Tag: climate change

UK Turns on Coal Power Plant as Wind Farms Fail to Meet Electricity Demand

The UK has been forced to fire up a coal power plant to ensure electricity supply, as low winds prevent the country’s wind farms from generating as much power as expected. The UK’s National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) said it has asked energy firm EDF to fire up West Burton A, a power plant…


Statistical Method Used to Link Climate Change to Greenhouse Gases Challenged

An important new study in “Climate Dynamics” has criticized a key methodology that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses to attribute climate change to greenhouse gases, raising questions about the validity of research that relied on it and prompting a response from one of the scientists who developed the technique. The new study’s…


IPCC’s ‘No One Is Safe’ Slogan Is Deeply Misleading: Shellenberger

The message stated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) report, warning that “nobody is safe” from human-caused climate change is “irresponsible and misleading,” according to longtime environmental activist Michael Shellenberger. The IPCC published a report in August stating that human-caused climate change is accelerating and that radical changes to human behavior are needed to avert disaster. Following the findings,…


The Climate Army Is Coming

Commentary The climate army is coming. Dissatisfied with the American people’s lack of concern for their issue du jour, self-righteous coastal elites are moving on from slick PR campaigns and headline-grabbing protests to deploy a legion of climate activists across the nation—paid for by your tax dollars, whether you like it or not. President Joe…


Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Joins Calls to Apply COVID Lessons to Climate Change

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that “what we learned from this COVID crisis” will be applied to climate change, sparking fears from some of future “climate lockdowns” that will restrict freedom of movement and consumption in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions. “Do you remember when we warned that covid lockdowns would segue…


Beijing Demands US Fulfill Wish List in Exchange for Cooperation on Climate Change

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave U.S. climate envoy John Kerry a set of instructions that the United States should follow if the Biden administration seeks Beijing’s cooperation on climate change. Kerry is currently on the second leg of his Asia trip for negotiations on climate action. He first traveled to Japan before arriving in…


Global Elite Latches Onto Neo-Socialist Vision: The Green New Deal

Commentary A reconfigured global elite are shaping up around a new kind of vision for transforming our world. They’ve called their neo-socialist and multilateral vision the Green New Deal. Joe Biden’s White House team are core players in this vision, as they seek to reinvent Roosevelt’s original 1930s New Deal into a contemporary twenty-first century…


Michael Shellenberger: Reports of a Coming Climate Catastrophe Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

“If you make your graph tall enough and you cherry-pick a particular period of time, you can make anything look scary. It’s really what they don’t show you,” says longtime environmental activist Michael Shellenberger. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres recently said a new U.N. climate change report was a “code red for humanity.” How should people…


U.S. Climate Envoy Kerry Visits China for Emissions Talks

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry starts a three-day visit to China after meeting with Japanese officials in Tokyo on Aug. 31. The trip is aimed at building on commitments secured during Kerry’s last visit to China in April. Kerry will meet with Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change affairs, in the northern port…


US Climate Envoy Kerry Visits China for Emissions Talks

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry starts a three-day visit to China after meeting with Japanese officials in Tokyo on Aug. 31. The trip is aimed at building on commitments secured during Kerry’s last visit to China in April. Kerry will meet with Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change affairs, in the northern port…