Category: Global Warming

University Researchers Hide Good News – Why?

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Why would a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program deliberately hide its work? So asks -- and answers -- the National Center's Jeff Stier in an op-ed published today in Newsweek. Take a look ...
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Hollywood Specializes in Fiction – Beware of Following Its Policy Advice

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As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets tonight in California to give awards to itself, it is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that there's a reason Hollywood specializes in fiction. Example #1 is ...
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To Media Matters, It Is Still 2008

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Media Matters is at it again. Writer Kevin Kalhoefer has "awarded" the National Center's Jeff Stier and Julie Kelley's November 9 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about left-wing efforts to raises taxes on meat for supposed climate change-fighting purposes ...
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Environmentalists Don’t Want You to Eat Meat

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Those who are concerned about climate change are now also concerned with your meat intake. And it turns out that the recent hype over a perceived meat-cancer link could be a result of environmental scare-mongering. Food writer Julie Kelly, co-author ...
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Left-wing Media Matters Publishes Dubious Report on Our WSJ Op-Ed; We Correct the Worst Stuff

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The left-wing spin outfit Media Matters is attempting to undercut an op-ed published today in the Wall Street Journal written by the National Center's Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly. You can read the Wall Street Journal piece here ...
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Climate Change “Busybodies” May Be Behind Latest Meat-Causes-Cancer Scare

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Washington, D.C. - National Center Risk Analysis Director Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly are arguing in an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that there may be a climate change-related political activism agenda behind the recent "eating meat ...
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Supreme Court’s Blocking of EPA’s Mercury Emissions Rule a “Setback for the Agency’s Institutional Arrogance,” Environmental Scholar Says

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Washington, D.C. - With its 5-4 decision setting aside one of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) most far-reaching regulations targeting coal-fired power plants, the U.S. Supreme Court "has reminded EPA that it, too, must abide by the law," said Bonner ...
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How Will the Pope’s Position Affect the Poor and the Presidential Election?

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How will Pope Francis’s climate change encyclical impact the world’s poorest citizens? And will it affect the upcoming presidential election? Bonner Cohen of the National Center for Public Policy Research and Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution had a thoughtful ...
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Horace Cooper Rumbles with Thom Hartmann on Trade, Trans Fats, Climate Change and Women’s Health Funding

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On June 17, Horace Cooper held back no punches as part of “The Big Picture Rumble” on the RT Network. Host Thom Hartmann moderated the panel that also included Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com and TJ Helmstetter of the Progressive Change ...
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Free-Market Organization Asks Google to Be Transparent with Investors Regarding Cost of “Green” Initiatives

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Shareholder Resolution Sought Disclosure of Risk to Shareholders if Taxpayers Decide to End Generous Subsidies to Alternative Energy Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Also Criticized for Making the Company Vulnerable to a Lawsuit from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ...
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