The Environment

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Ryan McMaken

If climate change effects aren't enough to put a noticeable dent in life expectancy, then why is climate change talked about as an apocalypse?

Robert P. Murphy

The "distinguished economists" advocating for a carbon tax are misleading the American public on several key points. 

Robert P. Murphy

The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.

Robert P. Murphy

A “Green New Deal” makes no sense on economic grounds, either in spirit or in letter.

Jason Morgan

The Earth’s climate is extraordinarily complex. We need facts and dispassionate interpretation not quacks or snake oil salesmen who see science as a bandwagon.

Robert P. Murphy

The media is using the recent National Climate Assessment to warn about the "cost of inaction" on climate change. Here's what they miss.

Ruth Shallcross Maynard

Conservation will take place where individuals are allowed to seek solutions. Necessity is the mother not only of invention but of conservation as well.

Gary Galles

The concept of "productive complements" shows us how capitalists have long sought to make as much use as they can of every part of the materials they use to make goods.

Robert P. Murphy

It is the boosters of aggressive government action, such as a carbon tax, who ignore the peer-reviewed research on climate change.