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The Sustainability Movement
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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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The Consumer-Last Energy Bill
The Consumer-First Energy Act, intended to address the energy crisis, fails to achieve its stated purpose.
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Green: The New Color of Catastrophe
Is there an advert on TV that doesn’t claim the product or company involved is “doing its best for the planet” or something…
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Congested Pockets
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Treehuggers Against Trees
With wildfires burning, it is useful to turn to the wisdom of the ancients. When the pioneers first entered the great forests of America,…
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The Children’s Crusade
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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,…
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Heritage Speech
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All You Ever Wanted to Know About Ethanol…
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Is environmentalism the opiate of the liberals?
Religion plays a vitally important role in human life. This is especially true in America, and America’s religion has always been Christianity.
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The Windy Denmark Question
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The Truths Shall Set You Free
Preview of "The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About."…
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The Pill as Pollutant
In 2002, thanks to soccer star David Beckham, the world was introduced to the “metrosexual.” Two years later, and with less mainstream-media…
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The Really Inconvenient Truths
From the Inside Flap Al Gore is bad for the planet… Talk about really inconvenient truths–that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's…
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The Indian Question
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The Left on Ethanol
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Greening the Issue II
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Greening the Issue I
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Blinkered Approach
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A Free Market Approach to Energy Security
Proposed measures to achieve "energy independence" have the potential to inflict significant economic damage on America.
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Bush’s Global Warming Surrender
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Re: X-Prize – and yet another
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Defending Liberty in India
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So much for societal breakdown/salvation
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Herding Skeptics Through Wal Mart
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Puff the Magic Dragon
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Thank God D-Day Went Better Than E-Day
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Plug-in Hybrids the New Target
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The Concession Question
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When Green Values Clash, Coase has the Answer
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RIP Benazir Bhutto
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If a pirate and a ninja could be friends…
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Global Warming Well Down List of Issues, Even for Democrats
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Blue Laws and New Laws
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Most Preposterous Claim Ever
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A Prize Al Gore Didn’t Win
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Why America Doesn’t Ratify Treaties
One of the leading sources of anti-Americanism relates to America's supposed arrogance in failing to sign or ratify international treaties that the rest of…
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Partners in spin win Nobel Peace Prize
In its collective wisdom, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year jointly to former Vice President Al Gore and…
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Court Finds Inconvenient Truths
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Where the UK Leads…
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The Break-Up: Time for a Green Divorce
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, environmental groups saw an opening. They realized that national-security hawks would be open to proposals to…
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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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Al Gore’s Unbeatable Deal!
Just imagine the infomercial: Have I got a deal for you! You may not know it, but your house is leaking energy, which means…
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Costing the Earth
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How Greenpeace Could Square the Circle
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History’s Greatest Monster: Henry Ford?
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Leo, Waterskis, Shark
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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NASA’s Chronic Problems
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A New Definition of Quality of Life
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Discouraging Data
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Kyoto? That is Illogical, Captain
The head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, has admitted that the principle behind the Kyoto Protocol is “illogical.”…
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A Week is a Long Time in Politics
This wise adage of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson continues to hold true. As scientist Roy Spencer points out, the last week has seen…
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Killing Orangutans in the Name of Green
The short-sighted idiocy of biofuels is not just confined to the ethanol boondoggle in the U.S. In much of the rest of the world,…
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New Offense: Walking While Ripped
Nanny says eat healthily, exercise, and grow up big and strong. The Nanny State says don’t look too well-developed or we’ll arrest you. Seriously. It…
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Hatefull to the Nose, Harmefull to the Braine, Dangerous to the Lungs
If you’re looking for early health warnings about tobacco, Richard, you can go a lot further. The title of this post was the judgment of…
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Simpsons Movie Speaks Truth to Power – SPOILER WARNING!
I saw The Simpsons Movie last night and was delighted that most of the reviewers who commend the film’s “environmentalism” have missed the point.
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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…
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About that consensus…
A new peer-reviewed paper is out: In the mid-1970s, a climate shift cooled sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean and…
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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,…
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They Say They Are A Revolution
Friends of the Earth is trying to organize a YouTube “revolution” on global warming, starting with unhappy pop stars. Climate Resistance isn’t impressed:…
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No free lunch on emissions
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is on a snake oil sales tour. To much fanfare, the Governator is traveling the country promoting his “California model”…
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Pork Farm
Congress is beginning debate on the new farm bill, which is, as usual, larded with subsidies and pork. So now is a good time…
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Cap and Trade not enough for Australian Greens
Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced July 17 that he will introduce legislation this Fall to set up an emissions trading scheme. “The scheme will…
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Offset Your Lunch?
The next time you grab a burger for lunch, you’re part of the global warming problem. That, at least, is the upshot of a…
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One Out of Two Ain’t Bad
I’m pleased to report that Al Gore is innocent of charges of hypocrisy related to serving Chilean Sea Bass at his daughter’s wedding celebrations. The…
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War Over The War
When Ken Burns releases a documentary, America watches. This is partly because of his uniquely compelling style, but also partly because his stories are those…
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India Adapts
Deepak Lal has a typically thoughtful essay in New Delhi’s Business-Standard this week. He finds there are many reasons for India to rethink its…
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Why So Shy?
After Live Earth missed its promised audience of 2 billion by about, oh, 1.9 billion (and that’s charitable), one has to wonder how much money…
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A message from the President of the American Council on Renewable Energy
A few days ago, our colleague Dr. Marlo Lewis had a column over at The American Spectator on the current debate in Congress over…
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Less reliable than Old Ben’s Almanack?
Tim Worstall has a very interesting post over at the Adam Smith Institute blog on the validity of those temperature projections that get the…
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Delegated democracy?
Paul Chesser of North Carolina’s John Locke Foundation has a useful article in today’s Washington Times about how one advocacy group, funded by leftist…
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Live Earth Tree Falls in Silent Forest
Well, Live Earth has been and gone like a tree falling in a forest with no one around: Just 22% said they followed news…
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Grindhouse Grinds Down Crime
It’s received wisdom that violent movies encourage violence and that if only we were like our enlightened European cousins and restricted violence in movie theaters,…
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A New Way to Fund the Madrassas?
One complaint from national security hawks about the developed world’s use of oil has been that it directs Western money to Middle Eastern sources who…
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Omnipave Goes Green
Ain’t this the truth? “Most of what you see today in the green movement is voodoo marketing,” he added. “If they say their product…
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Sarkocialism
The ONLY good thing about the EU in my opinion has been its commitment to a single market and attacks on state aid. The harmonization…
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A couple of bucks stop here
A new survey from the strange combination of Resources for the Future, New Scientist, and Stanford University has some interesting findings not just on…
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Food Before Fuel
Feel like you’re getting squeezed by prices at the gas pump? Get ready to experience that same feeling at the grocery store. As ABC News…
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Are European Roads Safer Than America’s?
Marlo was just on an interview on CNBC where a question was asked about road accident rates. A Greenpeace spokesman said that European roads were…
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Why Price Gouging Doesn’t Exist
Full Document Available in PDF One Sunday in 2005, soon after…
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Derby Winners
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Another Triumph for Science!
The EU has now banned the barometer. Why? British Labour MEP, Linda McAvan, welcomed the ban: “Research has shown that even at low doses…
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How Green is Flying?
One of Europe’s leading budget airlines, EasyJet, has claimed that people who really care about the environment should use it. This attracted the attention of…
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Silent Alarmism: A Centennial We Could Do Without
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, the 1962 book that launched the modern environmental movement, was born a century…
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And we’re the well-funded ones?
Banking firm HSBC is to give $100 million to various environmental groups to “respond to global warming.” According to the HSBC press release,…
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Carbon Atoms and the Riddle of Existence
Spiked's Josie Appleton really hits the nail on the head in her excellent review of a new book by noted alarmist Mark Lynas. For…
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Americans drive less – what does that tell us?
It appears that, for the first time in 26 years, the average American is driving less. Between March 06 and March 07, the figures…
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This is not energy independence
Anyone who saw Good Morning America today will at last have been clued in to how the ethanol boondoggle is driving up the price of…
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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…
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Rupert Murdoch’s Gas-Guzzling Hybrid
Rupert Murdoch, a hate figure for much of the Left, especially in Britain, has declared that he is proud to go green. One of…
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Carbon Offsets and Snake Oil
EasyJet, one of Europe’s biggest budget airlines, has taken a look at the carbon offset business and doesn’t like what it found: Toby Nicol,…
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Global Warming Round-up
It’s a while since I’ve done one of these, but here are some global warming-related stories you may have missed. Canada sets own emissions…
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Lewis Black on Eco-celebs
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Re: The Clothesline
We used a clothesline when I was growing up, but were forever running outside to grab the clothes when the sky darkened. In the North-East…
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Could this be the end
… of a beautiful friendship?…
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Toilet Humor
Sheryl Crow is now claiming that her toilet paper idea was a joke.The reaction to it should tell her something about the environmental movement. …
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You would need a heart of stone
…not to laugh at the sanctimony and earnestness displayed by the Global Warming Sistas Laurie David and Sheryl Crow in their blog. Here’s Crow:…
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Fun with Emissions Calculators
Inspired by John Whitehead, I decided to use the EPA emissions calculator to find out how much CO2 my household emits.Total emissions for…