“Russia has launched its first major energy awareness campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, bringing an unfamiliar sight to Moscow’s streets: billboards urging people to switch to energy-saving light bulbs. But Muscovites are not being encouraged to go green to save the planet. Moscow’s government has realised that the country’s wasteful […]
“I’m not bad at email (though I’ve not fully mastered the whole I’m-out-of-town-on-business automatic reply thing). But blog-posting and setting up Skype accounts and using the web for videoconferencing is, for the moment, beyond me. It’s a failing I’m more and more aware of, because this entire campaign has been organized on the web. We’re […]
“There are loads of economic reasons to favor renewable energy, but macroeconomic or regional economic impacts are not one (two?) of them. There is also nothing wrong with documenting the impacts of government policies in terms of jobs and incomes. But touting these so hard simply gets in the way of the more valid arguments […]
“In our looks-fixated, aging-averse society, we hold our personal care products in great esteem. ‘Moisturize away dry skin and wrinkles!’ We dutifully obey that marketing mantra as we apply these creamy concoctions into every crevice. However, now the emphasis on skin vigor is becoming tempered with worry over endocrine health as ingredients in these products […]
“An international panel of scientists presented the United Nations with a sweeping, detailed plan on Tuesday to combat climate change — a challenge, it said, ‘to which civilization must rise.’ Failure would produce a turbulent 21st century of weather extremes, spreading drought and disease, expanding oceans, and displaced coastal populations, it said. After a two-year […]
“After nearly six months of failed negotiations to purchase a Crystal Lake-front property, Newton Mayor David Cohen wants to take over 20 Rogers St. from owner Pat Hannon by eminent domain. … Eminent domain allows government bodies to seize a citizen’s private property for a public reason. In the case of Hannon’s property, the city […]
“A day after a film about his efforts to combat global warming won an Oscar, former Vice President Al Gore was called a hypocrite by a Tennessee group that said his Belle Meade home is consuming too much energy. The home’s average monthly electric bill last year was just under $1,200, according to bills that […]
“Behind the high gray walls of this farming village, peasant couples are conducting an experiment that suggests, its designers say, that the most unpopular and costly policy of the past quarter-century may not have been necessary. For the past 21 years, the citizens of Yicheng County, in the mining province of Shanxi, have been exempt […]
“The left has the hobgoblin of global warming. The right has the hobgoblin of global terror. Both campaigns are carefully calculated to keep the American people alarmed and clamorous for a the state to come to the rescue.” (02/26/07)
Cato daily podcast, featuring Patrick J. Michaels. [MP3] (02/27/07)
