Tag: politics

  • Off-World Environmentalism: Fighting Space Pollution

    Tracked Debris Orbiting Earth Photo by NASA All the politicians and military strategists were buzzing about China’s missile test in January 2007, where the country blew up one of its old satellites in orbit. After the debates about the diplomatic and militaristic implications of this demonstration had settled down, scientists took the opportunity to get…

  • 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…

  • Evolution Sunday

    Today more than 618 Congregations across America and five nations will participate in Evolution Sunday. More than 10,000 ministers have signed the letter supporting the idea that science and religion are not incompatible, and support for Evolution Sunday grew 13 per cent to 530 congregations in 2007. Several years ago, I was married to a…

  • The National Debt is a “Grandchild Tax”

    “Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John W. Whitehead Dear Babyboomers, I just wanted to wish you congratulations on your impending retirement. Could you do Generation X, Y, the Millennials, and so forth a favor before you go, and please clean up your $7,000,000,000,000 mess before leaving…

  • For What It’s Worth, Please Vote Barack Obama

    Barack Obama Barack Obama came out of nowhere, delivering a suprise inspirational speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and writing two books Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, both of which revealed a remarkably intellectual individual who believes in Enlightenment ideals. In the last four years, Obama has proven himself undefeatable…

  • Thinking Beyond Science Debate 2008

    Science Debate 2008 The Union of Concerned Scientists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Federation of American Scientists, the Scientists & Engineers for America, Audubon… World Wildlife Fund… the Society for Amateur Scientists… the Sierra Club… The list of activist organizations representing the multitude of issues important to Scientists and the Scientifically…

  • Global Cooling Disproves Global Warming Theory

    Sorry gang. I have converted. I no longer accept Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory. I simply cannot reply to the deluge of facts presented in David Deming’s Year of global cooling article. The Cognitive Dissonance it’s causing in my brain has given me no choice but to accept that I was wrong. Deming’s a geophysicist, adjunct…

  • How Much is a Blue Whale Worth? Establishing a Market Value for the Environment

    Blue Whale Display American Natural History Museum Photo by Ryan Somma Whale-watching businesses use blue whales to sell their product. Documentary-makers use blue whales to sell Nature Films. Nature magazines like National Geographic use blue whales to sell magazines. Marine Biologists use blue whales to learn more about the natural world. Whalers use whales to…