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June 19, 2008
Almost every day a news report comes out linking something to climate change – obesity, food riots or a century of wildfires. Some of the claims seem especially outlandish. Sometimes they are.
On June 18, CBS.com posted a story claiming…
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June 18, 2008
Obesity may be unsightly to some, but it has a real impact on the environment and our use of gasoline according to one economist.
Dr. Richard McKenzie, a professor of economics at the University of California-Irvine and author of “Why…
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June 17, 2008
A year and a half ago, James Spann questioned the money and the so-called scientific consensus pushing the idea that mankind is causing global warming. Today, he says it’s losing steam. Two imminent surveys of meteorologists may further…
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June 12, 2008
As gas prices increase, Congress is feeling more and more pressures from its constituencies to explore for oil in areas that are off-limits, including the Outer Continental Shelf and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Many…
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June 11, 2008
If you’re an oil executive or just drive a car, you have to be especially concerned about Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) feelings about oil companies.
Although a global warming/cap-and-trade bill that she co-sponsored – which would have…
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June 10, 2008
When a high-ranking U.S. senator sounds more like Karl Marx than Adam Smith over the issue of energy prices, it must be an election year.
Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, appeared on CNBC’s June 10…
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June 9, 2008
It’s not exactly a longing for the days of disco and bell-bottoms, but the June 8 “NBC Nightly News” warned of scenario that was notorious during the late 1970s.
CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman warned viewers of stagflation,…
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June 9, 2008
This time of year, global warming activists have another way to frighten the public – using steamy weather to suggest human greenhouse gas emissions are worsening a heat wave.
Stanford University professor Dr. Stephen Schneider told ABC’s…
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June 5, 2008
Early childhood vaccinations have often been the target of advocacy groups and the media, who have linked them to autism.
But the June 4 “CBS Evening News” abandoned that philosophy and warned viewers that avoiding vaccinations could…
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June 3, 2008
Conventional wisdom suggests that times of high economic growth would be the most appropriate occasion to enact legislation that could be very expensive for American taxpayers.
That’s not the case for Democratic California Sen. Barbara…