A profound tragedy is unfolding in New Orleans, the most beautiful city in America, with the richest cultural history and the most wonderful style of living. I lived in New Orleans for seven years. I was married there. My children were born there. I have many friends...
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Senators Were Right To Reject Limits on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
The sixty Senators who voted to reject a measure calling for mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions did the right thing. Such mandatory limits would impose huge costs on energy producers and consumers. Despite environmentalists' propaganda, there is plenty of...
Catastrophic Global Warming is More Scare than Science
On June 13, USA Today declared that "The debate's over: Globe is Warming." That's another headline you can ignore. The world has been warming ever since the last Ice Age, but it is not rapidly warming in ways that threaten our existence, nor warming in a way that...
Environmental Regulations Reduce Safety and Productivity in the Energy Industry
An explosion last week at a British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas refinery in Texas killed fifteen workers and injured seventy others, five critically. As usual, myopic media accounts blamed BP and its allegedly unsafe work conditions – and called for more intense government regulation and fines.
New Jersey’s Nutty CO2 Notions
While the entire northeast of the United States was digging out from a huge blizzard--usually a sign of cold weather--a meeting on "the climate challenge" was occurring in London, England and "an independent report" by the Institute for Public Policy Research (Great...
The New Religion is Global Warming
The UN finally got what it wanted. The Kyoto Climate Change treaty becomes 'international law' this month on Wednesday. The treaty went into full effect with the approval by the Russian Federation, even without the support of the United States. Time will tell if and...
State of Fear by Michael Crichton: Exposing the Global Warming Sham
The famed novelist, Michael Crichton, may achieve what mountains of scientific data produced by meteorologists and others have not. He may get the public to understand that the UN Kyoto Climate Control Protocol is, itself, a work of fiction. His novel, "State of...
Silent Spring Revisited: Rachel Carson’s Environmentalist Diatribe vs. Science
The root of the opposition to DDT is not science, but the environmentalist moral premise that it is wrong for man to “tamper” with nature.
State of Fear: Michael Crichton and the End of Radical Environmentalism
Crichton’s remarkable book may mark the end of the beginning, and the start of a “new environmental movement” that puts science ahead of ideology.
Tsunami Disaster — False Alternatives from Cultural Commentators
The tsunami disaster is generating a confusing cacaphony of voices from both the Left and the Right asserting what seem to be contradictory positions. Man caused the disaster say the environmentalists. Man is small compared to the awesome power of nature say voices on...
Environmentalism’s Dangerous Campaign for “Safety”
America's domestic shortage of natural gas is, as Alan Greenspan has observed, "a very serious problem." Fortunately, there is a proven technology that could enable Americans to access plentiful natural gas stores from overseas: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)--natural...
Green and Black
Among the many luxuries that wealth can buy is insulation from reality -- the most dangerous luxury of all. Another dangerous luxury is a sense of being one of the wonderfully special people with superior wisdom and virtue. Environmentalism flourishes among those who...
U.N. Environmental Agenda Infiltrates Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America's newest merit badge is surely to include the U.N. emblem. That's because this American institution has just become partners with the United Nations Environment Program, the global network that advances the radical principle of sustainable...
The Green Fever Subsides
We all know that polls are just snapshots of a moment in time, taking the pulse of public opinion on some subject. A recent one by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, however, produced some encouraging news. Of 1,000 people polled, just over half said...
U.N. Breathes New Life into Kyoto
If one door closes, another always opens -- that's the creed that seems to guide the United Nations, anyway, as a recent report lays the groundwork for a new avenue of attack against carbon dioxide emissions. Evidently unhappy with America's decision against ratifying...
“Endangered Species” Cost USA Billions
At a time when this nation is engaged in a war, putting the lives of its soldiers in harm's way to end the threat of Middle Eastern terrorism, it would seem inconceivable that it would also be wasting billions to protect some species of salmon or the shortnose...
The Day After Tomorrow: The New Left’s Doomsday Evangelism for the Church of Environmentalism
Prepare for more religious propaganda: The Day After Tomorrow, which opens today, is the New Left's evangelism with ecology as its religion. Junk science is holy in Hollywood and director Roland Emmerich's motion picture is the latest example; the press notes read...
Wasting Billions on the Green Agenda
After the usual media orgy of articles and opinions about "Earth Day", it's a good idea to ask how much environmentalism actually costs us. I will keep this to a question of dollars, but the real cost has been in millions of lives around a world where the benefits of...
This Earth Day Celebrate Vladimir Lenin's Birthday!
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier after Joseph Stalin, decided in 1955 that the country should celebrate their national political philosophy, communism. He chose as the day, April 22, Vladimir Lenin's birthday, a tribute to the founder of the Soviet Union. When...
On Earth Day Remember: If Environmentalists Succeed, They Will Make Human Life Impossible
The expressed goal of environmentalism is to prevent man from changing his environment, from intruding on nature. That is why environmentalism is *the enemy of man, the enemy of human life*.
Two Earthquakes And Their Results Under Two Different Social Systems
Within a week of each other, two earthquakes struck on opposite sides of the world -- an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale in California and a 6.6 earthquake in Iran. But, however similar the earthquakes, the human costs were enormously different. The...
Certainty of Catastrophic Global Warming is a Hoax
MILAN, Italy -- On many of the walls here at the Feira Milano conference center, site of the giant United Nations meeting on climate change, Green activists have posted flamboyant posters showing a picture of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), with a quotation from him:...
Environmentalists Kill “Free Willy”
The star of the environmentalist trilogy "Free Willy" movies, Keiko (Japanese for "Lucky One"), the Orca "Killer" Whale, has died in the misguided and costly attempt to put him back into the open oceans. Quoting the Globe and Mail: Keiko was released from Iceland in...
COP-9: Another United Nations Conference for Sustaining World Poverty
Milan, Italy -- Here they go again. In this vibrant northern Italy city, with the snowy Alps in the background and the most gorgeous Gothic cathedral in Europe in the foreground, thousands of delegates from 188 countries have gathered for a United Nations conference...
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