All Posts Tagged With: "greenhouse effect"
Average Americans versus Environmentalists
A few years ago American Enterprise magazine carried an article by Karl Zinsmeister titled “Environmentalists vs. Scientists.” It’s mostly a report on research published by two academics, Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter, in their book Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease. The authors surveyed a cross-section of environmental leaders at organizations such as the Natural Resources [...]
1Jul2003 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedHot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
Ben Bolch is Robert McCallum Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rhodes College and coauthor of Apocalypse Not; Science, Economics and the Environment (Cato Institute, 1993). Fred Singer is a scientist with impeccable credentials. He was the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, winner of the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, and [...]
1Jul1998 | Ben Bolch | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Warming: Hot Problem or Hot Air?
Jonathan Adler is director of environmental studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., and the editor of The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), from which portions of this essay are adapted. El Niño is the overhyped weather event of the decade. It has even made CNN’s “Larry King [...]
1Apr1998 | Jonathan H. Adler | 6 comments | Continued-
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