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Stewardship Notes
- Anti-Human Philosophy from Singer and Benatar
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 15, 2010)
David Benatar, with whose book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence Peter Singer here interacts, thinks the world would be better off without people. “Benatar claims, inter alia, that deliberate procreation is immoral; that abortion is morally mandatory if possible before...
- Calling Cap and Tax a Job Bill Doesn’t Veto Economic Reality
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 27, 2010)
In case you were wondering whether Senators Kerry and Lieberman had found a way to cancel economic reality by creating a government program that would create more jobs than it destroys, the answer’s in. Congressional Budget Office says policy like the “American Power Act” would destroy more jobs...
- Rhetoric, Meet Reality: How Physics Dooms Demands for Renewable Energy
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 22, 2010)
A friend wrote,
This morning in the NYT I read that the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences believes that the case for Man-Made GW is “overwhelming.” All that I read from Cornwall is that it is “underwhelming.” How can there be such a disjunction among scientists? Do you...
- Some Possible Consequences of Cap and Trade
(May 14, 2010)
by John Swayze, Ph.D., Medicinal Chemistry
Retired Organic Chemist
Whichever of these bills becomes law [the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed last July in the House the Kerry-Lieberman “American Energy Act” recently submitted in the Senate, or a compromise between the two], I anticipate...
- What Will Kerry-Lieberman Do to Future Global Temperature? And What Will It Cost?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 13, 2010)
The American Power Act just introduced in the Senate by John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) would require reduction of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 17% below 2005 emission levels by 2020, 42% below by 2030, and 83% below by 2050. Achieving that will cost trillions of dollars and millions...
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