Experts have pushed back against claims that this weekend’s tragic tornadoes in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee can be clearly linked to manmade climate change. In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, professor and climate economist Richard S.J. Tol of the University of Sussex explained why it is so difficult to connect weather…
Experts Refute Claims Linking Deadly Tornadoes to Climate Change
December 15, 2021
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Climate Policy and the Expansion of Government Power
December 15, 2021
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News Analysis Christmastime is here—well, almost—but talk of global warming hasn’t slowed down with the cooling weather. In fact, it seems like concern about the climate influences everything these days. In Washington, the solidly Democratic House has given a divided but Democrat-controlled Senate an expensive new piece of legislation. The $2 trillion “Build Back Better…
New York City Set to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings in Shift Toward Alternate Energy
New buildings in New York will no longer be able to use natural gas if a new law passes the city council this week, following in the footsteps of dozens of smaller U.S. cities attempting to move to alternate forms of energy. Council members are widely expected to vote on the new measure on Wednesday. Under the legislation, the…
Elon Musk Announces Plan to Take CO2 out of Atmosphere and Convert It Into Rocket Fuel
December 14, 2021
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Elon Musk announced on Monday that his company is working on a program to take carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and convert it into rocket fuel, claiming that it will be important for his future missions to Mars. Musk announced the news on Twitter and invited people to participate in the program, writing: “SpaceX is starting a…
3 Ways to Create an Environment That’ll Nurture an Entrepreneur
By Charlie Chanaratsopon As internet resources make becoming our own boss easier, society is witnessing an incredible shift: Entrepreneurship is becoming more viable for more people in more forms. Whether as freelancers or small-business owners, more than ever, people want a stake in their work. As a result, the self-starter skills we see in entrepreneurs…
California Regulators Propose Reducing Incentives for Rooftop Solar
December 13, 2021
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California regulators proposed major changes to the state’s booming residential solar industry Monday, including reducing the discounts homeowners with rooftop solar and storage systems get on their electric bills when they sell extra energy back to the power companies. California’s successful program to get more people to put solar panels on their homes has…
Awesome Science (Episodes 9): Explore Rocky Mountain National Park
In this episode, Noah travels to the Rocky Mountains to explore how they were made and eroded by the catastrophic tectonics of the Flood. He’ll also explore Great Sand Dunes National Park and Devils Tower to see how the birth of the Rockies produced these amazing sites. Noah explores Rocky Mountain National Park to show…
Senators Ponder $1.4 Billion Wildlife Recovery Bill
December 11, 2021
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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard expert testimony Dec. 8 on the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), a bipartisan wildlife protection bill that would be funded by fines and other money collected from environmental or natural resource-related violations. RAWA revises the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act, which gave the tax money collected on firearms and…
Pollution Linked to Changing Ratio of Baby Boys to Girls: Study
Air and water pollutants are linked to changes in the human sex ratio at birth (SRB)—the ratio between the number of newborn boys to the total number of newborns—according to a study of U.S. and Swedish populations. Researchers at the University of Chicago and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, found an association between numerous pollutants and changes to the…
Why Wildlife Is Returning to Eastern Kentucky
December 10, 2021
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The past 20-plus years of mass media reporting on the environment has been dominated by predictions of cataclysmic catastrophe and mayhem, although during my life, I’ve seen a very different story. Growing up in Eastern Kentucky, deer were few, with no bear, coyotes, turkeys, mountain lions, bald eagles, and certainly no elk. Today, all of…
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