Opposing Views - Environment

Green Scientist Challenges Global Warming Rhetoric

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:33:12 -0600

By FrontPage Magazine

Given the dogmatic fervor of global warming proponents, and their intolerance of skeptics who dare to question the latest This isn’t the first time that climate change advocates...

Audi Pokes Fun at Environmentalists in Super Bowl Ad

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:02:10 -0600

By NRDC

By -- Most well-meaning environmentalists are chronically guilt-ridden. I constantly confront More important is the question of whether the Audi “clean diesel” is really all that...

Forget Wind Farms, Solar, Coal, Natural Gas -- Go Nuclear

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:56:43 -0600

By CEI

By Despite massive subsidies, wind power still only Compare that with This But if you’re looking for new facilities that don’t produce greenhouse gas emissions there is a fourth...

New Documentary Shows How Scientists Manipulate Global Warming Data

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:56:21 -0600

By FrontPage Magazine

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, in an hour-long television documentary titled “Global Warming: The Other Side,” presents evidence that our National Climatic Data Center...

Improve, Don't Protect, the Environment

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:03:57 -0600

By FactsAndLogic

Protecting the environment has been the cause célèbre of nearly everyone, especially leftist elites, for the past 40 years. Everywhere we look: celebrities, politicians, and the news...

Calif. Proposal: Stop Delivering Unwanted Phone Books to Homes

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:38:55 -0600

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff

A state lawmaker in California would like to get rid of the practice of delivering the white pages to homes. Under his proposal, customers would have to opt-in to receive the directories. The...

Is Cap-and-Trade Dead?

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:55:32 -0600

By Reason Foundation

By President Obama acknowledged yesterday that the Senate may pass an energy bill this year without the cap-and-trade component he has long put at the center of his environmental agenda. Speaking...

Old and New Environmental Myths

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:01:42 -0600

By FREE

It's fascinating to observe the path of many contentious environmental problems. They attract national attention, the future is seen as foreboding, and then, years later, they have been solved,...

Is School Choice Bad for the Environment?

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:37:54 -0600

By Heritage Foundation

By Why stop with education? Perhaps another future study can be on the environmental impact of supermarket choice. After all, with people free to drive wherever they wish to buy groceries,...

Water Vapor May be Slowing Global Warming Rate

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:11:50 -0600

By NOAA

A 10 percent drop in water vapor Since 2000, water vapor in the stratosphere decreased by about 10 The stratosphere is a region of the atmosphere from about eight to 30...

Celebrity Cap and Trade PSA: Proof Sound Bytes Trump Sound Policy

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:17:59 -0600

By William O Keefe

Nothing Special interests in Congress have managed to sink the emissions trading bill under the weight Though many cap and trade advocates -- the cast of this PSA included -- may be well...

Greenhouse Gases Continue to Rise Despite Reduction Efforts

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:47:00 -0600

By NOAA

Despite a decade of efforts worldwide to curb its release into the atmosphere, NOAA and university scientists have measured increased emissions of a greenhouse gas that is thousands of times more...

Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Power Arrives

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:45:05 -0600

By Nuclear Energy Institute

By -- Mark Ayers, President, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO -- Vicky Bailey, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Former IN PUC Commissioner; Former...

Should U.S. Turn to Nuclear Power to Solve its Energy Woes?

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:38:05 -0600

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff

NRDC: Subsidies to Nuclear Industry "A Mistake"

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:36:17 -0600

By NRDC

WASHINGTON “Energy sources should compete for public dollars based “At best, preserving future low-carbon energy options for the country suggests that industry construct a few...