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Is It All Hot Ait? by John Fleck (posted July 29, 2006)
Nuclear Option by Matthew Wald (posted July 22, 2006)
Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing by J Gordon Prather (posted July 15, 2006)
Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth by Robert Samuelson (posted July 8, 2006)
Carbon is the World's Best Friend by David Bellamy and Jack Barrett (posted July 1, 2006)
Climate Consensus and the End of Science by Terence Corcoran (posted June 24, 2006)
Gore in 2008 by George Will (posted June 17, 2006)
Critique of IPCC-FAR by S. Fred Singer (posted June 10, 2006)
Gore movie by Gregg Easterbrook (posted June 3, 2006)
Inconvenient Truths Indeed by Robert Balling, Jr (posted May 27, 2006)
How to think sensibly about Global Warming by Steven Hayward (posted May 20, 2006)
Nothing to Fear but the Climate Change Alarmists by Mark Steyn (posted May 13, 2006)
HealthFacts and Fears: Anti-Smoking Movement by Elizabeth Whelan (posted May 6, 2006)
Eco-Apocalypticism by Matthew Parris (posted April 29, 2006)
Going Nuclear: A Green makes the case by Patruick Moore (posted April 22, 2006)
Why is Global Warming so Cold? by Alan Caruba (posted April 15, 2006)
Greenland Fantasy by Hendrik Tennekes and Richard Lindzen (posted APRIL !, 2006)
Climate of Superstition by Nigel Lawson (posted March 18)
Comments on NAS Committee on Hockeystick by S Fred Singer (posted March 11, 2006)
Science journals delivering "political science" by Michael Fumento (posted Mar. 4, 2006)
The Anthropogenic Global Warming Doctrine by Gerrit van der Lingen (posted Feb. 25, 2006)
Religion, Science, and Blarney by Paul Driessen (posted Feb. 18, 2006)
The End is not Nigh by Hans Labohm (posted Feb. 11, 2006)
The Unholy Lust of Scientists Time to curtail public financing of scientific research by David S. Oderberg (posted Feb. 4, 2006)
Treatment by Governments of Climate Change Issues: Flaws, Remedies and New Developments by David Henderson (posted Jan 21, 2006)
Failed Predictions: Review of Ehrlich's "Betrayal of Science and Reason" by S. Fred Singer (posted Jan. 14, 2006)
Skeptical on Climate Models by Henk Tennekes (posted Jan. 7, 2006)
What Planet are the Eco-Cultists on? by Mark Steyn (posted Dec 31, 2005)
Junk Science Christmas Carol by Steve Milloy (posted Dec. 24, 2005)
Climate Data vs Climate Models by DH Douglass and SF Singer (AGU mtng Dec 2005) (posted Dec. 17, 2005)
More Kyoto Scandal from Montreal by Lorne Gunter (posted Dec. 10, 2005)
Holes in the EPA Ozone Policy by Joel Schwartz (poted Nov. 26, 2005)
An Icy End for Mankind? by Alan Caruba (posted Nov 26, 2005)
Challenging the IPCC Monopoly by David Henderson (posted Nov. 12, 2005)
Kyoto? Mamma Mia! by Antono Martino (posted Oct. 8, 2005)
Some Science on Arctic Warming by Wm Kininmonth (posted Oct. 1, 2005)
France passes judgment on Katrina by Nidra Poller (posted Sept. 24, 2005)
Frequently Asked Questions about Global Warming (posted Sept. 17, 2005)
After Katrina -- Keep Katrina Relief "Pork-free" by Deroy Murdock (posted Sept 10, 2005)
Reducing Harmful Mercury: Reply to Senator Collins by Robert Ferguson (posted Sept. 3, 2005)
The Theology of Global Warming by James Schlesinger (posted Aug. 13, 2005)
Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Storage: Not Evidence for AGW by S Fred Singer (posted Aug 6 2005)
Energy Piracy by Alan Reynolds (posted July 30, 2005)
Sure Fix for Global Warming by Samuel Thernstrom (posted July 23, 2005)
G-8 and ClimateChange by S Fred Singer (posted July 9, 2005), plus NAS-Royal Society spat
Kyoto and the Art of Political Backtracking by Hans Labohm (posted July 2, 2005)
Greens are the Real Energy Problem by Steven Milloy (posted June 25, 2005)
G-8 Agenda: Aid to Africa by Julian Morris (posted June 18)
Sustainability and Climate Change (Draft) by Hans von Storch et al (posted June 11, 2005)
Dangers of Consensus Science By Benny Peiser (posted June 2, 2005)
Global Salvationism by David Henderson (posted May 28, 2005)
No Scientific Consensus by Dennis Bray (posted May 12, 2005)
Critique of IPCC Claims by S Fred Singer (posted May 7, 2005)
Scientific Journals Censor Debate on Global Warming in Sunday Telegraph (May 1 2005) (posted May 7, 2005)
Exaggerated Science: How Global Warming Research is Creating a Climate of Fear By Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr
Facts versus Fears on Biotechnology by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr (posted April 16, 2005)
Millennium Assessment Critique by S. Fred Singer (posted Apr. 9, 2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" by John Stossel (posted Apr. 9, 2005)
Carbon-Phobia by Holman Jenkins (posted April 2,.2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton by Terry Francl (posted April 2, 2005)
Sustainable development = Sustained poverty by Paul Driessen (posted March 26, 2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton by S T. Karnick (posted March 19, 2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton by Don Miller MD (posted March 19, 2005)
Book review of Jared Diamond's "Collapse" by Gregg Easterbrook (posted Mar. 12, 2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" by David Deming (posted Mar. 5, 2005)
German GW Seminar (Feb. 2005) reported by Bernd Stroher and Benny Peiser (posted Feb 26, 2005)
Kyoto Protocol Danger to the White House by S Fred Singer (posted Feb. 19, 2005)
The Frankenfood Myth by Henry Miller and Greg Conko (3 book reviews) (posted Feb.12, 2005)
Apocalypse NO! conference summary of talk by Fred Singer (posted Feb. 6, 2005)
Annual Report of the Science & Environmental Policy Project 2004 (SEPP) (posted Jan 6, 2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" by Fred Singer (posted Jan. 1, 2005)
Book review of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" by Ron Bailey (posted Dec. 25, 2004)
Bush-Bashing Over Kyoto by S. Fred Singer (letter to Financial Times) (posted Dec. 16, 2004)
Global Warming Restrictions: State by state emissions regulation would hurt our economy. By: Michael Shiba (posted Dec 11, 2004)
Global Warming and US Politics by S. Fred Singer (posted Dec. 4, 2004)
Hormesis: Is there a tonic in the toxin? USNews & World Report (posted Nov. 27, 2004)
Strange Science: Reflections on Global Warming by Thomas Sieger Derr (posted Nov. 20, 2004)
Is Global Warming Real? By Duncan Maxwell Anderson (posted Nov 6, 2004)
Global Warming Bombshell: Hockeystick Broken by Richard Muller (Posted Oct 30, 2004)
Expanding Nuclear Power in US --- ASME Position Statement (Posted Oct. 23, 2004)
Longevity and Radiation Exposure by John Cameron (Posted Oct 16, 2004)
Floating Nuclear Power by Gordom Prather (Posted Oct. 9, 2004)
If Russia Ratifies Kyoto by S Fred Singer (Posted Oct. 2, 2004)
Global Warming- Long View by Prof Bob Carter (Posted Sept 25, 2004)
Radiation Hormesis by Dr Gerald Looney (Posted Sept. 18, 2004)
McLieberman Economics by Marlo Lewis (Posted Sept 11, 2004)
China Reactors by Spencer Reiss (Posted Sept 4, 2004)
Megatons to MegaWatts by Gordon Prather (Posted Sept 4, 2004)
Settling GW Science by Patrick Michaels, S Fred Singer, David Douglass(Posted Sept 4, 2004)
Wind Power Problems The Economist (Posted Sept 4, 2004)
AGs sue Coal Utilities by Michael Krauss and S Fred Singer (Posted Sept 4, 2004)
Cost of McLieberman by Jay Lehr and Joe Bast (Posted August 28, 2004)
Nuclear Accidents: Fact or Fiction by Chris Lingle (Posted August 28, 2004)
IS THE EARTH REALLY WARMING?: by SEPP News Release (Posted August 28, 2004)
Oil Security Concerns Need to be Addressed Realistically: by S Fred Singer (Posted June 21, 2004)
Radiation-Health Effects - and Fears: by Donald Miller (Posted June 21, 2004)
Limited radiation exposure may benefit health: by John Cameron (Posted June 21, 2004)
A Dose of Nuclear Radiation: by James Lovelock (Posted June 21, 2004)
The Global Stupidstorm: by Patrick Michaels (Posted June 21, 2004)
Is the Oil Spigot Running Dry?: by Michael Fumento (Posted June 21, 2004)
The `fatal conceit' of Kyoto: Ken Green
(Posted June 21, 2004)
Good News for the Environment:
by Sandy Libby Bourne (Posted April 27, 2004)
Safety quacks: The British inquiry
into mobile phones: by Dick Taverne (Posted April 27, 2004)
What you don't know about WMDs:
by Gordon Prather (Posted April 27, 2004)
A Scientific Stick Check:
by David Legates (Posted April 27, 2004)
PCB Study Reveals NGO Strategies: from the International Foundation for
the Conservation of Natural Resources (Posted March 30, 2004)
The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem:
by S. Fred Singer (Posted March 23, 2004)
Canadian
Reactions to Sir David King: by Richard S. Lindzen (Posted March 23, 2004)
Government Climate Science
Scandal Continues: by Tim Ball (Posted March 23, 2004)
Al Gore's Untimely Global Warming
Speech: by James M. Taylor (Posted March 23, 2004)
The Emperor's
New Climate: Is Global Warming Real?: by Duncan Maxwell Anderson (Posted
March 23, 2004)
Go Methanol - Ahnold!:
by Gordon Prather (Posted March 2, 2004)
The Ice Age Is Coming:
by Zbigniew Jaworowski (Posted February 23, 2004)
DOE Research Showing
Health Benefits of Radiation Should Be Published: by John R. Cameron (Posted
February 23, 2004)
The Ethanol Scam: by
Gordon Prather (Posted February 7, 2004)
A Cold Greenhouse: by John Daly
(Posted February 2, 2004)
Climate Change
and Biodiversity Loss: by C.D. Thomas et al; Extinction
Risk from Climate Change?: by Robert Ferguson (Posted January 24, 2004)
Can Toxins Lead to Healtiher Lives?: by John Pike (Posted January 17, 2004)
Medieval Global Warming:
The Perils of Letting Politics Shape the Scientific Debate: by Richard A.
Muller (Posted January 10, 2004)
Annual Report of the SEPP for 2003 -
Milan Briefing: by Fred Singer (Posted January 3, 2004)
Greenhouse Effect: Be Prudent -- Look Before you Leap: by Francesco Ramella (Posted January 3, 2004)
Effetto Serra: Siamo Prudenti, Stiamo a Guardare: by Francesco Ramella (Posted December 21, 2003)
Lomborg Cleared: Comments and Analysis:
Various Authors (Posted December 29, 2003)
Aliens Cause Global Warming: by Michael Crichton (Posted December 21, 2003)
New Source Review Problems on Capitol Hill: by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor (Posted December 21, 2003)
Distinguishing Reality from Fantasy, Truth from Propaganda: by Michael Crichton (Posted December 21, 2003)
Old Security Myths: by Fred Singer (Posted December 14, 2003)
Beyond Kyoto: by Richard B.
Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener (Posted November 29, 2003)
Bye-bye Kyoto: by Steven Hayward (Posted November 23, 2003)
Mercury Problems: by Gordon Prather (Posted November 15, 2003)
McLieberman is Kyoto Lite: by Gov. Pete du Pont (Posted November 12, 2003)
Kyoto Protocol debunked: By Tim Patterson (Posted November 12, 2003)
Climate Stewardship Act: By Fred Singer (Posted November 12, 2003)
Fighting Global Warming for $20 a year: By John McCain (Posted November 12, 2003)
Eco-Imperialists "Dishonored" in Cancun: By Paul Driessen (Posted November 12, 2003)
Fever Pitch: By Paul Reiter (Posted November 12, 2003)
Radiation Chicken Little: By Theodore Rockwell (Posted November 12, 2003)
Questioning Kyoto Science: By Tim Patterson (Posted November 12, 2003)
Kyoto and Russia: By Fred Singer (Posted November 12, 2003)
Debate over peak-oil boiling over, with major implications for industry and society: Oil & Gas Journal, July 14, 2003. pp.18-29 (Posted September 23, 2003)
Leavitt as EPA Administrator?: By S. Fred Singer (Posted September 23, 2003)
Dangers of Global Warming?: By Bjorn Lomborg (Posted September 23, 2003)
Energy Policy Meeting at Aspen Global Change Institute: By Howard C. Hayden (Posted August 12, 2003)
Environmental Phantasm: Political Forces Keep Dreams of Ethanol Alive: By Gary D. Libecap (Posted August 12, 2003)
Science Editor Bias on Climate Change?: By S. Fred Singer (Posted August 12, 2003)
Numbers are up for hydrogen - The dream of clean, usable energy needs to reflect practical reality: By Paul M. Grant (Posted July 29, 2003)
EPA Bias on Global Warming: By S. Fred Singer (Posted July 29, 2003)
Global warming: Science versus spin: By Nick Nichols and Paul Driessen (Posted July 13, 2003)
Tackling junk science: By Iain Murray (Posted July 13, 2003)
Climate Change: The Science Isn't Settled: By James Schlesinger (Posted July 13, 2003)
Mitigation of Climate Change: A Scientific Appraisal: by S. Fred Singer (Posted June 30, 2003)
Sound science: Politicians should look at the facts, all of them, on global warming: The Ottawa Citizen 23 June 2003 (Posted June 30, 2003)
How Harmful Is Environmental Tobacco Smoke?: by Kimberly Bowman (Posted June14, 2003)
Kyoto Protocol lacks 'credible science' Upset with the scientific rationale behind the Kyoto Accord, a group of international scientists sent Paul Martin this letter Financial Post (Toronto), June 04, 2003 (Posted June14, 2003)
Humanity may not be to blame for global warming after all: by Sallie Baliunas
Who Killed Kyoto: by Iain Murray
Letter to Editor, Wilson Quarterly-SFS 5/7/03: by S. Fred Singer (Posted May 20, 2003)
Book Review - The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, not Affluence, is the Environment's Number One Enemy: by S. Fred Singer (Posted May 20, 2003)
The Senate splits on Global Warming: by S. Fred Singer (Posted May 3, 2003)
Prime time fiction about Alaska Warming: by Ross McKitrick (Posted May 3, 2003)
Earth Day 2003--- A Satire: by Lorne Gunter (Posted May 3, 2003)
Fuel Cell Vehicles: Potential & Challenges: by Wm O'Keefe (Posted May 3, 2003)
Eco-wackos and moonshiners: by Gordon Prather (Posted May 3, 2003)
Put meth in your tank: by Gordon Prather (Posted April 5, 2003)
Wind Breaks: Why the favorite energy source of environmental activists is unsustainable: by Ronald Bailey (Posted April 5, 2003)
Unilateral Kyoto: by Tom Randall (Posted March 11, 2003)
Did risk reduction backfire in space?: by Malcolm Ross (Posted March 11, 2003)
Renewable Energy: by S. Fred Singer (Posted March 11, 2003)
Denmark's Ministry of Truth: by James Glassman (Posted March 11, 2003)
Put not thy faith in the Princes of Wind: by Howard C. Hayden (Posted February 22, 2003)
WEATHER and Global Warming: by S. Fred Singer (Posted February 22, 2003)
Fundamental Climate Science Issues Raised: by David E. Wojick (Posted February 8, 2003)
IT'S TIME TO DREAM HIGHER: by Charles Krauthammer (Posted February 8, 2003)
Initiatives Underway to Cap Greenhouse Gas Emissions: by Ken Silverstein (Posted February 8, 2003)
Kyoto Redux: Bush vs. McCain: World Climate Report -- Vol. 8 No. 7, Jan 27, 2003 (Posted February 8, 2003)
My Adventures with Global Warming: by S. Fred Singer (Posted January 7, 2003)
A close look at temperature trends from surface stations and proxy data: by S. Fred Singer (Posted January 7, 2003)
Annual Report of the Science & Environmental Policy Project for 2002 : by S. Fred Singer (Posted January 7, 2003)
Kyoto Ratification: A Case Study in Deception: by David Wojick (Posted December 21,2002)
Down and Dirty at the EPA: by Thomas J. Bray (Posted December 21,2002)
Economist want Review of IPCC: by Terence Corcoran (Posted December 7, 2002)
Faulty Forecasts for Climate: by Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar (Posted December 7, 2002)
Canada and the Kyoto Accord: An Ongoing National Debate by S. Fred Singer (Posted November 23, 2002)
Geologists challenge science of Kyoto: In National Post (Toronto), November 5, 2002, p. FP8 (Posted November 23, 2002)
New Mexico's "Wind Farm" Follies: by Glenn R. Schleede (Posted November 9, 2002)
Mount Kilimanjaro is not a thermometer: by S. Fred Singer (Posted October 30, 2002)
Nuclear Plants can withstand terrorism: by Edward (Ted) L. Quinn (Posted October 30, 2002)
The Antarctic Ozone Hole Demystified: by S. Fred Singer (Posted October 30, 2002)
WTO To Face U.S.-E.U. Kyoto Dispute: by Christopher C. Horner (Posted October 12, 2002)
Energy Policy Astray: by Myron Ebell (Posted October 12, 2002)
The Frauds Of Scientific Ideologues: by Natalie and Gerald Sirkin (Posted September 18, 2002)
Health Effects of CO2 & CO2 and Biodiversity: by Sherwood and Keith, Idso (Posted September 18, 2002)
Nothing Is 'Sustainable' & The Green Gestapo': by Andrew Kenney (Posted September 18, 2002)
California caves on Kyoto: by Gordon Prather (Posted September 7,, 2002)
Waxman, Exelon and the eco-wackos: by Gordon Prather (Posted September 7,, 2002)
Environmentalists have it backward: by Bjorn Lomborg (Posted September 7, 2002)
Crazy Weather from the Brown Cloud -- not from Global Warming: by S. Fred Singer (Posted September 7, 2002)
Global Warming London Conference (8/02): by S. Fred Singer (Posted August 17, 2002)
Effect on U.S. Economy from a War on Iraq: by S. Fred Singer (Posted August 17, 2002)
The Facts about Weather and Climate Extremes(09/24/99) : by S. Fred Singer (Posted August 17, 2002)
Radio-Active Politics: by Gordon Prather (Posted August 3, 2002)
California Law to control CO2: by Gordon Prather (Posted August 3, 2002)
Loose Nukes a la Hollywood: by Gordon Prather (Posted July 13, 2002)
Chernobyl According To UNSCEAR: by Zbigniew Jaworowski (Posted July 13, 2002)
Unequal Costs of Kyoto: by S. Fred Singer (Posted July 13, 2002)
Weapon of Terror - NOT: by Gordon Prather (Posted July 6, 2002)
The Puzzle of Global Sea Level Rise: by S. Fred Singer (Posted July 6, 2002)
Senate Testimony on National Assesment: by S. Fred Singer (Posted June 8, 2002)
Separating Climate Fact From Fiction: Testimony by Sallie Baliunas (Posted June 8, 2002)
Senate Testimony on Global Warming: By Richard Lindzen (Posted May 25, 2002)
A report from Congress Action: (Posted May 25, 2002)
Global Warming Models Labeled ' Fairy Tales' : By Marc Morano (Posted May 18, 2002))
Three Kinds of Nuclear terrorism: facts and fantasies : By S. Fred Singer (Posted May 4, 2002)
IPCC's ex-"Political" Scientist : By Paul Georgia (Posted May 4, 2002)
Saudi Oil : No longer strategic? : By S. Fred Singer (Posted April 20, 2002)
Environmental Fraud : By Pete DuPont (Posted April 20, 2002)
Little Ice
Age Resurreceted : By Sherwood and Keith. Idso (Posted April 6, 2002)
Data Quality Act goes
into effect : By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes (Posted April 6, 2002)
Junk Science Judo: By Steven Milloy and Reviewed
by James K. Glassman (Posted March 26, 2002)
Anxiety industry focuses on new target: Chlorinated water :By Sean Paige (Posted March 26, 2002)
Comparative Risks to Human Health:
By Bernard Cohen (Posted March 9, 2002)
Greens go after Lomborg: By Matt Ridley (Posted
March 9, 2002)
Heisenberg's visit to Copenhagen and the Bohr letters: An analysis by Klaus Gottstein (March 2, 2002)
Bush sinks Kyoto: New U.S. carbon targets can be met without mandatory controls. Japan and Australia are wavering. Where does that leave Canada?
Three Reactions to White House Clean Skies Initiatives; Gordon Prather, Consumer Alert, Chris Horner.(February 16, 2002)
A voice of reason from Australia: Bob Foster, a founder of the Lavoisier Group, explains why Australia should not ratify the Kyoto Protocol. (Feb 9, 2002)
Gordon Prather is back - with a wry discussion of our hydrogen energy future. (Feb 2, 2002)
ENRON AND THE KYOTO PROTOCOL: The inside story. (Jan 26, 2002)
THE NUCLEAR WASTE ISSUE is on top of the agenda again. For background on the ongoing debate, read the excellent historical background and factual analysis by Will McNamara in New on the Web. (Jan 19, 2002)
"The Lomborg Flap" David Wojick takes on the Scientific American (January 12, 2002)
Annual Report for the Science & Environmental Policy Project for 2001 (January 5, 2002)
The "dirty" bomb that spreads radioactivity is mainly a terror weapon and not likely to hurt many people. Impacting a nuclear reactor or spent fuel storage is not a realistic scenario. So about the only thing nuclear to worry about is the bomb itself. And since Bin Laden hasn't used it, he probably doesn't have it. (Dec 22, 2001)
At the end of WW-II, I attended lectures on Modern Physics, given by Teller at George Washington University. But I only met him in 1950 at Los Alamos when he offered me a job on what I later learned were H-bomb tests. Many years after that, General Jim Abrahamson offered me the position of Chief Scientist of SDI; but I didn't take that one either. I only met Oppenheimer once - when he had moved to Princeton and was one of the examiners at my Ph.D. oral exam. (Dec 8, 2001)
Robert Locke has written a thoughtful article about the other terrorism: eco-terrorism. It is infecting our society in subtle ways and is also one of the driving forces in the global warming debate. Read it and form your own conclusion. I would not be surprised if the anthrax terrorist turned out to be an eco-zealot. You can e-mail Locke at lockerobert@hotmail.com. Others of his articles may be found on vdare.com and robertlocke.com. (Dec 1, 2001)
We canceled the Student Climate Crusade for COP-7 in Marrakech and concentrated our efforts on a Briefing in the Austrian Parliament. It proved to be more worthwhile and a lot less risky. Having American students parade with flags and posters supporting President Bush' position on Kyoto might have made the natives even more restless. (November 26, 2001)
Bruno Comby, president of the Paris-based Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy (EFN) presents a careful discussion, showing an acceptable risk (November 17, 2001)
A leading Canadian member of the Parliament is urging Canada to reconsider its announced commitment to Kyoto. His arguments make much sense also for other industrialized nations. He attended the Nerenberg Lecture on Global Warming, delivered by Fred Singer at the University of Western Ontario on March 20, 2001, and participated in the discussion. (November 10, 2001)
How is Arsenic related to Kyoto? Read Gordon Prather and find out. (November 3, 2001)
'Alternative energy' is really an alternative to generating energy. So says research scientist Dr. Aaron Oakley, writing in The New Australian, a free-market publication "down under." A research biochemist, he is also a SEPP associate scientist and columnist. (October 27, 2001)
Dr Aaron Oakley, a bio-scientist located in Perth, Australia, joins SEPP as an occasional columnist. He is a regular contributor to The New Australian, a free-market publication "down under." Here he comments on the anthrax scare, urging us to "keep things in perspective." (October 20, 2001)
Putting caps (limits) on the emission of carbon dioxide is a bad idea. CO2 is not a pollutant! Capping is equivalent to rationing, even if one allows trading of emission permits. It will raise energy costs considerably. So why not just impose a carbon tax? Because people will rebel, that's why. (Oct 6, 2001)
Will exposure to low-level nuclear radiation increase life span? Prof John Cameron (U of Wisc) thinks so. Examine his evidence and consider his proposed study to verify that radiation is essential and will prolong life by stimulating the immune system. (Oct 1, 2001)
Bjorn Lomborg's critique of Neo-Malthusianism follows in the tradition of Julian Simon and his predecessors, who are sometimes disparagingly referred to as "Cornucopians." Neo-Malthusianism reaches its peak with the 1972 publication of "Limits to Growth" by the Club of Rome. The book swept up statesmen, media, and the general public like global-warming fears do today. My own first encounter with the controversies of resource adequacy and pollution dates to 1969 when I organized a 3-day AAAS symposium in Boston on the topic "Is There an Optimum Level of Population?", later published by McGraw-Hill.
An
unusual conference at Dalhousie University [20 to 24 August, 2001] provided
a useful dialog between skeptics and supporters of manmade climate change. The
organizers, professors Petr Chylek and Glen Lesins, should be congratulated
on their efforts and encouraged to repeat this kind of conference in the near
future (August 25, 2001)
Christopher Horner provides an insightful and acerbic eyewitness account of the Bonn negotiations on the Kyoto accord. For pictures of our students, see TWTW of August 11. (August 11, 2001)
Those who have doubts about George Bush' performance on the international scene should read this essay by physicist James Gordon Prather. Don't be fooled by his colloquial style (wish we could write like that.) (August 4, 2001)
We bring you an informative letter on the global warming debate by Tom Randall, director of environmental and regulatory affairs, and Gretchen Randall, director of energy and regulatory affairs, The National Center for Public Policy Research info@nationalcenter.org or www.nationalcenter.org (July 28, 2001)
We predict that George Bush by sticking to his guns - and to the facts -- will scuttle the Kyoto Protocol as others begin to see that "the Emperor has no clothes." Someday he will be praised for keeping Europe from committing economic suicide. (July 14, 2001)
Robert Samuelson, a liberal
economist and certainly no supporter of George Bush, admits that Bush is right
on all three counts to turn down the Kyoto Protocol - in the Washington Post,
no less. We like especially his lead paragraph.(July 7, 2001)
The Bush energy plan is a lot better
than what Nixon or Carter came up with -even though there is no real energy
crisis now - and there never was one then. But features of his plan may be in
trouble as the "crisis" fades away (June 30, 2001)
The global warming report of the National Academy of Sciences is not what it appears to be. Its summary distorts the sense of the report and hides uncertainties.(June 23, 2001)
For an irreverent but profound look at the energy policy debate, read Mark Steyn's discussion. We don't know if he is British or Canadian; but he is truly funny. Next week we will examine how well (or badly) the US handles energy "crises" (June 15, 2001)
George Bush goes to Sweden on June 14 to meet with his opposites from the European Union. The White House is still debating options for climate policy. There are many: see Singer's op-ed of June 7. (June 8, 2001)
Economist Joe Bast, president of the Heartland Institute in Chicago, explains why a warmer climate would be good for us. The world would probably be greener and a little cloudier than our world today. And BTW, it is not too late to sign up for the spectacular one-day conference on June 9 at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, with lunch and banquet included. Check out www.heartland.org (June 2, 2001)
We support the suggestion by William Reilly (head of the World Wildlife Fund and former EPA administrator) for an independent review of the IPCC conclusions.(posted May 26, 2001)
On May 11, Science published my reply - in much abbreviated form. You can read it, together with the full version. Kennedy's brief response starts out: "Singer makes much of the alleged discrepancy between satellite and surface measurements …"[my emphasis]. He fails to mention that the NRC panel, set up specifically to reconcile the obvious disparity, was unable to do so. The panel, however, did not investigate the quality and correctness of the surface data but took them at face value. (posted May 16, 2001)
Even though climate science does not support the drastic policies of Kyoto, "no-regrets" policies of energy conservation and higher efficiencies may make economic sense. (posted May 12, 2001)
We bring you an important editorial by Craig and Keith Idso. It exposes the sad fact that the editors of Nature, a (previously) respected international science journal, have become "politically correct." This obvious bias influences not only its staff and their coverage of scientific news but also the process of peer review. Editors choose the reviewers and then decide whether or not to publish a submitted research paper. A politicized review process poses a real threat to the practice and future of science itself. (posted April 27, 2001)
Don't just revise the Kyoto Protocol, as some critics have suggested. It should be killed and buried - with a stake driven through its heart -- before it creates more mischief. (posted April 14, 2001)
Read this hilarious comment on the reaction by European politicians to President Bush' statement about Kyoto. I wish I could write like that. (posted April 6, 2001)
Well, it's official now. George Bush has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, as he said he would during his campaign. Nobody quite knows how limits on CO2 were put into his campaign message; but there are clues that lobbyists for major coal-burning utilities had a hand in this. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? In any case, it would have been a unilateral action by the US, before even ratifying the Protocol, and clearly inconsistent with Bush' position on the Protocol..(posted March 30, 2001)
Interview with Fred Singer counters, point by point, a defamatory pamphlet published against him by Ozone Action/Greenpeace. We were able to obtain a number of copies of "A Fred for all Seasons," a slick, 16-page brochure and are using it for fund raising. (posted March 25, 2001)
Former Reagan
administration official Alan Keyes was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Social and Economic Council and Republican presidential candidate in 2000. He
has been an outspoken opponent of the Kyoto Protocol. Here he argues that caps
on CO2 emissions amount to a tax on energy.
Read the SEPP Annual Report for 2000
(It is mercifully brief.) (posted March 4, 2001)
Although unrelated, the Kyoto Protocol and Oslo process for Middle East Peace show interesting parallels.(posted February 26, 2001)
Soot is a major contributor to a putative global warming, acc to an article in Nature. But if soot cancels the cooling effects of sulfate aerosols, how does the IPCC now explain the climate cooling between 1940 and 1975? Read Steve Milloy's op-ed in the Washington Times and a tongue-in-cheek reaction from India from the Climate Change Debate (posted February 18, 2001)
Theodore Rockwell, Who will speak for truth? The Case of Nuclear Radiation.
(posted February 9, 2001)
Marlo Lewis, now
with Reason Foundation, deals in a masterful way with the "precautionary
principle" and its misapplication to global warming and the Kyoto Protocol
.(posted February 2, 2001)
David E. Wojick, a journalist and policy analyst who resides in Virginia
and Ontario, has written a penetrating analysis of the UN-IPCC news release
that made headlines (in the Washington Post on Jan 23). It should be required
reading for all who want to understand the grand scheme behind the drive to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty that would control energy consumption
of industrial nations.(posted January 28, 2001)
Jim Glassman, a resident fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, first published this insider view about the Hague climate
conference in the Wall Street Journal on November 28, 2000.(posted January
21, 2001)
The battle about outlawing DDT globally continues,
while poor people in developing countries die by the millions and many more
become sick and unable to work effectively. If we appear supersensitive on this
subject, it's perhaps because a few years ago we lost a young student assistant
just weeks after she joined the Peace Corps in Africa. (posted January 13,
2001)
With much of the nation in a deep freeze
(Jan 2001) and fuel prices sky-high, one can only dream of global warming. Read
Cool Planet, Hot Politics. (posted January 6, 2001)
How lucky that Simon Scott e-mailed us the
secret diary of the global warming god RA. Now we can find out what goes
on behind the scenes. (posted December 29, 2000)
An
editorial (11/26/00) in The Sunday Observer (London) exposes the sham and
futility of the Hague climate exercise. (posted December 22, 2000)
A Washington Post editorial contrasts the views of Al Gore and George Bush on
global warming. They did not print our response,
trying to put them straight; so here it is. (posted December 15, 2000)
In addition to providing a "scientific
cover" for Al Gore's campaign speech on global warming, the leaked
IPCC draft Summary was also supposed to boost the Hague climate negotiations.
But by now, most of the world had been immunized to scary weather stories and
climate disasters. The collapse of the Hague talks could have been predicted
- and was -- from the tone of the massive ads
that ran in major newspapers. Our article in the Financial Times (Canada) provides
an analysis of the US position that proved to be unacceptable to Europeans.
(posted December 9, 2000)
Before we all celebrate the collapse of COP-6,
read this: John K. Carlisle, director of The
National Center for Public Policy Research's Environmental Policy Task Force,
analyzes the breakdown of the Hague climate conference and warns of unilateral
moves to control CO2 in the US. (posted December 2, 2000)
The Hon. W. Kenneth Davis, former Deputy Secretary of Energy, explains how
we might deal with the coming power generation crisis. The neglect of this serious
problem during the 90's is another story that will need to be told. (posted
November 25, 2000)
This essay by David Wojick
should be required reading by anyone who still believes that the IPCC Summary
for Policymakers is a scientific document or expresses a consensus of the scientists
who worked on the IPCC report itself. And, as we have pointed out many times,
Article 2 of FCCC (expressing the ultimate goal of the Treaty) has never been
defined. Nobody can tell whether a higher or lower level of atmospheric GH gases
is more (or less) likely to produce "dangerous interference with the climate
system." (posted November 18, 2000)
SEPP will conduct science briefings at The Hague during the week of Nov 20 during
COP-6, the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Treaty.
We bring you the announcement, listing the international
panel members and our conclusion: THE CLIMATE IS NOT WARMING. (posted November
11, 2000)
We bring you the
story of that remarkable coincidence: The leaking to the NY Times and Wash.
Post of the UN-IPCC draft summary on climate change just hours before Gore's
speech on global warming. Great "scientific cover," except the science
is not there. See also our Letter to the NY Times. (posted November 4, 2000)
In this interview in The New Scientist, Dr. Paul Reiter pretty well demolishes
the malaria and dengue fever connections with climate; and he is a real expert.
If you want to know what's wrong, look at the last question of the interviewer.
To paraphrase: "It's OK to lie a little if it will advance the cause."(posted
Oct 29, 2000)
The Thomas Sowell column presents a technique to inflict a measure of cost on harassment lawsuits from environmentalists. Thought you would be interested in reading it. We are told by a staffer that this measure was passed by Congress in 1995 as part of the Contract With America. Nobody knows it, however. Perhaps it is time to get the word out. (posted Oct 19, 2000)
Dr. Gilbert Ross makes a strong case against banning DDT, by listing the statistics of death from insect-borne diseases. The case becomes even stronger when one considers also the loss in economic output from sick individuals. Can we really overcome world poverty without DDT?(posted Oct 13, 2000)
The rapid price rise for all forms of energy has produced an angry popular response. The issue may well enter the election debates. Instead of dealing with energy policy and factors that determine price directly, the Administration has been putting billions into corporate welfare programs through failed (or failing) technologies to force-feed conservation and "alternative" energy development. (posted Oct 7, 2000)
The Pro Farmer report,
edited by Jerry Carlson, is read by 50,000 farmers every day. The Sept 28 issue
carried quotes from an op-ed by Fred Singer, published in the Wall Street Journal
Europe. It reported on the UN preparatory meeting (Sept 11-15) held in Lyon,
France.(posted Sept 29, 2000)
One of our readers wonders where they are going to find the fuel
for the vaunted hydrogen economy. The answer is obvious: We can get it by
pipeline from Jupiter.(posted Sept 16, 2000)
Members of Congress often send around a
"Dear Colleague" letter. This one deals with energy prices and
the disparity between the White House and the energy experts.(posted Sept
8, 2000)
For many years now we have published about the
much neglected greenhouse gas Methane. About half of what is emitted is the
result of human activities. We were pleased to find that the well-known global
warming enthusiast James Hansen now feels that too
much attention has been focused on CO2 and not enough on methane and other
radiative components in the atmosphere.(posted Sept 8, 2000)
The National Assessment of Climate Change has been heavily politicized to
persuade Congress and the public to accept the Kyoto Protocol. Our comments
to the US government highlight the inadequate scientific basis of the document
and especially of the just-released Overview. (posted Sept 1, 2000)
In a nutshell: Glaciers
are receding, Arctic ice is shrinking, polar ice is thinning ----all because
it is warmer now than 100 years ago, thanks to the climate's recovery (between
1900 and 1940) from the Little Ice Age. Moral: It takes a lot of time to melt
ice. (posted August 26, 2000)
Alan Caruba, a veteran science and business writer, is the founder of The National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information on scare campaigns. With California
running short of electric power, his timely commentary
is excerpted from the July 28 "Warning Signs", a weekly column
posted on the Center's website at www.anxietycenter.com. (posted August 19,
2000)
With the political conventions of national parties about to start, we thought to draft a platform plank on Global Warming and offer it free of charge to all platform committees. (posted August 7, 2000)
Fred Singer's US
Senate Testimony (followed by a news release) attacking the scientific base
of the National Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change. (posted
July 28, 2000)
EPA in the Supreme Court will provide an important
Constitutional test, says NY Law School professor David Schoenbrod in an
article in the Financial Times. (posted July 21, 2000)
Hispanic and black Americans will suffer
disproportionately if the United States adopts and implements the proposed United
Nations treaty on global warming, according to a report commissioned by six
minority organizations.(posted July 14, 2000)
If you missed seeing "What's up with the weather?" on NOVA/Frontline
on PBS, you didn't miss much - according to the Cooler Heads Coalition. But
then again, it was much more balanced than most of these "environmental
specials."(posted July 6, 2000)
SEPP associate scientist Ted Rockwell has published
a thoughtful article on "Scientific Integrity
and Mainstream Science" (The Scientist, 6 March 2000). He discusses,
with current examples, why mainstream science is not necessarily good science.(posted
June 29, 2000)
In the June 12, 2000 Washington Post, Curt
Suplee reports on the just-released draft Overview of the National Assessment
of Climate Change and on its vociferous critics, incl. many of the lead authors
of the underlying report.(posted June 23, 2000)
In The Times of London (3/1/00), Nigel Hawkes, Britain's leading science correspondent, discusses the US National Research Council report (Jan. 2000) that vindicates the much-attacked satellite data on atmospheric temperatures. (posted June 16, 2000)
Post of June 10, 2000
Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski ignited a firestorm of letters when he published on
nuclear radiation risk in Physics Today (Sept. 1999, p.24). Read
his interview on the BBC, touching on Chernobyl hormesis, and related matters.(posted
June 8, 2000)
A superbly successful briefing: Nearly 150 Congressional staff, embassy types, journalists, and other opinion makers attended and listened for some 4 hours to the three panels of scientists and to the lively discussion. Here is one journalist's impression…(posted June 2, 2000)
SCIENTISTS SAY GLOBAL WARMING THEORY IS A LOT OF HOT AIR, by Bruce Sullivan (30 May, 2000)
SEPP is hosting a Workshop on May 28 and 29 for 14 climate experts from 7 countries.
Here's the News Release for this workshop: What's
wrong with U.N. climate science? An independent scientific review of the IPCC's
Third Assesment Report. (posted May 26, 2000).
At last! Alan Keyes, a Presidential candidate who addresses the global warming issue and makes sense. Now if he could only start a debate among the major candidates…(posted May 19, 2000)
Western Fuels Association,
a non-profit corporation acting as a purchaser of coal for a number of the electricity-generating
cooperatives, filed suit against a number of eco-groups, claiming defamation
and commercial damage. (posted
May 12, 2000)
What drives some environmental extremists? Paganism, that's what. We
bring you this remarkable expose, e-mailed by the American Land Rights Association.
(posted
May 6, 2000)
Peter Huber, author of “Hard Green: Saving
the Environment from the Environmentalists,” tells us that while cities
may be sprawling agricultural land is shrinking and forests are growing
back --- all because of energy use and better technology. Huber’s
hero is Teddy Roosevelt; his anti-hero is Al Gore. (posted
April 29, 2000)
The Daily Oklahoman's editorial "More
Hot Air." A message of common sense from the heartland, to balance
all the garbage you will be reading in your newspaper on Earth Day, April 22.
(posted
April 19, 2000)
Also, an op-ed from the Washington Times, in a skeptical celebration of Earth Day #30 and of 30 years of EPA .(posted April 19, 2000)
Posmentier,
Soon, and Baliunas must be a bad lot, since they espouse such an outlandish
idea -- that the Sun could be the major influence on the Earth's temperature,
rather than soccer moms' with SUV's and evil businessmen with coal-fired steam
plants!
We bring you a perceptive editorial by Ken Smith
of the Washington Times. (posted
March 9, 2000)
Science writer Bill Stevens
of the NY Times has now joined the skeptics who had been unwilling heretofore
to accept that weather satellites (and balloon-borne radiosondes) have shown
NO atmospheric warming.(posted
March 4, 2000)
We bring you an abbreviated report of a panel discussion
from a recent meeting of the American Nuclear Society, dealing with the inadequacy
of the LNT (linear-no-threshold) hypothesis. (posted
Feb 23, 2000)
Global
Warming Scam. Good news
about the National Research Council report that tried to explain why thermometers
show a warming of the Earth's surface while weather satellites (and radiosondes
from weather balloons) show NO warming of the atmosphere. (posted
Feb 4, 2000)
Press
Release Distorts Global Temperature Change Observations.
Learn how a slanted press release can be used to mislead. Letter to the Editor
(Washington Post) January 20, 2000 (posted
Jan 24, 2000)
Bert Wolfe, a pioneer in nuclear energy development, has written a trenchant
article about the exaggerated fear of nuclear radiation.
Should we evacuate Denver? (posted
Jan 22, 2000)
Prof. Patrick Michaels describes an egregious example of an attempt to censor scientific expression to enforce political correctness (a.k.a. the Kyoto Protocol.) (posted Jan 15, 2000)
We kept hearing stories that global warming would produce more El Ninos, so we looked at the data. And it's not true. (posted Jan 7, 2000)
We bring you our 1999 Annual Report, which is mercifully brief. (posted Dec. 30, 1999)
The Political Battle About Sound Science. (posted Dec. 23, 1999)
Politically
Correct, Ford Motor Company Buckles. (posted
Dec. 18, 1999)
"The
Kyoto Protocol: The Costly Politics of Global Environmentalism" (The World
& I magazine, December 1999) explains why the KP is not needed, is not effective,
economically destructive, and therefore politically unacceptable. (posted
Dec. 11, 1999)
Environmental Myths of 1999.
With the end
of the year approaching, we celebrate an annual ritual: Reviewing the year's
environmental myths. (posted Dec. 4, 1999)
Have we got a climate catastrophe just for
you, by John L Daly. If you are fed up with hearing every ill of the world
blamed on global warming, you'll appreciate his satire. (posted Nov. 27,
1999)
Global Warming will lower sea level rise: But will politicians listen? Sea-level
rise is probably the most-feared consequence of putative global warming. But--surprise,
surprise--the science now says otherwise. (posted
Nov. 20, 1999)
Letter to Editor of L.A. Times. A response to Marla Cone's report in the
LA Times (Nov 4). (posted Nov. 13, 1999)
Reply to Ledley et al (Eos, Sept. 28, 1999).(posted
Nov. 6, 1999)
"Global Warming Likely to be Beneficial, Study Reports" a CSAB Press Release, issued on October 25, 1999. (posted Oct. 30, 1999)
"Gore in the Balance", an article by Jonathan Rauch in the National Journal (Sept. 18, 1999) which supplies some thoughtful answers to our question why the Administration is hyping global warming . (posted Oct. 23, 1999)
The Global Warming Orthodoxy on Attack: Covering up the absence of scientific consensus. Published in the Washington Times, Oct. 4, 1999. (posted Oct. 16, 1999)
El Nino's Bratty Little Sister by Candace Crandall, published in American Outlook, pp 12, Winter 1999. (posted Oct. 9, 1999)
The Facts about Weather and Climate Extremes , published in the Washington Times, Sept. 24, 1999. (posted Oct. 9, 1999)
Response
to Prof. Andrew Weaver's Comments in the Financial Post. (posted
Oct.
2, 1999)
Reply to Comment (2): Human Contribution... This is a reply to Goldman's
Critique on our April 20 article in Eos (Transactions of the American Geophysical
Union). (posted
Sept.
25, 1999)
Reply to Comment (1): Human Contribution...
This is a reply to Keller's critique of our April 20 article in Eos Sept. 18.
Published in EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Society, Vol 80, page 372,
August 17, 1999. (posted
Sept.
18, 1999)
Human Contribution to Climate Change Remains Questionable. Published in
EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Society, Vol 80, page 183, 186-187,
April 20, 1999. (posted
Sept.
11, 1999)
Ph-D Project (1), a proposed manned mission to the moons of Mars. (posted Sept. 4, 1999)
Updated Ph-D Project, (2) a proposed manned mission to the moons of Mars. Published in Launchspace page 30-31, 34 on Oct/Nov 1999. (posted Sept. 29, 1999)
Blaming Disasters on Global Warming Doesn't Help, by George H. Taylor. (posted Aug. 28, 1999)
The Scientific Case against the Global Climate Treaty. A report from The Science & Environmental Policy Project Fairfax, Virginia, updated on July 1999. (posted Aug. 21, 1999)
New Heat on Global Warming. A Comment published in the Financial Post (Toronto). (posted Aug. 7, 1999)
Why So Hot? Don't Blame Man, Blame the Sun. By Sallie Baliunas. Published in Wall Street Journal August 5, 1999. (posted August 14, 1999)
The Road From Rio to Kyoto: How Climate Science Was Distorted to Support Ideological Objectives. Presented at the Symposium AN ASSESSMENT OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL, organized by the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (April 15, 1999). (posted Aug. 7, 1999)
Global Warming is Good for You. A review of the book "The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy." Published in Regulation (The CATO Review of Business and Government), vol.22, no.1, p.54, 1999. (posted Aug. 1, 1999)
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE "EPA keeps key documents secret: They contradict new agency policy on environmental justice" The Detroit News - July 17, 1998
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