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

    Published August 1, 2002
    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
    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.