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
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger looks at where the Empire State stands with its climate goals and concludes the only realistic hope is to repeal the CLCPA right now.] On July 18, 2019 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which establishes
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger studies the status of climate science in his home state, where politician Andrew Cuomo determines what is a climate emergency.] In response to the Biden administration’s “World Climate Summit” there have been multiple summaries of the state of climate science, the alleged
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Community and Climate Investment Act (CCIA) is unfolding as a financial hit on New Yorkers who will face new carbon taxes.] In the spring of 2021, the New York state Senate introduced the Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA). Coming on the heels
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