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Ethanol ain’t no magic bullet
The New York Times has caught up with CEI in assessing the impact of increased production of ethanol and its effect on food production. NYT…
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Debunking Dobbs — Part II
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Bhagwati debunks Dobbsians
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FDA Animal Cloning Decision Comes Years Too Late
In an invited post on The Hill’s Congress Blog yesterday, I argued that the…
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Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists has just released a 68-page report that claims that Exxon Mobil has funded a disinformation campaign on global warming…
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Neo-luddites embark on anti-consumption year
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The Grey Lady’s Resolution: “In” — global warming moderation; “Out” — alarmism
On January 1st the New York Times revealed an astounding New Year’s resolution: it starkly shifted course and implicitly promised to rein in its own…
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The Lohachara Incident
Geoffrey Lean of The Independent on Sunday adds a new element to the catastrophist case: “Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the…
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Bear-baiting
CEI Adjunct Fellow Steve Milloy has more on the polar bear issue in his weekly must-read FoxNews column: “Let’s keep in mind that polar…
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Taste and Trans fats
Nobel laureate Gary Becker has some thoughts on the New York City trans-fats ban (reflecting on comments by his co-blogger, Judge Richard Posner): “Posner…
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Jamaican Malaria: Blame Rachel Carson, not global warming
Malaria cases in Jamaica have surpassed 160, the Associated Press reports. This is the first outbreak there in more than four decades. One…
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Bear-faced Opportunism
With the bald eagle poised to come off the endangered species list (huzzah!), another species of charismatic megafauna is needed to replace it as…
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EU Honesty
Some remarkable statements about the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions performance in an official EU document by Eija-Riitta Korhola, Vice-Chair of Kokoomus (Finnish National Coalition…
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Awards Season
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Horsepower to the People
The great boon that is automobility is set to spread to India, with the introduction of a family car that will cost only $2000. …
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Government Has No First Amendment Right to Discriminate
In November, Michigan voters adopted Proposal 2, a state constitutional amendment that bans racial preferences in state university admissions and in government contracts and employment.
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Scenario planning writ large in the UK
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Subsidies don’t work
A good story in the New York Times about how subsidies to domestic oil and gas producers are a waste of taxpayer dollars: Analysts…
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Farming is big business – with big government handouts
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Farewell to Frank
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TSA — Unsafe at Any Altitude
If you’re flying this holiday season, once you’re on board the plane — after getting through with the stripping of belt and shoes, the unfolding…
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Making Job Losses Bad Politics
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Lost in translation? Mais non!
Today the French newspaper L’Express attacked CEI and other skeptics of catastrophic global warming as “les négationnistes” or “deniers” — following the low ground…
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Carbon Trading Enriches the Few (for no global benefit)
Wonder where all the money the developed world is investing in the developing world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is going? To the privileged…
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Yet more Stern criticism
David Maddison of the University of Birmingham in the UK adds his voice (PDF link) to the criticisms of the Stern Review, concluding: There…
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The tension between science and alarmism
Early last month, at about the time of the publication of the Stern Review with its inclusion of “catastrophe” in its analysis of the risks…
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Who gets the farm pork?
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Green for the Holidays?
The New York Times reports today that Boston has announced a plan to comply with “green building” codes for city projects. And, no, we are…
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A woman for all seasons — Marquise du Chatelet
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Psst. Things are good. Pass it on.
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What do economists really think about global warming
Robert Whaples of Wake Forest University has the answer. He polled American economists and found: The results show that most economists are not alarmed…
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A Bold Prediction
Myron wrote earlier about how the Senate Democrats are showing no urgency to tackle global warming, otherwise known as The Greatest Threat Facing the…
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D.C. Council Gives Criminals Special Protections
The Washington, D.C. Council voted 10 to 2 yesterday to ban employers from considering criminal records in housing, hiring or employment, if the criminal’s probation…
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Will Bush Disavow the Entry-Level Job Elimination Act?
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This, however, is not satire
Last year, a British MP calculated that Santa Claus’ annual trip round the world was environmentally damaging: It has been calculated that Santa’s team…
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#2 Onion Post of 2006
Al Gore exposed!…
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Government leavin’ the yout’ on the shelf
When I was a young lad in northern England, there was much distress as the Thatcher government swallowed the bitter pill and proceeded to shut…
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Model article
Excellent article from Ryan Meyer of the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes at the University of Arizona on the inadequacies of models that…
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Lucy’s “Top Twaddlers”
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Who’s the Denier?
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Just how widespread is misrepresentation in climate science?
Roger Pielke Jr has some strong words about a forthcoming paper that he feels misrepresents his work. Note that we’re not talking about an…
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Criminals: The New Protected Class
Employers in Washington, D.C. may soon be banned from considering criminal convictions in hiring, if the criminal’s probation or parole officer thinks he has “achieved…
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DDT and Malaria: The Misanthropes Strike Back!
The recent decision by the World Health Organization to recommend selective indoor spraying to control malaria seemed to signal a recognition on the part of…
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But At Least the Egyptians Kept the Operating Costs Down!
And, yet, another story about the virtues of mass transit, the horrors of the automobile. John Pomfret, a Washington Post journalist, wrote an article this…
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Can the Greens Take a Joke?
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EU trade chief nixes carbon taxes; hails zero tariffs for “green” goods
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Do as I say, not as I do
Interesting survey of the attitudes of British people towards the environment and their actions on the subject.
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Perhaps if the snowmobiles had been carved from walrus tusks?
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Another Stern Rebuke
Hal Varian of the University of California, Berkeley, joins the ranks of distinguished critics of the Stern Report: As these examples illustrate,…
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Did he really just say that?
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They Call It Conservation
You know all of those enviro activists who are constantly hectoring us about the amount of energy we use (and allegedly waste) here in the…
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Ahmet Ertegun, RIP
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U.S. and China — some economic agreement, still some thorny issues
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Oversize clothes need warning labels?
Here’s a contender for the Nanny-State story of the day: A British academic says that plus-size clothes should carry labels with obesity helpline numbers…
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Climate change enhancing seals’ sex lives
Well, there’s good news today about climate change effects — male gray seals have a more active sex life. Near a remote island off…
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Draining the Swamp: Reform for Anti-Malaria Policy
The White House is hosting a summit on malaria this week, and our good friend Roger Bate will be attending. And since Roger has…
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Leonardo, Green Warrior, Saves the World
No, not that one, this one. At least one poster, “Jeffrey P,” wants to save us from celebrity opinions, while combating global warming…
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European Health Care – Here We Come!
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Ban It – and Industry Will Find a Substitute!
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Washington Post fires Last Shot (for a while) at Inhofe
The desire of global warming alarmists to close off debate was evidenced in a recent Washington Post editorial (of Sunday, December 10, 2006) which…
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CEI makes Weather Channel’s “Top Ten” – greatest impact on climate change discussion
The Weather Channel today announced its “Top Ten” list — those people or organizations that have had the greatest impact on climate change discussions.
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Incoming Judiciary chairman to defend privacy rights
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), perhaps more famous for his defense of the Vermont dairy industry and the Northeast Dairy Compact, is incoming chairman of…
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Followup on WSJ letters today
My favorite quote from the Wall Street Journal Letters today (see Ivan’s earlier post) was from Christopher Monckton, former science and technical adviser to former…
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Yet Another Round of Rockefeller-Snowe objection
Today’s Wall Street Journal features several letters to the editor (subscription required) on the paper’s editorial on the Rockefeller-Snowe letter to ExxonMobil.
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REACH and the Perils of Precaution
Today, the European Parliament voted a final time on the new regulation of Europe’s chemical industry. With this vote the proposal is almost certain to…
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Sarbox-Style Regulation: Don’t Do It
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Affordable air travel? How dare you!
The UK government, which this week doubled air passenger duty to about $20 a flight in a sop to global warming alarmism, wants to go…
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More on the Rockefeller-Snowe letter – Rockefeller attacked in home state; he responds
The Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) on December 5 carried a strong editorial castigating its junior senator, Jay Rockefeller, for his joint letter to ExxonMobil.
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It’s official — Vietnam to join WTO
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Eco-censorship continued
Two interesting posts on Roger Pielke Jr’s excellent and open-minded Prometheus blog today speak to the subject of my recent…
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Rocky-Snowe Road Winds On
As the controversy over the letter by Senators Rockefeller and Snowe chiding ExxonMobil for its funding of global warming skeptics, The Wall Street Journal,…
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Take That, Liberal Media!
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Stern Lectures
Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the wildly hyped and widely disparaged Stern Review on the economics of climate change, is leaving Her Majesty’s…
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So what’s stopping them?
The incoming leadership of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are keen to use global warming as a stick to beat the Administration with…
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Pricking the pomposity of EU’s trade policymaker
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U.S. dairy program at odds with free enterpriser
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Miliband’s disingenuity
I should have drawn attention to this interesting phrasing in David Miliband’s enthusiasm for carbon rationing: “He said: ‘It is a way of pricing carbon…
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Scientists disprove Impressionism
The term “impressionism” was originally meant as an insult, alleging that painters such as Claude Monet merely slapped a few strokes of paint onto a…
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Black marketeers rejoice at UK government plan
The UK government is seriously thinking of introducing individual carbon rationing: Every citizen would be issued with a carbon “credit…
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Cows Are Destroying the Earth
And I thought the IPCC Fourth Assessment (see below) was good news. Now I know that we humans really are off the hook when it…
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Thanks, UN, for Shrinking My Carbon Footprint by 25%
The latest iteration on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming it being eagerly awaited. While we bide our time,…
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Radicals for Capitalism
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Do global warming fears justify protectionism?
Ever since the United States decided to push for “sustainable development” concepts to limiit free trade under the Shrimp-Turtle decision (for internal political reason –…
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Can Libertarians Become Liberaltarians?
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Marlo responds to Al Gore
CEI’s Marlo Lewis’ appearance on Oprah’s show on Tuesday, Dec. 5, opposite Al Gore was via a taped two-minute segment juxtaposed against Gore’s 30-minute plus…
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Amazingly efficient merger approvals, cont.
Congress leaves town today, with just two appropriations bills completed (that can be a good thing!). Agencies aren’t going anywhere, but there must be something…
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EIA: Fossil fuels will provide same 86% share in 2030
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts continuing strong demand for fossil energy. EIA’s just-released Annual Energy Outlook 2007 states: “Despite the projected rapid growth of…
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Popping with the Popcorn Board
As I was skimming government agencies’ websites for topical issues, a U.S. Department of Agriculture press release today sidetracked me. It seems that the Secretary…
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Tobacco Scam
In 1998, the big tobacco companies entered into a $250 billion settlement with trial lawyers and the attorneys general of 46 states. Big Tobacco agreed…
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Look Out for Hurricane Fred
Our fearless leader, Fred Smith, is on the road again, spreading the good news of free markets and limited government. Yesterday he spoke to a…
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Regulation Before Occupation
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Let Them Use Solar
It’s a heart-warming ad, literally. A poverty-striken mother and daughter sit freezing in their unheated home in the dead of winter, trying to warm themselves…
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Are you now or have you ever been a skeptic?
From this week’s Evans-Novak Political Report: Important Bush Administration officials are ready to leave the government rather than undergo two years of hell from Democratic…
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Congress votes highest civilian honor to Dr. Norman Borlaug
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to award a Congressional Gold Medal — the nation’s highest honor — to Dr. Norman Borlaug, credited…
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To Play the King
Prince Charles has decided his staff should bicycle everywhere and that he himself should practice what he preaches,…
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Does Diversity Mean No Whites?
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a minority-oriented school can exclude members of all but one race (Native Hawaiians), even if…
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Look out Mars, the Humans Are Coming
Today NASA released a series of satellite photograps of Mars, which strongly reinforce the theory that there is (or very recently was) liquid water on…
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Oreskes Confusion
Appearing on “Oprah,” Al Gore cited a review of the climate change literature by Dr. Naomi Oreskes of the University of California as the last…
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Oprah Viewers Respond
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