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  • Heartland President Debunks Global Warming Myths

    Published April 1, 2007
    By Joseph Bast
    Opinion -
    Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, gave a summary of the current state of global warming science in a February 7 presentation to the Nebraska Farm Bureau.

  • Global Warming: A Science and Economics Update

    Published February 7, 2007
    By Joseph Bast
    Opinion -
    Greetings from Chicago, hog butcher for the world, city of big shoulders, and if you believe everything you read in the newspapers, home of the next President of the United States, Senator Barack Obama.

  • Inhofe Speech Ignites a Media Firestorm

    Published December 1, 2006
    Opinion -
    Sen. James Inhofe's (R-OK) September 26 address on the Senate floor raised howls of protest from climate variance alarmists, led by CNN's Miles O'Brien, who attempted to discredit Inhofe on his September 28 program.

  • Future of Coal Is Green, Say Montana and West Virginia

    Published January 1, 2006
    By James Taylor
    Opinion -
    Championing clean coal technology as America's power source of choice for the twenty-first century, U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) is lobbying American Electric Power (AEP) to locate a proposed state-of-the-art clean coal power plant in West Virginia.

  • A Book for the Weather-Child in All of Us

    Published August 1, 2005
    Opinion -
    Review of Skywatch West: The Complete Weather Guide by Richard A. Keen Fulcrum Publishing, August 2004 $24.95 paper, 261 pages, ISBN 1555912974 We all assume we know what snow and rain are, but do we really?

  • EPA Issues Cap-and-Trade Mercury Rule

    Published May 1, 2005
    Opinion -
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 15 announced the nation's first set of regulations to control mercury emissions from power plants.

  • Automakers Continue Progress Toward Near-Zero Emissions

    Published April 1, 2005
    Opinion -
    Long the focus of regulators in their efforts to clean up the air, the automobile has become so clean there are now cases where the air coming out of the tailpipe is cleaner than the surrounding air.

  • Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #3-2

    Published April 16, 2004
    By Joseph Bast
    Opinion -
    “Binding Arbitration” Brings Down Soft-Core Film-Maker The female star of such cinematic bondage masterpieces as “Asses in the Air” successfully sued her employer, Slave Labor Productions, for injuries she suffered while bound and hanging from ropes

  • Sacramento Bee Seeks to Out-Alarm New York Times

    Published February 1, 2004
    By James Taylor
    Opinion -
    In drawing a false connection between greenhouse gases and the shrinking of the Kilimanjaro ice cap, the New York Times created a media sensation.

  • Energy Realism Overtaking Energy Alarmism

    Published October 1, 2003
    Opinion -
    In the 1970s and 1980s, energy policy debates in the U.S. were mostly over the regulation of oil and natural gas prices and allocation.

  • Study: Hydrogen-Fueled Cars Offer False Promise

    Published September 1, 2003
    Opinion -
    As politicians and the public leap aboard the hydrogen fuel bandwagon, a University of California - Berkeley energy expert suggests we all step back, take a critical look at the technology, and consider simpler, cheaper options.

  • Faulty Statistics Plague IPCC Report

    Published May 1, 2003
    By James Taylor
    Opinion -
    The former president of the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS) has challenged the statistical basis for climate change fears, contending the global warming scenarios developed by the United Nations’ International Panel on

  • Senate Should Oppose Energy Rationing

    Published May 1, 2003
    Opinion -
    April 4, 2003 To Senator Pete Domenici, Chairman Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Dear Chairman Domenici: The undersigned organizations write to share our views on the climate title in the draft comprehensive energy legislation prepared by

  • Americans believe in global warming … and psychic powers, astrology, and UFOs

    Published August 1, 2002
    By S. Fred Singer (1924 – 2020)
    Opinion -
    A nationwide survey conducted by the National Science Foundation concludes few Americans understand the scientific process, and many believe in pseudoscience and may be quick to accept phony science reports.

  • Bonn delegation passes ‘Kyoto Lite’

    Published September 1, 2001
    By James Taylor
    Opinion -
    Enacting many of the changes previously insisted upon by U.S. President George W. Bush, delegates to the Bonn global warming talks agreed on July 23 to a revised Kyoto agreement for the curtailment of greenhouse gases.

  • Bush reaffirms Kyoto opposition

    Published August 1, 2001
    Opinion -
    Armed with the National Academy of Sciences' just-released study of climate change science, President George W. Bush began to lobby Europe on revisions to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

  • What would Julian Simon have said?

    Published March 1, 2001
    Opinion -
    How many times, in just the past few months, have the headlines called that question to mind? When electricity brownouts disrupted California, and gasoline shortages caused panic in the Midwest.

  • U.S. dodges bullet at Hague

    Published February 1, 2001
    Opinion -
    Last issue, we speculated that the timing of two important articles in Nature magazine was no accident.

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