Dear Attorneys General, You’re not stupid. Stupid people don’t graduate from law school. Neither are you generally ignorant. You know lots of law. But the day of the “Renaissance man,” vastly learned across all fields of knowledge, is long gone. All intelligent and learned people are ignorant about some things. So, U.S. Attorney General Loretta […]
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Several years ago, I was outside Denver Colorado and noticed a billboard that said, “Why love one and eat the other?” An analogous sign can be found at Mercy for Animals. It shows a picture of a dog and a pig, with the question, why love one and eat the other? It is an ingenious
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As medium-term global average atmospheric temperature trends continue to diverge sharply from predictions based on global warming alarmists’ hypotheses about CO2’s warming effect, climate feedbacks, and computer models expressing those hypotheses, the alarmists have increasingly turned to other reasons for pursuing the economic (especially energy) policies they prefer: “weather weirding,” “extreme weather,” ocean “acidification,” “coral
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For generations economists have recognized the “problem of the commons.” The phrase harks back to when villagers all shared a common pasture. The natural incentive for each villager was to graze as many livestock on it as he could, because if instead he restricted his herd so the demand on the pasture’s grass growth was
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On May 14, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has failed to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as required by Massachusetts’s 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), which aimed to reduce the state’s GHG emissions to 25% below the 1990 level by 2020 80% by 2050. The
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Washington, D. C. May 18, 2016 The Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D. C. Via e-mail Dear Mr. Speaker, The undersigned organizations write to express our concerns about federal agency overreach, especially the Environmental Protection Agency’s campaign to de-carbonize the U.S. electric power sector and dictate national climate policy. The
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The threat by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and “AG’s United for Clean Power” (a group of 17 attorneys general) to investigate and prosecute for fraud corporations and organizations questioning belief in manmade global warming so dangerous as to justify spending $Trillions to reduce it by fractions of a degree has some precedent. No, not in
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“Going, going, gone. Five of the Solomon Islands have been swallowed whole by rising sea levels, offering a glimpse into the future of other low-lying nations.” That was the lead sentence to Alice Klein’s New Scientist article “Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise.” The second sentence showed only slightly less panic: “Sea levels
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A picture can be worth a thousand words—especially if it’s deliberately designed to mislead and scare people, because of course so many think “seeing is believing.” That’s why CAGW alarmists are so eager to show us pictures like this of the annual global surface temperature anomaly from 1850 to 2015: That comes from the UK’s
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An email I received this morning included in its thread one from someone saying this: This morning I got out my little toy telescope and watched Mercury transiting the Sun. The striking fact was not the little black image of Mercury but the total absence of sunspots. I have seen many transits before this one, but
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