Environment

The Environment Enables the Camel’s Nose in the Tent

By Justin Katz | May 26, 2009 |

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…

National Geographic Rains on the Global Warming Parade

By Monique Chartier | May 6, 2009 |

… 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…

Repackaging Global Warming (Surprisingly, Not “Climate Change” This Time)

By Monique Chartier | May 3, 2009 |

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…

Naysaying Man-Driven Global Warming on Earth Day

By Justin Katz | April 23, 2009 |

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.

Global Warming vs Climate Change: Clarifying Terms on Earth Day

By Monique Chartier | April 22, 2009 |

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…

The Energy and Healthcare Issues Come Together

By Justin Katz | April 22, 2009 |

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…

AGW: 6% – The Single Most Inconvenient Data Point (Part II of II)

By Monique Chartier | April 19, 2009 |

Ah, yes, “the need for action”. Certain scientists have called for a 60% reduction in manmade greenhouse gases. (A few advocates call this target inadequate.) Let us set aside for a moment the lack of any feasible alternate energy source and focus on the matter of effectiveness. Sixty percent of six percent is three point…

AGW: 6% – The Single Most Inconvenient Data Point (Part I of II)

By Monique Chartier | April 19, 2009 |

The EPA has reached a proposed finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare because they contribute to climate change. [Information on public hearings and how to submit written comment on this finding is here.] Stated more succinctly, the EPA has fallen for the erroneous theory of anthropogenic global warming, which posits that man…

Picking by the Side of the Road

By Justin Katz | April 18, 2009 |

About a dozen members of Tiverton Citizens for Change are currently picking up litter around the Park and Ride on Fish Rd. in Tiverton, off Rt. 24, although cigarette butt remediation might be a better term for the actual activity. To correct an impression that I might have left previously, our activity was apparently coordinated,…

Memories Over Housing in Rocky Point

By Justin Katz | February 18, 2009 |

Even with the market sag, housing is still relatively expensive in Rhode Island, and part of what led to our being hit so hard in the subprime collapse was residents’ inability to find suitable housing within their means, and the lack of in-state competition for property owners probably raises the threshold of taxation “price” tolerance…