Category: Environment

  • In Obama administration, transparency and science take backseat to politics

    President Barack Obama has promised to make transparency the standard for his administration. He also pledged to base decisions such as our nation’s energy policy on science. As reported on this site, the Competitive Enterprise Institute uncovered a series of email messages within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that raise questions as to how seriously…

  • Kansans will be hurt by global warming bill

    The Waxman-Markey climate bill, soon to be considered by Congress, will harm all Americans. Here’s a look at what it would cost Kansans.

  • EPA suppresses internal global warming study

    Is there any doubt that the crusade against global warming is motivated as much by politics as by anything else? The Competitive Enterprise Institute has uncovered an effort within the Environmental Protection Agency to suppress “scientific analysis of climate change because of political pressure to support the Administration’s policy agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.”

  • Earthjustice meddles in Kansas again

    The radical environmentalist group Earthjustice is again meddling in Kansas energy policy. They’ve sent a “warning letter” to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

  • Environmental myths of the Left

    One of the powerful stories radical environmentalists — or any environmentalists for that matter — tell is how the river in Cleveland caught on fire. Water burning: that’s a real environmental disaster. Government must step in a do something! Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute tells the true story. It turns out that it was not…

  • The Threat of Big Brother in Green Clothing

    From the Competitive Enterprise Institute. This organization, particularly its site GlobalWarming.org, is a great place to look for information about the true nature of global warming and climate change. The following announces the release of a video message that spotlights the real threat of global warming fear mongering.

  • ‘Story of Stuff’ video attempts to shame us into depression

    A video claiming that American-style capitalism is ruining the earth is making its way into our nation’s schools as “a sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation,” according to a story on the front page of the New York Times in May. It’s produced by one Annie Leonard, described in the Times as “a former…

  • More doubt about man-made global warming

    The evidence that global warming is a man-made phenomenon continues to fall under sharp questioning and doubt.

  • More myths of green jobs

    On its surface, a seemingly strong argument for adopting a national policy of increasing reliance on renewable energy is all the jobs and economic growth that will result. It’s claimed by some that the switch to so-called “green” sources of energy will pay for itself this way.

  • Why climate models are wrong

    Could the science behind all the models that predict global warming be wrong? Dr. Roy Spencer believes it is. His article A Layman’s Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong takes a while to read, but it’s worth the time and effort.

  • Another Kansas electricity rate hike

    Kansas cusomers served by electric utility Westar are facing another rate increase. It’s a “follow-up” rate increase, coming after several other recent rate increases. The purpose is to pay for “the second phase of its Emporia Energy Center and two Westar-owned wind farms.”

  • Another Evangelical’s view of creation

    Wichita Geophysicist Dennis Hedke explains the problems with the beliefs held by radical environmentalist Rev. Richard Cizik. This is the unabridged version of a letter that appeared in the Wichita Eagle.