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Stewardship Notes
- Federal Sting Uncovers Potential for Energy Star Fraud and Abuse
By Quena Gonzalez (April 1, 2010)
The government’s popular Energy Star program claims to help people choose appliances and other products that use less energy, save money, and help the environment. Last year, we’re told, “Americans…saved enough energy to avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 30 million cars — all while saving nearly $17 billion on their utility bills.”
But a government sting has called those figures into question. CA
- 25 Years for FREE
By James Tonkowich, D.Min. (March 31, 2010)
One of the things I appreciate most about our friend John Baden is his relentless optimism and that optimism shines through his column today celebrating FREE’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
Baden founded FREE (Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment) in 1985. “The initial focus of our...
- Does High Urban CO2 Concentration Threaten Health?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 23, 2010)
Proponents of carbon-dioxide emissions reductions, seeing the scientific basis for them as a means to reduce global warming collapsing in the wake of Climategate and the many other revelations of corruption of the scientific process by anthropogenic global warming alarmists, are looking for other...
- Members of Congress, States, Scientists, Business Groups File Petitions for EPA to Reconsider CO2 Endangerment Finding
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 19, 2010)
Poor Lisa Jackson. The EPA Administrator was required by law to conduct a careful scientific assessment of whether carbon dioxide in the atmosphere poses a risk to human health before her agency issued a “finding” that it does. She decided to take the easy way out. Instead of having the EPA’s...
- How Alarmists Make Data Look Scary When They’re Not
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (March 19, 2010)
Today a headline that caught my eye prompted me to go to the National Snow and Ice Data Center to take a look at what’s been happening with Arctic sea ice lately—as far, anyway, as one can trust the data there. (There are reasons to take it all with a grain of salt.)
Here’s a graph they offer...
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