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Environment & Climate News
January 2009
2009 January Environment & Climate News: October Not So Warm After All! (pdf)
The January 2009 issue of Environment & Climate News reports that NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies was forced by global warming skeptics ... (read more)
The January 2009 issue of Environment & Climate News reports that NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies was forced by global warming skeptics ... (read more)
Activists to Sue EPA over Ocean Acidification
The Center for Biological Diversity has notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its intent to file a lawsuit to force EPA to act on speculative ... (read more)
The Center for Biological Diversity has notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its intent to file a lawsuit to force EPA to act on speculative ... (read more)
Activists’ Excesses Called to Account
Green Gone Wild: Elevating Nature Above Human Rights by David Stirling Merrill Press, 2008 264 pages, $20.00, ISBN 978-0936783536 After a few decades ... (read more)
Green Gone Wild: Elevating Nature Above Human Rights by David Stirling Merrill Press, 2008 264 pages, $20.00, ISBN 978-0936783536 After a few decades ... (read more)
Bailout Bill’s Carbon Audit Promises More Pain
An ominous carbon audit of the U.S. tax code and other expensive environmental special-interest programs are soon to be implemented because of the Wall ... (read more)
An ominous carbon audit of the U.S. tax code and other expensive environmental special-interest programs are soon to be implemented because of the Wall ... (read more)
Common-Sense Environmentalist
Bestselling author Michael Crichton died on November 4 after a courageous and private battle against cancer. He was a highly successful writer and filmmaker, ... (read more)
Bestselling author Michael Crichton died on November 4 after a courageous and private battle against cancer. He was a highly successful writer and filmmaker, ... (read more)
Congress Rejects Conyers Proposal to Criminalize Horse Slaughter
Environmental activist groups often propose well-meaning laws that sound good but would ultimately have negative real-world consequences for people and ... (read more)
Environmental activist groups often propose well-meaning laws that sound good but would ultimately have negative real-world consequences for people and ... (read more)
Energy Price Schemes Helped Doom Bailout Firms
Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, two of the highest-profile failures in the ongoing financial system bailout crisis, share a mistake with their disgraced ... (read more)
Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, two of the highest-profile failures in the ongoing financial system bailout crisis, share a mistake with their disgraced ... (read more)
Environmental Myths Masterfully Debunked
Greener Than Thou by Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins Hoover Institution Press, 2008 172 pages, $15.00, ISBN 978-0817948528 Greener Than Thou, ... (read more)
Greener Than Thou by Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins Hoover Institution Press, 2008 172 pages, $15.00, ISBN 978-0817948528 Greener Than Thou, ... (read more)
Exposed: Activists’ Attacks on Meat Production Intensify
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a four-part series identifying falsehoods regarding the consumption and production of beef. The series ... (read more)
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a four-part series identifying falsehoods regarding the consumption and production of beef. The series ... (read more)
GISS Analyst Pooh-Poohs Colossal Error
GISS climate modeler Gavin Schmidt, in a blog entry titled “Mountains and Molehills,” attempted to minimize the importance of GISS’s October ... (read more)
GISS climate modeler Gavin Schmidt, in a blog entry titled “Mountains and Molehills,” attempted to minimize the importance of GISS’s October ... (read more)
GM Grapes Raise Hopes for Midwest Wine Industry
One of the most effective, widely used herbicides in the United States—known as 2, 4-D—has a serious drawback: It devastates grapes. That makes ... (read more)
One of the most effective, widely used herbicides in the United States—known as 2, 4-D—has a serious drawback: It devastates grapes. That makes ... (read more)
Grass Roots Oppose Federal ‘Land Grab’ Measure
A letter signed by 111 national and state organizations from across the country was delivered to the U.S. Senate on November 10 requesting the Senators ... (read more)
A letter signed by 111 national and state organizations from across the country was delivered to the U.S. Senate on November 10 requesting the Senators ... (read more)
Melting Permafrost Scare Deflated by New Study
Fears a thawing of permafrost could accelerate global warming by putting substantial amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have been ... (read more)
Fears a thawing of permafrost could accelerate global warming by putting substantial amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have been ... (read more)
New Utah Power Plants Restricted by Referendum
Sevier County, Utah voters have approved a referendum requiring public approval for new coal-fired power plants, placing severe restrictions on the ability ... (read more)
Sevier County, Utah voters have approved a referendum requiring public approval for new coal-fired power plants, placing severe restrictions on the ability ... (read more)
New York State Bans Insect Foggers
New York has become the first state in the nation to force the removal of insect foggers—often known as bug bombs—from store shelves and require ... (read more)
New York has become the first state in the nation to force the removal of insect foggers—often known as bug bombs—from store shelves and require ... (read more)
Nuclear Energy Promise Is Brighter than Ever
Editors’ note: The following article is the first part of testimony delivered by Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. before the Colorado ... (read more)
Editors’ note: The following article is the first part of testimony delivered by Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. before the Colorado ... (read more)
Obama Pledges to ‘Skyrocket’ Electricity Prices
President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to force electricity prices to “skyrocket” and to “bankrupt” any new coal-fired power plants ... (read more)
President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to force electricity prices to “skyrocket” and to “bankrupt” any new coal-fired power plants ... (read more)
Top TV Networks Spread False Arctic Sea Ice Scare
High-profile media reports predicting the North Pole would lose its ice cover failed to materialize in 2008, as less Arctic sea ice melted than in 2007 ... (read more)
High-profile media reports predicting the North Pole would lose its ice cover failed to materialize in 2008, as less Arctic sea ice melted than in 2007 ... (read more)
Trial Lawyers Seek Lead Paint Bonanza
Funded with billion-dollar contingent fees from the late 1990s tobacco litigation, lawyers have been attacking companies that sold lead-based paint 50 ... (read more)
Funded with billion-dollar contingent fees from the late 1990s tobacco litigation, lawyers have been attacking companies that sold lead-based paint 50 ... (read more)
U.N. Conference to Be Funded by Carbon Business Interests
The renewable power industry and other corporate entities who stand to profit from international carbon dioxide restrictions are funding the United Nations’ ... (read more)
The renewable power industry and other corporate entities who stand to profit from international carbon dioxide restrictions are funding the United Nations’ ... (read more)
Warmest October Claim Was Wrong, NASA Admits
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies—known as GISS—was forced to admit it committed an egregious error when it publicly claimed ... (read more)
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies—known as GISS—was forced to admit it committed an egregious error when it publicly claimed ... (read more)
Wind Farms Threaten Endangered Whooping Cranes
More than six decades of painstaking conservation efforts that have brought the majestic whooping crane back from the brink of extinction may come undone ... (read more)
More than six decades of painstaking conservation efforts that have brought the majestic whooping crane back from the brink of extinction may come undone ... (read more)
