Category Archives: Environment

NY Times Loves Dat DDT!

I wonder how much the Grey Lady is paying in alimony after the divorce from reality? DDT On Ice It has been getting ever harder to pretend that Antarctica is a pristine place. We like to think of it as being scoured clean by hostile winds and extreme cold. But more and more, Antarctica, like […]

Sieman’s To Build R&D Wind Turbine In Colorado

Well, well, this is very interesting news which I whole-heartedly support (Clean Tech) Siemens says it intends to collaborate with NREL on the installation of a 2.3 MW pilot wind turbine at the NWTC. Siemens Energy, the energy arm of the German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), today announced plans to establish its first […]

Bush Admin Gets Wonky With Polar Bears

To start off (CNS News) “Although the population of bears has grown from a low of about 12,000 in the late 1960s to approximately 25,000 today, our scientists advise me that computer modeling projects a significant population decline by the year 2050,” Kempthorne said. “This, in my judgment, makes the polar bear a threatened species–one […]

Voluntary Human Extinction

Seriously, you just cannot make this up (h/t The Gun Toting Liberal) “May we live long and die out” is the unofficial motto of a new movement that seeks to improve the Earth’s ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT, consists of volunteers who have made […]

Lake Baikal: A Seething Cauldron Of Global Warming

Amazingly, it took the NY Times 12 paragraphs to get to the dread “global warming” phrase (imagine it as Neal Boortz says it.) Family Science Project Yields Surprising Data About a Siberian Lake In 1945, when Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, Mikhail M. Kozhov began keeping track of what was happening under the surface of […]

John Coleman Pens A Letter To Climahysterics

Weather Channel founder, and outspoken anti-climahysteric, John Coleman writes to the climahysteric crew Thank you for your dedication to protecting our environment. Clean air and clean water are essential to preserving life on planet Earth. Protecting all species and natural lands and forests are admirable priorities. Recycling and a green lifestyle are wonderful. Making the […]

Global Warming Today: AGW Just A Theory

Well, if the Climahysterics want to talk about consensus…… A majority of readers are not convinced that enough evidence exists to support claims that the earth’s temperature is rising and dramatic impacts will follow. Global warming is “pure theory,” said 138, or 35 percent of the 388 responses to the latest Business Pulse Survey, the […]

On Earth Day, Nancy P Invokes God

Bad Nancy! Breaking the liberal proscription regarding the separation of church and state. Isn’t that what the Left always tells us? That there is, and should be, a separation on church and state? Some critics say global warming is a form of religion for liberal environmental activists. Indeed, in her official statement on Earth Day, […]

Oh, Lord, Now They Are Going After Meat

And, yes, global warming does come into play (NY Times) The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals. My colleague Mark Bittman wrote a […]

Clean Fuel Causes Lots Of Pollution=Irony

I’m all for new, cleaner energy sources. I would love to get off not just our foreign oil dependence, but our our overall oil dependence. But, what is the point of replacing one pollutant with another? After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior […]

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