Friday night editions of The
Independents (9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, with repeats three
hours later, on Fox Business Network) are organized around a single
theme, and tonight’s is about what happens when you attempt to
apply cost-benefit analysis and the scientific method to
environmental problems such as (but not limited to) the warming of
the planet. Before we get to any of that, watch our interview from
earlier this week with Wyoming welder Andy Johnson, who is getting
threatened by the Environmental Protection Agency with fines of up
to
$75,000 per day for the sin of building a fully permitted duck
pond on his property:
Chilling stuff. Anyway, “Environmentally Challenged” starts off
with a contentious interview about global warming impacts and
policies with serial debater Bill
Nye the Science Guy. Next comes a discussion about the science
of the stuff with Climate Depot
skeptic Marc Morano (once tabbed by Media Matters as the “Climate
Change Misinformer of the Year“) and Center for American
Progress Director of Climate Strategy Daniel J. Weiss, who refused to
debate directly with Moreno, and chided us for airing his
views.
New York Times science writer and friend o’
Reason John Tierney is next with an update on his classic and
controversial 1996 piece, “Recycling
is garbage.” Followed by “skeptical
environmentalist” and cost/benefit addict
Bjorn Lomborg, who talks about comparatively inexpensive
solutions to pressing environmental problems, and vice-versa.
Energy economist Jerry Taylor of the
Cato Institute discusses fracking and future energy sources, and
beloved Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
talks on one of his
favorite themes: how things are actually getting better all the
time.
IMPORTANT NOTES: This show will re-air not just at midnight ET
tonight, but also at 7 pm Sunday. On 7 pm Saturday you can watch a
repeat of Wednesday’s fab
libertarian red meat episode featuring Greg Gutfeld, Belle
Knox, Julie Borowski, Greg Lukianoff, and more. Finally, I’ll be
bumping this post in the 8 o’clock hour for ease of discovery by
our time-sensitive commentariat.
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