Environment – California Globe

Ringside: The Case for Carbon Sequestration via Forestry and Mass Timber

August 7, 2025 3:05 amAugust 7, 2025 3:06 am

There are at least two massive opportunities to engage in cost-effective carbon sequestration. Neither would require subsidies and both could be performed exclusively by the private sector. They are controversial, but for different reasons. This week, building on last week’s...

Asian Forests Victims of Intolerable ‘Green’ Lie

August 4, 2025 3:00 pmAugust 4, 2025 3:01 pm

In the modern climate debate, emotion and partisan allegiance replace critical thinking to smear carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant. Well-crafted green advocacies steal the spotlight, while reason languishes in the shadows of medieval-style witch hunts. The reality, however,...

The Politics of Weather in Beautiful California

July 31, 2025 2:31 pmAugust 2, 2025 7:47 am

California is enjoying a beautiful summer – particularly Northern California. Our usual July temperatures are hot – 90 to 100+ degrees. July 2025 has been glorious – high 70’s, and 80 to 85 degrees. It hit 90 degrees Monday and...

Ringside: Logging Saves Species and Increases Our Water Supply

July 31, 2025 2:55 amJuly 31, 2025 2:56 am

There are obvious benefits to logging, grazing, prescribed burns, and mechanical thinning of California’s forests. When you suppress wildfires for what is now over a century, then overregulate and suppress any other means to thin the forest, you get overcrowded...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Making Heads Explode by Repealing Obama Era Climate Policy

July 30, 2025 7:12 amJuly 31, 2025 7:37 am

Global warming. Global cooling. Climate change. Clean air regulations. CO2. Climate regulations. Global climate fight. Most people just call it weather – atmospheric conditions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is proposing the largest...

Ringside: Long Term Electricity Storage

July 23, 2025 3:45 pmJuly 23, 2025 3:51 pm

Silicon Valley veterans view Sacramento’s obsession with renewables mandates with pragmatic detachment. Blessed with disposable income sufficient to make them indifferent to the price of gasoline or electricity, they view life on the bleeding edge as an opportunity for California...

Blocking the Sun to Save the Planet? The Climate Cartel Has Officially Lost Its Mind

July 22, 2025 2:00 pmJuly 22, 2025 2:01 pm

While red states ban geoengineering, Trump’s federal agencies are still funding sun-blocking experiments that threaten our skies, our food, and our freedom. Despite a second term filled with promises to drain the swamp and return power to the people, President...