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Calling the green job bluff

There appears to be a never-ending green light for policies supporting green jobs—which would be fine, if these jobs were real. Yet, a number of critics and private research have shown they are not. The latest example comes from Pennsylvania.

According to recent stories, the state could create as many as 129,000 green jobs if it simply increased its alternative-energy mandates.
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Lawrence Solomon: Yale Law Journal: Climate Debate Killing Hundreds

(June 10, 2010) The climate change debate has killed hundreds if not thousands of people, according to The Dirty Climate Debate, an article published in the Yale Law Journal. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: The many holes in BC’s carbon plans

There is a conflict between British Columbia’s public revenue requirements as presented in the Province’s official Fiscal Plan and the Premier’s suggestion that BC will proceed with "cap and trade"-type regulation for industrial Greenhouse Gas emissions.

The first table below shows the BC Finance Carbon Tax revenue forecast—and comes directly from Table A9, page 159 of the BC Fiscal Plan, which can be downloaded here.
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Egyptian Eyeliner May Have Warded Off Disease

(January 8, 2010) Clearly, ancient Egyptians didn’t get the memo about lead poisoning. Their eye makeup was full of the stuff. Although today we know that lead can cause brain damage and miscarriages, the Egyptians believed that lead-based cosmetics protected against eye diseases. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Legal verdict: Manmade global warming science doesn’t withstand scrutiny

(June 7, 2010) A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania`s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fail to stand up to scrutiny. Continue reading

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Lauding low doses

(Jun. 5, 2010) A revolutionary field called hormesis shows that dangerous substances can be beneficial at low levels. Continue reading

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When climate, public relations meet

(Jun. 4, 2010) Environmentalism may be the world’s fastest-growing religion. Continue reading

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When climate, public relations meet

(June 4, 2010) Environmentalism may be the world`s fastest-growing religion. And, like other religions, its ability to win converts often relies on crises. After the scarce over the coming ice age failed to materialize in the 1970s, environmentalism was given a real boost when the global warming crisis revved up. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Call off the evacuation: Pacific Islands are expanding

(June 3, 2010) Contrary to the warnings of global warming alarmists, most islands in the Pacific are stable or expanding, according to a study published last month in Global and Planetary Change. While 14% of the islands studied showed a decline in area, 43% were stable and 43% expanded in size. None of the changes in area were dramatic. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Sunspots may predict hurricanes as well as global warming and coooling

(June 1, 2010) Sunspots may have a more profound effect on Earth`s climate than previously understood, according to a new research published in the scientific journal, Geophysical Research Letters, and presented to the American Meteorological Society. Continue reading

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