Michael Shellenberger: Environmental Alarmism Is Wrong and Harmful
The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.
Climate Change
Does Global Trade Policy Discriminate Against Low-Carbon Industries?
A new study finds that trade policies around the world effectively subsidize high-carbon industries.
Greta Thunberg Isn't a Coronavirus Expert
Electing celebrities won't fix what's wrong with American politics, and encouraging their performative antics won't either. CNN should do better.
Environmentalists Look on the Bright Side of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has led to less air pollution...unless you count all the germs.
Impossible Foods: Capitalism Is the Most Powerful Lever To Fight Climate Change
Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, it's providing tasty, plant-based alternatives.
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Trillion Trees Act To Combat Climate Change
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
Peak Carbon Emissions?
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
Worst-Case 'Climate Porn' Is Counterproductive to Addressing Real Climate Change
"Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome"
Ecomodernism Is the Solution to Man-Made Climate Change
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
Population Control Isn't the Answer to Climate Change. Capitalism Is.
Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.
Kids Climate Plaintiffs to Seek Rehearing En Banc
The Juliana v. United State climate litigation may continue.
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Kids Climate Case for Lack of Standing (Updated)
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finds the plaintiffs lack Article III standing in Juliana v. U.S.
The Trump Administration Wants To Speed Up the Delivery of Infrastructure Projects
New proposed regulations from the White House's Council on Environmental Quality would limit how long federal environmental reviews could last.
2019 Was Second Warmest Year on Record Says NOAA
The past five years have been the warmest of the last 140 years.
Is Climate Change Making Australia's Bushfires Worse?
Maybe. Here's the evidence we have so far.
Activists Denounce Madrid Climate Change Conference Outcomes as 'Totally Unacceptable' and 'Deeply Flawed'
COP25 whimpers to its inconclusive close.
Here's What's Wrong with Time Declaring Greta Thunberg Person of the Year
Teen activists are righteously angry—but righteous anger does not produce sound public policy.
COP25: U.N. Climate Negotiations in Madrid Follow Traditional Dramatic Arc
Hope, despair, diplomatic equivocation
ExxonMobil Did Not Mislead Shareholders About Climate Risks, Rules New York Court
New York Attorney General Letitia James loses a trumped up fraud lawsuit against the oil company.
Clean Free Market Policy Beats a Carbon Tax. Here's Why.
Clean technologies can compete (and win) if barriers to participation are removed.
The Climate Debate Should Focus on How to Address the Threat of Climate Change, Not Whether Such a Threat Exists
Even non-apocalyptic assessments of existing climate science counsel in favor of taking climate change seriously
Climate Change: How Lucky Do You Feel?
Current evidence points toward a significantly warmer world by the end of the century. This will have substantial impacts on human life.
SCOTUS Takes a Pass on Michael Mann's Defamation Suit (at least for now)
Justice Alito dissents from the denial of certiorari in National Review v. Mann
We Likely Won't Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions 45 Percent by 2030
The "New World Energy Outlook" report by the International Energy Agency suggests global warming is here to stay.
Forget Paris. It Was Never a Serious Way to Handle Climate Change
Conservatives (and others) should pursue alternative approaches to the threat of climate change.
The Third Lesson of Economics
Henry Hazlitt's insights were far more sophisticated than one modern critic thinks.
Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?
Eating meat doesn't have as big of an impact on the environment as you've been told.
The World Needs Innovators, Not Lectures From Teens, to Solve Climate Change
Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.
Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster, Says New Report
Sea level rise is accelerating and marine heatwaves are becoming more common
Think Globally, Shame Constantly: The Rise of Greta Thunberg Environmentalism
Her future—and that of the planet—hasn't been "stolen" and the best way forward is through serious policy discussion, not histrionics.
Climate Strike Disrupts D.C. Commutes
More than 1,000 activists march to protest the state of the environment.
Capitalism Is the Key to Fixing Climate Change
Slowing or stopping economic growth will only delay solving the problems caused by man-made warming.
Climate Activists Around the World Will Take to the Streets on Friday. Will Their Protests Matter?
Or, will global leaders ignore them just like they did the People's Climate March in 2014?
Elizabeth Warren Issues Misleading Claim That Three Industries Are Responsible for 70 Percent of Carbon Pollution
One of those industries is just…“industry.”
Democrats' Anti-Scientific Climate Dystopias
What last week's town hall tells us about this week's presidential debate—and about the state of Democratic policy thinking
4 Memorable Moments From CNN's Climate Town Hall
From Joe Biden's call for high-speed rail to Kamala Harris' call for banning plastic straws, the Democratic presidential candidates pushed a hard-green agenda.
Dems to Talk for 6 (!) Hours About Climate Change on CNN Tonight
Plus: occupational licensing, Hong Kong, school choice, social media spies, and more...
Extreme Climate Change Has Arrived in America, Says The Washington Post
Rising temperatures are mostly happening in the winter and at night.
Impending Defeat for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Pestilence, war, famine, and death are all on the decline.
Despite What Democrats Said at Their Debate, We're Not Heading Toward Climate Apocalypse
Climate change is a problem, but the end of the world is not scheduled for 2030.
Why Giving Up Meat Won't Have Much of an Effect on Climate Change
Going vegetarian would reduce a person's greenhouse gas emissions by around 2 percent
The New York Times Says Heat Waves Are Getting Worse. The National Climate Assessment Disagrees.
At least in the lower 48 states.
Peak Farmland Helps Solve Climate Change
It also protects and restores imperiled biodiversity.
Is Climate Change Loading Tropical Storm Barry Up With Extra Rain?
Research suggests that inundations are increasing because climate change makes hurricanes linger longer. The good news is that normalized losses from hurricanes aren't increasing.
Trump Tries On the Mantle of Environmental Leadership. Does He Deserve It?
"We're working hard, maybe harder than all previous administrations, maybe almost all of them."
We're All Gonna Die: Climate Change Apocalypse by 2050
Worst-case scenarios mislead far more than they enlighten.
