By Jay Lehr, The Heartland Institute Review of “The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment” by Craig D. Idso and Sherwood B. Idso (Vales Lake Publishing, 2011), 366 pages, ISBN-13: 978- 0981969428 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has declared carbon dioxide (CO2) a dangerous air pollutant, but just the opposite is actually the case. Not…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Barun Mitra, Willie Soon
What really threatens our future?
Beware of anti-energy policies claiming to prevent climate change By Willie Soon and Barun Mitra Energy sustainability is not about resource availability and pollution. Capitalism and human ingenuity have already addressed “sustainability” in these regards, if the statistics are to be believed. The real sustainability challenge and threat concerns government intervention in the name of…
Heartland Institute
Arctic Study Finds No Recent Warming
By Craig D. Idso The Heartland Institute Climate alarmists contend the earth’s near-surface air temperatures of the past decade were unprecedentedly high relative to the warmth of the entire past millennium, due primarily to human carbon dioxide emissions. They also claim this warming has been most strongly expressed throughout the Arctic, which they often describe…
Heartland Institute, Jay Lehr
State-Based Environmental Programs: A BetterWay Than EPA
By Jay Lehr The Heartland Institute Federal and state legislators have recently been focusing on eliminating duplication of government programs that could be combined or eliminated to save billions of taxpayer dollars. Yet the elimination of one colossal duplication could save billions of dollars but has not been mentioned: Essentially all of the work done…
Heartland Institute
House Prepares to Fight EPA Overreach
By Bonner R. Cohen The Heartland Institute As Congress and the White House lock horns over budget deficits and bureaucratic overreach, the House of Representatives is serving notice it will fight to keep the U.S. economy free of EPA-mandated carbon dioxide restrictions. Fighting EPA Circumvention After Congress declined to pass capand- trade legislation last fall,…
Dennis Dammen
Democrats, Looking Straight Ahead, With Blinders On
By Denise Dammen Have you read the latest stories? Voter fraud in the City of Mequon, where ballots cast for Prosser were allegedly destroyed. High school students were promised a meal ticket to go vote for Kloppenburg. Volunteers were paid $10 an hour to go door to door to get-out-the vote for Kloppenburg. Even stories…