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CIA Quietly Closes Global Warming Unit
CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
More than three years—and no doubt a chunk of change—later, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is quietly shutting down its insignificant center dedicated...
Fisher v UT Austin: Social Science Takes a Stand
BY CARL L. BANKSTON III
With some misgivings, I’ve decided to renew my membership in the American Sociological Association and attend this year’s meeting. I...
Panetta: Global Warming a Threat to ‘National Security’
JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming to be a "national security" threat in a speech to an environmentalist group...
Playing God with "Endangered Species"
BY ALAN CARUBA
According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils...
Playing God with “Endangered Species”
BY ALAN CARUBA
According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils...
The Federal Funding Fiasco
BY CARL L. BANKSTON III
Immediately after Congress passed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, I saw colleagues in the university forming research...
Obama Administration Says Water Supply at Risk From Global Warming
POLITICIZED 'SCIENCE,' CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
Less than a year after the U.S. government warned about global warming’s threat to the world’s food supply, a separate taxpayer-funded...
Eco-Communism Celebrated Annually on Earth Day
BY ALAN CARUBA
I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government....
A Teachable Moment about Chemophobia
BY ALAN CARUBA
Having written a series, “The BPA File”, in which I detailed the vast efforts made worldwide to ban bisphenol-A, a chemical in...
“Fakegate” Blows Up in Warmist Faces
By Alan Caruba
On February 16, I published “Anatomy of a Global Warming Hoax” concerning the theft of the private records of The Heartland Institute’s...
The Anatomy of a Global Warming Smear
BY ALAN CARUBA
Full disclosure: Years ago I received a small stipend from The Heartland Institute to help cover the costs of writing articles regarding...
That Jobs Thing Sure Didn’t Last Long
Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now?
BY PAUL DRIESSEN
President Obama “is focused like a laser on...
That Jobs Thing Sure Didn't Last Long
Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now?
BY PAUL DRIESSEN
President Obama “is focused like a laser on...
Climate Change a Political Not Scientific Battle, Says Study
ENVIRONMENT, NEWSROOM AMERICA
National political leaders influence how much Americans worry about the threat of climate change rather than extreme weather events, new research has...
Global Warming Approved by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
COURTS/ENVIRONMENT, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is dominated by Democratic-appointed judges, and many of its decisions have been overturned by...
Imaginary Benefits, Extensive Harm—Craig Rucker
EPA mercury rules for electricity generating units are based on false science and economics
By Craig Rucker
The Environmental Protection Agency clams its “final proposed” Maximum...
The Politicizing of Science
By Brad Fregger
The conscious politicizing of science is one of the disasters of the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries....
On a Mission from God: Bruce Babbitt and the Environmental Movement
Babbitt grasped everything from civil rights to environmentalism, with the fervor of such true believers as Puritan firebrands Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather. Making each good, honorable, noble ideal a part of his reason for being—even as these ideals ultimately degenerated into lifetime career opportunities for collectivists, demagogues and government bureaucrats.
Fool Me Once, But No More
Let us hope that the BPA ban is defeated in California and struck from an alleged food safety bill in Congress. The bans should be repealed in the states that have already passed them. Then we must undo the thousands of laws and regulations related to the junk science of global warming and similar hoaxes. - Alan Caruba
When Bad Science Makes Bad Laws — Alan Caruba
Alan Caruba says the global warming scam, an example of politicized science, was and is bad enough. Next, the BPA scare. BPA is a plastics additive bisphenol A, a chemical used to harden plastic that has been in wide consumer use for more than half a century, used to improve the safety and reliability of everything from DVDs and consumer electronics to sports safety equipment and shatterproof bottles. The environmentalists want it banned.