From the “there’s hope yet”department comes this remarkable personal story of how one environmentalist in Colorado came to embrace the very thing she had been programmed to hate: oil and…
Category: Environment
The Guardian: Environmental Protections in Decline
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian discusses declining environmental protections in Australia, for hydro ready alpine valleys and old growth stands of leafy biofuel, yet somehow ignores the fact…
British MPs Demand a “Latte Levy” on Disposable Coffee Cups
Guest essay by Eric Worrall British MPs waging a war on plastic are demanding a “latte levy”, to try to contain the growing environmental catastrophe caused by millions of latte…
EPA: “Roundup Not Carcinogenic” — MSM Silent
Brief Note from Kip Hansen On December 18, 2017, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a paper titled “Revised Glyphosate Issue Paper: Evaluation of Carcinogenic Potential” as part…
Arctic Restoration — Go Beavers!
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Oh those busy, busy beavers — aren’t they great? There’s the little guy in the corner of the photo, he and his pals built…
Right kind of collaboration is key to solving environmental problems
Public Release: 18-Aug-2017 From Eurekalert It must have not been “the right kind of” collaboration in the past. Rotten collaboration? ~ctm Stockholm University The coming decade may determine whether…
Plastics Yet Again
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The New York Times has treated us to another episode of the Great Plastics-Last-Forever Urban Legend in their recent article “The Immense, Eternal Footprint…
Surprise: humans had positive effect on rainforest environment
From the UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO: People enhanced the environment, not degraded it, over past 13,000 years Human occupation is usually associated with deteriorated landscapes, but new research shows that 13,000 years…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 2: The Great Barrier Reef Wars
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is the second in a series of several essays that will discuss ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often…
Five trillion is a red line. Cross it and the environment crashes!
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Here are three stories about environmental destruction, all featuring “five trillion” as the horrific number. Scary stories. Are they accurate? To…
Claim: GMO Crops are good for Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new schism appears to be opening in the green movement, comparable to the divisions over the climate benefits of nuclear power, about whether GM…
The Great Southern Whale Slaughter: The Price of the Green Obsession with CO2?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports that Japan this year killed more than 300 whales, for “research” purposes. Australia and New Zealand are criticised for not attempting to…
What did ExxonMobil Know and when did they know it? (Part 3, Exxon: The Fork Not Taken)
Guest post by David Middleton This just keeps getting more hilarious… Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models The company chairman would later mock climate models…
What did ExxonMobil Know and when did they know it? (Part 1)
Guest post by David Middleton Maybe ExxonMobil should file a RICO lawsuit against the “Shukla 20”, Inside Climate, the LA Times and this gentleman… Exxon Knew Everything There Was to…
Claim: US West's power grid must be prepared for impacts of climate change – but environmentalism might be a bigger threat
From: Arizona State University TEMPE, Arizona — Electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the Western United States must be “climate-proofed” to diminish the risk of future power shortages, according to…
Four Stories, Two Worlds
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach To start the four tales of the title, I noticed a couple of stories in the news lately about how critical inexpensive energy is for…
Questing Into The New Year
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s a cold clear night here along the north Pacific coast where I live, with a waxing moon surveying the scene. As befits New Years…
Big Numbers, Small Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a paper today that said that there are no less than 270,000,000 kilograms of plastic in the ocean, which is about half a…
Father of the 'Gaia hypothesis' James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
From the Guardian, where I find it surprising they actually printed it: Scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis says environment movement does not pay enough attention to facts and he was…
The Sierra Club might be surprised to learn that some of these emissions aren't soot
Tom Nelson writes: Water vapor as “pollution”?: Sierra Club’s claims are based on opacity, which measures the thickness of emissions from a smoke stack by how much light passes through…
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