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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Peter Gleick - Feb. 06 - The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem

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Bad Accounting Killed the US Economy

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populist.com - By Bob Burnett - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - In each case Dell accepted the proposal because from a perspective of making money, it made sense: Dell’s revenues were unaffected and its profits improved significantly. However, the next time ASUSTeK came back, it wasn’t to talk to Dell. It was to talk to Best Buy and other retailers to tell them that they could offer them their own brand or any brand PC for 20% lower cost.”

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An Unemployment Report That Screams Spectacular Failure

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Charles Kadlec - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - Spectacular failure. These words came to mind as the dismal employment data for June were released last Friday. After the biggest spending binge in peacetime American history, the unemployment rate is stuck above 9%, while in May fewer than 20,000 jobs were created in what was once a vibrant U.S. economy. Adding in discouraged workers drives the combined rate to 16.2%. Wage rates fell, as did the average workweek.

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Polar Ice Rapture Misses Its Deadline

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By James Taylor - May. 26 (Opinion) - While Harold Camping spends this week trying to wipe egg off his face after real-world events spectacularly falsified his prediction that the Christian rapture would occur on May 21, global warming alarmists are similarly trying to wipe egg off their faces after real-world events spectacularly falsified their predictions of an imminent polar ice rapture.

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Denying the Catastrophe: The Science of the Climate Skeptic's Position

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Warren Meyer - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - Alarmists like to call climate skeptics “deniers,” usually in an attempt to equate climate skeptics with holocaust deniers. But skeptics do not deny that temperatures have warmed over the last century, or even that man (through CO2 as well as land use and other factors) has played some part in that warming. What skeptics deny, though, is the catastrophe. And even more, what skeptics deny is the need to drastically reduce fossil fuel use – a step that will likely be an expensive exercise in the developed west but an unmitigated disaster for the poor of Asia and Africa. These developing nations, who are just recently emerging from millennia of poverty, need to burn every hydrocarbon they can find to develop their economies.

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How Obama Thinks

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Dinesh D’Souza - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government'scontrol over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy.

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Leave BP Alone

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Brian S. Wesbury, Robert Stein - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - Don't get the wrong idea. Oil gushing from a pipe a mile deep is appalling. We wish not a drop had gurgled to the surface, ruining beachfront property and fishing habitats. But accidents happen. The good news is that we learn from them.

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As Congress Dithers, Military Provides Leadership On Green Energy

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jim Arkedis - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - despite the political mess, one very public group is providing leadership on energy because it doesn't have a choice: the United States military. They’re not at the tip of the green spear because they’re a group of tree-hugging environmentalists, either. As my colleague Mike Signer has written: [C]lean energy and efficiency programs would not only help reduce our carbon output and achieve energy efficiency; they would directly increase the effectiveness of our military. … [E]very $10 increase in the price of oil translates into a $1.3 billion increase in the Pentagon's operating costs.

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Mining Magnate Ross Beaty is Turning to Geothermal

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jonathan Fahey - May. 24 (Special Report) - Ross Beaty made a fortune mining gold, silver and copper. Now he's trying to mine water--very, very hot water.

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Gulf Oil Drilling Is Worth The Risk

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Lawrence M. Cathles - May. 18 (Opinion) - Yes, it's dangerous. But so is doing without the oil.

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Climate Change: A Perilous Path

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Bjorn Lomborg - Sep. 21 (Opinion) - Evidence is growing that relatively cheap policies like climate engineering and non-carbon energy research could effectively prevent suffering from global warming, both in the short and long term. Unfortunately, political leaders gathering at a special meeting of the United Nations in New York this week will focus on a very different response.

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Lehman's Lesson

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Roy C. Smith - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Letting Lehman go was a mistake. The event triggered a three-month market panic the likes of which no one living can remember, shutting down the interbank credit market and the commercial paper market and causing an instant run on money-market funds, and on the debt and stock prices of other large banks and investment banks.

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China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and to poison its people.

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When Democrats Turns On Themselves

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By David Gerstein - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - Obama needs to at least have the patina of bipartisanship. If the moderate Republicans watch their fellow centrists on the other side of the aisle resist their own base, they have even less of an incentive to meet the president in the left's unrealistic sense of the middle.

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A Weak American President

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Anne Bayefsky - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - President Obama has staked his reputation on being a human rights guru to people around the world. But his remarks at Tuesday's news conference and behavior since taking office have instead exposed a different persona--that of human rights charlatan.

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Top College Towns For Jobs

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Matt Woolsey - May. 20 (Special Report) - Research universities tend to be great environments for business, as they’re flush with cheap, highly talented labor (recent grads), and the massive research and development budgets universities have. Plenty of the world’s top companies, including Dell ( DELL - news - people ), Cisco Systems ( CSCO - news - people ) and Google ( GOOG - news - people ), began in university settings.

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How Carbon Caps Could Help Detroit

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Andy Stone - Apr. 25 (News Report) - The auto industry that emerges from the current crisis will face tough new environmental standards, and that's not all bad.

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Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Bruce Bartlett - Apr. 16 (Opinion) - many protesters implicitly assume that that the deficit has increased solely as a result of Barack Obama's policies. But in fact, the Congressional Budget Office was projecting a deficit of more than $1 trillion this year back in January, before any of Obama's policies had been enacted, and a cumulative deficit of $4.3 trillion through 2019. (CBO made no assumptions about what his policies might be in making its projection.)

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With Oil Cheap, Interest Fades In Offshore Drilling Rights

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jesse Bogan - Mar. 19 (News Report) - Dismal oil and natural gas prices led to lackluster bidding in an auction of federal offshore leases in the busiest region of the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Obama Administration Double-Deals On Israel

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Anne Bayefsky - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish leaders to believe that the president had decided to boycott the United Nation's "anti-racism" conference known as Durban II. At the same time, however, human rights organizations were being led to believe that the administration was not pulling out and was looking for a way to "re-engage."

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Harvard: The Inside Story of Its Finance Meltdown

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Bernard Condon, Nathan Vardi - Feb. 28 (News Report) - Stocks were tumbling last fall as the new school year began, but at Harvard University it was as if the boom had never ended. Workers were digging across the river from Harvard's Cambridge, Mass. home, the start of a grand expansion that was to eventually almost double the size of the university. Budgets were plump, and students from middle-class families were getting big tuition breaks under an ambitious new financial aid program. The lavish spending was made possible by the earnings from Harvard's $36.9 billion endowment, the world's largest. That pot was supposed to be good for $1.4 billion in annual earnings. Behind the scenes, though, a different story was unfolding.

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Who Gives The Most?

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Elisabeth Eaves - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - Americans give more to charity, per capita and as a percentage of gross domestic product, than the citizens of other nations. But why? It would be nice to believe that as a group they are just more generous. Of course, it's more complicated than that. For instance in the U.S., which is notably religious among wealthy Western nations, about a third of all charitable giving goes to houses of worship. Some of that money, in turn, goes to projects that have an obvious benefit to the needy, like soup kitchens. But some does not, rather going toward paying the church secretary and the rent. Volunteerism also complicates the picture. The Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies compiled a ranking of private philanthropy in 36 countries from 1995 to 2002. Based on giving alone, the U.S. comes first, giving 1.85% of GDP, followed by Israel at 1.34% and Canada at 1.17%. But based on volunteerism alone, the Netherlands comes first, followed by Sweden and then the U.S.

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How To Be a Good Billionaire

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Susan Kitchens - Dec. 25 (Interview) - I actually started out thinking about philanthropy in the late 1990s when I was writing about a lot of the dot-com millionaires at the time and finding that a number of them were talking about philanthropy as a solution to what psychologists call sudden-wealth syndrome. There was a sense that getting rich very fast would be bad for their kids. They also didn't expect to have this money, and so they wanted to find ways to put it to work.

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The End Of Vietnam In American Politics

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By John Zogby - Nov. 08 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama's win over John McCain marks the third straight defeat of a candidate who served active duty in Vietnam. The electoral dynamics may have been very different in 2000 and 2004 than they were in 2008, as were the war records and even the political parties of Al Gore, John Kerry and McCain. But each of them lost to men who never served in Vietnam.

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Selling Papers

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By James Erik Abels - Oct. 27 (News Report) - At some point, you start to dismantle the companies," says Atorino. The newspaper industry's cost structure, staffing and share price are based on an outdated business model that continues to define financial expectations. So the goal would be to slough off enough costs to let younger, more nimble newspaper businesses live without the artificial market pressure of year-over-year comparisons.

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