(January 11, 2011) One option for Haiti is to make it a U.S. territory like Puerto Rico, writes Probe International’s Executive Director, Patricia Adams.
What happens when WWF is in charge of the weather?
(January 10, 2011) What happens when the inmates run the insane asylum? This experiment is being run in the UK, where the ultra-green former head of the World Wildlife Fund UK and other global warming activists were put in charge of running the country’s Meteorological Office, the country’s weather department.
Global warming camp struck out in 2010
(January 10, 2011) Three strikes and you’re out. The sound of silence lately coming from the global warming camp reflects 2010 being a strike-out year for it.
One year after the earthquake, foreign help is actually hurting Haiti
(January 7, 2011) Alex Dupuy, a native of Haiti, is a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University, talks about why foreign aid has continually failed Haitian citizens–and this time it’s going to be no different.
The weather office’s secret forecast
(January 6, 2011) The UK’s weather office, the Met, provided the UK’s Cabinet with a secret forecast that was at odds with the one made public, according to The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a non-partisan think tank based in London.
China’s Yellow River basin hit by serious erosion
(January 5, 2011) The Associated Press says a new government report in China found 62 percent of China’s Yellow River basin area has been seriously impacted by water and soil erosion, making it one of the worst examples of erosion in the world.
The merry-go round of aid: Foreign aid goes in and comes out in developing countries flush with cash
(Dececember 30, 2010) Brady Yauch writes that a recent World Bank program in India has reignited the debate on when “developing” countries should stand on their own two feet.
Scientists Push Desalination To Meet Water Shortages
(December 30, 2010) While China faces grave water shortages, researchers at institutions across the country are working on new water- saving and desalination technologies that they hope can alleviate the crisis in the crucial years to come.
China counts £130bn cost of economic growth
(December 28, 2010) The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts writes that the cost of pollution, deteriorating soil and other impacts cost China 1.3 trillion yuan, or 3.9% of the country’s GDP, in 2008.
The green hijack of the Met Office is crippling Britain
(December 26, 2010) The Met Office’s commitment to warmist orthodoxy means it drastically underestimates the chances of a big freeze, says Christopher Booker.
A never-ending story: More Canadian foreign aid money lost to corruption, this time in Kenya
(December. 23, 2010) Canada’s foreign aid agency once again finds itself in the middle of a corruption scandal involving its funds.
Rosy U.K. cheeks mean red faces at the Met Office
(December 22, 2010) Let’s hope Santa isn’t relying on weather forecasts from the U.K. Met Office. The British deep freeze of recent weeks (which has also immobilized much of continental Europe) is profoundly embarrassing for the official forecaster. Just two months ago it projected a milder than usual winter.
Chinese Academy of Engineering says Three Gorges project’s feasibility study was “completely correct”
(December 20, 2010) On December 17, 2010, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) issued an assessment of the Three Gorges project’s feasibility study and affirmed that the plan and conclusions of the study are correct.
MSNBC: As US debates, China acts with a building boom
(December 19, 2010) Gravel-laden barges glide past the willow-fringed banks of the Grand Canal, plying a trade route built 2,500 years ago to bring grain from China’s fertile south to its rulers in the north.
Tale of two subsidies: Chinese government earns millions in carbon credit subsidies, while US trade officials cry foul
(December 17, 2010) The Chinese government is earning millions of dollars in tax revenue from the sale of carbon credits, while trade officials in the U.S. accuse it of unfairly subsidizing its clean energy industry.
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