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Eco-Censorship: The Effort to Thwart the Climate Change Debate
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Those clever Malthusians
There’s an op/ed in the New York Times today that essentially claims that Malthus was right and that Julian Simon just…
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Marketing principles involves having them
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Tony Bourdain: Recovering socialist
I’m a big fan of Tony Bourdain, but he describes himself as a socialist. At the same time, he clearly hates what the nanny state…
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Free to Choose on your Computer
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The Media Filter
Dr. Crippen, a doctor who has the misfortune to work in the British National Health Service, has an interesting story about the critical…
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Stern’s Critical Flaws
The Stern Review on the economics of climate change has come in for more criticism from experts in the field. Following Richard Tol, we…
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Weighty Problem
As Brooke notes below, obesity has been tied to global warming. One of the lessons obesity campaigners drew from that study was that losing weight…
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Stern went beyond global warming alarmists’ ‘consensus’
Sir, Martin Wolf's attempted defence of the Stern report (“After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action”, November 15) completely fails to…
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Talking of silicon…
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Si vis pacem, para commercium
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We must all aspire to live in squalor
The enormously clever British environment minister David Miliband is very concerned that Kyoto appears to be falling apart because developing nations aren’t…
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Al Gore is Captain Planet
The DVD version of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is released this week. In addition to the movie, the DVD will feature a…
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Hands Across the Sea
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Terminal Shortage
When government controls everything, it necessarily has to ration it, which leads to shortages. It’s probably a toss-up at the moment as to which is…
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God is Dead… Legally speaking, that is
Sir Simon Jenkins has a must-read column today on how the UK’s Health and Safety Executive has decided to abolish the…
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Friedman’s Legacy
Though I never met him, Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was one of the earliest influences on my political development. In…
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Is DailyKos a tool of big oil?
Some may think that; we couldn’t possibly comment.
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We know how he feels
Tony Blair is resisting demands from the environmental pressure groups and, err, the Conservative Party to impose annual targets on greenhouse gas emissions for the…
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America’s Lights Go Out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was established, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes for grim…
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What will we do when America’s lights go out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was etablished, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes…
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Thank Goodness for California
One of the least mentioned election day stories is that California – yes, California – rejected a punitive tax on oil production that would have…
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Kyoto Conference Reveals Disagreements
For all the supposed consensus on global warming, every time the Kyoto parties get together, there are disagreement s about what to do. The latest…
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The world will not end tomorrow
Or in a hundred year’s time, for that matter. Today’s Stern Review from the British government has been marketed as saying global warming means…
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World Series the model to follow?
George Monbiot — the green activist whose perceived wackiness inspired the label “Moonbat” — is at it again. This time he says sport is…
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Petronoia
As the price of oil and gas rose to 1970s oil crisis levels over the past year, pundits flew out of the woodwork…
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Liveblogging an Environment Debate
The Conservative Party Conference in the UK are discussing the environment this afternoon. The Conservatives have rebranded themselves as a green party, fully in favor…
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Perverse Incentives
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A Taxing Question
The UK Conservatives, currently mulling over the idea of raising “green taxes” while lowering other tax rates, will be paying careful attention to reaction…
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White House Wobbles on Warming?
Rumor around Washington has it that the White House is about to change its long-established policy on global warming. It is hard to…
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Katrina and Her Policy Waves
Despite the lack so far of any hurricanes hitting America this hurricane season (at time of writing), environmental activists are using the memories…
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Katrina and Her Policy Waves
Full Document Available in PDF A year on, global warming alarmists are…
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Beware False Profits
The Evangelical Climate Initiative has issued “An Evangelical Call to Action” on global warming. Signed by 86 evangelical leaders, it calls for Evangelical Christians to…
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Global Warming FAQ
Full Document Available in PDF Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted…
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Global Warming FAQ: What Every Citizen Needs to Know About Global Warming
Overview. Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening…
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Volatile Gases
The European emissions trading scheme (ETS) was launched with great fanfare last year. The idea was to require certain energy-intensive industries to have a…
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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs
Animal rights extremists—whom the FBI has labeled America’s biggest domestic terrorism threat—have encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a great victory…
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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs
Animal rights extremism—which the FBI has labeled the biggest domestic terrorism threat—has encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a…
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V is for Read the Book Instead
“People shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people.” This line from the movie V for Vendetta seems to have convinced libertarian luminaries…
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Careful What You Wish For
If you wanted to lower electric energy prices in the US, what would you do? If you answered, “Cripple the domestic railroad industry,” you'd…
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The Kyoto Bubble?
It is one of the hallmark features of a capitalist economy that investors will react to changes in policy and regulation in order to…
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Unhappy Birthday
This week marks the first anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol's coming into force. It's an unhappy birthday. The one-year-old has been badly treated by…
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Beware False Profits
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,…
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What Are Op-Eds For?
Ever since the Cato Institute fired syndicated columnist Doug Bandow over the revelation that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had asked and paid him to…
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I’m Proud to Be a Coal Miner’s Grandson
To hear Senators Byrd and Rockefeller speak, one would think that the coal mining industry in this country is one of the major sources…
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No Future in Kyoto Dreaming
In 1977, the punk rock band the Sex Pistols shocked England with their nihilist anthem “God Save the Queen,” where they declared there was “No…
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PETA: Cruel and Unusual
The FBI recently declared environmental and animal rights extremism its top domestic terrorism priority. The bureau is currently investigating over 150 cases of…
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Cruel and Unusual: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
On January 9, two employees of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will appear in court to answer felony…
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Caveat Emptor: No, Really
One of the oldest maxims in commerce is caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. Sadly, this is often interpreted as a condemnation of businessmen, a…
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Climate Policy Needs a Stern Review
Tony Blair's admission that any international climate change treaty to follow <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Kyoto is unlikely to be based on the same model…