By Philip Hamberger – Re-Blogged From Prager University
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Regulation
Psychology Of Systemic Consensus
By Alasdair Macleod – Re-Blogged From Silver Phoenix
We are all too familiar with established views rejecting change. It has nothing to do with the facts. Officialdom’s mind is often firmly closed to all reason on the big issues. To appreciate why we must understand the crowd psychology behind the systemic consensus. It is the distant engine that drives the generator that provides the electricity that drives us into repetitive disasters despite prior evidence they are avoidable, and even fuels the madness of political correctness.
Have We Reached Peak Alarmism
By Anthony Watts – Re-Blogged From WUWT
The question occurs after the muted reaction last week to the latest forecast from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In case you hadn’t heard we’re all doomed, yet the world mostly yawned. This is less complacency than creeping scientific and political realism.
The U.N. panel says the apocalypse is nigh—literally. According to its calculations, global carbon emissions must fall 45% by 2030—twice as much as its earlier forecasts—and the world must wean itself entirely off fossil fuels over three decades to prevent a climate catastrophe that will include underwater coastlines and widespread drought and disease.
Trump Administration Considers Using West Coast Military Facilities for Coal & LNG Exports
By David Middleton – Re-Blogged From WUWT
The Trump Administration appears ready to put the assets of the US armed forces to work in defending US interests in the Global War on Weather.
West Coast military installations eyed for US fuel exports
Originally published October 15, 2018
The administration is interested in partnering with private entities to ship coal or liquefied natural gas through naval installations or other federal facilities, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said.
Calif. Blames Global Warming for Pollution Caused by Its Own Bad Laws
By Michael Barnes – Re-Blogged From Liberty Headlines
Despite California’s best efforts, decades of ever-increasing environmental mandates have failed to produce the outdoor utopia the state’s progressive leaders have long promised.
But that doesn’t mean they won’t stop trying — no matter the consequences.
‘The Left regulates and regulates in an effort to reduce so-called greenhouse gases – without ever asking if it is really working…’
Downtown Los Angeles/PHOTO: traveljunction.com (CC) via Flickr
We All Must Sacrifice for the Environment
Foreword by Paul Dreissen – Re-Blogged From WUWT
Being “hoisted by his own petard” means the bomb maker gets blown up and lifted sky high by his own explosive device. Former Colorado Department of Natural Resources director Greg Walcher notes that the term applies with delicious irony to the in-your-face, holier-than-thou environmentalists who inhabit and run San Francisco.
Determined to save locally endangered salmon populations, they and the State of California have long demanded and imposed water use reductions by Central Valley farmers. But now the California Water Resources Board wants further water use reductions – and this time those reductions will also hit city residences, schools and businesses, and hit them hard: a hefty portion of 98 billion to 220 billion gallons less water per year! Imagine how many baths, showers, laundry and dishwasher loads, and other “essentials” that would mean.
Groups Want End to Subsidy of Electric Cars That Only Benefit the Rich
By Michael Barnes – Re-Blogged From Liberty Headlines
A coalition of 30 free market policy groups has delivered a clear message to Congress: Don’t expand the $7,500 federal tax credit for purchasers of electric vehicles, the vast majority of which are extremely wealthy.
On its face, the electric vehicle subsidy is “misguided as a whole,” coalition signatories said in a Wednesday letter to Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
‘Americans can make their own decisions about how to spend their money and what cars they want to drive…’
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