Yesterday, I was trying to work up an article expressing my dissatisfaction with the Science Daily posting about a University of North Carolina study on the invasion of Caribbean reefs by lionfish. I didn’t get very far, however, because I kept going off on tangents (A brand-new species has entered competition in an abundant ecosystem. …
Category Archives: environmentalism
The Director of Greenpeace Asks a Legitimate Question
“Why can’t we tell the truth about climate change?” Of course, the intent of John Sauven’s question is that there is a vast, shadowy network of government and corporate entities conspiring to prevent honest scientists from revealing a necessary truth about scientific consensus to the unwashed masses. I’ll examine on how many levels that is …
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“Climate Change Reconsidered” translated into Chinese
The global trend toward rational skepticism and away from socialist-driven alarmism is now undeniable. Not only have the major scientific academies of Russia and the Czech Republic issued strong statements of dissent against the alarmist opinion, but “Climate Change Reconsidered”, the premier rebuttal to the various IPCC *ahem* “reports”, has now even been translated into …
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IPCC Fifth Report Leaked
This was actually three weeks ago, but this isn’t really a super-topical blog. Apparently, the trend continues of the real world stubbornly refusing to conform to the IPCC’s predictions of catastrophic super-warming and global disaster. This is much in keeping with what I’m currently reading in Heartland Institute’s new report, as well. I’m fighting a …
New Metastudy by Heartland Institute
The State of the Earth’s Terrestrial Biosphere: How is it Responding to Rising Atmospheric CO2 and Warmer Temperatures? I’ve just discovered it, and it’s over 130 pages long. So if you are interested you’ll have to wait for commentary until at least Wednesday. Or, read it yourself and discuss below. I’ll be particularly interested in …
Ethics and Global Climate Change: A Rebuttal
As I mentioned on Facebook, my race to get this to my professor in time for drill weekend led me to fudge some page numbers in the citations. I’ve never had the time since to adequately fix them, so I’ve simply removed the offending citations. The remainder of my paper is below: Stephen Gardiner, “Ethics …
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Confirmed
Roger Ebert is a gigantic tool, but at least he’s a reliable water-mark. His endorsement of “Avatar” (both in fact and in verbage) confirms that I am NOT interested in seeing it, big budget or no. The blatant politics of this movie are going to prevent it from doing as well as a film with …
Oil Prices
Have you ever wondered where the liberals got the idea that drilling in ANWR would only drop the price of gasoline by about $.50 gallon? I FOUND IT! There was an independent study commissioned by the Department of Energy in 2004 that projected that drop in price based on a projected cost of $27.00 per …
Thoughts on ANWR
Wondering about whether drilling in ANWR would really be worth the ecological mess it might create? I was e-mailed these images by a friend: Beautiful ANWR: Where they want to drill: Animals really hate it, huh? Update:Newt Gingrich delivers petition with 1.3 million signatures to Congress demanding “Drill Now.”
They Aren’t ‘Skeptics’
Scientists Reject Global Warming The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine is releasing a petition signed by 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science–including 9,021 Ph.D.’s–who flatly reject anthropogenic global warming. Perhaps Al Gore should take up the cause of Anthropogenic Continental Drift (for those who haven’t had their coffee yet, it’s a parody!).
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