All Posts Tagged With: "global warming"

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 Ain’t Easy Being [...]

6Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 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 | 10 comments | Continued

Too Much Freedom

Roy Cordato is vice president for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina.
It’s been said that when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. For politicians, bureaucrats, and many activists, when the only tool they have is coercion, the cause of every problem [...]

1Jul2008 | Roy E. Cordato | 0 comments | Continued

Don’t Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet

Recently on “20/20” I said “give me a break” to Al Gore for claiming that the global-warming debate is over and suggesting that all dissenters were in it for the money. I interviewed independent scientists who say Gore is wrong.
Some people were relieved to finally hear the other side: “Thank you, thank you, thank you [...]

1Jan2008 | John Stossel | 0 comments | Continued

How a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming

The phrase“global warming” has been around for quite some time, but in the past year it has captured the spotlight as never before. One can’t turn on the radio or open a newspaper without facing ads from “green” corporations, or hearing the latest way to reduce one’s “carbon footprint.” With even prominent Republicans (such as [...]

1Oct2007 | Gene Callahan | 1 comment | Continued

Thank You, Internal-Combustion Engine, for Cleaning up the Environment

The internal-combustion engine is widely believed to have been an environmental disaster. It has been accused of harming our health by reducing air quality and contributing to what is currently claimed to be the most threatening of all environmental problems, global warming. But long before carbon dioxide was declared a major pollutant, a car was [...]

1Oct2007 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | Continued

A Carbon Tax Will Fix Global Warming? It Just Aint So!

Roy Cordato (rcordato@johnlocke.org) is vice president for research at the John Locke Foundation and a member of the visiting economics faculty at North Carolina State University.
It amazes me how so many newspaper columnists have no qualms about voicing opinions on topics they clearly know nothing about. This is the case with Anne Applebaum, politics and [...]

1May2007 | Roy E. Cordato | 0 comments | Continued

Cool on the Idea of Cooling Global Warming

Donald Boudreaux is chairman of the economics department at George Mason University.
Here’s some self-promotion: the December 21, 2006, issue of The New York Review of Books published this letter of mine—a letter saturated with the obvious influence of FEE’s founder, Leonard Read:
I’ve read few passages in your pages that are as mistaken as Bill McKibben’s assertion [...]

1Apr2007 | Donald Boudreaux | 3 comments | Continued

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 | 2 comments | Continued

Global Warming and the Layman

Global warming is a divisive issue. People are either believers or skeptics, with each side viewing the other with apprehension. I’ve sided firmly with the skeptics, but lately I have had a nagging concern. Like most people, I am not an atmospheric scientist. I have no firsthand way to evaluate a scientifically based argument for [...]

1Jan2007 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Higher 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 | Continued

Kyoto Protocol’s Death Is a Tragedy? It Just Aint So!

Last November was a bad month for the Greens. While the battle to save their most important political leader raged in Tallahassee, the battle to resurrect their most important international initiative raged in The Hague. There, representatives from 180 nations fought desperately to save the Kyoto Protocol—the 1997 global-warming treaty—from political oblivion. The meeting in [...]

1Mar2001 | Jerry Taylor | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

1Mar2001 | Patrick J. Michaels | 1 comment | Continued