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As the high costs of green policies hit, it’s becoming a lose-lose issue for politicians of the left.
Published by Chicago Sun Times
In the wake of Harvey, Irma and Maria, there is intense pressure to use hurricanes to galvanize support toward carbon emissions cuts.
This is unfortunate. The pundits have convinced more than half of Americans of something that is factually wrong.
Hurricane Harvey had no sooner struck in August of this year than the pundits jumped in:
A Politico commentator wrote, “We knew this would happen, decades ago.” Joe Romm at ThinkProgress warned ominously, “Harvey is exactly the kind of off-the-charts hurricane we can expect to see more often because of climate change.”
Published by Spectator TV
The Spectator's Michael Simmons speaks to Bjorn Lomborg about the climate alarmism spilling into poor policy-making, and why governments should focus on innovation and green jobs.
Published by Project Syndicate
For more than a decade, annual data showed global hunger to be on the decline. But that has changed: According to the latest data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hunger affected 815 million people in 2016, 38 million more than 2015, and malnutrition is threatening millions.