All Posts Tagged With: "greenhouse gases"
EPA’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 | 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 | 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: 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 | 4 comments | ContinuedEnemies of the Automobile
Ralph Clark is a professor of philosophy at West Virginia University. The automobile age is approximately 100 years old. With the approach of a new century and new millennium there could be no better time to celebrate the automobile for its profound contributions to human happiness. Unfortunately, automobiles have enemies. An influential movement is underway [...]
1Nov2001 | Ralph W. Clark | 1 comment | ContinuedUnprecedented Global Warming?
One of the most contentious issues of the day is global warming. Those who openly discuss the subject fall into one of two camps. First, there are the environmental alarmists who only see the world in terms of urban sprawl, deforestation, and pollution. For this group, global warming provides the much-needed justification to curtail, or [...]
1May2001 | Michael Heberling | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Problem of Environmental Protection
A common belief is that economists don’t care much about the environment because they are preoccupied with money, markets, and material wealth. And when economists do consider ways to protect the environment, they emphasize benefits and costs, trying to express all values in terms of cash.
1Apr2001 | Dwight R. Lee | 2 comments | ContinuedGlobal Politics, Political Warming
Doug Bandow is a widely published author and commentator. Five years ago the Clinton administration announced a 50-point plan to curb the emission of so-called greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide. Countries spent much of last fall debating a global agreement to cut future emissions below 1990 levels. “The only thing we know for absolute certain [...]
1Jan1998 | Doug Bandow | 6 comments | ContinuedGlobal Warming: Not an Immediate Problem
Mr. Bethel resides in Arlington, Virginia. All too often we find ourselves mounting a rearguard action to fend off public policies or programs limiting our choices, costing us money and, generally, making life tougher to live. In many instances during these struggles, we have to be content with small victories: holding social welfare program budgets [...]
1Dec1996 | J. David Bethel | 0 comments | Continued-
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