Climate Change Was the Big Election Loser

A few days before last week's election, Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: "If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over." He had that right. Climate change fanaticism was effectively on the ballot last week. The green energy agenda was decisively defeated. It turns out that the tens of millions of middle-class Americans who voted for Trump weren't much interested in the temperature of the planet 50 years from now. They're too busy trying to pay the bills. That result shouldn't be too surprising. Every poll in recent years has shown climate change ...

Pedestrian Logic

Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago? You’re not just imagining it: It really has gotten more dangerous to cross the ...

A dike in Dutch National Park De Biesbosch

Not-So-Scary Truth About Climate Change

United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry says it will take trillions of dollars to "solve" climate change. Then he says, "There is not enough money in any ...

Green Groups Are No Longer Promoting a Cleaner Environment

The late, great humorist P.J. O'Rourke used to quip that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes. Well, now that can be said for traditional ...

Paris, France

The Night the Lights Went Out in Europe

Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its "power players of the year" -- for, in the publication's ...

Nationalism to Confront Globalism in Glasgow

"Extraordinary, isn't it? I've been hearing all about COP," said the queen to the duchess of Cornwall. "Still don't know who is coming. ... We only know about people who are not ...

Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord are gathered to assess how the world's nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions. ...

Why Risk It?

Twenty years or so ago I was doubtful about climate change and global warming. This was partly because I remembered that back in the 1970s we were being threatened with a new ice ...

Paranoid About Asteroids

A meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk around 9:20AM local time Friday. First there was a fireball brighter than the sun, followed by a blast wave that blew down ...

Land of the Setting Sun

Sunday was the first anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake off the east coast of Japan that produced the 45-foot-high tidal wave that hit Fukushima Prefecture. Twenty thousand ...

Nuclear Holocaust Denial

Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days"€”a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor ...


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