Climate change violence study exposes ethical problems in science and the media
As we noted last week, a team of scientists recently published a paper that supposedly links “climate change” to violence – all sorts of violence, from…
Green Watch
The Carbon Tax: A Conservative Idea?
(Green Watch, August 2013 – PDF here) Some argue that a carbon tax would be a less harmful alternative to ever-greater…
‘Sue and Settle’
(Green Watch, July 2013 – PDF here ) In a process known as sue-and-settle, activists sue government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency,…
The Democracy Initiative
(Green Watch, June 2013 – PDF here) Many Americans think of the Sierra Club as a mainstream organization…
Richard Windsor, aka Lisa Jackson
(Green Watch, May 2013 – PDF here) Transparency used to be a treasured goal of the Left. But the current administration,…
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, …
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…