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‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts
Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic…
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The Obama Window
Oh, dear. Politico reports that the president will make another push for his central planning repackaged as a “green economy” in a national address…
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BP is Asking for its Punishment – Literally
Tim Carney has a column at the Washington Examiner detailing BP’s lobbying influence, which begs the following history lesson and first-hand account for voters,…
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The “Say Anything” Power Grab
So. The White House sent EPA chief Lisa Jackson over to HuffPo to slam (smear?) the Murkowski resolution set to be voted on in…
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Senate to Vote on Obama’s Power Grab
On Thursday, the Senate will vote on S.J.Res.26, a resolution to block EPA from usurping powers never delegated to it by Congress. Failure means…
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UVA’s Defense of Michael Mann: Back Off, He’s a Scientist!
The University of Virginia has filed a petition to set aside civil investigative demands (CIDs) issued to it by the Commonwealth’s attorney general,…
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Burning Sensation?
This morning I submitted requests under the Freedom of Information Act to the U.S. Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the…
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Cuccinelli Is Following the Law; Mann Up, UVa
The University of Virginia indicates it will challenge Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s request for records produced, using taxpayer resources, by former Assistant Professor of…
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Obama’s Spanish Disaster
The number 13 is proving quite fortuitous for me, if not so much for the global warming industry. Thirteen months after I…
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The Kerry-BP ‘Energy Refund’ Bill
E&E Daily reports that, speaking before a lobbying group gathered to promote more ethanol-style boondoggles (but for windmills), “Sen. John Kerry is predicting widespread…
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Wall Street Shuffle: Their ‘Huge Playground’ is Safe
Those of you worrying on Wall Street, please do not be distracted by the president’s apparent assault. He’s still got your back. With the…
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On Earth Day, you say VAT, I say Cap-and-Trade: Obama’s Other Source of Tax Billions
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of calling Lenin’s birthday “Earth Day” — true story — the increasingly fashionable talking point in Washington is…
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The Wind-Energy Cover-Up
Barack Obama promised many things on his way into office. Key among these was transparency and a vow to banish lobbyists from insider roles…
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‘Anti-Lobbyist’ Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus ‘Green Jobs’
After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s and Denmark’s wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…
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Tom ‘I, Me, Mine’ Friedman Responds to the Global Warming Deniers, Hilarity Ensues
The New York Times’ leading in-house global warming obsessive, Thomas Friedman, has quite a column today. It is more a tantrum, really, as…
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Chris Horner: Climate-Gate E-Mails Released by Whistleblower, Not Hacker
After reams of information were posted on a Russian server detailing the inner workings at the highest — and highest-compensated — levels of what’s…
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The Four Horseman of Cap-and-Trade Defeatism: There’s Only One “Certainty”
There’s a rumor making the rounds among those whose goose is intended to be cooked by passage of the pending "cap-and-trade" energy rationing legislation.
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It’s Raining, You’re Snoring
In his book "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama acknowledged that "sometimes there are facts that cannot be spun, just as an argument about…
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Getting a Rise Out of Us
The Washington Times’ front-page story "Rising sea levels in Pacific create wave of migrants" (Page 1, Sunday) outrageously peddles a talking point…
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Global government
I was in the room in The Hague in November 2000 when then-French President Jacques Chirac hailed the Kyoto Protocol, or "global warming"…
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Green wacko Tobacco
2008 was a bad year for global warming alarmists. Their credibility has been entirely destroyed by none other than Mother Nature. As George W.
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Saving Speaker Pelosi: The Inept Politics of the US Cap and Trade Plan
I won’t be surprised if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Environment Committee chair Barbara Boxer and President-elect Barack Obama all send flowers…
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Wall Street Extorts Kyoto Protocol: Lehman, Enron and other Cap-and-Trade Coincidences
Recently, in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse, I read a speech by Gunther Verheugen, the E.U.’s Industry Commissioner, revealing his…
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No right to impose carbon tariffs
A new argument has emerged among policymakers, economists and trade activists seeking regulatory or direct taxes on Canadians in the name of "global warming." The…
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Cirque de Solar Power: New York Conference Puts Lie to ‘Consensus’
A strange thing happened last year Down Under. A shark ate a kangaroo. That wasn’t the odd part. Inexplicably, the media found themselves unable to…
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Kyoto-Style Bill Rushing Quietly Through Senate
Just last week conservatives cheered obvious progress in derailing the bipartisan push to quietly adopt the sovereignty-eroding Law of the Sea Treaty or “LOST”…
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Law of the Sea Meets ‘Legacy Time’
As the Bush Administration spends more and more time creating its legacy, the worst collection of initiatives are those that whittle away at American…
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Algore’s Nobel Prize for Globaloney
So, former Vice President Al Gore is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded every year with a nice bag of money “to the…
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Bushwhacked: Europe, Media Can’t Handle the Truth
A strange, almost funny thing recently happened at the State Department. This was unusual not solely because proceedings at Foggy Bottom generally prompt fits…
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Cooking Up Global Warming
A very embarrassing chapter in the history of our nation's scientific establishment has been unfolding thanks to a creative new website www.SurfaceStations.org set…
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The Energy Bill That Wasn’t
HUMAN EVENTS' readers are understandably difficult to shock these days with new examples of Congress’ political arrogance. Yet, as the House of Representatives was putting the…
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The Details Of Kyoto
The June 5 World News article “China Outlines Modest Environmental Goals” asserted that the “Bush administration has refused to ratify” the Kyoto Protocol.
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The Kelo Five Go Green
Early on an otherwise beautiful April Monday in Washington the United States Supreme Court issued its eagerly awaited “global warming” opinion, in Massachusetts v.
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Green Distortions
It is, of course, political ritual for ideological factions to flog their own issue as one for which an elected majority was granted a…
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Kyoto Hypocrisies
The president's annual State of the Union speech is guaranteed to disappoint. Even in far less troubled times, rare is the speech that doesn't…
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Europe’s Kyoto Baseline Game
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Gutting Kyoto
The worldwide press hailed the December negotiations in <?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Montreal over the Kyoto…
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Pass the Whale Oil: Will Politicians Leave New England in the Dark?
One of the greatest features of our federal system is the ability of each state to act as a “laboratory of democracy”, to…
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US Rejection of Kyoto at Heart of States’ Climate Pact
Sir, The Atlantic rarely seems a greater divide than when discussing climate change and the Kyoto protocol. This is increasingly apparent in the case of…
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A Better Environmental Treaty
Please allow me to add to James Glassman's excellent analysis of how the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, which the United…
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Short-Term Memory
An unwitting yet hideous example of the politically correct, “can't-we-move-on” short memories of the elites exposed in Tony Blankley's spot-on analysis “Short memories,…
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Broken Promises, Hot Air
A hastily assembled special negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol begins this week in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Bonn, Germany, to…
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Reviving ‘Global Warming’
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Washington Times ran an Associated Press news article covering the environmental lobby's…
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Law of the Sea Treaty Debated
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey are correct that most reasons prompting President Reagan to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)…
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Ideology vs. Health
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> You are correct about the heartbreaking disgrace of the purge of DDT…
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EU Warned Against Pursuing Its Climate Change Agenda
The chairman of the US Senate's environment committee, Senator James Inhofe, warned the EU against pursuing its climate change agenda—stalled to date in…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Inuit All Along
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — On Monday representatives from Iceland held a prime-time event announcing a study…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Who’s The Greatest?
BUENOS AIRES — British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Science Advisor Sir David King regularly calls climate change “the greatest threat facing mankind” and…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Premature Congratulation
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Buenos Aires — “Post-2012”! is the mantra of thousands of bureaucrats and pressure group advocates meeting…
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Russia Takes “Final” Step, Again, But Not Really
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> For the third time in a month and fifth time in just…