Energy & Environment
Peak Oil? Cue Crickets Chirping
Great article asks "Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?" over at RealClear Politics*
Hooray for Factory Farming!
It's is good for the environment and it feeds people too.
Richard Epstein: Why Obamacare Is Collapsing and He's Not Voting for Trump, Hillary, *or* Johnson
Q&A with the great libertarian law professor on cigarettes, global warming, foreign policy, and much, much more.
Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
Changing café culture and international do-gooderism collide on a troubled island.
Arctic Sea Ice At Second Lowest Extent in Modern Record
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at twice the rate they are at lower latitudes.
Coastal Commission Abuse Smacked Down by Court
Courts push back on property rights violations
Send Around This XKCD Climate Change Web Cartoon, But Really Look at It First
You'll see the average global temperatures now are about where they were 9,000 years ago
Climate Change Subpoenas Versus Free Speech
Constitutional rights threatened by the legal storms over global warming
Dairy Lobby Sides with Florida in Orwellian Attempt to Redefine 'Skim Milk'
According to state regulators, skim milk = skim milk + mandated additives.
Oregon Wastes Millions on Renewable Energy, New Audit Reveals
An external audit finds rampant mismanagement of the state's now-shuttered Business Energy Tax Credit program.
Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
Obama and Xi 'Ratify' Paris Climate Change Agreement
But remember, the Paris Agreement is NOT a treaty!
Eating Away at State Roadkill Bans
Some states bar people from harvesting dead animals. But Montana has gotten good results from lifting its ban.
August and Year-to-Date Are Second Hottest in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade
Climate Change Court Drama: What Does New York's Attorney-General Have to Hide?
Competitive Enterprise Institute sues NYAG Eric Schneiderman for a little Freedom of Information
Climate War: Bill McKibben's Really Bad Metaphor for Solving Man-Made Global Warming
Centralized top down planning of the climate would work as well as it does for economies.
Why the USDA Shouldn't Be Buying Up Surplus Cheese
The feds are bailing out dairy producers. Here's why that's a terrible and wasteful mistake.
Libertarian Gary Johnson Comes Out Against Carbon Taxes, Mandatory Vaccines
Libertarian Party candidate clarifies positions at New Hampshire rally.
Have More Kids. It's Good For the Planet
Things have never been better, despite doomsday prophecies from some environmentalists.
Climate Change Will Impoverish Millennials, Says Study
Only if you think merely tripling per capita GDP by 2100 is poverty
Gary Johnson on Climate Change and a Carbon Tax
Is a carbon tax a 'very libertarian proposal' for handling man-made global warming?
EPA Says It Needs Eight More Years to Decide if Ethanol Mandate Is Bad for the Environment
It is, as everyone who isn't a corn farmer will tell you.
The Unintended Climate Consequences of Biofuels Mandates: New at Reason
The U.S. renewable fuels standard backfires
Mandated Biofuels = More Greenhouse Gases
Politicians adopt a policy that does the opposite of what they supposedly intended to do.
Solar and Wind Power Won't Work Without Natural Gas as a Back-Up, Says New Study
To be against fracking is to be against renewable energy.
Dumped Cherries a Reminder of Awfulness of USDA Marketing Orders
Hurting farmers and consumers. Squeezing out competitors. Forcing production abroad. Causing food waste. What's not to love?
The Nuclear War Over Climate Change
If global warming is a problem, it is idiotic for environmentalists to oppose nuclear power.
Nuclear Warfare Between the Greens: New at Reason
The fight over treating nuclear power on a similar footing with other low-carbon energy sources
California Push for Coal Divestment Mostly About Politics
Insurance commish wants companies to "voluntarily" divest from coal
Is Global Warming a Sign of the End Times?
A new Yale poll finds 14 percent of Americans think so
Can You Have Your Subsidized Peanut Butter Cake and Eat It, Too?
Overproduce peanuts and depress peanut prices; don't pay your loans; and collect taxpayers' money.
Democratic Platform 2016: Science Planks Good, Bad and Missing
Are the Democrats really the Party of Science?
Massachusetts Voters Could Have Egg on Their Faces
Ballot measure will decide in November whether to impose unwise, harmful, costly, and unconstitutional standards for raising a host of livestock animals.
Good News: Global Energy Intensity Continues to Decline
Energy demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent by 2040
The Left's Insidious War on the Free Speech Rights of Climate Dissenters
The main casualty of global warming is the Democratic Party's sanity.
Watch Barbara Boxer Falsely Accuse Reason of Trying to "undermine climate science"
Senator calls one of her own constituents a "puppet of the fossil fuel industry"
Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Party Hold Two-Day Festival Against Free Speech
Reason Foundation among the many groups targeted outrageously-and falsely-for global-warming thoughtcrime
Sacrificing To Combat Climate Change Should Begin with a Ban of A/C in DC
And why exactly is Leonardo DiCaprio guilting his Hollywood friends into traveling to St. Tropez to hear him denounce fossil fuels?
19 Democratic Senators Submit Climate Change "Web of Denial" Concurrent Resolution
The solons will be denouncing "climate change denial" from the floor of the Senate for the next two days.
Civil Rights, Shivil Rights: Dems Wanna Shut Down Free Speech Rights of Climate Dissenters
They've made it an official plank of the party platform
Starved by Socialist Policies, Venezuelans Urged to Take Up Urban Farming
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
