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Blog05/19/2007Jim Fedako

In what has to be the most telling example of the desire of government to use violence as its primary means to any end, officials in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland and Ontario, Canada, have destroyed over 20 million ash trees in an attempt to slow the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer.

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Environmentalist Bugaboo Loses Support

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Blog05/19/2007George Reisman

For years, the environmentalists have been trying to have it both ways, claiming that in the midst of the global warming that they allege, Europe might suffer an ice age. According to this scenario, ships would sail through an ice-free Arctic Ocean but be unable to unload their cargos in the ice...

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Dr Roger Pielke Sr on Climate Models & Predictions — One Example

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Blog05/17/2007Sudha R. Shenoy

For information: [I have posted this elsewhere ] ------------------------------------

Apropos of climate studies: Here is...

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Climate Studies and the IPCC: A Lay Perspective

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Blog05/17/2007Sudha R. Shenoy

Very broadly speaking, the UN's International Panel on Climate Change holds the following position:

Use of fossil fuels adds ominously to the CO2 in the atmosphere, as well as to other 'greenhouse gases'.

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Environmentalist Zen

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Blog05/12/2007George Reisman

If you'd prefer to be cool rather than suffer in the heat, what you need to do, according to the environmental movement, is smash your air conditioner, refrigerator, and freezer. That will help to cool the planet—someday. If you want to be secure from hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and other...

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After the Hideous Light Bulbs

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Blog05/08/2007George Reisman

In my last article, I urged everyone to say no to the hideous looking fluorescent light bulbs the environmentalists plan to force on us in the name of fighting global warming and "saving the planet." I described the light bulbs as an entering wedge for further demands adding up to the sacrifice...

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The solution to the global warming problem?

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Blog05/07/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

Now, here is a famous environmental activist who is serious about the global warming problem.

"We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.... We need to stop burning...

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Say No to the Hideous Light Bulbs

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Blog05/04/2007George Reisman

The environmentalists are pushing hideous looking fluorescent light bulbs of the kind shown here as a way to save electricity and thus reduce the need for power plants and resulting carbon emissions. The bulbs will thus allegedly help to save the planet from global warming and, therefore, the...

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The Disaster of Global Cooling

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Blog04/25/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

I was just astonished at fruit prices this morning at the local grocer. The clerk explained to me that all the prices of regionally grown fruit are going up up up, and it is likely to get worse. Why is this? We had a freeze in April. In April, in the Deep South! It seems that the entire peach...

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It's About Energy, Not Climate

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Blog04/23/2007George Reisman

The environmental movement has been doing its utmost to sabotage energy production since the 1960s, long before it was able to latch onto the prospect of global warming. Its opposition to atomic power has nothing to do with global warming, nor does its opposition to the construction of dams to...