Preventing Climate Change does Not Help the Poor, It Dooms Them!

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Many climate scientists argue that we need to mitigate global warming because otherwise it will be the poor who will be hurt the most. Apparently these scientists do not understand their own models. Projections from climate models are based on the rates of poverty reduction, with the highest (‘worst’) temperature projections resulting when the poorest […]

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Climate Policies Kill through Fuel Poverty

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Deepak Lal, one of the world’s leading development economists, wrote in his book Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty: The greatest threat to the alleviation of the structural poverty of the Third World is the continuing campaign by western governments, egged on by some climate scientists and green activists, to curb greenhouse

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How does Climate Alarmism Drive Human Trafficking?

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Some climate alarmists believe global warming leads to more human trafficking. The truth is quite different. To prevent what they believe is dangerous manmade global warming, climate alarmists want to reduce CO2 emissions. This requires reducing fossil fuel consumption, which can be achieved partly by reducing consumption per person, but also by reducing the number

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China’s One-Child Policy Ends—Time for a Little (Yes, Little) Celebration

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The Communist Chinese government’s Xinhua news agency announced today that the government is abolishing that country’s one-child policy. The policy, which Susan Yoshihara, senior vice president for research at the Center for Family & Human Rights and co-editor of Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics has called “the world’s worst law,” “resulted in more

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What Threatens Liberty and Increases Abortion, Human Trafficking, Government Debt, and Poverty?

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Conservatives, Christian and non-Christian alike, share concerns about civil and religious liberty, abortion and the sanctity of human life, human trafficking and pornography and how they damage families, fiscal responsibility in government, and poverty. What many don’t know is that there are links between climate alarmism and every one of these issues. Let me take

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Freeman Dyson, World’s Top Physicist, Calls Out Obama, and Supports Cornwall Alliance Open Letter

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Why did one of the world’s top physicists—ever—sign the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation’s Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change, which challenges climate alarmism, though he’s a liberal, a Democrat, likes President Obama, and has a strong background in climate science? My latest article at Townhall.com explains. His reasons for signing that

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Climate Change’s Great Legacy: International Wealth Redistribution

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A $Trillion here, a $Trillion there—pretty soon you’re talking real money. No, I’m not talking about the U.S. national debt, now at over $18 trillion. That’s a very bad thing that threatens to impoverish our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. I’m talking about the $Trillions being demanded by developing-world countries from rich countries (primarily the United

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Green Climate Fund Gets a Slow Start

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The $100 billion slush fund—er, Green Climate Fund—created at the COP17 climate summit in Durban, South Africa, is supposed to redistribute money from wealthy developed countries to poor developing countries (or at least to the thugs who run them). Call it a kind of penalty for the developed countries’ having overcome poverty before the developing ones,

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