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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…