California Seal Pups Predict Pacific Ocean Cooling
A new study of California elephant seal pups and their weaning weights predicts that a 25-year Pacific Ocean warming has ended, and the second half of a 50-year cycle has begun to cool the northern Pacific. Historical fish catch data indicate the ocean cooling trend is likely to last until about 2025.
Posted: 06/20/2005 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Global Warming
A Toxic Brew
There was much to dislike in previous energy bills, and there are likely to be many flaws in the energy bill now under consideration. Perhaps the best outcome would be no new energy bill—a bad bill being worse than none at all.
Posted: 06/15/2005 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy
Ethanol Benefits Makers, Legislators Who Support Their Cause
WASHINGTON – Congress should give American motorists a break at the pump in the pending energy bill, but special interests and legislators beholden to them are once again loading the bill down with pork barrel projects.
Posted: 06/06/2005 | Commentaries | Policy Issue: Energy