The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week in an effort to destroy the natural habitat of one of the Los Angeles area's most beautiful, but fragile, species. With no hard scales, thick hide, or camouflage for protection, no...
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In Pursuit of Reason the Life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.
Forever in pursuit of reason, Jefferson was convinced that the ideas of natural rights and constitutionally limited government would universally prevail, and that human learning and progress would continue unimpeded. Cunningham captures this spirit—a distinctively American spirit— magnificently in this highly recommended biography.
An Interview with The Skeptical Environmentalist
Bjorn Lomborg isn't one to abandon his politics just because he strays from the established line on the environment. The Danish statistics professor would rather solve the pressing problems of the world effectively. Tech Central Station's James K. Glassman spoke with...
Earth to Sun: Wrong Place, Wrong Internet Time
Once upon a time there was a company that made very powerful workstations -- super-duper PC's that put the final nail in the coffin of the mainframe computing model. This company developed servers that treated these workstations as clients, and linked them together in...
The Death Toll of Environmentalism
Colorado congressman Scott McInnis revealed last week that four firefighters who burned to death in July while tackling a forest fire in Washington state died because bureaucrats took 10 hours to approve a water drop. Taking water from the local river, it seems, is...
Humans Keep Out! Environmentalists Excluding People from Parks
"Humans -- KEEP OUT" is becoming the new motto of Parks Canada. A Fraser Institute report -- Off Limits: How Radical Environmentalists are Shutting Down Canada's National Parks -- documents how Parks Canada got hijacked by environmentalists who are blocking future...
Global Hot Air
A new political dogma is being spun in the media. "Science," they say, has now "proved" that global warming is a real danger and that human beings are responsible for it, so that we need to take drastic steps to reduce greenhouse gases. This has been the widespread...
The National Academy of Dubious Science
Imagine that you have invited a contractor to inspect your home and check for needed repairs. He tells you that, in theory, there might be a disastrous problem with the foundation. He can't actually prove that there is a problem, he says, and there are a lot of...
The Scientist Trap
Ten days ago, we saw the headlines: "Panel Tells Bush Global Warming is Getting Worse." According to dozens of press accounts, a panel of distinguished climatologists from the National Academy of Sciences had provided new confirmation that "global warming is real, and...
Kyoto is Dead
[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM NEWS REPORT] The Bush White House rocked Washington, DC and the world on March 28 when it acknowledged it would take no action on the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in 1997 by the Clinton administration. State Department...
The Amazing Disappearing, Reappearing Artic Ice Cap
"Danger lies not in what we don't know, but in what we think we know that just ain't so." So reads the e-mail signature of Greg Holloway, a scientist with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia. The quote, from Mark Twain, is appropriate. On April 24,...
Bush’s Environmental Guacamole
Christie Todd Whitman has committed some of the Bush administration's biggest gaffes to date -- most infamously, her ill-fated crusade to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions at all costs to thwart alleged global warming. Bush Republicans are right to thwack...
Republicans to Planet Earth: Drop Dead
" ... Here, the environment is not an issue -- it's an ethic. It's protecting creation." In criticizing President Bush's environmental policy, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made that pronouncement. Echoing a similar theme, a former official with the Wilderness...
Green Thumbs Vs. “Green” Politics
Every year, at about this time, I make my personal protest against environmentalism by going out and enjoying nature. How, you might ask, can enjoying nature be considered an act of defiance against environmentalism? Consider how -- and why -- I enjoy it. I do not...
Economics of Environmentalism Refuted
A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it, if and when it comes.
This “Earth Day” Celebrate the Industrial Revolution
On April 22, thousands will gather across the country to celebrate Earth Day, a holiday that has risen in the past decade from obscurity to the status of a mainstream, uncontroversial event. After all, who could be against clean air, clean water, and a healthy...
Mastering the Problem of Environmental Quality
An interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer by Bonner Cohen and Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Dr. S. Fred Singer, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, has achieved great renown for pioneering research in atmospheric and space physics. Singer was among the very first...
Bush Administration Must Say No To Jane And Kyoto
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is fond of telling the story of meeting Jane Fonda a few years ago. While CEO of Alcoa, he was invited to a White House briefing on global warming and found himself seated next to the actress and peace protester. She turned to him and...
George W. Gore?
Everybody in Washington frets about Vice President Dick Cheney's health, but what about his boss? President Bush is beginning to look a little too green for his own good. He may be in need of ideological defibrillation. Over the past several weeks, the Bush...
The Kyoto Protocol and the Oslo Agreement on Middle East Peace: Clinton-Gore’s Legacy of Failure
The election defeats of former Vice President Al Gore and of Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak would seem to spell the end of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and of the Oslo agreement on Middle East peace. Gore will forever be identified with the Kyoto accord...
Scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth’s climate
Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, in part, "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's...
Environmentalism: It’s not about the pretty little animals
Environmentalists are now taking their "case" to the streets. They are burning down buildings on Long Island because they feel suburban sprawl has gone too far.It's time that we stop calling such people "environmentalists." This is too benign a term, and they clearly...
The Return of the Spotted Owl: Earth First, Means Humans Last
My friend Jack predicted this. When the first flurry of lawsuits was filed in Florida, he told me: keep an eye on the other news. Some government agency, he warned, will spring a new regulation on us -- and they will get away with it, because everyone's attention is...
Gore’s Disastrous Green Agenda
On Friday, Al Gore declared that "prosperity is on the ballot" and described himself as "the right ... choice to keep it going." But those who are watching his campaign more closely just got a reminder of who the real Al Gore is: an environmental zealot out to shut...
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