On July 15th, Greenpeace said in a press release calling for urgent action: “As permanent ice decreases, we are looking at ice-free summers in the Arctic as early as 2030,” but in an interview with BBC, Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold said that might not exactly be the case. See the video below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC7bE9jopXE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood%2Ebreitbart%2Ecom%2Famcelhinney%2F2009%2F08%2F19%2Fexclusive%2Dlies%2Drevealed%2Dgreenpeace%2Dleader%2Dadmits%2Darctic%2Dice%2Dexaggeratio&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Emotionalizing or scare tactics? The problem with fear-mongering is that it’s a double-edged sword. Chicken Little scenarios allow you to convince someone to do something they may not have otherwise done or they can make you look …
Someone please answer that question. Let’s start with this: a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that food and energy demand will outpace production to meet those needs over the next several years. The need for greater energy and food production and the jobs that could be created from seeking to meet that need is just the latest example of the opportunity costs associated with cap and trade. One might imagine that these increased energy demands would create a huge economic opening for American firms to fill a gap …
In case you weren’t reading the New York Times front page today, we wanted to point you to an especially disturbing story. The Times wrote about The Story of Stuff, “a 20-minute video about the effects of human consumption, [which] has become a sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation.” What classrooms? Very likely the school your child attends, since over 7,000 American schools or churches have ordered the DVD. The Story of Stuff highlights the very extreme left’s Greenpeace view of America. Essentially it tells the story of how America …
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” When I hear these no-so-famed words of British economist John Maynard Keynes (he’s more known for, “In the long run, we’re all dead”), I think of Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats have implemented a number of bad policies throughout history and rarely do they have the fortitude to stand up, admit their mistake and repeal policies that waste taxpayer money and have unintended consequences. Tangentially speaking, Keynesian economics makes me gag so it might be the last …
