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Category Archives: Environment
Not evil, just wrong.
This woman is remarkable. I’ve watched the first section of video so far.
Posted in Environment, science, Synova's Page
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Mr Bad Example
Isn’t there an energy crisis or something that we all have to worry about? Guess, we can just call him “Mr Bad Example,” and be done with it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=2&ref=politics?xid=rss-page The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, energy, Environment, Keith's Page, Music
Tagged energy crisis, Mr Bad Example, Obama, Warren Zevon
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How to Show Off Your Conservation Credentials
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) decided he wanted to show off how green he was by driving an electric car being developed in his district to his swearing in at the Capitol in D.C. Of course no electric car actually has … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, energy, Environment
Tagged boneheaded congress, conservation, electric cars, government waste
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COP15
The logo for COP15 is gorgeous: (NR2154)
Posted in Environment
Tagged climate change, COP15, Copenhagen, Environment, graphic design, logo, NR2154, UN, United Nations
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Environmental Incoherence
Pelosi says, “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.” Charles Krauthammer points out the incoherence of this: Does Pelosi imagine that with so much of America declared off-limits, the planet is less injured as drilling … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, energy, Environment, Lance's Page
Tagged Domestic Politics, Environment, Nancy Pelosi, oil
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Earth’s Evolution
Do you ever find yourself holding views that are mutually exclusive? If so, do not despair. My experience is that virtually all of us do this, even if very rarely. With the thousands of issues and millions of details pertaining … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Peg's Page, science
Tagged conservation, evolution, global warming, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman
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An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore and Friends
I know that many of you think that global warming, at least anthropogenic global warming, is a fraud. I am not so sure. Either way though, I think Peter Huber has the broad contours of any attempt to address it … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Lance's Page
Tagged energy, Environment, global warming
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It’s the Pollution, Stupid
Or more specifically it’s the soot, from our tailpipes, our industries, most of our electricity generation—and also from forest fires, volcanoes, and the wind. Black carbon soot is causing most of the loss of polar ice according to this recent … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Peter's Page, regulation, science
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Where Do Most of Our Problems Come From?
From Congress and the unintended consequences of their actions. Bruce over at QandO has a post discussing an excellent piece by Walter Williams. Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, energy, Environment, regulation
Tagged alternative energy, congress, gas prices, oil, unintended consequences
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Backdoor Kyoto — The Next Chapter
The march of the watermelons towards control of US policy continues apace: Polar bears will now be listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, energy, Environment, Law, MichaelW's Page, regulation, science
Tagged capitalism, climate change, climate policy, Dirk Kempthorne, Endangered Species Act, environmentalists, ESA, global warming, globalization, greenhouse gases, polar bears, socialism, Supreme court, threatened species, watermelons
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Stop the Madness
Sooner rather than later. And this: Perhaps turning food into transportation fuel would make sense if massive amounts of grain spoiled every year from a lack of demand, but that certainly isn’t the case. Farmers love the higher prices that … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Peg's Page, science
Tagged biofuel, Domestic Politics, energy, ethanol
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A Cubic Mile of Oil
Over at Green Tech we get some figures that should be rather sobering for those who wish for alternative energy to be a significant source of energy in the near future: Put another way, we’d need to equip 250,000 roofs … Continue reading
Open Minds
One of the toughest tasks to master is to keep an open mind. We work hard to discover what we ultimately believe to be the truth. After all that effort, often the last thing we wish to do is have … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Peg's Page, regulation, science
Tagged chemicals, Environment, environmentalism, Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, Rachel Carson
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Abiogenic Oil
Hoystory poses a thought-provoking question with potentially dramatic consequences for the concept of “peak oil”: What if “fossil fuels” weren’t made of fossils at all? What if the earth naturally made petroleum? What if gasoline was a renewable resource? Imagine … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Environment, MichaelW's Page, science, Technology
Tagged abiogenic, fossil fuels, Mendeleyev, oil, peak oil, scientific consensus, Sir Robert Robinson, Thomas Gold
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The Air Car
Posted in energy, Environment, Lance's Page, Technology
Tagged Air Car, emissions, global warming
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More Correlation Between Pirates and Global Warming
Pirates Take French Cruise Ship and Gobal Temperatures to ‘Decrease’ It seems we have more correlation between pirates and global warming now. It may be time to update this graph with a downward and backward turn.
The Coming Ice Age
Brrrr… it sure is cold out there. And now the data is in to prove it. Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Keith's Page
Tagged climate change, computer models, global warming, ice age
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“If We Had Some Global Warming”
Please, if you have any humanity in you – do your part to add just a bit to global warming today. It’s important. [youtube qJUFTm6cJXM&feature=related]
Posted in Environment, Peg's Page
Tagged Elmer and Daryl, global warming, minnesota, Music, the freezing emperors
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We’ll Get To That Wind Farm Application – Eventually
And by eventually, they mean decades down the road. This is a perfect example of government getting in the way of the innovation we need to dig ourselves out of our fossil fuel dependency. http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1362/1/ If you want to build … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, energy, Environment, Keith's Page, regulation, Technology
Tagged energy, government, innovation, MISO, regulation, stiffling, wind power
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Bill Clinton on Global Warming
Bill got a lot of heat over a video released by ABC News and an accompanying news story: Former President Bill Clinton was in Denver, Colorado, stumping for his wife yesterday. In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Environment, Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Media
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Global warming or not, Antarctic ice and snow is not shrinking
Some highlights: We have covered Antarctica many times in past essays, and despite literally thousands of websites claiming that some calamity is occurring in Antarctica related to global warming, we side with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Lance's Page, Media
Tagged Antarctica, global warming, ice, Snow
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Some Consensus
Let’s see if I have this straight… that means “global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States,” according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Miami Lab and the University of Miami. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Keith's Page
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Senate Committee Issues Climate-Consensus Busting Report
According to the press release (my emphasis): Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and … Continue reading
“I don’t like other people telling me what to do.”
Amen. One of the reasons I abhor communitarianism (and tend to see my political philosophy as the opposite of that) is because it vests communitarian thinkers with the self appointed power to tell me (and others) what to do. Provided, … Continue reading
Now, it is time to save marriage
Why? Because it is good for the environment: Divorce can be bad for the environment. In countries around the world divorce rates have been rising, and each time a family dissolves the result is two new households. “A married household … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environment, Lance's Page
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Hugo Chavez and the path to mass murder II
Part I is here, but in The Ruin of Venezuela I wrote: As we have seen with Mugabe and many others, once you go down this road it is very difficult to turn things around. As the situation gets worse, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
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The City Car
Very Cool: The City Car, a design project under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then stack … Continue reading
Global Warming = California Wildfires
So says Harry Reid and other environmentalists, so it must be true. No doubt they have checked with everyone who agrees with them and they have a consensus about it. So, what caused them way back when… If there was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Environment, Keith's Page
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The Subtle Oil Shock
It hasn’t been all that shocking. Why not? Greg Mankiw supplies a few possibilities. My favorites? Well let us start here: In contrast to much rhetoric to the contrary, capitalism is the most powerful weapon to achieve energy efficiency we … Continue reading
Speaking of Common Sense
While over at Megan’s I noticed a discussion she has about Bjorn Lomborg and her main criticism of him. That is that he doesn’t give enough weight to low probability, but catastrophic events. That is in fact a weakness (and … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Lance's Page, Libertarianism
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Bjorn Lomborg on Al Gore and the IPCC
Bjorn looks at this in much the same way I do: This year’s Nobel peace prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations climate change panel (the IPCC). These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Lance's Page
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Another award for the Goracle-Updated with even more reactions
This just confirms what a bogus award the Nobel Peace Prize has become. Past winners have often been inappropriate, such as when murderous thugs such as Yasser Arafat were awarded for claims and intentions rather than their murderous actions. At … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Lance's Page
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News Brief, Chesme siah daree Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer Defense & The War Mountain Runner makes the case for why mercenaries aren’t all bad, and that the real sunk costs of their use should be handled. It’s similar to David Dryer’s case for their usefulness, … Continue reading
News Brief, Truncated For Life Purposes Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. Defense & the War Reading the Instapundit and his minions, you’d think the one reason Bush wasn’t more popular is because he’s not bombing the shit out of Iran. Luckily, most people don’t think as they … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Foreign affairs, Notes on the war
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Some Consensus – II
The sky is falling, the sky is falling… Oh wait, no it’s not. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,176495.shtml A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Keith's Page
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News Brief, Kometenmelodie 1 Edition
Stewing in his own juices over at The Conjecturer. Defense & The War The Republicans are refusing to ponder any troop withdrawals. Does that now make General Petraeus a Defeatocrat? Maybe not, as he still wants troop levels to remain … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Foreign affairs, Notes on the war
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Some Consensus
The “reality based” ideologues often decry when politics get in the way of science, but that certainly seems what they are doing with regards to global warming. But then, hey, making overblown claims based on the scantiest of evidence, real … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Keith's Page
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The “Bull Moose of Climate Change” reminds me of “A Modest Proposal”
I sauntered over to Instapundit today and noticed this story: Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.Norwegian newspapers, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Environment, Humor, Lance's Page, Society
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News Brief, Pizazz We’re Gonna Give It To You* Edition
Would much rather be back at The Original Conjecturer. Defense How to make an EFP. The difficulty of sea mines. These two takes on the SCO exercises (covered in sometimes much greater depth here, at Registan.net, and Bonnie Boyd’s Central … Continue reading
News Brief, My News Brief Beat Up Your Honor Student Edition
Defense Phillip Carter has some choice things to say of the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair: “Anyone who finds Beauchamp’s story incredible merely because it’s upsetting has no idea what war can do… How, then, should journalists tell the story of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Environment, Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war
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Global Warming: The Early Years
As an ideal follow up to my most recent post on Anthropogenic Global WarmingTM, Keith forwarded me an interesting tidbit from the Washington Times’ “Inside the Beltway” round-up: D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Media, MichaelW's Page
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On The Wings Of Butterflies
My favorite class of all time was a course on chaos theory that I took my senior year in college. I think it was listed as part of the Chemistry Department’s curriculum (hey, whaddya know, it still is!), but it … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Media, MichaelW's Page, Technology
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News Brief, This Is My Sundown Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. Defense DARPA wants many outrageous things—an oil-free Air Force, invisibility cloaks, piezoelectric bodysuits, kill-proof animal-esque soldiers, and so on. For the latter, my quite serious question is: at what point do these enhanced soldiers cease being … Continue reading
News Brief, Much Much Better Off Edition
Defense As usual, Cathy Young chimes in on the Beauchamp debate with several highly cogent points: “I think there are good reasons to question Beauchamp’s accuracy, and neither TNR nor liberal bloggers are doing themselves any favors by coming uncritically … Continue reading
Bio-Fuel Increases Price of Ice Cream
The increase in the amount of bio-fuel production, specifically ethanol, is driving up the costs of anything that feeds or is produced with grain. This is leading to higher prices for milk, ice cream, cereal, and a host of other … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Keith's Page, Technology
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Supporting carbon creds means no street cred
Since the entire concept of carbon credits emerged a few years ago, I’ve constantly found myself questioning not only the actual effectiveness, but also the underlying motivation behind them. Donating or purchasing carbon credits basically seemed, to me at least, … Continue reading
Trading Dependencies
Instapundit links to an article in Reason about how the increased production of ethanol is leading to higher prices for food. I also think it could lead to increasing reliance by America on foreign grain. Which, as we saw with … Continue reading
News Brief, I Worked Late Then Went to the Wilco Show Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. Defense Follow up to the story on the pathetic number of fluents in Arabic currently stationed at the Baghdad Vatican-Embassy (and shame on me for not noticing this): the 3/3 proficiency level is virtually useless—both because … Continue reading
All Your Weather Base Are Belong To Us
“Kyoto, we have a problem.” Few things annoy me more than the modern Lysenkoism of Anthropogenic Global WarmingTM and its rapturous congregation who viciously condemn any who dare challenge their scriptures. Each day it seems that we are bombarded with … Continue reading
The Green Party and National Security: An Interview with Alan Augustson
A few weeks back I posted a facile little rebuke aimed at the national security implications of Green Party presidential candidate Alan Augustson‘s political platform. Alan responded to this in such a way that I realized I had little idea … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Interviews, Lee's Page
Tagged alan, alan augustson, alternative, alternative energy, augustson, biodiesel, China, Chinese, defense, Democrats, elucidates, Environment, environmental, exploration, facile, fuels, gasoline, global, gm foods, green, green party, greens, instructive, international, military, national security, peak oil, prc, Republicans, security, Terrorism, warming
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