Alex Epstein: Despite Climate Change, the Future Needs More Fossil Fuels
Coal, oil, and gas have contributed to global warming, but we can deal with their impact while letting them bring billions more up to middle-class living standards.
Coal, oil, and gas have contributed to global warming, but we can deal with their impact while letting them bring billions more up to middle-class living standards.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
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Corporate welfare hurts the people who actually need help.
Researchers admit there are absolutely no current examples of low-energy societies providing a decent living standard for their citizens.
The plan would require a substantial retirement of machines that run on fossil fuels.
Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.
Jeff Nesbit and Bjorn Lomborg on the threat of climate change and what should be done about it
Jeff Nesbit vs. Bjorn Lomborg on the threat of climate change and what should be done about it
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
In his new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Shellenberger argues that science doesn't support doomsayers' claims.
Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.
New report declares world must be off fossil fuels entirely by 2050.
Germany won't be able to meet the goal of cutting emissions by 20 percent before 2020. But the attempt caused residential energy prices to double.
Democrats have spent the past two decades advocating for policies that artificially spike fossil fuel prices.
Skip renewables for zero-carbon electricity and go directly to nuclear
If renewables are as cheap as he thinks, then Steps 2 and 3 are superfluous.
But doesn't mean ruling out disruptive new energy technologies.
Activist happy talk that transitioning to renewables will be cheap is entirely specious.
Millions lost when political influence overrules financial acumen.
Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.
The momentum away from fossil fuels and toward renewables is 'undeniable and irresistible' assert activists.
Lots of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending by progressives soon to follow
So says the president-elect in an interview this afternoon with the New York Times.
"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016."
The solons will be denouncing "climate change denial" from the floor of the Senate for the next two days.
Some want to legally target those who donate to think tanks that encourage skepticism.
Throwing off excessive regulatory precaution will bend the nuclear cost curve down, argues new study
Privately funded, carbon-free, walk-away-safe, burns nuclear waste - what's not to like?
Opposing nuclear power is not climate friendly
Does the stock market know something that environmental activists don't?
According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Does energy equity trump climate moralizing?
Instead of talking about "climate change"-which will happen with or without human influence-we should focus on "climate catastrophe," weather that actually kills people.
No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, and Certainly No Capitalism
Reason's science correspondent sends a first dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference
If there is any issue you can be sure will come up during a presidential election campaign, it's gasoline prices.