Further to the discussion, I note that Mr. David T. Stevenson’s response to letters asking about whether his Caesar Rodney Institute takes significant funding from parties affiliated with the fossil fuels industry takes umbrage, suggesting the question is an “attack [on] the messenger.”
But umbrage is no substitute for an answer to the funding question. Readers may draw an inference from this avoidance. Rather, Mr. Stevenson declares his green credentials. But let’s take a closer look. His cofounded Delaware Green Building Council’s website is down for reconstruction, so that sheds no light.
His major role in the Delaware Energy Efficiency Act of 2014 is interesting. The act provides for subsidies to homeowners for energy-efficient upgrades. One of Mr. Stevenson’s companies is a home improvement business. His zero-energy home is laudable.
On the other hand, Mr. Stevenson sued DNREC to challenge its regulations incident to a regional greenhouse emissions carbon dioxide “cap and trade” program. Another news item is a column by Mr. Stevenson challenging a United Nations climate report on global food security, noting, for openers, “As usual, claims by the UN are dubious,” and, in conclusion, urging that “food security in the future will be tied to more energy use in developing countries, and capital investment made available through that energy use.”
In sum, I urge it is fair game to ask speakers in the public forum as to matters which may bear on their point of view, or where they are coming from, so to speak, and to consider the responses, or non-responses.
Last, can someone explain to me how it is that everyone loves lighthouses (which blink at night, by definition), but beachgoers are supposedly horrified by blinking windmills?
Julian Karpoff
Lewes
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