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PRI Doesn’t ‘Deny’ Global Warming
By: Sebastian Wisniewski
10.26.2007
The Pacific Research Institute argues that the science behind global warming is uncertain, but the negative impacts of alarmist policies on individuals are all too real.
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Environmentalists on a Diet
By: Sebastian Wisniewski
10.24.2007
Studies suggest that changing your diet may significantly help the environment. Vegetarians and especially vegans boast lower 'greenhouse-gas' emissions. Not per car, or house, or factory, but per person.
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Poisons and prisons.
By: Josh Trevino
10.21.2007 11:38:00 AM
Has environmental regulation led to lower crime? That's the thesis advanced by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes of Amherst College, and featured in today's NYT. (You can find Dr Reyes's original scholarly piece here.) The argument is that leaded gasoline systematically poisoned the minds (and hence the moral capacity) of America's youth: when regulatory action took the lead out of gasoline, average intelligence went up, and crime went down.
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Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize.
By: Josh Trevino
10.12.2007 9:56:00 AM
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the IPCC is bizarre at best: whatever one's views of their work and their cause, it is difficult in the extreme to make the case that they have somehow advanced peace per se. (Much more appropriate would have been the underrecognized John Garang.) This isn't the first time the Nobel committee has gone off the rails, of course -- remember the endorsement of anticapitalist greenie Wangari Muta Maathai? -- but it does lend credence to the idea that the award is now merely a tactical expression of political sympathies, rather than a meaningful honor for men of peace.
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More on the Peace Prize
By: Thomas Tanton
10.12.2007 9:45:00 AM
The decision by the Nobel Foundation to award this year's Peace Prize to Albert Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a travesty. Mr. Gore is an environmental alarmist whose views have been repeatedly contradicted by scientists, economists, and policy experts, and even by Gore himself. We can add to this list the British High Court, which earlier this week ruled his film, An Inconvenient Truth, is partisan propaganda and should only be shown in classrooms with suitable warnings. The IPCC, also has difficulty telling the truth. While it claims to represent the 'consensus' of thousands of scientists, its reports reflect the views of a small group of ideologically driven government intruders.
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Nobel and Nine Errors
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.12.2007
The news that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize is worthy of attention for many reasons, principally that the former vice-president is not known for achieving peace among warring nations or factions. Neither is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with whom Al shares the prize. The news obscured another story about Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary.
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Pacific Policycast: Hysteria's History
By: Josh Trevino
10.6.2007 1:04:00 PM
The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to announce the release of a new Pacific Policycast. In it, I speak with Dr Amy Kaleita, PRI Environmental Studies Fellow and Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State University, about her new study, entitled "Hysteria's History." The study is an incisive look at the misuse of science in the name of media-driven frenzies, including climate change, within living memory -- and it is a subject that Dr. Kaleita is well-placed to speak on. The main Pacific Policycast page, where the episode resides, is here. Finally, you may download "Hysteria's History" here.
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Two for the price of one
By: Thomas Tanton
10.3.2007
Whenever government interferes in a market, you can be sure that prices will be distorted. Either prices will be artificially inflated and harm consumers, or artificially low and harm producers. In the case of fuel ethanol, it seems the government has given us a "two-fer." The New York Times reports on the price situation for corn ethanol as a fuel substitute and the harm that farmers are suffereing. The suffering stems from their heavy investments in ethanol production facilities creating a serious glut of production with a resulting massive drop in commodity price. Those investments were made in direct response to government mandates and extra-ordinarily high tax subsidies.
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