30 Years of Junk Science, from SDI to Fracking
(Green Watch, April 2013 – PDF here) The politicization of science, and leftists’ use of pseudoscience, can be traced back many decades, …
Green Watch
Why scientist-activists believe stupid things
[From the April 2013 issue of Green Watch. This is part of our series on deception in politics and public policy.] When scientists become political activists, they…
The Global Partnership for Oceans
(Green Watch, March 2013 – PDF here) Americans are all too familiar with fear-mongering campaigns organized by “green” nonprofits and their big foundation backers. Now some major…
Sierra Club goes radical, global warming causes asteroids and shootings
From the March 2013 issue of the Capital Research Center publication Green Watch. The Sierra Club, formerly seen as a mainstream environmental group, is showing more radical colors as controversy…
The Great Gator Hoax
(Green Watch, February 2013 – PDF here) This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, which has been criticized…
Icons, big animals, and the “cute”: Why environmentalists focus on polar bears
[Continuing Steven J. Allen's series on the use of deception in politics and public policy.] This year will mark the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, which passed the…
What’s Next? Energy and the environment in President Obama’s second term
(Green Watch, January 2013 – PDF here) Re-elected and ineligible…
The Environmental Movement vs. the Marcellus Shale
From the December 2012 issue of the Capital Research Center’s Green Watch: (PDF here) Environmentalists often depict themselves as scrappy underdogs fighting the power of entrenched special…
Green Jobs: How unions and environmentalists came together to damage the U.S. economy
From the November 2012 issue of the Capital Research Center’s Green Watch: (PDF here) The definition of “Green Jobs” is very slippery, especially in…
Scales over our eyes: Using graphs to frighten people about global warming
We’ve been led to believe that the earth faces a global warming catastrophe that will flood coastal cities, turn farmland into desert, and unleash the forces of nature to punish…