A number of authors, unaffiliated with The Science & Environmental Policy Project, are writing on environment from a variety of perspectives; legal and economic, as well as science. The following titles may prove useful in learning more about these issues:
BOOKSA Moment on the Earth by Gregg Easterbrook (Viking, 1995)
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation by Justice Stephen Breyer (Harvard University Press, 1993)
Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism by Joseph L. Bast, Peter J. Hill, and Richard C. Rue (Madison Books, 1994)
Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse by Ronald Bailey (St. Martin's Press, 1993)
Exploding Population Myths by Jim Peron (Heartland Institute, 1995)
Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? by Dixy Lee Ray (Regnery Gateway, 1993)
Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards edited by Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, Jr. (Praeger, New York, 1992)
Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America by Jonathan Adler (Capital Research Center, 1996)
Facts Not Fear: A Parent's Guide to Environmental Education by Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1996)
Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W. Huber (Basic Books, 1991)
Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air? by Roger Bate and Julian Morris (Institute of Economic Affairs/London, 1994)
Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by Tamara L. Roleff (Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1997)
Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism by Martin W. Lewis (Duke University Press, 1992)
Health, Lifestyle & Environment: Countering the Panic by The Social Affairs Unit of the Manhattan Institute (Manhattan Institute, Washington, D.C. 1991)
Human Impacts on Weather and Climate by William R. Cotton and Roger A. Pielke (ASTeR Press: Ft. Collins, CO., 1992)
Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts by Kenneth R. Foster and Peter W. Huber (MIT Press, 1997)
Polluted Science: The EPA's Campaign to Expand Clean Air Regulations by Michael Fumento (American Enterprise Press, 1997)
Protecting the Environment: Old Rhetoric, New Imperatives by Jo Kwong Echard, Studies in Organization Trends (Capital Research Center, 1990)
Science Under Siege: Balancing Technology and the Environment by Michael Fumento (William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993)
Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem by Robert Jastrow, William Nierenberg, and Frederick Seitz (The Marshall Press/Jameson Books, Inc., Ottawa, Illinois 1990
Searching for Safety by Aaron Wildavsky (Transaction Publishers, 1988)
Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming by Patrick Michaels (CATO Books, 1992)
Taking the Environment Seriously, edited by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993)
The Doomsday Myth by Charles Maurice and Charles W. Smithson (Hoover Institution Press, 1984) Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993)
The Flight from Science and Reason edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 775, 1996)
The Global Warming Debate: The Report of the European Science & Environment Forum, edited by John Emsley (Bourne Press Limited, 1996)
The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin (The Free Press, 1994)
The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality by Robert C. Balling, Jr. (Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1992)
The Resourceful Earth by Julian L. Simon and Herman Kahn (Basil Blackwell, 1984)
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World's Premier Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement, edited by Ronald Bailey (The Free Press, 1995)
Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered by Wilfred Beckerman (CATO Institute, 1996)
Toxic Terror: The Truth About the Cancer Scare by Dr. Elizabeth Whelan (Jameson Books, 1985)
Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (among other things) by Dixy Lee Ray (Regnery Gateway, 1990)
What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health, edited by Roger Bate, European Science and Environment Forum (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997). Available through Roger@ESEF.org
ARTICLES
in Washington Post, August 13, 1997--"The Little Ice Age: When GLobal Cooling Gripped the World," by scientist Alan Cutler.
in Washington Post, July 13, 1997--"A Conflict Between Creatures: As Humans Move Into Predators' Habitat, Both May Be Under Attack," article on overpopulating species by Tom Kenworthy.
in the Washington Post, July 9, 1997--"Dancing Around a Dilemma: Global warming promises to become a large and gushing source of national hypocrisy" by syndicated columnist Robert J. Samuelson, editorial section. Also ran in July 14 edition of Newsweek under the title: "Don't Hold Your Breath: Global warming promises to become a large and gushing source of national hypocrisy."
in Investor's Business Daily, July 7, 1997--"A Green Law and Black Markets," article on Freon smuggling by Laura M. Litvan.
in the Wall Street Journal, July 4, 1997--"Hot Air," lead editorial on UN global warming talks, p. A-14.
in Science, May 16, 1997--"Global Climate Forecasting Still Cloudy," by Richard Kerr.
in Boston Globe, April 28, 1997--"Are Skeptics Winning Debate on Warming?" by Scott Allen.
in Washington Times, March 2, 1994--"Mr. Gore in the Balance," lead editorial on Gore's attempt to smear scientists, p. A-16.
in U.S. News & World Report, December 13, 1993--"The Doomsday Myths," by Stephen Budiansky, pp. 81-91.
in Reader's Digest, December 1993--"Why All the Crazy Weather?" by Lowell Ponte.
in Forbes, July 6, 1992--"You can't get there from here" article on ineffective and often counterproductive EPA regulations by Peter Brimelow and Leslie Spencer.
in Washington Post, May 31, 1992--"As Earth Summit Nears, Consensus Still Lacking on Global Warming's Cause," by Boyce Rensberger, p. A-1.