A Ground-Level View of the Cost of Unwarranted Regulation—and How to Reduce It

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Many complaints of the costs of environmental (and other) regulations give us the view from 30,000 feet. In his new article “The Long Arm of the European Community,” at American Thinker, Norman Rogers paints the picture at ground level—and it isn’t pretty. It’s not just that the regulations impose enormous costs but also that they often are […]

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Open Letter to Attorneys General about Climate Change

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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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Modern mavens and maxims of meteorological mayhem

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Here’s a bit of earthy mirth for Earth Day 2016. Inspired by the atmospheric angst of the November-December 2015 Paris climate change conference, late last year, we proposed new weather wonkery c our versions of popular meteorological anecdotes like the witticisms of old that folks frequently used to stay ahead of storms.  For example, one

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Attorney Generals Attack First Amendment Rights of Climate Skeptics

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It’s hardball time, and things are going to get rough. That’s the current state of the desperate attempt of climate alarmists and their allies in the Obama Administration and sympathetic state pols. Failing to motivate significant public concern about manmade global warming, failing to get even those who express concern to be willing to make

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More Saber-Rattling by the Enemies of Free Speech and Real Science

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Last week U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Congress that her department has discussed taking civil legal action (under RICO, the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) against “climate deniers” (whatever those are—I don’t know any). “This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider

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RICO and Climate Consensus: Putting the Chill on Science, Speech, and Human Flourishing

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Forget about the First Amendment, the indispensable role of vigorous debate and testing in the progress of scientific knowledge, the reality of major reversals in science, the tremendous benefits of fossil-fuel-derived energy in lifting and keeping whole societies—and their individual members—out of poverty, disease, and premature death. Those mean nothing to climate alarmists like Sen.

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