Robert L. Bradley Jr. discusses the efforts by Andrew Dressler, a Texas A & M professor, to “cancel” Steven Koonin, a theoretical physicist at New York University and author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters. Koonin’s book applies objective analysis to climate change issues, reducing alarm about…
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Latest IPCC Report Full of Errors
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued in February, is full of flaws, says Roger Pielke, Jr., professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. The report, called Working Group 2 (or WG2), is supposed to focus on the “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” of a changing climate. Pielke…
Don’t Worry about Greenland’s Melting Ice
Greenland ‘s ice mass is melting—but more slowly than it did a decade ago, and its level right now is about the same as in the 1930s. That’s from Steven Koonin, writing in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Koonin cites measurements of ice conducted by the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet,…
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Supreme Court To Hear Its ‘Most Important Environmental Case’ This Term
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in West Virginia vs. EPA on Monday, February 28. Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan Adler calls this case “the most important environmental case in the 2021-2022 term.” “In this case, the justices will consider the scope of the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the power…
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John A. Baden is founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), located in Bozeman, Montana. Baden, who received his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 1969, was a leader in developing the New Resource Economics, an incentive-based approach to environmental and natural resource management. He has…