The Condensed Edition is published by the Heartland Institute, a national nonprofit research organization based in Chicago and publisher of Environmental & Climate News. Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute chose the text and oversaw the editing process.See ISBN 0936488948 for complete edition.

11th Annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2006 (Condensed Edition)

Steven F. Hayward

Heartland Institute

A concise summary of the latest facts and findings refuting the myths of global warming and human-caused climate change, especially designed for policymakers and those in power. Along with the companion volume on the physical science is everything a person needs to know to quickly and assertively answer any argument or talking point.

Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts

Unknown, Author

Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels assesses the costs and benefits of the use of fossil fuels with a special focus on anthropogenic climate change. It is the fifth volume in the Climate Change Reconsidered (CCR) series produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).The NIPCC authors, building on previous reports in the series as well as new literature reviews, find that while climate change is occurring and a human impact on climate is likely, there is no consensus on the size of that impact relative to natural variability, the net benefits or costs of the impacts of climate change, or whether future climate trends can be predicted with sufficient confidence to guide public policies today. Consequently, concern over climate change is not a sufficient scientific or economic basis for restricting the use of fossil fuels.
The NIPCC authors do something their IPCC counterparts never did: Conduct an even-handed cost-benefit analysis of the use of fossil fuels. Despite calling for the end of reliance on fossil fuels by 2100, the IPCC never produced an accounting of the opportunity cost of restricting or banning their use. That cost would be enormous. Estimates of the cost of reducing anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the amounts said by the IPCC to be necessary to avoid causing ~2°C warming in the year 2050 range from the IPCC's own estimate of 3.4% to as high as 81% of projected global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2050, the latter estimate nullifying all the gains in human well-being made in the past century. Cost-benefit ratios range from the IPCC's own estimate of 6.8:1 to an alarming 162:1.
The NIPCC authors conclude, "The global war on energy freedom, which commenced in earnest in the 1980s and reached a fever pitch in the second decade of the twenty-first century, was never founded on sound science or economics. The world's policymakers ought to acknowledge this truth and end that war."
 Chapter 1 describes how economic principles can be applied to environmental issues. The authors explain how economists use observational data (prices, profits and losses, investment and consumption decisions, etc.) to measure and monetize costs and benefits, to understand how people respond to and solve challenges, and to understand why private as well as government efforts to protect the environment sometimes fail to achieve their objectives.
Chapter 2 updates the literature review of climate science in previous CCR volumes. Most notably, the authors say the IPCC has exaggerated the amount of warming likely to occur if the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) were to double and such warming as occurs is likely to be modest and cause no net harm to the global environment or to human well-being. 
Chapters 3, 4, and 5 catalogue the beneficial impacts of fossil fuels on human prosperity, human health, and the environment. These benefits are enormous yet missing from the IPCC's massive tomes. Chapters 6 and 7 address two harms said to be created by the use of fossil fuels: air pollution and what the IPCC calls threats to "human security." The NIPCC authors show the alleged effects of air pollution have been grossly exaggerated. Similarly, the IPCC's own literature review shows how weak is the case for claiming climate change intensifies risk factors such as loss of property and livelihoods, forced migration, and violent conflict.
Chapter 8, the final chapter of the book, critiques the IPCC's claim that the cost of reducing the use of fossil fuels is justified by the benefits of a slightly cooler world a century hence. New cost-benefit analyses of climate change, fossil fuels, and regulations demonstrate how adaptation to climate change is invariably the better path than attempting to mitigate it by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate at a Glance for Teachers and Students: Facts on 30 Prominent Climate Topics

Science & Math

Taylor, James

Watts, Anthony

Earth Sciences

Would you support a reform that would make prescription drugs better, available sooner, at lower cost? If you answer yes to this question, then you should support Free To Choose Medicine. Free To Choose Medicine, or FTCM for short, would be implemented through federal legislation authorizing four things: 1. Creation of a Free To Choose track, outside the control of the FDA, for patients and their doctors who want early access to promising new drugs; 2. Creation of a Tradeoff Evaluation Drug Database (TEDD) that would make real-time data about the treatment results and side effects of early-access drugs available to the public on the Internet; 3. Creation of a new type of FDA new drug approval based on observational data, rather than randomized controlled trials, utilizing assessments of safety and effectiveness from drug use by patients on the Free To Choose track; and 4. Legal liability reform, so patients are legally able to take responsibility for choosing a drug that might pose risks to their health and drug companies are not held liable for side effects that aren't due to incompetence or neglect. Why is FTCM needed? * People are suffering and dying because they are denied timely access to new drugs stuck in the FDA new drug approval pipeline. There is an enormous invisible graveyard of patients who were denied access to drugs that could have saved their lives. * The purpose of the drugs-to-patients system should be to deliver better drugs, sooner, at lower cost, not to chase after the impossible goal of zero risk. * The FDA is unnecessarily delaying the approval of new drugs by many years as well as stifling innovation. It refuses to change. * The essential ingredients of reform are increasing patient and doctor choices, reducing regulatory costs and delays, increasing innovation, increasing competition and consumer choice, and reducing drug prices. This third edition of Bartley J. Madden's book Free To Choose Medicine describes how we can achieve this defining moment for America--a directional change from today's trend of increasing litigation and regulation as well as a stake in the ground anchoring the undeniable truth that control of medical decisions belongs, first and foremost, with individual patients and doctors, not the government.

Free To Choose Medicine: Better Drugs Sooner at Lower Cost: 3rd Edition

Bartley J. Madden

Child Safety Accounts : Combating Student Bullying and School Violence by Empowering Parents

Tim Benson Vicki Alger

Socialism at a Glance

History

Talgo, Christopher

McPherrin, Jack

World

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