SCIENCE

There are a lot of behind-the-scenes scheming going on in Washington, D.C., as Administration appointees and EPA career bureaucrats plot to circumvent Senate ratification of the Kyoto Accord by classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant rather than what it is, a...

In 1980, Julian Simon, the recently deceased economist and author of The Ultimate Resource, offered to environmentalists a wager based on his assertion that the price of any raw material would indefinitely decline on a future date. The wager was taken up by Paul...

As delegations from more than 150 countries were busy lobbying in Kyoto two months back in December, to discuss international controls on carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate a putative future global warming, climate scientists from Europe and North America warned...

The United States no doubt holds the prize for environmental violence, courtesy of Al Gore fan and alleged Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. But for sheer buffoonery, it's hard to beat the eco-activists in Great Britain. In spring 1997, to cite just one example, activists...

In the last couple of weeks it's been snowing in Kyoto, snowing in London, snowing in Washington, and snowing all over Mexico -- in Guadalajara for the first time since 1881. Early flurries should have given some of the delegates to the Kyoto Global Warming talks...

Before we accept environmentalists’ claims that the sky is falling, let’s survey some of their past predictions.

Environmentalism regards wild speculation as the equivalent of scientific proof, and the “environment”–from California condors and spotted owls to rock formations and jungles–as intrinsically valuable and fully on a par with the value of human life.

America is a rich nation with seemingly limitless compassion, partially evidenced by our $5 trillion failed effort to eliminate poverty and dependence. After 30 years of failure, we might start asking some questions about the nature of our compassion toward the poor....

In total opposition to the Industrial Revolution and all the marvelous results it has accomplished, the essential goal of environmentalism is to block the increase in one source of man-made power after another and ultimately to roll back the production of man-made power to the point of virtual nonexistence, thereby undoing the Industrial Revolution and returning the world to the economic Dark Ages.