Category Archives: Mann-Made Climate Change

A Streetcar Named Stupid

As The Atlantic points out in a recent article: It’s not anti-transit or anti-rail driving the skepticism; it’s anti-bad rail transit. As has been noted here on multiple occasions in the past, heavily-subsidized streetcars are a waste of resources that … Continue reading

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Burn, Baby, Burn

The Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave desert is taking heat for frying so many birds with its 5.5 miles of garage door-sized solar reflectors, but it turns out that they have some other problems, as well: the heliostats direct … Continue reading

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Gas Up!

Oregon’s running another test of a per-mile tax to replace gas taxes at the pump. At least, they will be, when they get 5,000 volunteers signed up. The state is starting to sign up volunteers for the program, including Friedman, … Continue reading

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The Color Of Hypocrisy Is Green

In a finding that comes as absolutely no surprise, a British government environmental agency reports that those who profess great concern about climate change use more energy than climate change “deniers” (paging AlGore!). Those who say they are concerned about the … Continue reading

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Climate Change Not To Blame

Nope, climate change would have implied a “natural” cause for the extinctions, which is entirely unacceptable. Woolly mammoths and other giants of the Ice Age were wiped out by human hunters not climate change. This is according to a new … Continue reading

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When The Sun Goes Dark

Better break out the popcorn; this is going to be good: <National Report>This week, a scientific research facility in Wyoming made a startling discovery that is certain to change the way millions of Americans look at the environmentalism movement, after they found … Continue reading

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We Are Farmers: Dum-De-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum

Farmers Insurance Co., one of the nation’s biggest insurance companies, has filed nine class-action suits alleging that local Chicago-area governments knew that climate change would lead to greater rainfall but haven’t taken action to guard against future flooding. According to … Continue reading

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