All Posts Tagged With: "climate change"

Wolf Heads and Carbon Credits

Abraham Lincoln, in vivid recollections from early childhood, described the cashing of bounty for freshly severed wolf heads on the steps of an Indiana courthouse. In 1816 killing wolves at public expense was seen as an obvious necessity and probably represented a genuine emotional reassurance to the intrepid settlers of the era. Though it places [...]

21Sep2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 4 comments | Continued

Is Dispassionate Science an Oxymoron?

Each side of the climate-change debate tends to think that if people would read more in the scientific literature, they’d take its side. In other words, each thinks people are on the other side are wrong because they aren’t scientifically literate enough. Apparently that is not the case. Ron Bailey of Reason reports on a [...]

21Jul2011 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Classical Liberalism in the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Norman P. Barry

Longtime readers of The Freeman may have noticed the absence of articles by Norman Barry. A contributing editor, Barry died in October 2008, at the age of 64. (His last Freeman article, “The Americanization of Japan,” was published in May 2007). This splendid volume, which had been in the works before Barry’s death, contains one [...]

22Oct2010 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know

Is it getting hot in here or is it just me? Likely it’s both, say Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr., in their book Climate of Extremes. Temperatures around the world are indeed rising due to global warming, they say. But contrary to popular belief, that is no reason for panic; it might [...]

24Feb2010 | Tim Stonesifer | 5 comments | Continued

The Green-Economy Mirage

If you got an email offering you the chance to invest in a business that would create new profitable industries, employ millions of people, reduce energy consumption without reducing quality of life, and improve environmental quality, would you be skeptical? And if the email went on to claim that the technologies to do all this [...]

5Jan2010 | Andrew P. Morriss | 15 comments | Continued

German Physicists Reject Greenhouse Effect

See update below.I’m not a climate scientist. I don’t even play one on TV. There do seem to be serious problems with the catastrophic anthropogenic global-warming (AGW) thesis, but I remain an agnostic, and I refuse to use political-economic criteria to judge scientific credibility.Nevertheless, this interesting article about German physicists who insist that AGW is [...]

31Dec2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

100 Reasons Why Climate Change is Natural

“HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made. ” (Daily Express, Tuesday) I would have been convinced by 10 or so. FEE Timely Classic: “Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics” by Doug Bandow

16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

China and US at Impasse Over Carbon Monitoring

“China and the United States were at an impasse on Monday at the United Nations climate change conference here over how compliance with any treaty could be monitored and verified. “China, which last month for the first time publicly announced a target for reducing the rate of growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, is refusing [...]

15Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Soros Proposes Global CO2 Fund

“Mr. Soros suggested that rich nations finance climate subsidies for developing nations by tapping into some of the $283 billion in special drawing rights that the IMF issued to respond to the global financial crisis earlier this year. More than $150 billion of those rights went to the 15 biggest developed economies, he said. Special [...]

11Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

EPA’s Endangerment Finding Endangers Economy

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on Monday that agency scientists, taking into account hundreds of thousands of comments, had determined that carbon and other greenhouse-gas emissions endanger the health and safety of the U.S. population.  The EPA finding followed Supreme Court instructions to the agency to determine if greenhouse gases should be regulated under the [...]

10Dec2009 | Bruce Yandle | 3 comments | Continued

Are the “Climate Change” Emails a Tempest in a Teapot?

For “climate change” skeptics like me, the recently revealed emails from scientists who aggressively have promoted the current political doctrine are very telling. Not surprisingly, those at the center of this controversy are claiming that the words we have read mean nothing, and that governments must continue their environmental policies – or else. A gaggle [...]

2Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 9 comments | Continued

Climate Bill Pushed Through Committee

“In a step that reflected deep partisan divisions in the Senate over the issue of global warming, Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans.” (New York Times, Friday) Looks like its Hail Mary time. FEE Timely Classic: “Mandating Renewable Energy: It [...]

6Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Stealth Expansion of Government Power

The government of the United States spent the year debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet a far more fundamental shift, in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of government power over the private sector of the economy, has been going on [...]

23Oct2009 | Murray Weidenbaum | 1 comment | Continued

Alert: Sham Global Warming Could Hit Midwest Hardest

Huffington Post Headline: Where Climate Change Will Hit HardestThe flashy red map bull’s eyes in on the heart of the Midwest. The story goes on to list congressmen in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska who are standing in the way of “cap and trade”.Clicking the link to the actual analysis takes me to an even flashier [...]

27Aug2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | Continued

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor

“The only way to create wealth is for people to do useful things for each other.” “[In a free market] the rich become rich only because consumers voluntarily give them money in exchange for the valuable goods and services they offer to society.” “Wealth is only possible through free markets, allowing the people to decide [...]

21May2009 | Roy Cordato | 6 comments | Continued

Land-Use Controllers Never Quit

I have more than a small suspicion that those who promote urbanization will do so no matter what it does for the climate. The answer for them is always the same: more urbanization. Don’t worry about the exact question.

21May2009 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | Continued

Global Warming Revisited

In the May 2001 Freeman I published “Unprecedented Global Warming?” which noted that climate change (global warming and global cooling) is a continuing phenomenon and that what we’ve witnessed in the last 25 years is “by no means unprecedented.” The Medieval Warm Period (800-1300), which took place without SUVs, power plants, or factories, was warmer [...]

24Apr2009 | Michael Heberling | 13 comments | Continued
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