How to Teach Children about Climate Change
According to a National Public Radio/Ipsos poll, 80 percent of parents wish that teachers “taught climate change” in school. The article announcing this finding goes on to lament that relatively few...
View ArticleEnvironmental Eschatology
As the recent climate strikes indicate, a very great many people are convinced (“convicted” in evangelical terms) of the millenarian notion that anthropogenic emissions represent what Greta Thunberg...
View ArticleThe Hubris of “The Anthropocene”
It is now quite popular in certain sets to describe our current age as the “Anthropocene.” This Age-of-Mankind label is credited (often by himself) to Paul Crutzen, who defines it as the “human...
View ArticleThe Environmental Uncertainty Principle
The New York Times reports, with more than a touch of breathless enthusiasm, that a Department of Interior official is “on a campaign” to ensure that the agency’s scientific reports “misrepresent”...
View ArticleSustainable Newspeak by 2050
George Orwell pointed out that one of the first casualties of socialism is language. The damage is not collateral, it is deliberate—designed to numb minds and render critical thought difficult or...
View ArticleThe Wrath of Gaia
There is a natural tendency among human beings to attribute major physical as well as personal events to divine interventions in the order of things.. Rationalist philosophers long aimed to eliminate...
View ArticleWhat We Really Know About Climate Change
The sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) continues a long history of alarmist predictions with the deeply dubious statement that human-caused climate...
View ArticleAn Economic Climate Change?
In May 2021, President Joseph Biden issued his “Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk.” According to the order, the “intensifying impacts of climate change present physical risk to . . ....
View ArticleThe Market Does What a Climate Summit Can’t
International climate conferences have become something of a tradition, marking the passage of time as readily as birthdays or the equinox. The latest such conference, the 26th Conference of the...
View ArticleClimate Tyrants’ New Tactics
Chief Justice John Marshall’s observation, “[t]hat the power to tax involves the power to destroy,” has become part of American political lore. Marshall understood that the state’s revenue-extracting...
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