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Who Needs Energy Independence?

Let free trade and the free market work.

January 21, 2010

John Stossel

Obama Follows in Bush's Footsteps on Climate Change

The era of massive global climate meetings may finally be ending. Thank goodness.

January 19, 2010

Ronald Bailey

The collapse of the Copenhagen climate change conference in December killed the Kyoto Protocol—and not a moment too soon.

Faux Recovery

Don't believe the hype about green jobs

January 13, 2010

David Harsanyi

One glorious day, all of us will awaken in our mixed-use neighborhoods, rustle up nutritious garden-grown breakfasts, and pedal our bikes to "green-collar" jobs using paths generously provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

As of this moment, however, the "green energy economy" is incapable of spurring the taillights on a motor scooter (much less an economic recovery) without a backup gas-powered generator and government subsidy.

Kindling Planning

January 4, 2010, 2:39pm

Samuel Staley

Amazon is doing with the Kindle what few thought possible just a few short years ago: making digital formats a consumer substitute for hard copy books. In the process, the innovation is propelling the economy and reducing our environmental footprint.

Global Warming and Melting Ice

The seas are rising, but you've still got time to enjoy your beach house

December 29, 2009

Ronald Bailey

“If this were to go, sea levels worldwide would go up 20 feet,” says former Vice-President Al Gore in his global warming documentary slide show, An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Gore was talking about what would happen if the West Antarctic ice sheet or the Greenland ice sheet were to melt entirely away. As recently as his April 27, 2009 testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Gore again noted, “Were the Greenland ice sheet to melt, crack up and slip into the North Atlantic, sea level would rise almost 20 feet.” In a presentation made at the Copenhagen climate change conference earlier this month, Gore claimed, “There is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”

How do these statements square with a report, Melting Snow and Ice: A Call for Action, commissioned by Gore and by Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and released at the Copenhagen conference?

The Suburbs are Sexy

December 24, 2009, 10:39am

Adrian Moore

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