The Environment
Green Baptists Preach Salvation by Breaking Car Windows
This is green tyranny at its worst: waste, distortion, and violating liberty in the name of "saving the planet."
Robert Frank Knows What Is Best For You
This is not the only instance in which Frank refutes his own arguments. Like most good leftists, Frank dislikes SUVs.
Wind or Nuclear?
Nuclear energy is the cleanest, most efficient energy we have — by light years. Anyone who tells you differently, is flat-out wrong.
Correcting Krugman on Climate
Partisans on both sides of the debate concede that if the United States imposes unilateral emission cuts, there will be a negligible effect on global temperatures.
The Costs of Carbon Legislation
The global-warming debate has now been completely politicized.
The Case Against “Smart Taxes” on Carbon
Today is Earth day, and a week ago we “celebrated” tax day.
Green Jobs?
Nothing is easier than to think of things that would require the performance of virtually unlimited labor in order to accomplish virtually zero result. Such is the nature of all job-creation programs.
The Case against “Smart Taxes” on Carbon
The idea that experts can do a better job of directing the use of resources, including gasoline, than can markets and market prices derives from the faulty assumption that experts know more than the whole of society.
The Law of Intended Darkness
Ultimately, then, the effects of Earth Hour boil down to dim rhetoric. Maybe as much attention should be placed on humanity's hot air footprint as its carbon one.