Environment

Q. What are you chuckling at? A. This news story. Apparently satellite photos now confirm that the polar ice caps are shrinking and the planet’s temperature is increasing. As more carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, more of the sun’s heat is...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week in an effort to destroy the natural habitat of one of the Los Angeles area’s most beautiful, but fragile, species. With no hard scales, thick hide, or camouflage for...

Forever in pursuit of reason, Jefferson was convinced that the ideas of natural rights and constitutionally limited government would universally prevail, and that human learning and progress would continue unimpeded. Cunningham captures this spirit—a distinctively Ame…

Colorado congressman Scott McInnis revealed last week that four firefighters who burned to death in July while tackling a forest fire in Washington state died because bureaucrats took 10 hours to approve a water drop. Taking water from the local river, it seems, is...

“Humans — KEEP OUT” is becoming the new motto of Parks Canada. A Fraser Institute report — Off Limits: How Radical Environmentalists are Shutting Down Canada’s National Parks — documents how Parks Canada got hijacked by...

A new political dogma is being spun in the media. “Science,” they say, has now “proved” that global warming is a real danger and that human beings are responsible for it, so that we need to take drastic steps to reduce greenhouse gases. This...

Imagine that you have invited a contractor to inspect your home and check for needed repairs. He tells you that, in theory, there might be a disastrous problem with the foundation. He can’t actually prove that there is a problem, he says, and there are a lot of...

Ten days ago, we saw the headlines: “Panel Tells Bush Global Warming is Getting Worse.” According to dozens of press accounts, a panel of distinguished climatologists from the National Academy of Sciences had provided new confirmation that “global...

[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM NEWS REPORT] The Bush White House rocked Washington, DC and the world on March 28 when it acknowledged it would take no action on the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in 1997 by the Clinton administration. State Department...

“Danger lies not in what we don’t know, but in what we think we know that just ain’t so.” So reads the e-mail signature of Greg Holloway, a scientist with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia. The quote, from Mark Twain, is...

Christie Todd Whitman has committed some of the Bush administration’s biggest gaffes to date — most infamously, her ill-fated crusade to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions at all costs to thwart alleged global warming. Bush Republicans are right...

” … Here, the environment is not an issue — it’s an ethic. It’s protecting creation.” In criticizing President Bush’s environmental policy, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made that pronouncement. Echoing a similar...

Every year, at about this time, I make my personal protest against environmentalism by going out and enjoying nature. How, you might ask, can enjoying nature be considered an act of defiance against environmentalism? Consider how — and why — I enjoy it. I...

A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it, if and when it comes.

On April 22, thousands will gather across the country to celebrate Earth Day, a holiday that has risen in the past decade from obscurity to the status of a mainstream, uncontroversial event. After all, who could be against clean air, clean water, and a healthy...

An interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer by Bonner Cohen and Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Dr. S. Fred Singer, president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, has achieved great renown for pioneering research in atmospheric and space physics. Singer was among the very first...

Everybody in Washington frets about Vice President Dick Cheney’s health, but what about his boss? President Bush is beginning to look a little too green for his own good. He may be in need of ideological defibrillation. Over the past several weeks, the Bush...

The election defeats of former Vice President Al Gore and of Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Barak would seem to spell the end of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and of the Oslo agreement on Middle East peace. Gore will forever be identified with the Kyoto...

Over 17,000 scientists have signed a petition saying, in part, “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the...

Environmentalists are now taking their “case” to the streets. They are burning down buildings on Long Island because they feel suburban sprawl has gone too far. It’s time that we stop calling such people “environmentalists.” This is too...

My friend Jack predicted this. When the first flurry of lawsuits was filed in Florida, he told me: keep an eye on the other news. Some government agency, he warned, will spring a new regulation on us — and they will get away with it, because everyone’s...

On Friday, Al Gore declared that “prosperity is on the ballot” and described himself as “the right … choice to keep it going.” But those who are watching his campaign more closely just got a reminder of who the real Al Gore is: an...

The new outbreaks of violence in the Middle East may finally get some people to look beyond the pretty words “the peace process” to the ugly reality underneath. Will those who have for years been urging Israel to “trade land for peace” now...

The government has become an agent of nature-worshiping environmentalists who value pristine nature above human life.

We are fortunate enough to live in the US at the beginning of the 21st century and enjoy all the benefits of modern science and technology. Human life is now longer, healthier and richer than ever before. But not everybody is happy about it. Some people would rather...

Environmentalism regards man as a spreading cancer that must be eliminated at any cost. And its leaders mean it. Environmentalism is at root a movement against man. As novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand observed, “… [their] ultimate motive [is]…hatred for achievement…

It is time for Americans to reject environmentalism and to celebrate the value of trees and oil fields — not for their own sake, but for the benefits they bring us.

There is a catch here, of course. If these countries have plentiful emission credits for sale, then their price will not be very high and perhaps quite low. This means that the United States would be able to buy permits cheaply, and proceed as if the Kyoto Protocol...