Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here's Why.
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
Energy & Environment
Biotech Crop Safety Scientific Consensus Confirmed by National Academy of Sciences
"No substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops"
Corn Yields Boosted 50 Percent by Biotechnologists
Malthusians are never right and never win.
Venezuela Spends Millions on Incredibly Dumb Things While Its Economy Collapses
Bolivarian socialism apparently means financing things like lousy race-car drivers while the people lack medicine, food, and toilet paper.
RICO Climate Alarmists FOIA Emails Released
How the letter urging a RICO investigation of groups dissenting from the climate consensus was concocted
Sliding Down the Super-Cycle: Resource Doom Postponed Indefinitely
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham admits he was wrong about "peak everything."
Current Commodity Super-Cycle Slide Confounds Resource Doomsters
Investor Jeremy Grantham makes "an admission of a past mistake on resources."
The Solution to California's Drought: A Free Market in Water
How government created an artificial shortage of our most essential resource.
One-Fifth of Earth's Plants Threatened with Extinction
Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Again—Down 12 Percent from 2005
Yet the U.S. economy grew in real terms by 15 percent since 2005.
Energy in the West Cheap and Ubiquitous Despite Policymakers' Best Efforts
The West's misguided attempts to curtail CO2 emissions through limits on energy use are filtering down to places where cheap energy is still a distant dream.
Without Herbicides, Food Itself Would Be Impossible*
Or at least about half of corn and soybeans would be impossible
You're Now Free to Have a Hippie, Crunchy Funeral in Alabama
New law ends occupational license-mandated monopoly on casket sales.
Reason Foundation Included in Climate-Change Dragnet Subpoena to ExxonMobil
Attorneys-general aim to suppress disagreement on the implications of climate science and policy
Cop Shoots Barely Injured Cat He Says Was a Threat
DA declined to press misdemeanor charges.
April 2016 Is Fourth Warmest Month In Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
The uptick in warming has raised the global climate trend from +0.11 to +0.12 C per decade
Seattle Citizens' Trash Now Safe From Unwarranted Government Snooping
A privacy win over a really silly composting mandate
Greener Earth Thanks to Extra Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuels, Says New Study
But benefits won't last forever as climate change gets worse
Coal Pollution Likely Kills More People Annually Than Will Ever Die from Chernobyl Radiation
If you're worried about human health, nuclear wins easily over coal.
Less than Half of Americans Identify as "Environmentalists," Says New Poll
Fearmongering seems to be backfiring
American Prairie Reserve Announces the 'Ken Burns American Heritage' Prize
The documentary filmmaker is teaming up with the privately funded conservation group.
Happy Earth Day: A Reprise of Failed Doom
A trip down memory lane of failed Earth Day predictions past.
Need a Breather Before May Sweeps? Here, Have a Baby Elephant
Nature documentary highlights the rough childhoods of pachyderms.
Earth Day: U.S. and 170 Countries Sign Paris Climate Agreement: New at Reason
Saving the planet or just massively expanding activist and bureaucratic power?
Earth Day 2016: Paris Climate Agreement Signed
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Ronald Bailey on Climate Change Panel at Earth Day Texas in Dallas
Current EPA General Counsel Avi Garbow shares platform and discussion is moderated by Teri Donaldson of DLA Piper.
Climate Change Has Made U.S. Weather More Pleasant, Says Nature Study
Most Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did forty years ago
Glyphosate Found in Some Cereals: Alarmists Generate Useless Panic
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Sanders Called Out for His Incoherent "War on Clean Energy" by the Washington Post
Trolling for votes by pandering to environmental fundamentalists
Runaway Farm Subsidies and Diet Guideline Fights: Federal Food Policy Is a Mess
Two recent examples illustrate deep and broad problems.
Bill Nye, "Science Guy," Open to Jail Time for Climate Change Skeptics
"There is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good."
There Are Better Ways to Handle Unwanted Animals Than Through Government
Private, market-based solutions less likely to end with the killing of animals.
Would President Trump Be Bound by the Paris Climate Agreement?
President Obama will officially sign Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day.
Are State Attorneys General Attacking Climate Change Critics Engaging in a Conspiracy?
Glenn Reynolds, the law professor behind Instapundit.com thinks so.
March 2016 the Third Warmest Ever Month in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Will fading El Nino cool the globe down later this year?
Free Speech Attack by Attorneys General in ExxonMobil Climate Change Probe of Skeptical Non-Profit
Down the perilous path toward Lysenkoism in which only officially approved science is allowed
Ronald Bailey Speaking at Florida Gulf Coast University on Saturday
Students for Liberty Conference on Free Market Environmentalism
Washington DC Washed Away by 2100 by Melting Antarctic Ice Cap?
Actually, no. The Capitol is in no danger.
Use Property Rights to Save Fisheries Around the Globe, Says New Study
Anything you think of as an environmental problem is occurring in an open-access commons.
Climate Campaigner Bill McKibben's Misleading Anti-Fracking Crusade
"We closed coal plants and opened methane leaks, and the result is that things have gotten worse."
The Case of the Catfish Cartel
Why Mississippi's catfish industry asked the government to regulate it more tightly
Meters of Sea Level Rise and MegaBoulder-Heaving Superstorms Thanks to Global Warming
Also carbon emissions rate highest in 66 million years
A U.S. Department of the Future Is a Really Bad Idea
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.
Professor Defends Absurd Feminist Ice Study: 'The Good News Is People Are Talking About Glaciers!'
The bad news is taxpayers funded the study.
Assume 6 Feet of Sea Level Rise: Predict Catastrophe
Useful science or worst case scaremongering?
CRISPR Critters: Regulators and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
CRISPR Critters and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture: New at Reason
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
