About Dr. Jay Lehr (Edit profile)

CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon.

Efficiency paradox and fracking lies

Hoover Dam’s power plant uses smart grid technology to conserve energy when it can and make more when needed. People say, “Even if all we say about fossil fuels is true, shouldn’t we try to make things more efficient so we will use less?” (I will now refer to fossil fuels as TECHMAPS. See my July 7 article at CFACT.org as to why.) Of course, we should and we are across the board. All of our machines are continually becoming more efficient, but there is a paradox here. As we make things more efficient and we drive down the price on [...]

By |2021-08-14T22:54:40-04:00August 16th, 2021|Energy|0 Comments

The carbon footprint con

As CO2 is what you exhale every minute and without it plants would not survive, they shortened it to “carbon” to make you think soot or coal dust. Yuck!

By |2021-07-30T21:03:02-04:00August 3rd, 2021|Environment|Comments Off on The carbon footprint con
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