All Posts Tagged With: "consensus science"
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 | ContinuedSilencing Science
This slim volume is an ironic how-to guide for heavy-handed regulators, panic-mongering activists, demagogic politicians, venal trial lawyers, dogmatic religionists, and anyone else with an interest in stifling or manipulating science. In breezy style, the authors explain how to impede research and suppress data, using lawsuits, regulation, intimidation, and other methods. They also show how [...]
1Oct1999 | Kenneth Silber | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment and Governance
Dr. Foldvary is the author of Public Goods and Private Communities: The Market Provision of Social Services (Edward Elgar, 1994). He teaches economics at California State University, Hayward. Policy debates typically center around the role of markets versus the role of governments. But this is a misleading distinction. Human society always has governance. Private organizations [...]
1Jan1997 | Fred E. Foldvary | 1 comment | Continued-
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