October 5, 2013 – 4:06 pm
That’s the headline on the front page of the Washington Post, slightly different at the story page Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three young entrepreneurs are tinkering with the DNA of ordinary plants in the hopes of being able to mass produce a variety that glows […]
October 4, 2013 – 10:28 am
Kinda tells you how far they’ve gone from the core mission, eh? (via Junk Science) (Reuters) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will take one of the biggest hits of any federal agency if the government shuts down this week, operating with under 7 percent of its employees, according to guidance issued by the agency. Among […]
September 27, 2013 – 3:40 pm
This is the conclusion of an actual study (Salon) Why don’t people behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They don’t want to be associated with environmentalists. That’s the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists. Sadly, the […]
September 24, 2013 – 12:14 pm
How could this possibly be? (The Hockey Schtick) A paper published today in Global Environmental Change finds that “a central organising idea for climate change sceptics” is that climate change is governed by natural cycles, such as ocean oscillations and solar activity, and that “‘sceptics can have pro-environmental values similar to climate change believers.” According […]
September 14, 2013 – 12:37 pm
Guest Post by William Teach of Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach. There have been over 300 murders in Chicago this year, which doesn’t count all the attempted murders and other violence in the Windy City, and kids are scared to go to school as they pass through gang wars in safe passage areas, […]
September 5, 2013 – 7:51 am
The answer would be eight (via Climate Depot (Alaska Dispatch) When agents with the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn’t quite know what to think. Did it really take […]
August 19, 2013 – 4:11 pm
This is of particular concern for them as Mankind raises the global temperature (Townhall) This past Thursday, the Obama Administration quietly introduced a new endeavor intended to address the environmental effects of manmade objects that travel at supersonic speeds. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney revealed the program, adding that, “In the eight years preceding […]
August 9, 2013 – 8:37 am
So far, every environmental and global warming study has found Keystone XL to be not an issue. Here’s another one (The Hill) The Keystone XL oil sands pipeline “will not have any impact†on greenhouse gas emissions, a report released by prominent energy industry consulting group IHS CERA said Thursday. The report said that’s because […]
August 4, 2013 – 8:44 am
I know, you’re pretty darned surprised. Who would have thought that so much money would be wasted on “green” projects by the Obama/Democrat Stimulus plan? (Fox News) A federal audit shows that nearly a half-billion dollars in government funds was spent on training workers for so-called “green jobs.†The only problem is that not enough […]
July 28, 2013 – 8:25 am
In a long, boring interview with the NY Times, in which (NMP) Obama dishes forth the same old failed policies, engages in lots and lots of Blamestorming as if this wasn’t his second term in office, patronizes, and offers little in the way of new policies, we find this bit on page 5 (via Tom […]
