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Environmental Regulation Overlooks Human Well-Being

Sunday, June 9th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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The past decade has done little to abate the continuing global debate about global warming or, as alarmists now prefer to call it due to a manifest lack of any actual warming, climate change. In the back and forth and

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An English Class for Trolls, Professional Offence-Takers and Climate Activists

Monday, May 27th, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Environment.
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Reprinted from The Telegraph Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science? Should George Monbiot

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Next Toronto Mises Meet: May 30th!

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 by posted in Environment, Events.
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Ah, spring: the birds are singing, the flowers blooming, and liberty is on everyone’s mind! Come on down to the Pauper’s Pub, next Thursday, May 30th for another exciting night of liberty and economics! Our featured speaker will be the

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The Way Nature Intended

Sunday, May 12th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com It turns out there’s an entire magazine aimed at sucking the joy out of parenthood. It’s called Green Child. Apparently, we aren’t smart enough to teach kids to respect Mother Earth all on our own. We need

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An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Environment, Politics.

Republished from The Telegraph Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science? Should George Monbiot

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The Great Green Con No. 1

Monday, April 29th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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Reprinted from Daily Mail No, the world ISN’T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that’s making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade

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Earth Day 1970 (The Drama Queen Files, Exhibit #4)

Monday, April 22nd, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Environment.

Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com Earth Day was first celebrated back in 1970. That year, the editors ofRamparts, a radical magazine, packaged a collection of essays together as a book. Released by mainstream publishing house Harper & Row, it was titled Eco-Catastrophe. The

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The Climate Circus Leaves Town

Sunday, April 21st, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Environment.

Read the full article at WeeklyStandard.com If you had told environmentalists on Election Day 2008 that four years later there’d be no successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, that a Democratic Congress would not have enacted any meaningful climate legislation,

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Rajendra Pachauri’s Conspiracy Theory

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Economics, Environment.

Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com Climate skeptics are routinely accused of being conspiracy theorists. For example, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has claimed that much of the criticism directed at his organization relies on “unsubstantiated

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The Problem with Canmore

Saturday, April 13th, 2013 by posted in Economics, Environment, Lifestyle, Regulation.

Canmore, Alberta is in the midst of a real estate bubble and its principle wealth-creator (tourism) is based on the same phony economy of low interest rates. Perhaps as a result of these economic fundamentals, the town’s expansion into a

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The Great Green Con No. 1

Thursday, April 11th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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Reprinted from Daily Mail No, the world ISN’T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that’s making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade

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Montreal Metro and Littering

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 by posted in Environment, Regulation.
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Public property causes much unneeded stress for society, not the least of which includes newspaper clippings of outraged citizens fuming over youthful vandalism. Older generations tend to see the offspring of their neighbors (never theirs personally) as disobedient to the

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We Should Be Listening To Susan Crockford

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 by posted in Economics, Environment, History.
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Republished from The Global Warming Policy Foundation Foreword To Susan Crockford’s Ten Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears In 1978 three friends and I spent six weeks camped in a valley in Spitsbergen. The possibility that we would

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How Greenpeace Defines Happiness

Sunday, March 24th, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Environment.
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Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com Yesterday was the first UN-declared international Day of Happiness. When tweeting about it Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace, couldn’t help himself. He had to cover it in green slime. “Let’s not buy anything on the

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Paul Krugman’s Old Time Climate Religion

Friday, March 15th, 2013 by posted in Economics, Environment.

Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com A Nobel laureate says people who question climate dogma deserve to be “punished in the afterlife.” Paul Krugman has been employed as a columnist by the New York Times since 1999. Additionally, he works as an economics

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It’s Always Something (the 1924 edition)

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com Drama queen scientists have been around for at least 89 years. Scientists, as physicist Freeman Dyson has observed, are neither saints nor devils but human beings sharing the common weaknesses of our species. [The Scientist as Rebel,

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Papering Over the Sappy Bill McKibben

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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Republished from NoFrakkingConsensus.com A new, 73-page paper about America’s “most visible environmental activist” doesn’t mention that he’s an emotional basketcase. When I began researching the climate debate I made a point of reading material from all sides of the issue.

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Manufacturing Earth Hour

Thursday, March 7th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
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Republished from NoFrakkingConsensus.com In less than three weeks, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will hold its annual Earth Hour event. That event will be promoted aggressively by the lapdog – as opposed to the watchdog – media. (The largest circulation

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Redmond Weissenberger on the Ed and Ethan Show

Monday, March 4th, 2013 by posted in Environment.
Redmond Weissenberger on the Ed and Ethan Show

Talking climate change. With a principled economic perspective, Ed and Ethan break free from the left/right paradigm to bring you a sensible and logical view on the stories from this past week. A new set of stories will be ready

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The Logical Case Against Climate Panic

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Environment.
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Reprinted from WattsUpWithThat?.com (photo credit AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) LOGIC is the heartbeat of all true learning – the soul of the Classics, the Sciences and Religion. Once everyone studied the Classics, to know that in logic there is a difference

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