Conference of the Century! (Fantasizing about a 350 ppm CO2 Cap)
Well, how else should we describe a conference addressing “The Greatest Challenge in History”? That’s what the 350 Climate Conference, to be held May 2 at Columbia University, calls global warming,...
View ArticleEnergy Poverty: Environmental Problem #1 (worth remembering Sunday)
“Climate change is not an economics problem. It’s an ethics problem.” - Stephen Schneider, Science, June 4, 2004. Well, yes it is. And the climate-change debate brings up the energy-policy debate....
View ArticlePew Center Realism Towards 'Kyoto II': Game, Set, Match Adaptation?
“I can find virtually no one—in government, in the environmental community, in business or in the press—who thinks that the Kyoto Protocol has even the proverbial snowball’s chance in hell of coming...
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Christopher Flavin (Worldwatch Institute) on the Benefits of Electrifying the...
“Today, 1.6 billion people in developing countries do not have access to electricity in their homes. Most of the electricity-deprived are in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. For these people, the day...
View ArticleEnergy as the Master Resource: Where Left, Right, and Center Agree
“A reliable and affordable supply of energy is absolutely critical to maintaining and expanding economic prosperity where such prosperity already exists and to creating it where it does not.” - John...
View ArticleFacts vs. Climate Alarmism
Editor’s note: Bradley’s op-ed appeared in the December 8th Washington Times under the title “Alarmists Cold-Shoulder Facts”) Facts are awfully stubborn things. And global-warming alarmists—who...
View ArticleSubsoil Oil and Gas Privatization: Private Wealth for the Common Good...
[Editor note: A profile of Guillermo "Billy" Yeatts, an Argentinean and energy expert, author, and free-market philanthropist, is at the end of this post.] The history of oil and gas production in...
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Energy and Poverty – What is Really at Stake in Cancun
A year ago during the Copenhagen conference on climate change, I published a post, Electricity for the Poor–What Copenhagen Really Needs to Confront, where I noted that some 1.5 billion people did not...
View ArticleFor the Poor, How Much Energy Is Enough?
“Solar may be the way to go for millions of poor people around the world, at least for starter off-grid energy. I rely on solar power for my nifty water fountain and fun outdoor Christmas tree lights....
View ArticleThe Energy Poverty Project: ‘Social Justice’ in Action
“The Energy Poverty Project (EPP) is an international organization that advocates for minimizing burdensome regulations, promoting human health, combating energy poverty, and improving the quality of...
View Article‘The Energy Poverty Prevention and Accountability Act’ (H.R. 4266)
“to prevent energy poverty and to ensure that each at-risk community has access to affordable energy, the United States should ensure that laws relating to environmental and energy policy, including...
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