Just received this from Gordon J. Fulks (Ph.D., Physics), of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Astrophysics, Mission Research Corporation, Corbett, OR, via email, and he permitted me to publish it here on our blog. It’s right on target. Politics has clearly compromised science via billions of dollars going to those scientists willing to play […]
The Associated Press reports that Vatican officials are very upset over the leak of a draft of the much-anticipated papal encyclical on the environment yesterday. I find the concluding paragraph of the AP report most interesting: In the aftermath of the “Vatileaks” scandal, the Vatican City State updated its criminal code to include severe penalties
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North Carolina businessman Jay Faison feels that some Republican are being left out of the man-made climate change discussion. Namely he believes that those Republicans who believe energy policy should be set based on this failed, and ever failing, theory are not being given a voice. He intends to rectify that by financing a 175
Forget More Cowbell. This Investor Thinks We Need More Alarmism Learn More »
Economist Jeffrey Sachs directs the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He’s also led the way in the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals–a high-sounding program to end poverty that depends largely on redistributing wealth from the West to the Rest with an obligatory but ineffectual nod toward the need for governmental reform and economic development in impoverished
Hayward Slam Dunks Sachs Learn More »
Ecosystems are complex. I learned that in a very real way during two summers on Alaska’s Pribilof Islands in 1993 and 1994. Participating in a joint U.S/Russian research project, our goal was to collect as much oceanographic data as possible around tiny St. Paul Island. Imagine a treeless island with the lush green hills and
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That’s how most of the media are treating a new study, anyway. Even the Wall Street Journal ran a news piece titled “Study Finds No Pause in Global Warming.” The source? “Possible artifacts of data bias in the recent global surface warming hiatus,” published this week in Science, by long-time global warming alarmist Tom Karl et al. Abstract:
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In 2005, Congress and President Bush created a “renewable fuels standard” (RFS) This is a rule that requires that fuels such as ethanol be used as a substitute for petroleum-based fuel. The idea was supposedly to reduce oil imports, though it also had other effects. For one, it created a huge benefit for corn farmers,
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Stunning that the reliably liberal and alarmist NYT runs an article, “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion,” with equally stunning video demonstrating that Paul Ehrlich, author of the uber-alarmist The Population Bomb (1968), was totally, totally wrong. The full case for Ehrlich’s idiocy on the economics of demography is far, far stronger than the article
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In its Quixotic quest to fight global warming, Europe is switching many coal-fired electric generating plants to wood pellets. Not a good idea. One of the most important advances for both humanity and the environment was our move from using wood as primary energy source to coal, natural gas, and oil. That led to a
Europe’s Appetite for Wood Pellets Instead of Coal Threatens Forests Learn More »
As so often happens, eco-doomsters notice that one factor puts stress on some ecosystem, and they sound the alarm, but further study indicates that other factors balance out the stress. In this instance, researchers find that coral reefs aren’t so sensitive to water temperature changes as some global warming alarmists had claimed. Instead, they respond
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