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GM Troubles Repeat British Auto Industry Mistakes of the 1970s
General Motors is now co-owned by the American taxpayer and labor unions. As a Briton, I find this development astonishing. It repeats…
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Don’t Let Earth Day Rebuke Henry Ford
Earth Day this year seems to be getting less promotion than usual. Al Gore is nowhere to be seen. There are few preening eco-celebs lecturing us about…
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Upset Over Offsets
When the President proposed his budget, he tried a gambit aimed atfoisting a new energy tax on the American people without serious debatein Congress. It…
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Green Job Self-Destruction
In your article “Hopes for climate treaty set back by G20’s weasel words”, 5 April, you refer to a study by the University…
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Learning From Cameron’s Mistake
Learning from Cameron’s Mistake Embracing trendy green policies did not help the British Tories. By Iain Murray & Matthew Sinclair…
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Obama’s China Syndrome
It is looking less and less likely that President Obama will be able to institute his vaunted cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas…
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Selective Quotation is Alive and Well
A few years ago I quoted somewhere the alarmist scientist Steve Schneider as saying, So we have to offer up some scary…
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Global Warming: The Backlash Begins
Iain Murray exlores why skepticism about the effects of global warming is growing.
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Greening America – At What Cost?
Iain Murray explores the disasterously high costs of de-carbonizing America.
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A Tax to Weaken America
President Obama said last Thursday that he would not cut spending “on investments that will make America stronger.” He really meant that…
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The Green Jobs Scam – And Confusion
With the massive $787-billion stimulus bill including provisions to encourage the creation of “green jobs,” Americans deserve an honest appraisal of how…
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The Auto Bailout We Need
GM and Chrysler have come back for more taxpayer money, which is exactly what everybody warned would happen when the first bailout was granted…
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Lessons from Europe
Lessons from Europe Iain Murray, Gabriel Calzada, Carlo Stagnaro The recent European Union climate agreement provides a useful warning to…
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Bailout Big Three By Cutting Red Tape
Why are we spending $17 billion of taxpayers’ money propping up two Detroit automakers (notably not Ford Motor Co.)? What the auto companies really…
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Will A Weak Economy Be Saddled With Greenhouse Gas Regulations?
President Obama will find he faces two main problems in relation to greenhouse gas emissions, a domestic one and an international one.
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Obama’s promises on climate change clash with reality
Sir, Christopher Booker is correct when he talks about global warming policy as an economic suicide note. Yale economist William Nordhaus recently…
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Economic Change We Need
Now that the election is over, the most important issue facing the new president and Congress is the economy. To deal with it…
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Danny Finkelstein is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong about the US elections
Iain Murray is Director of Projects and Analysis at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington DC. The…
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Let Friedman Reign
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus &…
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Will More Drilling Increase U.S. Energy Security?
Iain Murray Mr. Abraham’s Parthian shot in this debate is a precise example of why I feared it would disappear in…
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Toxic Arguments
A Review of “Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children” by Philip and Alice Shabecoff By Iain Murray There’s…
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No Compromise in this Energy Bill
There is very little in this bill that energy consumers can be glad about. But the environmental industry's lobby has reason to cheer.
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Global Warming: It isn’t a hoax and it isn’t a crisis
At The Chilling Effect, we like to discuss some of the issues surrounding the potential warming of our planet, and what (if anything)…
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North v South 2.0
In the seventies and eighties it became trendy to talk about the global gap between "North" and "South," in the sense that…
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Time to recycle recycling?
Iain Murray takes on the sacred cow of environmentalism to point out that recycling can produce more carbon than new manufacture…
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Fudge or Free Markets
Fudge or Free Markets The energy -policy choices that we face. By Iain Murray The collapse last week of…
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Green: The New Color of Catastrophe
Is there an advert on TV that doesn’t claim the product or company involved is “doing its best for the planet” or something…
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Treehuggers Against Trees
With wildfires burning, it is useful to turn to the wisdom of the ancients. When the pioneers first entered the great forests of America,…
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Let Them Burn Ethanol
American grocery stores are starting to introduce food rationing. Wal Mart is restricting the amount of rice customers can buy. In Mexico and Yemen,…
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Is environmentalism the opiate of the liberals?
Religion plays a vitally important role in human life. This is especially true in America, and America’s religion has always been Christianity.
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The Truths Shall Set You Free
Preview of "The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About."…
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The Pill as Pollutant
In 2002, thanks to soccer star David Beckham, the world was introduced to the “metrosexual.” Two years later, and with less mainstream-media…
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Why America Doesn’t Ratify Treaties
One of the leading sources of anti-Americanism relates to America's supposed arrogance in failing to sign or ratify international treaties that the rest of…
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Partners in spin win Nobel Peace Prize
In its collective wisdom, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year jointly to former Vice President Al Gore and…
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The Break-Up: Time for a Green Divorce
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, environmental groups saw an opening. They realized that national-security hawks would be open to proposals to…
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A Pardoner’s Tale
Are you a carbon-using Christian? Feeling guilty about all that carbon dioxide (CO2) you pump into the atmosphere by such awful things as breathing, heating…
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Al Gore’s Unbeatable Deal!
Just imagine the infomercial: Have I got a deal for you! You may not know it, but your house is leaking energy, which means…
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Anti-Energy Bill
Speaker Pelosi says that HR 3221, the New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security and Consumer Protection Act "puts us on a path towards…
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No free lunch on emissions
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is on a snake oil sales tour. To much fanfare, the Governator is traveling the country promoting his “California model”…
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Pork Farm
Congress is beginning debate on the new farm bill, which is, as usual, larded with subsidies and pork. So now is a good time…
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War Over The War
When Ken Burns releases a documentary, America watches. This is partly because of his uniquely compelling style, but also partly because his stories are those…
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Food Before Fuel
Feel like you’re getting squeezed by prices at the gas pump? Get ready to experience that same feeling at the grocery store. As ABC News…
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Silent Alarmism: A Centennial We Could Do Without
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, the 1962 book that launched the modern environmental movement, was born a century…
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The Union of Concerned Scientists: Its Jihad against Climate Skeptics
Full document available in pdf Among the activist groups seeking to stifle dissent in the global warming debate, none has been more…
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Be afraid of the dark: Misguided NIMBYs foster future of blackouts
The electric Reliability Organization (ERO), established with statutory authority after the widespread blackouts of 2003, has issued its first report. It makes for…
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Eco-Censorship: The Effort to Thwart the Climate Change Debate
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Stern went beyond global warming alarmists’ ‘consensus’
Sir, Martin Wolf's attempted defence of the Stern report (“After the arguments, the figures still justify swift climate action”, November 15) completely fails to…
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Al Gore is Captain Planet
The DVD version of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is released this week. In addition to the movie, the DVD will feature a…
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Friedman’s Legacy
Though I never met him, Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was one of the earliest influences on my political development. In…
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America’s Lights Go Out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was established, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes for grim…