Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change. Show all posts

John Stossel: Climate Change Myths

#1. Government is competent to fix the problem.       Global average temperature has been flat for a decade. But frightening myths about global warming continue. We're told there are more hurricanes now. We're told that hurricanes are stronger. But the National Hurricane Center says it isn't so. Meteorologist Maria Molina told me it's not       ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: The Social Cost Of Carbon

Garbage In, Garbage Out.     Economists, regulators, and activists all try to calculate the social cost of carbon—that is, the economic and ecological damage caused each time we add a ton of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. If we know how much harm each additional ton of carbon dioxide causes, the thinking goes,   ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Situation Lousy, Don't Change A Thing

Voters seem to like the status quo.   Republicans are mystified that in a nation they know as fundamentally conservative, a president they regard as deeply radical has been re-elected. But Americans didn't vote for Barack Obama because they are liberal. They voted for him because they are conservative. Not conservative as defined by modern         ... MORE

More Years For Obama, More Tears For America

by Charles Hurt.   All that for nothing. It was the billion-dollar election that did not decide one single damned thing. Republicans control the House. Democrats control the Senate. And the White House remains in Democratic hands with absolutely no mandate whatsoever. Another four years with no hope of change. In this environment with this   ... MORE

James S Robbins: The Coming American Counterrevolution

A divided nation faces down fundamental change.  The partisan divide in the United States may be past the point of no return. It could well be a symptom of greater changes in the American polity that herald the advent of potentially revolutionary change. On Monday, the Pew Research Center issued its annual report on American values, which revealed ... MORE