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Category Archives: Environment
“To Animals, All People Are Nazis”
Slave the Whales! – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. Does the 13th Amendment apply to critters? Can whales be plaintiffs? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thinks so, and has filed suitin a San Diego court to emancipate … Continue reading
In the Glorious Environmental Utopia You Will Freeze to Death in the Dark
School turns heating off to ‘save planet’; Fury as kids shiver on coldest day
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#globalwarmingfail – Record time between hurricane landfall in the US
A New US Hurricane Record: On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing … Continue reading
Climategate II – Longer, Harder, Uncut Emails
More emails, more bitchy scientific gossip, and more white labcoat backstabbing: You know what you get when you mix science and politics? You get politics, period. Hockey Stick Charlatan Michael Mann gets the worst of it from this batch of … Continue reading
Corn ethanol – bad for the environment and bad for gas mileage
Blighted harvest: The American corn ethanol disaster: Basic chemistry dictates that gallon for gallon, burning ethanol produces only 2/3 as much energy as burning gasoline. In recent years, Americans have become accustomed to E15 “gasohol” (15% ethanol) at the pumps. … Continue reading
Irony isn’t on the periodic table, but it’s real
About those environmentalist bumper stickers, on cars, that burn gasoline…
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Home of the Windmill Slashes Wind, Solar Subsidies
Holland slashes carbon targets, shuns wind for nuclear: In a radical change of policy, the Netherlands is reducing its targets for renewable energy and slashing the subsidies for wind and solar power. It’s also given the green light for the … Continue reading
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As if Fish Don’t Pee
Eight million gallons of water drained from reservoir after man urinates in it.
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Sun may be headed for solar minimums in next decade
WattsUpWithThat – BREAKING – major AAS solar announcement: Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity.
George Monbiot: Environmental Movement is “Lost”
George Monbiot – Let’s face it: none of our environmental fixes break the planet-wrecking project: Last week something astonishing happened: Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency, revealed that peak oil has already happened. “We think that … Continue reading
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Study: wind farms less productive than claimed
BBC – Wind farm efficiency queried by John Muir Trust study: Wind farms are much less efficient than claimed, producing below 10% of capacity for more than a third of the time, according to a new report. The analysis also … Continue reading
Algae biodiesel claims questioned
Skepticism On Algae Biodiesel Yields: “We found that phycologists — algae scientists — maintain that some popular estimates of producing 200 to 500 grams of algae per square meter of open pond per day weren’t feasible because there’s simply not … Continue reading
Anthony Watts calls this the global warming quote of the millennium
“If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO2 that … Continue reading
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My new favorite phrase: “A leash looking for a dog”
“The market (that is, all of us) ignore CO2 because it was never an issue. It became a convenient hobgoblin for interventionist busybodies and statist fucks… people with a leash looking for a dog, basically.” – Old Mexican
Obama said what about oil?
Hot Air – Obama’s Curious Claims on Oil Production: “We can’t escape the fact that we control only 2% of the world’s oil.” This is a common refrain among anti-drilling Democrats and environmentalists, and it’s repeated enough that many people … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Jevons Paradox
This throws a monkeywrench into the quest for fuel-efficient cars and other machinery. Wikipedia: In economics, the Jevons paradox, sometimes called the Jevons effect, is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used … Continue reading
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Global Warming Skeptic Predicts Brutal Winter
Predicts “You ain’t seen nothing yet”. Hat tip to Instapundit. He couldn’t do any worse than the warmist predicters. How are those Pollyanna, post-Katrina hurricane predictions going, guys? Speaking of predictions, Oil Prices: Cornucopian Whomps Malthusian Once Again. Previously People … Continue reading
In the Environmentalist Utopia You Will Freeze to Death in the Dark
California bans 100-watt bulbs.
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Shorter Al Gore: “Corn biofuels were a boondoggle I used for political gain”
No kiddin’: Algore apparently had a “Biden Moment” and unwittingly admitted the truth by accident. …”First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.”……”One of the reasons I made that mistake is … Continue reading
Scientific questions vs value questions
Ken Schultz: The question of how much society should be willing to sacrifice to protect endangered species just isn’t a scientific question–regardless of what your friendly neighborhood Ecologist, PhD says. How much should coal miners in West Virginia be willing … Continue reading
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