Category: Global Warming
By Randall Holcombe on Nov 6, 2009 in Environment, Global Warming, Media, Personal Liberty, Science, The State, propaganda, socialism | 3 Comments
I’ve subscribed to Newsweek for more than 30 years. I started subscribing in the 1970s, partly because I wanted a magazine that summarized the week’s news (plenty of choices there) and partly because Newsweek ran a monthly column by Milton Friedman.
When I started subscribing I didn’t notice what some might call a liberal bias in [...]
By Randall Holcombe on Oct 21, 2009 in Budget and Tax Policy, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Land use, Science, Taxation | 10 Comments
Leon County, Florida, where I live, is selling carbon credits for methane gas it is burning from the county landfill, going part-way into turning our garbage into cash. Here’s the story (facts come from the local paper, the Tallahassee Democrat, October 19, page 3A).
Because of complaints of nearby residents of odors coming from the landfill, [...]
By Mary Theroux on Oct 19, 2009 in Business, Disaster Management, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, Global Warming, Media, Personal Liberty, Religion, Science, Taxation, Technology, Trade, corruption, free market | 9 Comments
Charlatans posing as representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a press release, sent out emails, and held a press conference at the Washington, D.C. National Press Club today, announcing the Chamber’s new “Free Enterprise Climate Policy” pushing for “strong climate legislation.”
One mystery is how Reuters and other news agencies could have been taken [...]
By Randall Holcombe on Jul 13, 2009 in Environment, Global Warming, Personal Liberty, Regulation, Taxation, The State, socialism | 2 Comments
Al Gore spoke in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate bill recently passed by the House, saying it will help bring about “global governance.” He’s right about that.
Regardless of how you evaluate the threat of global warming, the threat of global governance is good reason to be skeptical of climate change agreements.
I won’t go into a discussion of [...]
By Mary Theroux on Jun 28, 2009 in Agriculture, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Economics, Energy, Environment, Food, Global Warming, Healthcare, Politics | 4 Comments
As has been discussed elsewhere, the FDA is threatening General Mills over its advertising Cheerios’ assistance in lowering cholesterol. In so doing, the FDA claims to be the sole gatekeeper for health information in the U.S. Yet as Dan Klein and Alex Tabarrok show on our related website, FDAReview.org and in related commentary; and [...]
By David Theroux on May 21, 2009 in Business, Economics, Energy, Environment, Fascism, Global Warming, Regulation, Religion, Science | 12 Comments
In an article in the May 22nd issue of The Wall Street Journal, Bjørn Lomborg (former Director, Environmental Assessment Institute, Copenhagen) correctly discusses the climate-industrial complex, in which many top firms in the U.S. and elsewhere stand to greatly benefit financially from the gigantic wealth-transfer and cartelization schemes being pushed by Al Gore and the [...]
By David Theroux on May 3, 2009 in Agriculture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Media, Politics, Religion, Science, Technology | 1 Comment
The New York Times reports that it recently received accidentally by email a copy of the latest findings and recommendations by the environmental marketing/messaging (i.e., propaganda) firm ecoAmerica. The firm “and allies in the environmental movement have been briefing officials in Congress and the administration” to re-cast global warming terminology because the public is not [...]
