Environment
Well, it isn’t law yet, I suppose, but when legislative supporters of a government change as well as the Associated Press admit substantial cost to an initiative, it certainly gives pause: In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution…
Remember how concerned we all were about frog limbs? Answers!: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers started getting reports of numerous wild frogs or toads being found with extra legs or arms, or with limbs that were partly formed or missing completely. The cause of these deformities soon became a hotly contested issue.…
OK, what’s this “cap and trade” thing all about? Well, first its a bid to massively change some fundamentals of our economy all for the sake of reducing global warming (by a few tenths of a degree Celsius in a few decades). Although the powerless House GOP has offered arguments against its passage, Democratic leaders…
Save the Bay’s Jonathan Stone recently wrote: For years, vacancies have undermined the CRMC’s capacity and effectiveness. Now, the council’s lack of compliance with the separation-of-powers amendment continues to leave its decisions open to legal challenge. The Supreme Court confirmed that CRMC members must be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of…
Casual attendees at local government meetings might on occasion be stunned by the utter lack of discomfort among officials about using children to advance environmentalist principles. As with much else, the English are blazing the path to the next step down: Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as ‘citizen…
… though snows would be the more accurate verb. Ha! (Additional silly jokes supplied upon request.) The sun is the least active it’s been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which…
And speaking of fibbing, someone’s fingers slipped when entering recipient e-mail addresses and a draft memo outlining a … rebranding campaign for global warming got wider distribution than intended. From Friday’s New York Times; h/t Drudge. The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.” The term turns people off, fostering images of…
Monique explained why she believes trying to affect global warming by changing mankind’s behavior is pointless and disruptive on the Matt Allen show last night. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Over the course of the last couple of years, environmental advocates have slyly substituted the term “climate change” for “global warming”. Climate change is quite a different phenomenon than global warming. How can this redefinition of terms be anything other than a tacit acknowledgement that AGW is no longer a viable theory? The theory of…
Throw in environmentalism, too, because William Tucker’s thoughts on windmilled energy bring some possibilities to mind: The major limitation, of course, is wind’s intermittency — its lack of “dispatchability.” Quite simply, you can never count on it. You can’t even predict it from hour to hour with 100 percent accuracy and the windiest sites can…