“Risky Business” in Climate Change Policy
Alicia Mundy writes in the Wall Street Journal of June 24, 2014, that a coalition of environmentalists and at least some of the many corporate cronies of the federal government are pressing a proposal...
View ArticleNASA’s Children’s Climate Change Website, and the book 1984: Creating Spies...
From our friend Cal Beisner over at the Cornwall Alliance: What would you say if your child accused you of a thought crime, and turned you in to the thought police? Would you say it was ridiculous?...
View ArticleA “Smart-Growth” Revolt in California
On June 18, the Larkspur City Council voted unanimously to kill a high-density “smart-growth” development plan for this community of 12,000 people 16 miles north of San Francisco. The plan called for...
View ArticleFascism Is Efficient, Says Andres Duany, Leading Proponent of “Sustainable...
Andres Duany (photo by Michigan Municipal League, 2013) It goes by many names: “sustainable development,” “smart growth,” “transit-oriented development,” to name a few. But development projects built...
View ArticleThe Malvinas versus Argentina
I hope someone has the cheek to send Argentine President Cristina Kirchner a copy of the Statistical Yearbook 2014 published by the Falkland Islands Government—preferably without giving too many hints...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Pressures Russia
One remarkable aspect in the recent fall in global oil prices is that Saudi Arabia has not cut production to prop them up. Much of the speculation about why the Saudis have sat by passively and allowed...
View ArticleApocalypse Not: The Legacy of Julian Simon
“The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the...
View ArticleHarvard Professor’s Latest ‘Heresy’ Throws Water on Obama EPA’s Climate Policy
Is Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe trying to become the liberal who is most despised by other liberals? It might sound odd to hear such a question asked about an academic who once...
View ArticleFossil Fuels Are the Lifeblood of Modern Civilization
“We don’t want to ‘save the planet’ from human beings; we want to improve the planet for human beings.” —Alex Epstein I never thought I would encounter a book titled The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels....
View ArticleS. Fred Singer, Friend and Courageous Man of Science
The world-renowned astrophysicist Siegfried Fred Singer (1924–2020) passed away on April 6, 2020, at the age of 95. Fred was Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia,...
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