Environment
Earth Is Cooling, Sea Levels Not Rising, Scientists Say
As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider enormously expensive cap-and-trade legislation, supposedly aimed at curbing alleged global warming caused by man-made emissions, scientists...
What’s the Problem with the Gulf Oil Leak?
Industry and government officials continue their desperate efforts to contain an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began on April 20...
Read moreGulf Oil-leak Efforts Continue
Three weeks after the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, the response team is still working to contain three leaks spewing oil into the...
Read moreGulf Oil Spill Opportunists
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to parlay the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion and ongoing leak into a significant increase...
Read moreEPA Offers Cash for Propaganda
The Environmental Protection Agency is offering thousands of taxpayer dollars and free publicity to whoever produces the most compelling pro-government-regulation propaganda, it announced...
Read moreVatican Supports Adult Stem-cell Research
The Vatican will help fund a research study into the potential use of adult stem cells to treat intestinal and possibly other diseases,...
Read moreThe CFL Bulb Is Not Environmentally Friendly
For millions of environmental activists the Compact Fuorescent Light bulb (CFL) has become a popular mascot rivaling the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear...
Read moreHave You Hugged Your Planet Today?
Be nice to the tree huggers today: It has been a rough year for the jolly green juggernaut since the last Earth...
Read moreInternational Conference of Scientists to Challenge Global-warming Alarmism
The Heartland Institute's fourth International Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in Chicago May 16-18 and will feature more than...
Read moreEPA Increases Automobile Costs While Seizing Legislative Power
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson attracted international attention when, having apparently become bored waiting for the messy process of representative government to...
Read moreArctic Ice Expanding, Not Retreating
At last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, former Vice President Al Gore shrilly proclaimed that “The entire polar ice cap ......
Read moreSenators Question Flawed NASA Climate Data
According to NASA, its own temperature data is more flawed than the temperature data from the University of East Anglia, the British institution...
Read moreGlobal-warming Alarmism Dying a Slow Death
Last December in Copenhagen at the United Nations climate summit, officials and global-warming alarmists seemed confident of their imminent triumph. “There is no...
Read moreGallup Poll: Less Fear of Global Warming
The annual Gallup survey of Americans' attitudes on environmental issues, reports the polling group, "shows a public that over the last two years...
Read moreGore Denounces Climate-change Doubters
Al Gore has complained on Norwegian television that the theory of man-made global warming is under attack by a conspiracy of special interests....
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