Archive for Patrick J. Michaels
Global Warming Is a Threat?
Last December Naomi Oreskes, an associate professor
of history at UCLA, published a Washington
Post Outlook piece called Undeniable Global
Warming. She asserted that the planet is warming
(true), that increases in greenhouse gases have something
to do with it (true), that several scientific societies hold
this view (true), that the remainder of the discussion is
quibbling about the details, and that we must respond
to the threats that global warming presents.
The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber
Pocket Books • 2000 • 255 pages • $23.95
Academics like Your Obedient Servant are instructed that literature has to be analyzed in terms of its social and societal context. From this, I conclude that Art Bell and Whitley Strieber’s The Coming Global Superstorm, more than anything else, is a monument to the failure of public [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
