Brazil’s productivity — the output per hour worked, crucial to raising a nation’s prosperity — grew by just 0.5 percent annually in the four decades to 2022, according to the Getúlio Vargas Institute.
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From Spycatcher, by Peter Wright, a Senior British Intelligence Officer. The former assistant director of MI5 who retired to Tasmania, revealed that the security agency had bugged embassies, that a small group of agents had plotted against the prime minister Harold Wilson, and that Sir Roger Hollis, the director general of MI5 from 1956-65, had been a Soviet mole.
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Only 11 adults were responsible for 60% of all book ban requests from school libraries during the 2021-2022 school year.
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Gas Makes You Lightheaded
According to the EPA’s own methodology, which is more prone to overstate climate effects than other approaches, canceling all U.S. LNG exports forever would reduce global temperatures by 0.013°C by 2100. LNG exports simply aren’t contributing to climate change in any significant way.
LNG is going to be produced. It is going to be sold on the global market. It is going to be used. Those things will happen whether new export terminals are built or not. The question is whether the U.S. wants to make exports easier or harder.
Making it harder doesn’t help the climate. But it does hurt us.
Countries that aren’t able to substitute LNG from elsewhere are likely to use coal instead. Coal burns dirtier than LNG. The largest single reason for the decline in U.S. carbon emissions in the past several years is the switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation. Making LNG exports more difficult hinders the ability of other countries to make that switch.
The U.S. did not export any natural gas until 2016. Now, the U.S. is the world’s top exporter. American LNG dominance is primarily a function of the fracking revolution. It is not only a manifestation of American innovation. It also presents a new tool for the U.S. in geopolitics. Providing an alternative to Russian natural gas should be a primary objective of U.S. policy in Europe.
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From Spycatcher, by Peter Wright, a Senior British Intelligence Officer. The former assistant director of MI5 who retired to Tasmania, revealed that the security agency had bugged embassies, that a small group of agents had plotted against the prime minister Harold Wilson, and that Sir Roger Hollis, the director general of MI5 from 1956-65, had been a Soviet mole.
***
Only 11 adults were responsible for 60% of all book ban requests from school libraries during the 2021-2022 school year.
***
Gas Makes You Lightheaded
According to the EPA’s own methodology, which is more prone to overstate climate effects than other approaches, canceling all U.S. LNG exports forever would reduce global temperatures by 0.013°C by 2100. LNG exports simply aren’t contributing to climate change in any significant way.
LNG is going to be produced. It is going to be sold on the global market. It is going to be used. Those things will happen whether new export terminals are built or not. The question is whether the U.S. wants to make exports easier or harder.
Making it harder doesn’t help the climate. But it does hurt us.
Countries that aren’t able to substitute LNG from elsewhere are likely to use coal instead. Coal burns dirtier than LNG. The largest single reason for the decline in U.S. carbon emissions in the past several years is the switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation. Making LNG exports more difficult hinders the ability of other countries to make that switch.
The U.S. did not export any natural gas until 2016. Now, the U.S. is the world’s top exporter. American LNG dominance is primarily a function of the fracking revolution. It is not only a manifestation of American innovation. It also presents a new tool for the U.S. in geopolitics. Providing an alternative to Russian natural gas should be a primary objective of U.S. policy in Europe.
Fortunately, this at least unreasonable and perhaps suicidal policy is softened by this comic news.
The New York Times reported that this moratorium came after Biden advisers met with a 25-year-old TikTok influencer known for climate activism. It said activists used the same strategy they deployed against the Keystone XL pipeline during the Obama administration. The White House statement on the LNG decision said the administration would “heed the calls of young people” on climate issues.
(much from NR)
The New York Times reported that this moratorium came after Biden advisers met with a 25-year-old TikTok influencer known for climate activism. It said activists used the same strategy they deployed against the Keystone XL pipeline during the Obama administration. The White House statement on the LNG decision said the administration would “heed the calls of young people” on climate issues.
(much from NR)
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