The Environment

In my field of economics, we have generally dismissed inferences based on mere correlations.

NPR reports that the ocean seems to be slightly cooling rather than war

Whereas people want to have choice over how they spend their money, bureaucrats want us to suffer constantly, and be intensely aware of what we use, trusting not the price system to determine our consumption patterns but rather obey regulations and strictures.

Huh? That’s right.

Even Askling, who writes socialist propaganda for a living, knows the Swedish recycling scheme doesn't work; and she concludes it is in need of more market.

As Northern Hemisphere snow cover exceeds the 10-year seasonal average, another backlas

This article from MSNBC shows how government-sponsored ethanol may seriously harm the environme

The Science and Public Policy Institute carries this report on a book

The natural science of climatology and the social science of economics find themselves bound up with each other in the debate on global warming.

But so far, the debate has focused on the natural-science question of whether global warming is actually occurring, and, if so, what its cause is. Here is where the popular understanding is very much in need of correction.