In the News
Breaking the Ice
Nicholas Lewis & Matt Ridley, U.K. Spectator, 18 February 2011
Hitting the EPA Pause Button: What Are the Risks?
Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org, 17 February 2011
Green Investment Bank Should Make Taxpayers See Red
Chris Horner & William Yeatman, Daily Caller, 17 February 2011
Galileo and the Scientific Pose of the Left
Robert Tracinski, RealClearPolitics.com, 17 February 2011
Oil Ban Means More Debt
Washington Times editorial, 16 February 2011
Consumer Choice Extinguished with Light Bulb Ban
Manny Lopez, Detroit News, 16 February 2011
The Absolute Madness of Ethanol
Robert Bryce, Washington Times, 16 February 20111
The California Green Debauch
George Gilder, American Spectator, 16 February 2011
The New Old Bulb
Henry Payne, Planet Gore, 14 February 2011
Clean Energy Standard: Not Good for National Security
H. Sterling Burnett, NCPA Energy Blog, 11 February 2011
Green Central Planning in the Name of Jobs
John Stossel, FoxNews.com, 14 February 2011
News You Can Use
Another Alarmist Myth Debunked
In the wake of seemingly every anomalous weather event, global warming alarmists are quick to blame climate change. The Wall Street Journal this week reported on new research, conducted by The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, using super-computers to generate a dataset of global atmospheric circulation from 1871 to the present. The researchers were “surprised” to find no evidence of an intensifying weather trend.
Inside the Beltway
Myron Ebell
Rep. Walberg Introduces Companion to Barrasso Bill
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) has introduced a House version of Senator John Barrasso’s (R-Wyo.) bill to block all regulation of greenhouse gas emissions until Congress decides to provide such authority. H. R. 750 is thus more comprehensive than the Inhofe-Upton-Whitfield draft bill that only pre-empts Clean Air Act regulation. It will be interesting to see how many co-sponsors Walberg’s bill will attract. Barrasso’s bill has 16 other Senators on board.
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