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1 Yet China’s latest five year plan increases investment in coal and omits any cap on total energy consumption. This leads to the observation that ‘the central contradiction between expanding the smokestack economy and promoting green growth appears unresolved.’ The lack of a cap on total energy consumption was a notable exclusion.  2 “Despite pledges to cut emissions, China goes on a coal spree,” a Yale Environment 360 headline proclaimed. In the article, China based freelanc...

Environmentalists often bristle when charged with being addicted to gloom-and-doom messages, but every now and then an environmental group will confirm the stereotype. In April 2006,Greenpeace mistakenly posted an incomplete draft press release on its Website that read: “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].”  1 Alan Oxley reports that the conservation group World Wi...

The voracious appetites of pests put plants under constant stress. They have to fight just to stay alive. And fight they do. Far from being passive victims, plants have evolved potent defenses: chemical compounds that serve as toxins, signal an escalating attack, and solicit help from unlikely allies. 1 In some cases plants lure attackers into a carefully set trap. An example: plants in the Brassicaceae family (including broccoli, cabbage and mustard) store seemingly harmless compounds known a...

Wind power environmental impacts include land use issues and challenges to wildlife and habitat. The environmental impacts associated with solar power can include land use and habitat loss, water use, and the use of hazardous materials in manufacturing. 1 A recent study finds 2,206 onshore wind, hydropower, and solar PV energy generation facilities have ‘already encroached on many of the word’s most important places for conserving biodiversity’, degrading 896 protected areas, 749 key bio...

Historically, climate activists like to use ‘climate change’ as an immediate go-to cause for anything they can’t explain or ignore data that don’t fit their apocalyptic claims. From ‘where the rubber meets the road’ department, comes the bombshell finding that flies in the face of claims about the universal boogeyman of ‘climate change’ killing salmon due to its supposedly water temperature in streams where they spawn. Last year, PBS and Popular Science were screaming about ‘c...

1 Kerry recently commented on Covid-19: “It’s a tragically teachable moment. I don’t say this in a partisan way. But the parallels between COVID-19 and climate change are screaming at us, both positive and negative. You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted, one with catastrophic consequences, the other with even greater risk if we don’t reverse course. The long-term parallels between...