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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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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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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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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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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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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…