Pacific Research Institute has released their Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2007 Report. The theme of the Index this year is how tough it’s getting to put together an index. This is because - and I’m injecting my take on their report here - the thick cloud of opinion on the environment (climate change mostly) is fogging over our ability to actually measure what’s going on.
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Steve Hayward, the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco.
California's Attorney General Jerry Brown is blasting the Bush administration today, over new gas mileage standards that increase by 1.3 tenths per gallon. It's a controversy that's triggered a lawsuit by California, many other states and some environmental groups. The suit is being heard in San Francisco.
Many groups used this year's Earth Day celebration to incite fear in our hearts. Less loudly proclaimed were all the ways in which our environment is getting better.
A critic of what he calls "global warming alarmism" says extreme claims made by former Vice President Al Gore and others about what is likely to happen in the future that are not backed up by science.
