My latest for TCS Daily, “Following Al Gore’s Example for Energy Use,” is now up. It’s my reaction to the Al Gore’s Big Giant House meme that swept the blogosphere overnight.
An excerpt:
Regardless of what Al Gore preaches about these matters, the way he lives strikes me as reasonable. He was of the manor [...]
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Recently, a surprising voice was added to the growing chorus in favor of capping carbon emissions and developing alternative sources of energy, that of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. Yes, that Paul Wolfowitz - former Deputy Secretary of Defense under Don Rumsfeld, leading “neocon,” partial architect of both the Bush Doctrine and the Iraq [...]
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An Inconvenient Truth won big at the Academy Awards last night. Did it deserve it? Or was it a political statement?
Let’s hear our readers’ thoughts on Hollywood environmentalism… and the show in general.
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wrote a good op-ed in today’s Washington Post about the importance of conservatives engaging in the climate change debate. It is noteworthy more for his description of how fundamental conservative principles can be applied to solving climate change than simply for his belief that something needs to be done [...]
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The perennial controversy over buying domestic or imported goods may be turning into an environmental debate as well - at your local supermarket.
Environmentalists have been claiming for some time that buying locally grown produce is beneficial to the environment, because goods with less distance to travel will use less fuel and produce less pollution [...]
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Across our nation, major municipalities and school district are competing to become the next “American Idle.” Vehicles such as buses and garbage trucks in many areas are now subject to formal policies that forbid them from idling for extended periods of time.
It is estimated that over a billion gallons of diesel fuel, five percent of [...]
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While reading Alan Murray’s recent column in the Wall Street Journal, about business support of a market-based carbon cap, I came across this fascinating paragraph: “The problem is that it isn’t clear Democratic leaders really want to act. Their eyes are fixed on the 2008 election, when they hope global warming will be a [...]
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In terms of ethanol production, possibly.
I was born in Georgia. As a baby I probably chewed on a little pine bark, but who knew then what Gov. Perdue knows now? According to the St. Petersburg Times:
“Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue announced that a plant west of Savannah would soon begin turning pine bark [...]
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An editorial in yesterday’s Investor’s Business Daily considers this week’s introduction of a U.S.-Brazil deal on ethanol technology and production as a possible step away from our dependence on crude oil from Venezuela
Chavez’s hostile anti-American dictatorship grows worse as his oil earnings pile up. With the U.S. as his best customer, buying about a quarter, [...]
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Last Friday the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released to the public. Although their findings were covered by many of the media markets the scientific community really reached a consensus on climate change some time ago, so this isn’t really news. Even Saturday Night Live took a swingť at people that are still [...]
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A very interesting interview with conservative strategist Frank Luntz.
This blog is meant to be a place for conservatives to discuss environmental and energy issues… and Luntz is famous for finding ways to speak out more effectively. We won’t all agree with his views, but the article is worth reading.
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Reuters reported today that Iran has installed 328 centrifuges to enrich uranium for atomic fuel. If all goes according to plan, Iran will activate a total of 3,000 such centrifuges.
Reuters goes on to observe, “The Islamic Republic, the world’s No. 4 oil producer, says it wants solely civilian [...]
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This story shows that Wal-Mart is using its retail influence to do more than just sell light bulbs.
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Our firm recently conducted a survey among 500 likely South Carolina Republican presidential primary voters that shows far more support for limiting carbon emissions as a way to combat climate change than would normally be expected in this conservative state. A majority of these Republicans believes that global warming is probably happening, thinks that carbon [...]
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