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Polar Bear Numbers Falling? Not So, Says Barred Polar Bear Expert.

July 1st, 2009 by Adam Axvig

The UK’s Daily Telegraph is reporting that polar bear expert, Mitchell Taylor, is not being allowed to participate in a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group held in Copenhagen. Taylor, who has been researching polar bears for 30 years, was told that he was barred from the group because “his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.” The researcher insists that contrary to popular opinion among global warming scientists, the population of polar bears is not falling, but actually rising…

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Climate Change ca. 1975

June 30th, 2009 by Adam Axvig

The year was 1975, and the world’s scientists were concerned about climate change. In fact, on April 28th, 1975 Newsweek started an article with “There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically.”

Sound familiar? Only the article was titled “The Cooling World.” In fact in 1975, the world’s scientists we’re extremely panicked that the global climate was cooling. Many of the statements made in the article sound eerily familiar.

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June 26th, 2009 Weekly Update

June 26th, 2009 by Adam Axvig

The Minnesota Free Market Institute Weekly Update
Friday, June 26, 2009

Rep. Peterson Flip Flops on Cap and Trade. We Should Ask Ourselves, Why?

Apparently in Congress, Midwestern sensibility only takes you so far. Tuesday night, Minnesota 7th District Congressman, Collin Peterson, struck a deal with California Congressman Henry Waxman to guarantee the votes to pass [...]

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If Bill Doesn’t Pass, The Heat’ll Kill You Says AP

June 25th, 2009 by Margaret Martin

The Associated Press has evidently taken a vacation this week and simply printed a press release from The Union of Concerned Scientists about the dangers of Global Warming they say will occur if the Waxman-Markey Climate Change and Cap and Trade Bill is not passed. The Concerned Scientists list all of the adverse events that could occur if temperatures rise up to 12 degrees hotter in Minnesota. Missing from the AP’s account (which just happens to coincide with a heat wave in Minnesota) is an actual discussion of whether Global Warming is actually happening, if it is part of larger natural cycles or is in fact caused by human activity. For that (and more), you would need to go and read the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change Report. Also left unmentioned is whether you are more likely to die of heat exposure or to be taxed to death by some of the Climate Change Proposals.

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Single-Payer Model Actually Inhibits Improved Health Care

June 25th, 2009 by Craig Westover

MinnPost recently ran an interview with Dr. Oliver Fein supporting single-payer health care. Dr. Fein did a good job laying out the principles of a single-payer system. However, logically and practically looking at each one of his principles, bringing visibility to the unseen consequences of his proposal yeilds a conclusion that Dr. Fein would certainly not be fine with:

Well-intentioned as is his desire for universal health care, the single-payer model can’t get us there; it actually inhibits improved health care — and, ironically, to establish a manufactured “right” to health care a single-payer system destroys the unalienable right of individuals to make their own health-care decisions.

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