Monthly Archives: May, 2010
Environmental killers
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has reviewed eight government-sponsored environmental projects, examining the unintended consequences of public policies. Biofuel subsidies, for example, have reportedly reduced the available acreage for food crops and triggered higher food prices. The subsidies also prompted the draining of wetlands to grow biofuel crops. Even worse is the near-total ban [...]
Weather warning
The National Weather Service (NWS) bases its temperature record on readings from 1,221 monitoring stations placed across the continental United States. More than 1,000 of those stations have been assessed physically by 650 volunteers. The initiative is led by Anthony Watts, a retired television weatherman. His analysis indicates that about 90 per cent of those [...]
Popular wisdom
A public opinion poll commissioned by Investor’s Business Daily indicates that 59 per cent of Americans still support “oil exploration and drilling in America’s national territorial waters.” The sampling of 795 individuals was taken 10-15 days after BP lost control of an offshore well in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20. Only 31 per [...]
BP’s blowout is a horrific setback
The unfolding oil slick disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is shaping up as potentially the most serious setback of its kind in the history of the petroleum industry. The ecological damage could be unparalleled, depending on how long BP takes to cap the well and how much crude reaches shore. In terms of the [...]
