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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…
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Smearing Coal
Readers of the Wall Street Journal this morning will have noticed several really expensive ads depicting pretty faces smeared with coal dust and the headline…
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Save the World by Cooking
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Not Good Enough
One of the baffling things about the IPCC Working Group II document released on Friday is how much it ignores mankind’s ability to progress. Time…
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Adapting to the IPCC
The IPCC’s second summary report of the year is out. Working Group II’s report on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability predicts a world…
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Global Warming: What Should Texas Do?
As Texas electricity prices have climbed alongside natural gas prices, how to achieve affordable yet reliable energy has become a highly debated topic. The market…
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Climate Alarmism for Fun and Profit
Via Roger Pielke Jr, we have the unedifying spectacle of at least one leading IPCC scientist engaged in selling alarmist predictions of what…
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Global warming roundup
Lots of items you may have missed: Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) says U.S. emissions restrictions might only take effect if major developing countries also…
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Environmentalists Exult while Town Mourns
The private equity buyout of Texas Utilities that was brokered in such a way as to appease environmental groups has brought despair to one…
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Mitigating Factors
Roger Pielke Jr has posted a letter to his Prometheus website that he wrote in response to an op/ed by CEI Adjunct Fellow…
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The poor are always with us (and enviros mean to keep it that way)
In Scotland and Australia, two places as far apart on the globe as you can get, people are realizing that rationing carbon is a socially…
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Death by Regulation 2.0
A firefighter in the UK is facing suspension for breaking fire service regulations. His breach? Saving a drowning woman’s life: The brigade’s rules state: “Personnel…
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Beyond parody
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All property is (ripe for) theft
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Re: Energy Sources
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Ignorance is Bliss
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In the thrall of Big Oil
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Greetings to our Chinese readers!
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A stroll through the New York Times Archives
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The Great Global Warming Round-up
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Operation Amtrak
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Laying the smack down
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Good point!
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Global warming round-up
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They call this privatization?
I argued in my Issue Analysis on the mistakes made during the privatization of Britain’s railroads that it was no longer accurate to call…
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Insult to injury
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Global warming latest
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Global Warming Round-up
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Insider trading in TXU deal?
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Global warming round-up
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Pessimist Alarmism vs Optimist Realism
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The Union of Concerned Scientists: Its Jihad against Climate Skeptics
Full document available in pdf Among the activist groups seeking to stifle dissent in the global warming debate, none has been more…
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Rationing in action
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What price the planet?
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Global Warming Round-up
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More Perfect Unions
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So much for cultural imperialism
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What’s going on at NASA?
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Defending the Indefensible
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Is concern about the environment “5 minutes ago”?
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Videos: The bad and the Ugly
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Videos: The Good
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Bruce Yandle on Baptists & Bootleggers
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Your goals are China in your hand
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Greenpeace – climate obstructionists!
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Conservative in Daily Show Success Shock!
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Detroit’s corporate welfare
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Enron and cap-and-trade
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Chairman Boxer’s fuzzy memory
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Where are the small businesses?
In answer to a point by Senator Warner, Fred just pointed out that there are no representatives of small business here today. Senator Warner agreed…
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If it walks like a duck…
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Senator Klobuchar on getting the “truth” out of scientists
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PG&E CEO on His “Motivations”
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CEI’s President Warns Against Carbon Cartel
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Energy Analyst Points Out True Cost of CAP’s Plans
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Honesty from BP America?
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World Resources Institute Lowers GHG Target
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DuPont CEO Claims Reduction in GHG
DuPont’s CEO, Chad Holliday, is claiming a 72% reduction in greenhouse gases and a healthy return from them to his shareholders. Strangely enough, this was…
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PG&E CEO’s Testimony at EPW Hearing
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