Environment
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…
A blurb in a recent edition of National Review’s The Week offers a necessary reminder of an issue that shouldn’t slip out of public view: Having seized for itself, with the help of the courts, the authority to regulate greenhouse gases without the consent of Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama has aggressively proceeded…
In a recent Congressional district 1 debate, David Cicilline asked John Loughlin what his evidence was that pollution is not causing global warming. If he asked this so that he could truly examine the evidence for himself, that would be a noble thing. But Cicilline appears uninterested in the evidence. It seems he would rather…
On first hearing that Tiverton might be the site of a new on-land wind farm, I was more or less ambivalent, but with the feeling that the project would provide more benefit than detriment. But details on the structure of the initiative raise concerns more fundamental than Rhode Island’s habitual not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) attitude: Nine communities…
