Flying off to Denver today to attend, exhibit at, and speak on protecting the poor from climate-change madness for the Western Conservative Summit. Hope to see you there! Featured Image Courtesy of aeypix/freedigitalphotos.net.
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Christian economist Doug Bandow, a long-time friend, has published three thoughtful responses to Laudato Si, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. One is “In Calling on Government, Laudato Si Underestimates Power of the the Market.” It is, as usual, clear and concise. This excerpt is particularly important: … the Pontiff’s own goals conflict. For instance, he speaks
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This just in: The Max Planck Society has just published a piece confirming the reality of the great global warming pause. H/t to Pierre Gosselin and his NoTricksZone blog.
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In expectation of the release of an encyclical on environmental stewardship, some people have claimed that Pope Francis has a degree, even a master’s degree, in chemistry, qualifying him to understand the scientific issues of climate change. Not so, according to the National Catholic Reporter. Actually, Francis graduated, at age 19, “with a título in
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Just received this from Gordon J. Fulks (Ph.D., Physics), of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Astrophysics, Mission Research Corporation, Corbett, OR, via email, and he permitted me to publish it here on our blog. It’s right on target. Politics has clearly compromised science via billions of dollars going to those scientists willing to play
The Associated Press reports that Vatican officials are very upset over the leak of a draft of the much-anticipated papal encyclical on the environment yesterday. I find the concluding paragraph of the AP report most interesting: In the aftermath of the “Vatileaks” scandal, the Vatican City State updated its criminal code to include severe penalties
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs directs the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He’s also led the way in the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals–a high-sounding program to end poverty that depends largely on redistributing wealth from the West to the Rest with an obligatory but ineffectual nod toward the need for governmental reform and economic development in impoverished
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That’s how most of the media are treating a new study, anyway. Even the Wall Street Journal ran a news piece titled “Study Finds No Pause in Global Warming.” The source? “Possible artifacts of data bias in the recent global surface warming hiatus,” published this week in Science, by long-time global warming alarmist Tom Karl et al. Abstract:
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Stunning that the reliably liberal and alarmist NYT runs an article, “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion,” with equally stunning video demonstrating that Paul Ehrlich, author of the uber-alarmist The Population Bomb (1968), was totally, totally wrong. The full case for Ehrlich’s idiocy on the economics of demography is far, far stronger than the article
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In its Quixotic quest to fight global warming, Europe is switching many coal-fired electric generating plants to wood pellets. Not a good idea. One of the most important advances for both humanity and the environment was our move from using wood as primary energy source to coal, natural gas, and oil. That led to a
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