False Intelligence: President Eisenhower’s farewell address, from which the above quotation is taken, gives valuable advice for setting government policy and the need to ensure that policy is not based on incorrect information, false intelligence, no matter how scrupulously obtained. As the Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in the European theatre during the planning and…
Vijay Jayaraj
Coal Helps Developing Countries Fight Poverty And Disease. Quit Whining About It
Developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America face the uphill task of reducing mortality due to diseases, many caused by poor hygiene and other localized pollution concerns accompanying poverty. Poor communities are constantly exposed to diseases caused by poor hygiene and lack of basic facilities like latrines, sewers and sewage treatment plants, and purified…
Patrick Miller
Joint venture to build Gulf Coast shale gas ethylene export site
A joint venture project between Enterprise Products Partners LP and Navigator Holdings Ltd. has been formed to build a new export terminal along the U.S. Gulf Coast with the capacity to export about 1 million tons of ethylene per year. Enterprise, based in Houston, and Navigator, headquartered in London, formed the 50-50 joint venture to…
Letters to the Editor
The Heartland Institute at work in Wisconsin
Dear Friends, Greetings from The Heartland Institute. Tonight most of us will be watching President Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union address. And given the significant achievements of the past year, President Trump will have much to discuss. Here at Heartland we are particularly proud to work closely with the Trump Administration to…
John Hinderaker
More Faking of the Surface Temperature Record
We have written many times about the fact that the Earth’s surface temperature record has been so badly corrupted that it is impossible to say whether claims like “2017 was the third-warmest year since thermometers became common in the late 19th century” are true. Temperature records are under the control of agencies like NOAA, which…
Vijay Jayaraj
The Great Winter of 2017-2018 and he Hypocrisy of Climate Alarmists
As record lows gripped many parts of the U.S. and Canada, the global warming elitists scrambled to announce to the world that climate change was the driving force behind the freezing weather. Inevitably, their claims have exposed the hypocrisy of the global warming cult that has instilled fear among the public. Temperatures in many parts…