The Jefferson Journal
Commentary
There are four truths to the climate change policy debate that environmental activists do not really want known. The first is that greenhouse gas reduction goals, like Virginia Governor Kaine’s, are both unachievable and irrelevant. In an op-ed commentary, Center for Evnironmental Stewardship Director David Schnare explains the “inside game”...
At the Research Triangle Institute in November 2008, David Schnare, Director of the Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship, discussed climate change from a political theory perspective, with reference to geoengineering as a means to break the political roadblocks. In a thought-provoking presentation, he examines Malthusian and post-Marxist approaches to...
At the age of eight, I watched my father vote in a contested election for his union’s leadership. Sitting across the folding table from him, watching to see how he voted, were members of the union leadership being challenged – the ones who decided which union members would be assigned...
In an internal analysis of the U.S. economy and federal environmental spending, Center for Environmental Stewardship Director David Schnare conducted a brief review of the relationship between the health of the economy and its effect upon environmental spending. Notably, significant changes in the former do not appear to much affect...
With new information frequently becoming available on the facts surrounding the debate on Global Warming, the Jefferson Institute’s Director of Environmental Stewardship. Dr. David Schnare, was asked to submit to the Governor’s Climate Change Commission, an update to his May testimony. This updated information was provided to the Commission at...