Environment
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Conservatives sometimes lament that, unlike liberals, they lack for countries to which to move — or at least to threaten to move — when they lose elections. Judging purely from its president’s attitude, it looks like the Czech Republic might be headed in the right direction: When it comes to the climate, “there are competing…
The article quotes scientist after scientist declaring that “this means we must act quickly,” but it seems to me a forced reaction to the new information: Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted temperatures around the globe will remain…
Radar loop. Traffic cams. Listen, call, compare notes: WPRO News Talk 630/99.7 FM. ~ AM 920 WHJJ. Addendum And over at Not for Nothing, Ian Donnis came to the conclusion while driving to work today that we are a state of wimps. (Possibly I exaggerate slightly.) He also points out that in the spirit of…
Jeff Jacoby has some suggested questions for U.S. Senators to ask Obama’s nominee for director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren. The last one gives a sense of Jacoby’s general concern: 8. You are withering in your contempt for researchers who are unconvinced that human activity is responsible for global warming,…
In the Netherlands, the canals have frozen over for the first time in years and the Dutch are strapping on their skates and having a blast, albeit with a few bumps and bruises. But the politics are never far away, even in what you’d think would be a feel-good story. First, there’s the environmental angle:…
Be sure to read Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed suggesting that excessive and misdirected fervor over climate change is likely to harm many people in the present in order to help a few in the future. The following are a few points that I found particularly interesting: … implementing the Kyoto Protocol at a cost of $180…