In the early 1990s, working partly as a freelance book editor, I had the privilege of being the main managing editor of Julian L. Simon’s (edited) The State of Humanity (Blackwell, 1995). One of my responsibilities was turning raw data from the book’s 60 authors into graphs so people could grasp them better. But the graphs […]
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Veganism is the lifestyle philosophy of people that avoid eating, wearing, or using animal products or their by-products. They don’t eat meat or the products that derive from animals, even when the animal is not killed, such as milk. Now the rationales for adopting this lifestyle vary. Some do it for alleged health benefits, others
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In the midst of a strong El Niño, Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley reports that the “pause” in global warming, last counted at 18 years 9 months (through October 2015), shortened by December’s end to 18 years 8 months. “The Pause” may continue to shorten through 2016 if, as usual, the second in a pair
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Chelsea Harvey in reported in the Washington Post: “Rising global temperatures may be affecting the Greenland ice sheet — and its contribution to sea-level rise — in more serious ways tha[n] scientists imagined, a new study finds.” What’s up with this? The concern is about the “firn”—a porous sheet of snow that slowly freezes into
Der Spiegel reports (partial English translation here, courtesy of the Global Warming Policy Foundation) that the German Green Party has announced that it intends to get petrol-driven (gasoline and diesel) vehicles off German roads, aiming to have no more such vehicles registered from 2036 onward. “‘We Greens want to get away from oil on the road
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Late last year, after years and years of dilly-dallying, President Obama nixed the planned Keystone XL pipeline extension, though he’d admitted that “This pipeline would neither be a silver bullet for the economy, as was promised by some, nor the express lane to climate disaster proclaimed by others.” Indeed, the U.S. State Department and EPA
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Indian policymakers, having made “commitments” to slow (sometime) the growth of their CO2 emissions from power generation (while continuing to build new coal-fired plants at break-neck speed), are casting about for ways to do that. Some call for more nuclear energy plants—the only realistic, affordable path. But others, guardians of Green ideology, oppose it, leaving
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The New York Times has just published an article claiming that global warming is (partly) to blame for the spread of various “tropical” diseases to the U.S. and other areas where previously they had been eradicated or had never existed. Donald G. McNeil Jr. begins his article titled “U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable to Tropical Diseases Like
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No, I don’t think so. But Why We Bite the Invisible Hand: The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism, by Peter Foster (Pleasaunce Press, 2014), argues that it is. He’s wrong there, but despite that there are many valuable insights in the book, which I began reading a few days ago. Foster argues that often intuitive ideas are the
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Great introduction to two great scientists. Roy Spencer is a Senior Fellow of the Cornwall Alliance, and John Christy is his research partner (and superior) at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
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