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Epoch TV American Thought Leaders: Steve Milloy
On April 30, 2024, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, appeared on Epoch Times TV’s ongoing show, American Thought Leaders. His interview, How the Green Tech Industry is Empowering Communist China, is a lengthy look at how Communist China has prospered from the West’s unilateral push to reduce emissions by pushing an economy-killing “green” agenda.
Actual Headline: ‘What Happens When Climate Change and the Mental-Health Crisis Collide?’
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
“What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?” That actual headline in Nature.com triggered my BS meter. What does climate change have to do with mental health?
What happens in California should stay in California
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
California recently adopted a zero-emission requirement for all railroad locomotives in the state by 2030, which many critics are saying could cripple the nation’s freight rail network. That’s because California doesn’t have its own separate fleet of locomotives. So to keep the trains running, the rule effectively forces nationwide compliance with one state’s policy. California can make whatever rules it wants for freight trains, but they don’t stay in California.
‘NO Climate Crisis’ Says Coalition of 1,600 Actual Scientists
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
“There is ‘NO Climate Crisis’ says a coalition of 1,600 actual scientists” in a recent letter to the California Air Resources Board. In fact, the scientists find that “California is in no danger of unusual drought: The annual precipitation in California has fluctuated greatly over the last 150 years, with only a slight decrease.”
Governments can’t change the automobile market
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
Electric cars are set to dominate the worldwide automobile market. They account for more than a third of all cars on the road, and gas-powered cars are only 22%. The year is 1900, and both engine types will soon overtake primitive steam-powered vehicles, still 40% of the vehicles in America. Although Stanley Steamers rarely explode, many Americans fear they might and their hissing noise scares the horses. The future of gasoline cars is also doubtful, owing to their unbearable noise, the dirty and dangerous job of hand cranking to start them, and the difficulty in finding gas.
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