California’s list of failures is long, from high taxes and poverty to lax enforcement of theft. Crime pays, and foreign invaders are often held in higher esteem than natural-born residents. Housing, land management, water, you name it; California sets the standard for what not to do to which we can add energy. California would rather … Read more
For going on half a decade, beginning with the lead-up to the passage of the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) in 2020, the Democrat/Progressive majority’s Voldemort number – that which shall not be named – is what these greenhouse gas reduction policies will cost Vermonters. They have already spent millions of our taxpayer dollars on … Read more
As the Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind project speeds along its out-of-control-freight-train collision with reality, Orsted – a leader in failed East Coat wind projects, announced it is still losing obscene amounts of money. “Orsted estimated the value of its assets declined $472 million in the first half of 2024, largely due to delays at … Read more
Atlantic Hurricane Season peaks in August and September, but we were warned as early as the spring. It will be a very active season, and I bought into that. It’s been a long time coming. We’re due. The Atlantic water is warm (boiling, depending on who you ask), and we have this La Nina thing … Read more
A new study shows just how damaging major lithium mining operations can be. Tales of horrid working conditions and child labor have already crowded global headlines, along with stories highlighting the massive amounts of fossil fuels and equipment needed to acquire enough lithium to feed the ever-growing EV battery industry. Less obvious, however, have been … Read more
New Hampshire residents will understand when Nantucket resident Pat McEvoy says the Feds jammed green energy (offshore wind) down their throats and that “We were not represented in this process.” Development in the Gulf of Maine has been fast-tracked thanks to State Senator David “This will look good on my resume” Watters. Dead whales didn’t stop it. … Read more
It has become something of a ritual. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issued yet another ‘report’ warning about accelerating sea level rise along the New Hampshire coast, and the local media parrots it without question. It happens every few years, and wouldn’t you know, we’ve been around to report on it. “Back in 2016, … Read more
Did you read any of the recent doom and gloom about the Peterman Glacier? It’s doing something glaciers have always done: calving. The media made a big deal about it earlier this year, squawking about accelerated melt due to warming ocean water. That must also be why it has added ten miles to its length … Read more
“There was a Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was lonely for him, so he devised a plan to get a little company. He rushed down towards the village calling out “Wolf, Wolf,” and the villagers came out to meet him. This pleased the … Read more
Remember that time some rich white people with too much money funded a treasure hunt for the mythical floating island of plastic? As with most alleged green endeavors, they were doing it wrong. Looking off the coast of Vancouver will get you some ridicule (I was happy to oblige), but if you want to get … Read more
As the site of the Summer Olympics, Paris naturally continues to espouse the climate change policies espoused in the Paris Accords. As such, the city has set a goal of zero-use plastic and banned single-use plastic bottles from the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Revelations that Coca-Cola has been exempted from this stricture and that some … Read more
The slander of cows for their existential threat to humanity has focused on methane emissions, which allegedly warm the planet unsustainably. This dubious claim is premised on the sketchy logic that methane production negates any beneficial bovine ecological impacts (especially of urine and manure) and ignores the effects on the environment and food system if … Read more
We still have some cows in Cowhampshire, so this will be of interest to farmers, farm advocates, livestock enthusiasts, food security folks, and anyone looking for another opportunity to debunk climate cultists about emissions from tasty animals. And the best part is that you can be cultists, and this might actually make sense to you. … Read more
Fourteen Blue State Attorney Generals signed a letter asking the Feds and FEMA to recognize extreme heat and wildfire smoke as major disaster declarations. The goal is to get the Feds to write them a check backed by your increasingly useless dollars, ‘cuz climate change. “The climate change science is clear and overwhelming: our planet is … Read more
When Agency of Natural Resources secretary Julie Moore testified to the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee back in January 2023 that the cost of the Clean Heat Standard program would be $2 billion over the first five years, 2026-2030, — an amount that she said would result in an additional 70¢ per gallon for home heating … Read more
New Ham Last week, Gov. Chris Sununu signed the state’s first law pertaining to these programs, which will fund a Department of Revenue Administration study on the potential lost timber tax revenue and require the Division of Forestry to create a registry of all carbon offset sites in the state. It was introduced in the state House … Read more
Concerned that rapid development threatened critical agricultural resources, Indiana’s Legislature in 2023 commissioned a study to determine the status of the state’s farmland. Noting that most agricultural land loss neighbored cities and suburban areas, the study concluded that Indiana lost 345,682 acres of farmland between 2010 and 2022. As Bill Gates and China notoriously gobble up … Read more
Of course, we knew this was coming. In fact, they told us so. It was one of the very first Behind the Lines stories back on January 30, 2023 (I started this column on January 11th of that year) that shared the video clip of The Conservation Law Foundation’s Chase Whiting testifying to the Senate Committee on Natural … Read more
Revelations that a hedge fund owned by Democratic Party megadonor James Simons invested heavily in several solar energy companies while his close friend, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), boosted the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) raise questions about not only the ties between the two men but also between climate ideology and … Read more
Bill Gates has a lot of money and free time, especially since his wife Melinda left him, but filling it has not been a problem. He has dedicated at least some of both to finding ways to make you offset his carbon footprint. Climate Change concerns him, and he thinks we would benefit from finding … Read more