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The Sustainability Movement

WND reports on Iain Murray's book enviornmental catstrophes caused by alarmists.  In his clunkily titled but otherwise excellent new book, “The Really Inconvenient…

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Congested Pockets

Almost five years ago, I argued that London’s Congestion Charge was merely a wealth transfer from London commuters to the administrators of the charge.

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The Children’s Crusade

Steven Dubner asks whether children are responsible for the recent explosion of environmental concern. He’s got a point. As well as the decidedly non-secular…

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Let Them Burn Ethanol

American grocery stores are starting to introduce food rationing.  Wal Mart is restricting the amount of rice customers can buy.  In Mexico and Yemen,…

Energy

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Heritage Speech

I’ve just got back from delivering a speech at the Heritage Foundation on the subject of my book. I think it went well and…

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The Windy Denmark Question

Yesterday, a listener on the Michael Medved show challenged me that (I paraphrase), “Denmark has adopted wind power at no cost.” I said that I…

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The Indian Question

At a time when liberal condescension is an important issue in domestic American politics, we shouldn’t forget that it is extremely important in the global…

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The Left on Ethanol

As the ethanol disaster gets more and more apparent, the liberal left is trying to wriggle out of any responsibility for it, blaming it on…

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Greening the Issue II

Meanwhile, British grocery chain Sainsbury’s has rejected the idea, proposed by the British government as its major (yes…) environmental initiative, of charging shoppers for…

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Greening the Issue I

This, from British Tory leader David Cameron, who has made his name as a conservative promoter of green issues, is very interesting: Launching the…

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Blinkered Approach

British Conservative Party finance spokesman George Osborne seems to have a blinkered approach to certain aspects of the economy: “An economic strategy for the…

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Bush’s Global Warming Surrender

We’re hearing some very bad things about the President’s likely unconditional surrender on global warming tomorrow. One senior source suggested that the last line of…

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Re: X-Prize – and yet another

Fran’s post raises an important point about trade-offs and the ossifying effects of mandates (why on earth don’t we have a much better system…

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Defending Liberty in India

CEI’s friends at the Liberty Institute in New Delhi have launched a new website, InDefenceofLiberty.org. Of particular interest to openmarket readers might be the…

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Puff the Magic Dragon

More proof that wind power is no panacea for the nation’s looming electricity crisis. The wind dropped in Texas, and caused blackouts: ERCOT…

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Plug-in Hybrids the New Target

Biofuels have recently come under attack from their erstwhile supporters in the liberal environmentalist movement for increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Now it’s the turn of…

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The Concession Question

Jim Geraghty stirred up a minor hornet's nest yesterday with this post on Republican tactics on global warming. After coming in for some pretty…

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RIP Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto, who was murdered in a politically-motivated suicide attack, was the closest the Islamic world has yet got to a secular free-marketeer as a…

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Blue Laws and New Laws

The funny old laws from my homeland that Lene links to are actually a distraction from the real problem. When Michael Heseltine was President…

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Most Preposterous Claim Ever

This one takes the cake. If there was a Nobel Prize for Absurd Assertions (hmmm, perhaps there is) RFK Jr would win it hands down…

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Where the UK Leads…

It is quite possible the US Congress will follow, on environmental policy at least. The UK's Treasury minister, Alistair Darling, has just announced a raft…

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A Pardoner’s Tale

Are you a carbon-using Christian? Feeling guilty about all that carbon dioxide (CO2) you pump into the atmosphere by such awful things as breathing, heating…

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Costing the Earth

The Indian government is finding out something that most of us have known for a long time: that measures aimed at dealing with global warming…

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Leo, Waterskis, Shark

Leonardo DiCaprio’s eco-doomfest The 11th Hour has bombed at the box office: His environmental documentary, “The 11th Hour,” has been a total bust at…

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Britblogger Guido Fawkes delights in blowing up the sacred symbols of establishment. Here he presents data that strongly suggest that mass public transport, symbolized…

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NASA’s Chronic Problems

I strongly agree with Michelle that NASA is a fine example of public choice theory at work. Political pressures impel NASA to sacrifice…

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A New Definition of Quality of Life

The UK Conservative Party has a “Quality of Life” policy group, headed by former Environment Secretary John Selwyn Gummer (whose most distinguished political moment involved…

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Discouraging Data

In this commendably balanced story by The New York Times’ Andy Revkin about the recent NASA temperature data fiasco, a certain someone at NASA…

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Anti-Energy Bill

Speaker Pelosi says that HR 3221, the New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security and Consumer Protection Act "puts us on a path towards…

Climate

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Lott Vindicated?

Some readers may remember the long-running defamation suit between John “Freedomnomics” Lott and Steven “Freakonomics” Levitt. Defamation suits are rarely settled in the plaintiff’s favor,…

Law and Litigation

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Derby Winners

Eli, Interesting points, but I don’t think that winning times are a particularly useful metric in horse racing. The Epsom Derby has seen its winning…

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Market Signal

It is a tenet of free market environmentalism that market signals provide information about the environment and its value. Therefore, when people stop buying beachfront…

Consumer Freedom