All Posts Tagged With: "global warming"
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 | ContinuedGlobal Warming Dissent
“More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims”Worthwhile post at Copious Dissent.
11Dec2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedToo 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 [...]
1Jul2008 | Roy Cordato | 8 comments | ContinuedDon’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 [...]
1Jan2008 | John Stossel | 1 comment | ContinuedHow 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 [...]
1Oct2007 | Gene Callahan | 11 comments | ContinuedThank 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 | 9 comments | ContinuedA 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 [...]
1May2007 | Roy Cordato | 1 comment | ContinuedCool 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 [...]
1Apr2007 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 3 comments | ContinuedClimate 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 | ContinuedGlobal 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 | 5 comments | ContinuedA Higher Gasoline Tax Will “Solve Everything”?
Regrettably, I have to criticize someone who, in the past, I have admired a great deal. John Tierney is an iconoclastic columnist for the New York Times who has been writing on environmental issues for at least a decade. His now-classic 1996 Times Magazine story critical of recycling was a well-researched article that I have [...]
1Apr2006 | Roy Cordato | 0 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 | ContinuedGlobal Warming Is a Threat?
Last December Naomi Oreskes, an associate professor
of history at UCLA, published a Washington
Post Outlook piece called Undeniable Global
Warming. She asserted that the planet is warming
(true), that increases in greenhouse gases have something
to do with it (true), that several scientific societies hold
this view (true), that the remainder of the discussion is
quibbling about the details, and that we must respond
to the threats that global warming presents.
Separate State and Science
I don’t reach much fiction these days, but one novel I intend to read is State of Fear, Michael Crichton’s story of how environmentalists use allegedly man-made catastrophic global warming to control the population. Anyone who has the power to cause such hysteria among the Kyoto Protocol set must be doing something right. (Bjørn Lomborg [...]
1Jun2005 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | 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 | 3 comments | ContinuedGlobal Warming: Extreme Weather or Extreme Prejudice?
Christopher Lingle is professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and global strategist for eConoLytics.com. Extreme weather is making headlines. Record summer temperatures in Europe and a large number of heat-related deaths in India joined news about severe flooding in Bangladesh, China, and Sri Lanka. And an unusual number of tornados in the [...]
1Nov2003 | Christopher Lingle | 5 comments | ContinuedHow’s the Third World Doing?
The Third World is in trouble. Standards of living are plummeting, while the West is getting richer. Nearly everyone seems to believe it. The left wants to believe it as a justification for global socialism. Racists want to believe it because it “proves” the superiority of the white race. The media think it’s a good [...]
1Sep2002 | James Peron | 0 comments | Continued-
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