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Two Cheers for Climate Change?
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 1.29.2003
Another two inches of snow fell in Washington Sunday night, and today's high temperature might reach 20 degrees. As the East Coast enters into its eighth week of temperatures more than 15 degrees below normal, skeptics of global warming are starting to change their mind and say that, whatever their doubts, they now hope global warming is indeed true. Another anomaly of recent days is the news that U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases (particularly CO2) declined by 1.2 percent in 2002, the largest decline in more than a decade.
California Coastal Conniption
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 1.8.2003
The big news around these parts of California's central coast is the state appeals court ruling that the California Coastal Commission is unconstitutional. The ruling is long overdue. The Coastal Commission, for you non-Californians, is one of those modern administrative agencies that combine bureaucratic ideology of near-Stalinist zeal with corruption of the worst kind. One commissioner, Mark Nathanson, served five years in prison for selling favors. But the Coastal Commission is merely the tip of the bureaucratic iceberg that has been sinking development in California for more than a generation.
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