The spectrum of environmental policy challenges—from climate change to nuclear waste storage to coastal shoreline erosion—depend on sophisticated forecasting and modeling techniques. How sound and reliable are our environmental models? What are the inherent limits of environmental science when attempting to forecast the future under different policy regimes? Are there...

The competition is fierce, but herewith the top five “New Malthusians” for a cover tribute band for the early 21st century.

While the debate over the efficiency of tax relief efforts continues, Federal Reserve reports now indicate promising economic growth, with incomes and spending on the rise. In Bullish on Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger (Derrydale Press, October 2004), the Club for Growth's Stephen...

While his Climate Fix sounds like yet another exercise in magical thinking, Pielke unloads one heresy after another.

If Obama is serious about wanting to increase domestic oil production, he'll move to open up new areas for exploration, and ask Congress to amend statutes that enable third party lawsuits to tie up drilling permits for years.

Since the beginning of the climate change story more than 20 years ago, it has been hard to sort out whether the IPCC represents the “best” science, or merely the findings most compatible with the politically driven climate policy agenda. Both sets of Climategate emails have lifted the lid on the insides of the process, and it isn’t pretty.

If the "progressives" get their way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it will be ordinary Americans who suffer.

The Solyndra story includes Obama campaign donors and everybody's favorite Wall Street whipping boy, Goldman Sachs, in the middle of the whole sorry mess. Yet it would be a mistake to mark the story down as merely another excrescence of crony capitalism. It is much worse.