Human Climate Control Up In the Air

How much control do humans have over the Earth's climate? This is a topic I have covered in a policy paper and commentaries. A reader recently wrote to me to express his concern that it is premature for either side to announce they have an unassailable position based on existing data. (more)

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Environment

October 2009

Feel-Good Politics of a Styrofoam Ban

by Pearl Hahn

Environmentalists love banning items they claim are destroying our natural ecosystems. Ban paper, ban plastic, ban Styrofoam. I suspect they would prefer to carry around their shopping items stacked on their bare hands while balancing on a bicycle on the highway, but if they actually did so, that wouldn't explain how so many of them continue to wreak havoc on common sense. (more)

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