The American Tradition Institute praised last week’s overwhelming vote (13-5) by New Hampshire’s House Committee on Science, Technology, and Energy to withdraw the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. “How appropriate it is that the state with the motto ‘Live Free or Die’ would take the lead in giving citizens back their energy freedom,”…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Bob Carter
Disasters Happen
by Bob Carter Natural disasters are in the news in both Australia and New Zealand. Leaving aside the September 4th Christchurch earthquake as being in a different hazard category, the recent summer outburst of cyclones, storms and floods in both countries is well understood by scientists to be linked to the La Nina part of…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was February 26, 2011 Quote of the Week “Give me a faster computer and I will give you the wrong result sooner.” Malcolm Ross upon reading that the MET Office claimed that it failed to predict the cold December and January in Britain because its new computer was too slow. This Week…
Pax Americana Institute
Analysis: President Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Proposal
Pax Americana Institute. During his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to make the eradication of out-of-control spending his foremost priority upon being elected. But he has failed to follow through with this promise: his highly-anticipated 2012 budget, released this week, reneged on this pledge. Even as the president made it a point to criticize…
General, Paul Driessen
Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter
In the name of banning DDT, GEF bureaucrats are consigning millions to death from malaria By Paul Driessen Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects – hair loss, vomiting, intense joint pain, liver damage and fetal defects, to name just a few. But anyone trying to ban the drugs would be…
Heartland Institute
Obama EPA Prepares Economic Body Blow
By Alyssa Carducci The Heartland Institute Any hope for a rapid and forceful U.S. economic recovery is taking a punch to the gut under new greenhouse gas restrictions issued by the Obama administration. The Environmental Protection Agency is making economic malaise a new national priority by forcing power plants, refineries, large industrial operations, and other…