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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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