Environment
What better time than the end of a snowy January day eleven years and counting into a global cooling trend to examine the latest global warming panic mongering? Global alarm over climate change and its effects has risen manifold after the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, many of…
Admittedly, those of a conservative temperament are predisposed to fear rushes, but there’s wisdom in a healthy fear of ideological mandates for urgency. Perhaps the greatest source of that anxiety, currently, is the global mania in the name of fashionable environmentalism. So we find cities neglecting to consider that “wasteful” light bulb heat might actually…
The Climate Conference commenced Monday in Copenhagen. President Obama has promised that the United States will abate its greenhouse gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade and by 83% by 2050. Adding to the madness, the EPA ruled on the same day that greenhouse gases, “emitted by factories, motor vehicles,…
Just a quick note that the Climategate scandal has reached the level at which scientists are stepping down, and the only mention of the issue in our state’s environmentalism-besotted paper of record hasn’t been from its environment department, but in a letter to the editor. You know, it’s kind of like that scene in Men…
First: On November 19, 2009, climate science was severely shaken by the release of a collection of email messages, together with a collection of data and data processing programs, that were hacked or revealed by a whistle blower from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU), one of the key centers of global…
In a sense, it oughtn’t be surprising, but it does seem as if the degree is notching up, and each step is shocking: Even some among the better informed among the folks with whom I interact on a daily basis (who are, to be sure, less well informed than even the most disengaged among readers…
Just wanted to mark this final stage in the incremental establishment of the green religion as the official doctrine of the land: New major public projects and building renovations in Rhode Island, including schools, must be designed and constructed in conformance with high-performance green-building standards, according to legislation signed by Governor Carcieri. The law applies…
It’s Political Maneuvering 101 to encase your preferred issues within a popular Trojan Horse. So, if green is what you mean, declare its ability to end joblessness. However pretty a landscape that may paint, though, it’s of questionable accuracy: Green technology may help drive an economic recovery in New England but the fledgling industry will…
Environmentalists needn’t be on the same page on every initiative, of course, but there’s nothing in Tricia Jedele’s letter to the Providence Journal that negates the NIMBYism suggested in their expressed concerns about wind turbines on Black Point: Some of the signatories to the letter to the governor may ultimately support or oppose particular wind…
This is one of those stories that leaves the reader unsure of whether to laugh or cry: Save The Bay, the leading environmental organization in Rhode Island, is opposing a plan to erect a wind turbine at Black Point, a coastal property in Narragansett that was preserved two decades ago using state open-space bonds. The…
