California Is No Model, So Why Does New York Still Mimic It? Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: California is the last place any state should look for ideas unless programmed failure is the objective, but that’s exactly what New York looks
Read More...Farms Being Destroyed in New York State to Save Them! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State’s Climate Act is leading to the destruction of the state’s farms even as its Department of Environmental Conservation says it’s saving them.] There
Read More...Climate Action Council Follows Europe: Energy Emergency Next Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Climate Action Council is deliberating ignoring what’s happening in England, Germany and the rest of Europe as “Net Zero” creates an energy crisis.] The implementation plan
Read More...Climate Act Mostly Just Appeasement of Special Interests Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Climate Act is is mostly just the political appeasement of preferred political groups at the expense of every New York State energy consumer.] There is an
Read More...Solar Project Denied in New York? Say It Ain’t So! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s siting board actually turned down a solar project but it’s all for show and because the developer apparently wanted still more favors from the
Read More...Climate Justice? Nah…It’s About Money for Those Who Preach It! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State is preaching climate justice but the folks doing the preaching are simply lining up for money they hope to grab from taxpayers for
Read More...Subsidies, Subsidies and More Subsidies for Solar Scams Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Subsidies, direct, indirect and hidden, are the dirty little secret of the corporatist world of solar scams and are about to raise New York electric prices.] People ask
Read More...Farmland Be Damned: New York Will Cover Upstate with Solar! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York State government is trying to cover its Upstate farmland with solar panels to appease the urban elite environmentalist class. Or, is it copying Canada?]
Read More...American Meteorological Society: Politics Before Science Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: The American Meteorological Society has gone to the dark, rainy side where politics always trumps science and advocacy has forever replaced professionalism.] Just when I think that the climate-related madness
Read More...RGGI Didn’t Do That, Switching to Natural Gas Did! Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI advocates, including Pennsylvania’s trust-funder governor, want us to believe RGGI has reduced CO2 emissions but its really fuel switching to natural gas.] New York’s Climate Leadership
Read More...Net Zero Shenanigans in the UK Offer Lessons for New York Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Net zero is often just net nuttiness as UK energy policy shows us, but there are reasonable things that could be done there and in
Read More...Climate Change Superfund Act A Clueless Cash Cow Exercise Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s proposed Climate Change Superfund Act is the latest of absurd, clueless, but politically correct, initiatives designed to kill fossil fuels and raise cash for green
Read More...CLCPA Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: “Vested interests have had their say, and public relations have taken precedence over engineering and economics” but CLCPA “winging it” cannot and will not work.] At the September 13, 2021 meeting of New York’s Climate Leadership and Community
Read More...Heat Pumps Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Climate justice is another of those excuses intended to employ global warming theology for the purpose of pursuing socialistic agendas on the part of the left. Rogers explains in a post found here, a condensed version
Read More...Heat Pumps Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Heat pumps are useful in some situations but they can’t store energy or work without a backup, which is why they are no replacement for reliable natural gas.] On July 18, 2019 New York Governor Andrew
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