scheme and their other ambitious plans related to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Waters of the United States (WOTUS), etc. to prepare for the orderly transfer of power." Self-righteousness rarely goes quietly into that good night "and the [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [Gina McCarthy has announced that the EPA has effectively stopped working on a cap and trade scheme and their other ambitious plans related to the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Waters of the United States (WOTUS), etc. to prepare for the orderly transfer of power. For the record, it is safe to assume that energy, [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [Gasp, Wash DC regulators finally admit they can't predict the future? Has a baseball bard, Casey Stengel, finally been heard? "Never make predictions, especially about the future." Designing plans and defenses around black swan events is micromanagement gone horribly wrong, especially when we don't know which black swan event is in the [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [This guy knows what he's talking about. - Steve] UND dedicates new Collaborative Energy Center By Patrick C. Miller | October 19, 2016 The University of North Dakota last Thursday dedicated its new Collaborative Energy Center (CEC) before an estimated at 200 attendees made up of students, faculty, donors, state officials [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [Thanks to a fellow admirer of Tocqueville, I was sent the following piece. While Tocqueville was wildly wrong about some things in America, nobody has done a better job of analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, especially as it appears in America. Steve] The End of Democracy in America Tocqueville foresaw [...]
Originally posted in Watts Up With That (WUWT) *The worlds most view site on global warming and climate change.* Guest essay by Stephen Heins, Energy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist 28 September 2016 | By Stephen Heins, The Word Merchant While many of us have actively tried to follow the broad-based scientific discussions about climate [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [New York's Attorney General Schneiderman seems to believe that it is alright to conduct a witch hunt with one-sided transparency, which I would argue is a distorted mirror of biblical proportion. Steve] Schneiderman’s Climate Secrets What is New York’s Attorney General trying to hide? Aug. 31, 2016 12:00 a.m. ET, Wall Street Journal Editorial When [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [For an example of a certain amount of media bias, you should do a Google search for "recent EPA Colorado spill" and "Johns Hopkins fracking study." Yes, there was a recent EPA Colorado spill; and, no, there is no real evidence about fracking and headaches in Johns Hopkins recent study. The differences between the [...]
