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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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Domenici reverts to Byrd-Hagel
The Kyoto crowd crowed when the Senate, on June 22, 2005, voted 54-43 in favor of a Sense of the Senate resolution on climate…
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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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In case you missed it (notes on some recent climate hearings)
Capitol Hill is on a global warming hearing binge. Al Gore made the big splash in terms of media coverage, but several recent testimonies merit…
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BP’s Questionable Priorities
BP's latest carbon emission reduction figures illustrate how easily carbon trading schemes, which rely on emissions reporting, cab be manipulated. According to the Sunday…
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Thoughts about McCarran-Ferguson
Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, angry with the whole insurance industry over the situation in his home state of Mississippi, has announced that he…
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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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Commenting on GW — what can economists contribute?
The excellent classical liberal economics blog www.cafehayek.com had a short post Friday by Russell Roberts on Richard Lindzen’s podcast on Bloomberg. The posting generated…
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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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Give Us Some Decent Games
Last week, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.)introduced H. R. 1531, the “Video Game Decency Act.” This bill is in response to the Hot Coffee…
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Fortune smiled on these companies
Fortune magazine has come out with its list of “America’s Most Admired Companies.” Here are the top ten: 1. General Electric 6.
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Boutique Poverty
I love The New York Times. Not the news and editorial departments of course – the true object of my desire is the food, style,…
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Ethanol ain’t no magic bullet (2)
Citizen groups in many small Midwestern towns are trying to stop ethanol plants from being built in their communities, according to today’s front-page article…
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After Gore: Observations on Bjorn Lomborg’s Testimony
For those of you who missed Bjorn Lomborg’s testimony after Gore’s “triumphant return” (Katie Couric’s words, not mine) to Capitol Hill, he did a…
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Modern Prometheus
Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winning agronomist, will turn 93 on Sunday, March 25, 2007. It’s a birthday well worth celebrating. His life’s…
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Bureaucrash on NPR
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“Sense and sensibility” in sustainability reports
I just got in the mail today Philips “Sustainability Report 2006.” It’s also on the web. I hope the FT’s Lucy Kellaway gets…
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AP on the Nanny State
The AP has a very good article on the growth of the Nanny State. Best fact I didn’t know: two states have banned smoking…
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Marlo Lewis on C-SPAN: The Rest of the Story
Please find below the rest of Marlo’s Capitol Hill presentation “Al Gore’s Science Fiction: A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth.” Part I is posted…
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Yes, But. . .
Fran, I knew about most of the cases you cite when I wrote the first post. None of those new to me are surprising and…
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I don’t love Consumer Reports
Eli — I’ve enjoyed your postings on a range of topics. But on your most recent one, I’m going to take you on. You…
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Marlo Lewis: My Anti-Gore
If you’re one of the people who is watching Al Gore on C-SPAN today and looking for a more skeptical take on the causes and…
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More on Gore’s day on the Hill
Asserting that the planet has a “fever” and asking parents whether they would listen to the doctor if their child had a fever is an…
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I (sorta) Love Consumer Reports
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Expect a Post Profile of a Certain “Former Tennessee Tobacco Farmer”
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More from Gore on the Hill
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Paging Eric Blair: The Rise of ‘Envirocrime’
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Live blogging – Gore on the Hill
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Live blogging from Al Gore’s hearing testimony
At a joint hearing of two House committees (Energy and Commerce, Science), Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has raised two parliamentary points of order. First, why…