Every time there is a hurricane, drought, flood, etc…, or when a daily, weekly or annual temperature breaks a record certain scientists take the opportunity to opine, that while this or that particular record heat wave or hurricane can’t be tied to global warming, its is the kind of pattern that the models and theory [...]
My colleague and friend, noted economist Dr. John Lott has been telling anyone who would listen for the past decade and a half that more guns in law-abiding hands (especially when carried) result in lower crime rates. His data driven argument flies in the face of liberal claims that more guns result in more violence [...]
President Obama has led the biggest war on reliable energy – meaning primarily fossil fuels – of any President in history. And yet he repeatedly takes credit for these industries’ successes. Obama has repeatedly had the gall to take credit for the growth of jobs, revenues and energy production in the oil and gas industry, [...]
The NCPA has argued repeatedly that the best energy policy for the economy, consumers, government revenues and the environment would be an energy neutral policy, under which no energy source received subsidies, government support or special encouragement. Under such a policy, all energy sources would compete on an equal footing, with the result that inefficient, [...]
Various news outlets have been forced to note in recent months what the I and others have noted for a number of years already – global warming, by which I mean an actual rise in global average temperature as predicted by all the climate models and theories that blame the rise in CO2 for the [...]
There has been a flurry of action on Capitol Hill regarding the need to improve our knowledge of the amounts of rare earths in the country, our current resource needs, constraints and bottle-necks and need to streamline mining laws. There is no easy link to this material so I post the full article below: MINING: [...]
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder about the Obama administration’s recent run on ammunition. Beginning in the summer of 2012, various federal agencies began purchasing large amounts of ammunition – agencies which aren’t often thought of as having a law enforcement capacity, much less a substantially armed policing force: the Social [...]
Anyone following the energy markets knows that in the past few years natural gas has come to dominate the conversation – especially in the electric power market. Natural gas’ growth in the electric power industry has come at the expense of coal. As a recent paper, co-authored by me, explains, while the fracking revolution has [...]
I don’t know if it is serendipity or what, but during the last week several articles have popped up on my computer with similar theme: How liberals are increasingly shedding their humanist pretentions and showing (their true) misanthropic nature. The Scientific American brings us a story, “The Left’s War on Science,” in which Michael Shermer [...]
Nothing can make up for the lost and shattered lives which occur every time there is a public shooting. Sandy Hook and all the senseless massacres before it cry out for explanation and justice. Everyone agrees that action should be taken to reduce the likelihood of such shootings or, when they occur, the amount of [...]