Two Graphs of Air Pollution Trends in the United States
Pretty much self-explanatory:
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Did Ocean Acidification Devastate Oregon’s Oyster Hatcheries?
About twelve years ago, operators of oyster hatcheries along the Oregon coast noticed something strange. Oyster larvae were dying. By the billions. In short order, climate-change alarmists posited a cause: “ocean acidification” driven by manmade carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels. Suddenly it wasn’t only warming of the atmosphere that struck fear into
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So Climate Change Is a Non-Crisis—What about Air & Water Pollution?
A follower writes, My question concerns the legitimate concern with pollution in large urban areas across the globe. I have come to believe that CO2 emissions are not a threat to our climate. But many of the things spewed into the air and water as a result of industrialization are harmful to people. It seems
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Ten Reasons to Take Coronavirus Seriously—While Speaking Graciously
Charles Horton, M.D., consults regularly for the Christian news magazine World. In the July 10 issue, he responded to someone who had challenged him to provide ten reasons to take the Coronavirus seriously. Here they are in brief. You can read his fuller discussion in the original article. 1. Case counts can rise quickly where
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Indian environmental scientist blasts anti-GMO celebrity Vandana Shiva for ‘baseless’ assault on biotech crops
A reader curious about celebrities’ role in the radical environmental movement emailed me recently. He wondered if and their claims about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) were credible. He was particularly interested in anti-GMO claims by Indian scientist Vandana Shiva. Shiva is no newbie to GMO. She speaks often against it. Her celebrity status gives her
Terrified of Light: The Depressing Argument for Crippling Our Space Program
In his book Dark Skies, political scientist Daniel Deudney defends the thesis that human safety requires the preservation of ignorance. Large-scale space expansion must be viewed as something akin to a full-scale nuclear war and assiduously avoided. . . . Learning to live on Earth in ways consistent with the continued viability of the biosphere clearly requires an
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Oahu’s Energy: Irony, Hypocrisy … or Both?
On Oahu’s west side, a Hawaiian green sea turtle snuggles up to a reef for an afternoon nap. But this is no ordinary reef. It’s the warm water outflow structure for Oahu’s biggest electric power producer, the Kahe Power Plant. Built in the early 1960’s, the 651 megawatt (MW) workhorse often provides over 40% of
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Dominion, 1; Poison Ivy, 0
Today—Tuesday, June 2—we canceled the “From the Stacks” livestream I normally do every Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Cornwall Alliance’s Facebook page. Why? Well, the official explanation went like this: “Dr. E. Calvin Beisner had an unfortunate battle with poison ivy during which the poison ivy won.” Various folks posted condolences and wished
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Get Ready for Noisy Summer Nights — Compliments of ‘Mother Nature’
If it isn’t some new virus, or swarms of killer hornets newly arrived from Southeast Asia, it has to be another dread event to grab the attention of the mainstream media. National Public Radio recently reported on the soon-to-be re-arriving, and vociferous, 17-year cicadas, last seen and heard from in 2003. Sincere thanks to the NPR photo
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Prioritizing climate over pandemics
We need a full accounting of what was spent preparing for the ‘climate crisis’ versus COVID As of May 20, the United States had more than 1.5 million confirmed cases of Wuhan Coronavirus. US deaths related or attributed to the virus topped 92,000 (though many were really due to old age and related co-morbidities). Because
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