Germany talks a good game on climate change and environmental policies, but unfortunately it appears to be mostly quatsch, as the country’s actions are far more matching its words, according to the European Council on Foreign Relations, which delivers a polite but damning overview of […]
Tag: environment
Trump takes the keys back from California on auto standards
By Mike Palicz, Americans for Tax Reform President Obama’s special waiver allowing California to set and enforce its own greenhouse-gas regulations for cars beyond federal standards has been a complete disaster. California’s waiver from the federal fuel economy rules, the so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, kneecaps […]
Reaching UK climate targets will cost up to £20B per year
The UK has set itself the goal of achieving “net zero emissions” by the year 2050 — and that will require some serious new spending, according to a government report cited by The Guardian. The report, authored by analysts at Vivid Economics, […]
TES Weekly Update: America needs a Space Force with teeth
Like it or not, space is already being militarized For those of us old enough to remember the Cold War — ah, simpler times, when all we had to worry about was the horrifyingly real possibility of nuclear annihilation at any moment without warning — the idea of the United States creating a real […]
U.S. energy independence won’t free it from foreign entanglements
The rise of fracking has turned the U.S. into an oil exporter and raises the possibility of total energy independence, something unthinkable two decades ago. However the potential for supplying all its own fossil fuel demand will not magically free the U.S. from […]
Much of “Green New Deal” has nothing to do with the environment
There a couple plans for the “Green New Deal” circulating in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere, all supposedly intended to tackle the causes of climate change with sweeping measures to de-carbonize society. Except as Tim Worstall of the UK’s Adam Smith Institute points out, […]
Court ruling makes irrigating farmland risky business
A U.S. district court in San Francisco, in its infinite wisdom, has issued a ruling that threatens to make it virtually impossible — or just really, really expensive — for farmers to irrigate cropland. While the ruling currently only applies in California, it sets […]
The world must join forces to save Amazon
Saving the Amazon rain forest, now under assault by Brazilian farmers and ranchers with the explicit assent of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, will be a global project requiring international cooperation by governments, citizens, and corporate interests, argues the Financial Times editorial board in an […]
Eco-conscious Germans still love their gas guzzlers
The inhabitants of rich countries talk a good game on the environment, but it’s rather a different story when it comes to their own personal preferences and behaviors. On that note, while a large number of Germans profess to be concerned about the environment, they […]
Has climate change impacted agricultural production? Depends who you ask
Reports on climate change have a funny way of raising more questions than they answer. Depending on which experts and pundits you choose to believe, the world is either already feeling the impact of climate change on agricultural production, or the whole thing is overstated and alarmist. […]