Environment
… that would be 200 years before man started cranking up a whole array of back saving, medical advancing, temperature moderating, light extending, food preserving, comfort creating evil inventions driven by an equally wicked fuel supply. When discussing the theory of anthropogenic global warming, it’s always a little dangerous to move away from the Central…
Apologies for bringing this up on a Sunday. Then again, perhaps it is appropriate to do so as global warming is now treated by some not so much as a scientific theory which demands (so boring) consistency in data and observations and models but more as a sort of warped religion where questions and empirical…
I didn’t want to let this one slip away without mention: NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far…
It’s the kind of commentary that’s probably best let to drift out to the sea of forgotten column inches, but the following general observation from Mark Patinkin has been bugging me: By contrast, little has been shown of the areas where the tsunami washed over natural areas. That’s because nature is designed to mostly absorb…
… oh, not global climate change itself, just the “theory”. In the wake of increasing public doubt about the theory of AGW as data collection and analysis problems continue to mount, there has been an attempt to recast the theory as “global climate change”, “global climate disruption” or “global weirding”, the proposition that man’s greenhouse…
Speaking of the suspicious structure of the “new economy”… the economics of wind have come under some scrutiny, lately. Specifically, the project being questioned is Portsmouth’s windmill: Because the setup was considered net metering under state law, National Grid never negotiated a power purchase agreement with Portsmouth. An agreement would have been reviewed by the…
Many have probably heard about the “Great Garbage Patch” in the Pacific Ocean, which is “roughly the size of Texas” though some have claimed it’s even bigger. Well, maybe not. Claims that the “Great Garbage Patch” between California and Japan is twice the size of Texas is “grossly exaggerated” said the research which reckons it…
The most stark example yet in the United States — thus far, still shy of mass starvation under Communist regimes — of the danger of letting the legislative brush slop regulations on too many areas of human activities has to be the destruction of California’s Central Valley: Why has California become the epicenter of unemployment?…
… so says Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at an unspecified atmospheric and environmental research firm, in an article in today’s New York Times. Strangely missing from the article – as from so many articles advocating AGW – are some important points: 1.) the paltriness – 6% – of man’s contribution to greenhouse…
An article about Massachusetts’ race for a wind energy boom conveys the folly of Rhode Island’s own quest: Massachusetts could soon be home to the nation’s first offshore wind farm — and state officials are hoping to use the Cape Wind project to help fuel a small but burgeoning local wind-power energy boom. There are…