Environmental Issues

SHADES OF AGENDA 21

  March 11, 2013 Fishing for Wildlife Lawsuits The Interior Department revives the game of ‘sue and settle.’ The Senate last week gave a warm confirmation welcome to Sally Jewell, until recently the head of outdoor equipment company REI and now President Obama’s nominee to run the Interior Department. It’s a pity the Senators didn’t […]

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GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS FAILING TO RALLY THE PUBLIC

  March 11, 2013 Notable & Quotable Lawrence Solomon on the failure of global-warming alarmists to rally the public.   Environmentalist Lawrence Solomonwriting in Canada’s Financial Post, Feb. 7 : Our thermometers simply haven’t been rising. According to a study last month by NASA’s James Hansen, Al Gore’s mentor, temperatures have been “flat for the

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THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET OF GREEN CARS

   March 11, 2013 Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret Producing and charging electric cars means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions. By Bjorn Lomborg   Mr. Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Washington, D.C., is the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” (Cambridge Press, 2001) and “Cool It” (Knopf, 2007) EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: 

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THE CHINESE, CANADIAN OIL AND THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE

   NEWS&OBSERVER CANADIAN OIL, THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE AND THE CHINESE March 10, 2013    By Stephen R. Kelly      Stephen R. Kelly is the associate director of Canadian Studies at Duke University and a former U.S. diplomat in Canada. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  National oil companies like CNOOC, which is 70 percent owned by the People’s

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IS IT TIME TO GET RID OF THE EPA?

  – The Daily Caller – http://dailycaller.com – Is it time to get rid of the EPA? Posted By Henry Miller On 12:39 PM 02/04/2013     Henry Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He was at the NIH and FDA

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KYOTO – THE U.N.’S ANTICARBON SCHEME

   January 6, 2013 The Kyoto Scorecard The U.N.’s anticarbon scheme didn’t work out as planned. The Kyoto Protocol on climate change used to be a big deal. So big that the future of humanity was said to hinge on its implementation. Did you know it expired on New Year’s Day? We’re guessing you didn’t,

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