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Truth and Propaganda
Response to December 12, 2003 Bangladesh Daily Star article by Nizam Ahmad and Paul K. Driessen Bangladesh Daily Star December 2003 Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton recently said “the greatest challenge facing mankind is distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda,” especially in the realm of environmentalism. Few articles better illustrate the importance of meeting this challenge […]
Eco-Imperialism’s Deadly Consequences
by Steven Milloy Fox New’s Junk Science December 2003 The United Nations’ global warming bureaucracy is meeting (vacationing?) in Milan this week pondering how to revive the beleaguered international global warming treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol. This week’s news that Russia might say “nyet” to the treaty all but seals its doom. “A number […]
Plants that Will Save Lives and Eyes
Over a third of the world’s population suffers anemia for lack of iron.Half are at risk for numerous diseases because they get too little zinc. A fourth receive so little vitamin A that they suffer incredible rates of blindness and death. But with help from a $25 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant, a […]
United Nations Day of Shame
by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko TechCentralStation.com October 2003 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems […]
WHO’s to blame?
It’s certainly not climate change by Roger Bate TechCentralStation.com October 2003 A group of medics recently warned that about 160,000 people die every year from the side-effects of global warming ranging from malaria to heatstroke, and the numbers will probably double by 2020. The experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the London School […]
Seeing Greenpeace
The IRS may board the Rainbow Warrior by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online October 2003 NEW YORK, NY, October 2003 Greenpeace soon may find itself less green – in the pocketbook. Public Interest Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based charitable oversight group, filed a “tax challenge” with the commissioner of the Internal […]
Environmental Working Group: A scare a day
CHURCHVILLE, VA, October 2003 — Suppose your gracious new neighbor took you aside one day and quietly warned that serving non-organic fruits and vegetables to your family was endangering your kids’ health. Suppose she offered a professional-looking ‘index of danger’ showing your supermarket’s peaches, apples, spinach, celery, and potatoes were all too dangerous to eat. […]
Russia’s common sense on global climate change
by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services October 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, October 2003 ¾ Kudos to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Not only did he resist intense pressure from French President Jacques Chirac and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan – and announce that Russia was not going to ratify the controversial Kyoto global climate change treaty anytime soon. He also demonstrated that his […]
Not so quiet on the Northern Front
by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online September 2003 CANCUN, Mexico, September 2003 – “Look at how they’ve destroyed this place,” says Gustavo Herrera, a local cab driver. Herrera slowly shakes his head back and forth as he scans the barricade the federales, or Mexican federal police, erected at the northern […]
Mexican village plays host to fight over genetically engineered food
by Marc Morano CNSNews.com September 2003 VALLE VERDE, Mexico, September 2003 — An effort to promote the safety and benefits of genetically modified foods during the World Trade Organization meeting mushroomed into a clash between free market activists and environmental groups in a small-impoverished village outside of Cancun on Friday, September 12. The event, sponsored […]