Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #508
8 hours ago The Week That Was: 2022-06-18 (June 18, 2022)
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Quote of the Week: “Social Engineering – The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.” – Thomas Sowell [H/t Ron Clutz]
Number of the Week: From $50 per barrel to $88 per barrel before Russia invaded Ukraine.
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: Tom Sheahen and Ken Haapala filed SEPP’s comments on SEC’s proposed rules on climate change risk disclosure. Separately, Howard Hayden filed his comments. Both sets of comments assert that no one in this administration understands the greenhouse effect, confusing it with other human influences and natural variation. Bureaucrats cannot regulate concepts they don’t understand despite costly, pathetic efforts. TWTW does not expect anything meaningful to come from these comments. But they may make interesting reading for those pursuing litigation against the SEC, which is sure to follow if the rules are implemented.
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Several papers appeared on possible solar influences. One solar influence was direct, a mapping of the major magnetic storm of March 1989. The other possible solar influence was implied, but not discussed by the authors of the paper, the unusual drought in the sixth century that paved the way for Islam.
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Blackouts were a problem in Australia, compounded by government policy. Consumers were simply told to use less electricity – the sure-fire answer for many problems brought on by government policy. The public may be realizing the Green New Deal for what it is – a poorly thought-out illusion. To relieve problems they created by trying to stop use of fossil fuels, some politicians are proposing subsidizing the use of the fuels by the poor. This is particularly absurd in North America, where there is no shortage of fossil fuels, except that created by government.
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