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Category Archives: Environment
Garbage In, Garbage Out
I’ve often commented that I don’t really trust computer climate models because they’ve seemed to me to be missing a lot of variables. So, it’s a little satisfying to see this article, which shows that MIT researchers are enhancing the … Continue reading
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Sunny Times for Chinese Solar Power?
To get rich is glorious in China nowadays. Scientists are no exception. A top home-grown inventor, 41-year-old Ma Xin, is currently engineering a reverse takeover of a small Singapore-listed investment company, Rowsley, in a deal worth 2.7 billion Singapore dollars … Continue reading
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News Brief, Planet Unicorn Heyyy Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer, where you’ll find an explanation for the edition name. I’m sorry. The Pentagon I think Lance should have highlighted Blackfive’s major point about the stupid restrictions on war blogs: the Pentagon has already lost the information … Continue reading
News Brief, Ordinary World Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. The Pentagon The Post today slams Bush for his “rush to failure” in deploying missile defense to Europe—rightfully so, as the system is far from useable, and needlessly expensive and provocative. Here’s the best part, though: … Continue reading
Venezuela Seizes Oil Operations
Get ready for higher gas prices, as inexperienced bureaucrats take over the operations of 4 major refineries. Venezuela stripped the world’s biggest oil companies of operational control over massive Orinoco Belt crude projects on Tuesday, a vital move in President … Continue reading
The Great Global Warming Swindle
A British documentary claiming to debunk “accepted theories” of anthropogenic global warming is set to air, unedited, in Sweden tonight. Ironically, British scientists are loudly demanding that edits be made to the same documentary, which aired in the UK in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, MichaelW's Page
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News Brief, Do The Whirlwind Edition
Cross-posted at The Conjecturer. The Pentagon DARPA wants American snipers to have fool proof sniper scopes that are accurate out to 2000 meters. It also wants to expand its Boomerang sniper-detection system from simple location (which is itself a big … Continue reading
The Home of the Future
Professor Richard Horden of University of Munich recently unveiled a new permanent or semi-permanent housing unit design: the m-ch. While not exactly a title that set marketing execs hearts aflutter, the idea is actually pretty amusing. The original concept was … Continue reading
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The Great American Offset!- Update
Now this is a really stupid case, but if Al Gore and John Edwards can do it for themselves, I can do it for America as a whole. Heck, I’ll throw in Canada. If this paper from Science is correct … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Environment, Humor, Lance's Page
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Al Gore, not ready to make the cut himself-Updated
Al Gore will be carbon neutral (well maybe, he says he is) but he won’t do everything he can, even though he could live quite the life going carbon negative. That is something most of us don’t have the means … Continue reading
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When Is A Muzzle A Bullhorn?
According to Mick Stockinger, when one is a climate scientist: On January 29, 2006, the New York Times published a front-page article about Hansen: “Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him.†According to Hansen, as the Times reported, “officials … Continue reading
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NEPA Deep In Nonsense
Further to my previous post about polar bears being used to backdoor Kyoto regulations, please see this Jonathan Alder post that reveals just how effectively NEPA is employed in derailing seemingly harmless activities with very little effort: Yesterday the U.S. … Continue reading
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A Modest Proposal: Butchering Animals for PETA and Green Sex
Glenn Reynolds wants to know where we can purchase “sirloin offsets” since, as Eric Scheie points out the raising of livestock for food may be the single largest contributor to the greenhouse effect:
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Environment, Humor, Lance's Page
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Backdoor Kyoto – The Polar Bear Express
If the U.S won’t go to the mountain, environmentalists fully intend to bring the mountain to the U.S., with the full aid and assistance of President Bush. In this case, the mountain will be shunted by polar bears.
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Law, MichaelW's Page
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It Is Now Time To Praise Famous Men
Just not Al Gore, I have already done that, so let us make fun of him instead. For the title to work however I need to praise somebody, but who? Who would be the most appropriate person in the universe … Continue reading
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TheTsunami Affect
If I am not a radical skeptic of the science underlying the current hysteria over Global Warming, I am a radical skeptic of those pushing for certain policies based on it. Why? Well for one, they generally have no idea … Continue reading
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Adding fuel to the Climate Change fire
We’ve recently sparked some interesting discussions on climate change and global warming here at ASHC. I’d like to add a little fuel (biodegradable, earth-friendly fuel, of course) to the fire by recommending this article on Dr. David Orrell’s new book, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Religion and theology, The Poet Omar's Page
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Touching the Third Rail of Climate Policy
Al Gore and Richard Branson have finally touched it. What is the third rail? Ways to actually extract CO2 from the atmosphere, or CO2 capture. Why is capturing and extracting CO2 the third rail? Once again I turn to the … Continue reading
The distorting effect of “An Inconvenient Truth” and its media wave
Part of my argument about the problems associated with understanding climate change is that much of the rhetoric surrounding the science is irresponsibly misleading. This really has little to do with the science. While I think there are plausible arguments … Continue reading
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The Climate of Opinion Around Climate Science III: Get out the rack for the AEI
The ridiculousness of the attitude of much of the media and politicians over the AEI and their attempt to put together a forum examining the latest IPCC report and the policy implications arising from it is becoming more and more … Continue reading
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Time to Praise Al Gore and Richard Branson-Updated
Welcome Instapundit readers. For more depressing news and suppression of dissent on the global warming front I suggest this piece and the links to previous posts on the subject included. *************************************************************************************** I was watching CBS this morning and got treated … Continue reading
The climate of climate change research keeps getting chillier-Update
Following up on my two previous posts on the atmosphere building up in the field of climate science I see that Roger Pielke is reporting that two state’s governors are trying to remove their state climatologists from their position due … Continue reading
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The Climate of Opinion Around Climate Science II
As a follow up to my earlier post I suggest going to see Jonathan Adler’s own follow up. First he discusses the Washington Posts coverage. He notes one more interesting point, Schroeder explicitly denies he turned the AEI down because … Continue reading
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The Climate of Opinion Around Climate Science
I have been occupied for the last couple of days, so I started my tour of the blogosphere and found this little item at Matt Yglesias’ place (I wonder, is he as tired of his youth being mentioned as I … Continue reading
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Staying abreast of the implant issue-Updated
The FDA which has finally decided to allow silicone breast implants back onto the market: The decision appeared to end a controversy over the safety of silicone implants that lasted more than two decades and resulted in thousands of lawsuits … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, Lance's Page, Law, Libertarianism, Media, Technology
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Stern Review Follow-Up
I inveighed against the “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change” earlier this week, and now its Bjorn Lomborg* (via Pajamas Media) who weighs in: The report on climate change by Nicholas Stern and the U.K. government has sparked … Continue reading
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Climate Change Propaganda (UPDATED)
Old joke: A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job. The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks “What do two plus two equal?” The mathematician replies “Four.” The interviewer asks “Four, exactly?” The mathematician looks … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environment, Media, MichaelW's Page
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Libertarians and Environmentalists on the Same Page
I know, I know. This is one of the signs of the Apocalypse. Actually, believe it or not, I find that this happens more often than you’d think. The specific issue that I’m referring to here is the idea that … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, The Poet Omar's Page
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Take some time to read
Milton Friedman sits down with Russ Roberts. You can also listen to the podcast. Elsewhere Ron Bailey has an article “The Man Who Fed the World,” on Norman Borlaug whose work may have saved more lives and relieved more suffering … Continue reading
Steve Irwin (1962-2006)
One of the world’s greatest champions of wildlife education and conservation died this weekend doing what he loved best. Known to many as “The Crocodile Hunter,” Stephen Robert Irwin was killed when the poisonous barb of a stingray’s tail pierced … Continue reading
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Smart. Really Smart.
I’ve looked into the future, gentle readers. Being the generous soul that I am, I am prepared to share with you what I have seen. Behold: http://www.smartusa.com/ Yes, I know it is still a year or two away from release on … Continue reading
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San Francisco Eradicates Aliens!
Eric Scheie (seemingly) vents his spleen at George Greene who introduced the horribly invasive alien plants, the eucalyptus tree and “Holland Grass” Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Environment, MichaelW's Page
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