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Category: Enlightenment Warrior

  • The Sixth Mass Extinction

    Artist’s Impression of the Chicxulub Impact Image courtesy of NASA The most famous mass extinction is the Cretaceous-Tertiary, which killed the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago. It was most likely caused by a meteorite that left a crater 150 miles in diameter off the Gulf of Mexico and a layer of iridium-rich dust all over…

  • The Politics of Fear VS Mathematical Perspective

    In 1964 Lyndon Johnson’s campaign ran the following ad scaring Americans in to voting for him with the idea that Barry Goldwater would start a nuclear war if elected: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/OKs-bTL-pRg] Hillary Clinton’s campaign is spinning their recent primary wins as attributable to their “3a.m. Phone Call” ad, which uses a similar tactic against Obama: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/M70emIFxETs]…

  • EPA Refuses to Protect the Environment

    Despite the EPA being ordered by the Supreme Court nearly a year ago to determine whether carbon dioxide poses a danger to public health, which would require them to enforce the Clean Air Act, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson tells Congress they haven’t taken any action on the directive and don’t have any plans to…

  • Hey Everybody! It’s Another Global Cooling Report!

    I’m sure this one, unlike the last one and the one before that is for really real this time. Really. This one even made Digg, Drudge, Faux Noise, etc, etc… meaning it’s totally got legs for absolutely certain this time. Right? The article in question openly admits that they’ve had nothing but anecdotal evidence to…

  • Taking the “Carbon” out of “Carbon Sequestration”

    Are dittoheads trying to out-stupid each other? Tom Harris, Ottawa-based mechanical engineer and executive director of the Orwellianly-named Natural Resources Stewardship Project, which lobbies for innaction on Global Warming, has an article in the Washington Times that should be titled “Hey Everybody! Watch How Far I Can Shove My Head Up My Butt!” In it,…

  • Naomi Oreskes: The American Denial of Global Warming

    “This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through… a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.” – Lyndon Johnson, 1965 This extremely well-researched talk given by Naomi Oreskes and posted to Scientific American is generating some discussion online, and should generate much more. It reveals…

  • The Real Recycling Myth

    Per Bylund of Colliding Softly blog has an article the Dittoheads are all chirping about, The Myth of Recycling, where he derides the Swedish recycling program as “coercive environmentalism”: This coercive recycling structure is set up in layers, where the consumer (“producer” of waste) gets to do most of the work of sorting, cleaning, and…

  • Bloomberg’s Hyperbole on Global Warming

    New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has been quoted in the New York Sun as making the following statement to the UN General Assembly: “Terrorists kill people. Weapons of mass destruction have the potential to kill an enormous amount of people,” Mr. Bloomberg told reporters after addressing the U.N. General Assembly, but “global warming in the…

  • Sun Spot Cycle Prompts Fears of Global Cooling

    Yet again my religious faith in Anthropogenic Global Warming has been shaken to its core by the power of Conservative Science. Witness the headline appearing on the Drudge Report last week: “Sun’s ‘disturbingly quiet’ cycle prompts fear of global COOLING…” The article in question points out that there is nothing to show CO2 variations have…

  • ideonexus is a 100% All-American Blog

    Sam Shepard, Apollo 14 dorancha has correctly pointed out, without implying that I personally was a communist, that the Smurfs are pretty much commies living in a Marxist Utopia. Some bloggers have accused me of socialism in my Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs article. You know who the real commies are in the…

  • Does Nature Trump Nurture in Obesity?

    Has Nature really beaten Nuture in the battle of the bulge, as this Times Article, Genes not poor diet blamed for most cases of childhood obesity reveals? The article makes a glossing mention of environmental factors also playing a role in obesity, but overall the article emphasizes how genes are the major constant among obese…

  • Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs

    Has been posted at the Science Creative Quarterly. 99 Smurfs on the Wall Our Earth is filled with finite resources that we, as the Human Race, exploit for personal gain. Oil, Fish Stocks, Forests, Clean Air, and water are just a few of the resources that nobody “owns,” but everybody needs in order to survive.…