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‘My Scientific Adventure’: Renowned Scientist Willie Soon Talks Climate Change
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, Ph.D., is a geo-scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon has written papers in a number of peer-reviewed journals examining the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. -
Is America Still On F.A. Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom”?
Opinion -A little more than seventy years ago, on March 10, 1944, there appeared in Great Britain one of the most amazing and influential political books of the twentieth century, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. -
UN Global Poll: Climate Change Is Lowest Priority for Action
Opinion -As the UN-sponsored climate change conference in Lima, Peru drew to a close in mid-December, a poll by the United Nations and associated organizations showed millions of respondents around the world had little interest in action to address climate change. -
German Analysis Finds IPCC “Synthesis” Lacks Facts
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #146 The summary for policymakers released in early November by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has once again betrayed the science found in the body of the report. -
Congressional Testimony of Bernard Weinstein to Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Opinion -[The following is the testimony of Prof. Herbert "Bud" Weinstein to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power. -
Opening Remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change
Opinion -LAS VEGAS — Below are the prepared remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast to open the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change on the evening of July 7, 2014 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.The conference runs from 7:45 p.m. -
Microhabitats Enable Animals to Beat the Heat of Global Warming
Opinion -A new study provides some real-world examples of the phenomenon, finding that “assuming uniform increases of 6°C, microhabitats decreased the vulnerability of communities by up to 32-fold, whereas under non-uniform increases of 0.66 to 3. -
Species Range Shifts in a Warming World
Opinion -It is considerably more complex - and conservative - than models have projected. -
America’s New Energy Abundance Can Revive Our Economy
Opinion -Review of Comeback: America’s New Economic Boom, by Charles R. -
Research & Commentary: Global Climate Models and Their Limitations
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that manmade greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change. -
EPA, IPCC Push Ahead Even as Global Warming Theories Crumble
Opinion -Ten days ago the Environmental Protection Agency issued its proposed rule for the implementation of regulations of carbon dioxide on utilities’ coal-fired power plants. -
Congress’s Dubious Obamacare Exemption
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #384Technically, the issues with Congressional staff subsidies within the health insurance exchange market is a special consideration under the law’s requirements, so it’s not exactly a waiver – but either way, the Obama -
Climate Change Conversation Aborted
Opinion -An editorial essay by American Chemical Society (ACS) officers Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell (Science 5 April 2013) extends a gracious invitation for a "respectful conversation" about Climate Change. -
Margaret Thatcher: Global Warming Provides Excuse For ‘Worldwide, Supra-National Socialism’
Opinion -In honor of Margaret Thatcher’s memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: “Global warming ‘provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism. -
BP: Back to Petroleum and Beyond Puff-power
Opinion -British Petroleum is still one of the world’s biggest oil companies. But as early as the late 1990s they didn’t want you think of them that way. -
Seasonal Flow Regimes of UK Rivers
Opinion -Analyses of river flow records since 1969 reveal there is “no compelling evidence for a decrease in overall runoff or low flows” in the summer, which finding “is contrary to trajectories of most future [model] projections”... -
Tropical Fish May be Well Prepared to Cope with Global Warming
Opinion -And they appear to be prepared to do it rapidly, as the authors of this report discovered that offspring phenotypes fully adapted to the increase in temperature within a mere two generations, which finding, in the words of the authors, “could indicate -
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
Opinion -On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement saying it had "complete[d] the process of implementation of a set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), the group created by the -
Green Welfare, Green Taxes, Green Poverty
Opinion -What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors' houses and stealing their family jewels and life savings? You would arm yourself, and your family members of sufficient age, to defend your property. -
New Emissions Data Dampen Warming Fears
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Jan. 23, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. -
New Emissions Data Rebut Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Monday, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. -
Research & Commentary: The FutureGen Project
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In the past few decades the federal government has spent millions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing the development of new energy technologies, including large-scale sequestration of carbon emitted from coal-burning power plants. -
America’s Energy Future is Bright, If Government Doesn’t Shut It Down
Opinion -With the exception of our declining public education system, the single greatest obstacle to our nation’s future economic growth is a near-total lack of understanding of our vast energy resources. -
Death of an Entrepreneur
Opinion -Seldom is the passing of a corporate leader the stuff of front-page headlines and numerous commentaries. Steve Jobs, however, wasn't just any corporate leader.
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