Many liberals celebrate the fact that they are “secular,”¯ mocking the beliefs of religious conservatives. But there is a fundamentalist religion of the left today, and that religion is radical environmentalism. There is no room for debate, or dissent, when it comes to environmental policy - every aspect of the environment is bad, [...]
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Today’s US News & World Report mentions involvement in the European Union’s new emissions trading scheme - not by our government, but by Wall Street investors. Click here for the article.
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I’m from South Carolina and two newspapers there, the (Charleston) Post and Courier and The State, wrote Thursday about the threats posed by climate change to the Lowcountry and the entire coast. They’re worth a read.
Scientists, business leaders and state officials attending a Charleston symposium examined a range of consequences [...]
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For eight years former VP Al Gore stood at the second most powerful pulpit in the world. During that period little progress was made in the fight against global warming and climate change. Since then Mr. Gore has made a movie - Inconvenient Truth - that tells a powerful story about the threat [...]
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This is too cool not to share:
Planktos, Inc. is a company that creates carbon credits for sale on the market by fostering CO2-absorbing “plankton blooms.” As you can see from the pictures, some of these blooms are big enough to be seen from space…
Weird, slimy and good for the environment - what will the [...]
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Seventy percent of Americans believe global warming is probably happening, and 62 percent believe human activity is causing it. Among Republicans, 58 percent believe it is happening, and 50 percent believe human activity is the cause.
How should conservatives react to these findings? The typical strategy so far has been to deny, deny, and [...]
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Voters in Boulder, Colorado last month approved what environmentalists say may be the nation’s first “carbon tax.“
Personally, I’m also hoping it’s the last.
Don’t get me wrong. I favor strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I just think new taxes are the wrong way to do it.
I say [...]
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The Washington Post has followed up with a piece about the opening arguments of the Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency case. Click here to read the article - apparently Justice Scalia’s questioning got some laughs from the gallery.
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