Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
When Recycling Made Financial Sense
From the 1960s to the late 1990s, aluminum companies, led by Reynolds, recycled beverage cans all over the country, paying people who returned them. Scott Breen and Lilly Hyde of Recycling Resource tell the story—and ask if lessons can be learned for recycling today. (Unfortunately, the lesson that should be learned is difficult to apply…
Eminent Climate Scientist Denounces Demonization of CO2, Sees Dangerous Results
The Global Warming Forum has published a paper by MIT emeritus meteorologist Richard Lindzen, An Assessment of the Conventional Global Warming Narrative. The results of the current one-dimensional view of the greenhouse effect could be disastrous, says Lindzen. “This all leaves us with a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd ‘scientific’ narrative. The policies invoked…
‘Media Lying about Hurricanes and Climate Change.’ Michael Shellenberger Names Names.
Michael Shellenberger calls out the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and ABC News for misleading information about the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. He compares their often hyperbolic statements with actual facts and graphs from the National Oceanic and Aerospace Administration (NOAA). There has been little or no change in either…
Are Conservatives and Libertarians Ignoring the Dangers of ESG Investing?
The downside of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) criteria is not getting the attention it deserves from conservatives and libertarians, says David Hoyt in American Thinker. “What the radical Left could not achieve by force with the typical levers of government power, it is now poised to accomplish with nominally public-private enterprise partnerships. This new…