In these free-spending times there’s a growing movement among economists who say the best way out of this recession is to do nothing, nothing at all.
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U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
The chorus of skeptical scientific voices on human-caused global warming grew louder in 2008 as a steady stream of peer reviewed
studies, analyses, real world data and inconvenient developments challenged the UN’s and former Vice President Al Gore’s claims that the “science is settled” and there is a “consensus.”
Prominent Scientist Says Warming Alarm “Mistaken”
Award winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer, who was reportedly fired by former Vice President Al Gore in 1993 for failing to adhere to Gore’s scientific views, has now declared man-made global warming fears “mistaken.”
Pre-industrial CO2 Levels were About the Same as Today
Authorities told us pre-industrial atmospheric levels of CO2 were approximately 100 parts per million (ppm) lower than the present 385 ppm. They are wrong. The pre-industrial level is at least 50 ppm higher than the level put into the computer models that produce all future climate predictions.
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change sprung out of a meeting of hundreds of scientists and climate experts from the International Conference on Climate Change, New York City, signed March 4th, 2008.
Environmental Education
Environmental education is an important component of public school education. Unfortunately, students are being exposed to only one side of the argument on environmental issues.
Regulation, Aid Not Solution to Climate Change – Report
A new report* released Monday December 3rd, produced by 41 institutes from around the world, concludes: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the coming two decades is not a cost-effective way to address climate change. Deaths from climate related natural disasters have...
Civil Society Report on Climate Change
The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, of which the Frontier is a member, releases a report on global warming.
The Denial Machine
Dr. Tim Ball's perspective on The Fifth Estate's "The Denial Machine."
The Law and the Lore
Introduction If you have the good fortune to attend a conference on “The Sustainable Management of the Central Forests” or “The Sustainable Management of the Chatham Fisheries” you will listen to a fine collection of papers based on solid science and sound economics....
Rodney’s Ravings – A Response and Expansion
Rodney Dickens, writes the “Rodney’s Ravings” newsletter, one of which was reprinted in the Mangawhai Memo of 22nd February. Rodney is a highly competent analyst and his “Ravings” provide useful commentaries which are highly valued by those of us who consume such data...
Climate Change, and the Policy Dilemma
New Zealand has a long history of taking leading edge positions on public policy issues, and has a proud tradition of leading political and social change. More recently, especially during the term of the fourth Labour Government, New Zealand was a world leader in...
Winnipeg’s History of Money Bylaws
The use of direct democracy can put a check on the ambition of politicians even as it speeds the progress of improvements and keeps city taxes affordable.