Over the past month and a half, I’ve been speaking at numerous universities, including Stanford, Berkeley, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Toronto. One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy. Why? After all, don’t these each have byproducts and risks that are undesirable? Sure, as do all forms of …
Gas Prices 101 — Power Surge with Alex Epstein and Eric Dennis
Why do gasoline prices rise and fall more than other prices? Dr. Eric Dennis and I break it down in the latest edition of Power Surge. Download Power Surge: Gas Prices
Intellectual Entrepreneurship and the Battle for Liberty
Toronto – March 7, 2012 8:30 pm Bahen Centre For Information Technology 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON Intellectual entrepreneur Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, will discuss the key factors in using entrepreneurship to spread ideas and impact the political process. Entrepreneurs play an important role in moving a society forward by putting new business ideas …
An Unreasonable Bill
We all know that the United States has a graduated income tax. The more money you earn annually, the higher a percentage of your marginal income that you pay in taxes. Depending on how one defines it, the average marginal tax rate that middle class citizens pay to the Federal government is around 20 percent. The top marginal rate is …
End the Fed! And Then What?
A sound monetary and banking system is the foundation of economic growth and industrial progress. Our central bank, the Federal Reserve, claims, by mandate, to maintain “stable prices” and “full employment.” Yet its record is one of chronic monetary instability. Because money is the essential link between all the diverse, coordinated sectors of our economy, this instability is the root of …
Selling Your Soul For a Narrative: Understanding the Gleick Fraud
Within the green movement, Peter Gleick is a renowned environmental scientist specializing in the negative impact of global warming. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, co-founded the Pacific Institute, served as chairman of a “task force on scientific ethics and integrity” in the American Geophysical Union, and received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (aka “genius grant”) in anticipation …
CIP in the Midwest
As I write this, I am heading to Duluth, MN to give my fourth talk this week, “How Mining Improves Our Environment.” On Monday, I spoke at University of Wisconsin, Madison on “Why America Should Stop Going Green and Start Going Industrial.” On Tuesday, I spoke at St. Olaf College about energy and economics. Last night, I spoke at University …
Power Hour: The Industrial Progress Movement
On this month’s Power Hour, guest-host Jordan Breen interviews me about the Industrial Progress movement. Download and save: The Industrial Progress Movement with Alex Epstein and Jordan Breen
Climatology Establishment Smears Scientific Critics
Responding to a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by 16 scientists who reject global warming catastrophism (discussed here), 38 academic climatologists have offered their counterargument, which amounts to 1) disagreeing with the 16 scientists’ factual claims about the climate and 2) claiming that since most of the scientists are not climatologists, their claims are uninformed. Both points are wrong.
The Global Warming Campaign Takes a Blow
The movement to convince the public of catastrophic global warming is fundamentally unscientific. Its leaders do not, as true scientists would, objectively study and relay the full evidence about what drives the climate, they fixate obsessively on CO2. They do not share how poorly understood climate drivers are; they act as if they can predict the climate with certainty. Through …