All Posts Tagged With: "global warming"
Population Control Nonsense
According to an American Dream article, “Al Gore, Agenda 21 and Population Control,” there are too many of us and it has a negative impact on the earth. Here’s what the United Nations Population Fund said in its annual State of the World Population Report for 2009, “Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate”: [...]
30Nov2011 | Walter E. Williams | 10 comments | ContinuedIs 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 | ContinuedWolf Heads and Carbon Credits
Something tells me, deep inside, that managed overreaction to carbon emissions will lead just as surely to the kind of devastating policies that gave us wolves-as-an-endangered-species.
9May2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 14 comments | ContinuedThe Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy
The extraordinary thing about this excellent book is not its content as much as its source. Jack M. Hollander is a retired professor of energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he has had an impressive career in the field of energy (he has more than 100 publications to his credit), in [...]
6Jul2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Bjørn Lomborg has shaken up the world of environmentalists. Describing himself as “an old left-wing Greenpeace member,” the Danish statistician has produced a book that undermines most of the apocalyptic scares that keep Greenpeace afloat. The Skeptical Environmentalist makes a persuasive case that the environment is improving, not getting worse, and that most of the [...]
30Jun2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedA Free-Market Energy Vision
Energy is the master resource. Without it other resources could not be produced or consumed. Even energy requires energy: There would not be usable oil, gas, or coal without the energy to manufacture and power the requisite tools and machinery. Nor would there be wind turbines or solar panels, which are monuments to embedded fossil-fuel [...]
29Jun2010 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedFixing Global Warming for Fun If Not Profit
Amateur global-warming skeptics can make me uncomfortable.
4Jun2010 | Sheldon Richman | 27 comments | ContinuedClimate 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 | ContinuedGerman 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 | ContinuedChina 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 | ContinuedEPA’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 | ContinuedClimate 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 | ContinuedAlert: 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 | ContinuedClimate 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 | ContinuedLand-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 | ContinuedGlobal 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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