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Climate Change: What if They’re Right?
What do Pat Robertson, Gregg Easterbrook, and Michael Shermer have in common? They’ve all moved from climate-change skepticism to the “global warming consensus.” These leading lights may help guide others toward this consensus too. And given the possibility that believers in global warming are right, I’d like to be charitable and suppose that, first, this [...]
1Jan2007 | Max Borders | 20 comments | ContinuedMeltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Climatologist Patrick Michaels gives us a nontechnical and readable exposé of the “myths and facts” surrounding global warming. For skeptics of the mainstream global-warming hypothesis, that is, that dramatic, human-induced warming is occurring and will have cataclysmic effects if not checked by lifestyle-altering public policies, this book is a great read and an indispensable reference. [...]
14Dec2005 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedHigher CO2, More Global Warming, and Less Extinction?
Christopher Lingle is a professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and adjunct scholar at the Centre for Civil Society in New Delhi. It is widely believed that humans exert a harmful impact on the natural environment, especially when it comes to releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And so there is some [...]
1Sep2004 | Christopher Lingle | 0 comments | ContinuedEnemies of the Automobile
Ralph Clark is a professor of philosophy at West Virginia University. The automobile age is approximately 100 years old. With the approach of a new century and new millennium there could be no better time to celebrate the automobile for its profound contributions to human happiness. Unfortunately, automobiles have enemies. An influential movement is underway [...]
1Nov2001 | Ralph W. Clark | 1 comment | ContinuedDriving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice
John Semmens is an economist with the Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. Driving America is a well-reasoned brief on behalf of the automobile. The car is the travel option of choice because it offers a fast, comfortable, convenient, and affordable way of getting where one wants to go. Nevertheless, there are those who would sacrifice [...]
1Nov1998 | John Semmens | 0 comments | ContinuedHot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
Ben Bolch is Robert McCallum Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rhodes College and coauthor of Apocalypse Not; Science, Economics and the Environment (Cato Institute, 1993). Fred Singer is a scientist with impeccable credentials. He was the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, winner of the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, and [...]
1Jul1998 | Ben Bolch | 0 comments | Continued-
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