April 30, 2008 – 8:56 am
Well, if the Climahysterics want to talk about consensus…… A majority of readers are not convinced that enough evidence exists to support claims that the earth’s temperature is rising and dramatic impacts will follow. Global warming is “pure theory,” said 138, or 35 percent of the 388 responses to the latest Business Pulse Survey, the […]
April 22, 2008 – 8:02 am
Bad Nancy! Breaking the liberal proscription regarding the separation of church and state. Isn’t that what the Left always tells us? That there is, and should be, a separation on church and state? Some critics say global warming is a form of religion for liberal environmental activists. Indeed, in her official statement on Earth Day, […]
April 12, 2008 – 8:58 pm
And, yes, global warming does come into play (NY Times) The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals. My colleague Mark Bittman wrote a […]
March 12, 2008 – 7:52 am
I’m all for new, cleaner energy sources. I would love to get off not just our foreign oil dependence, but our our overall oil dependence. But, what is the point of replacing one pollutant with another? After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior […]
February 23, 2008 – 9:41 am
No, really, he does. Snort Worthy! I’m almost never censored at the Times. However, I was told that I couldn’t use the lede I originally wrote for my column following the 2007 State of the Union address, in which Bush made ethanol the centerpiece of his energy strategy: “Before the State of the Union address, […]
December 18, 2007 – 10:00 pm
Of course, when are they not unhinged? It’s a scene that brings laughter and cheers from visitors to a Japanese aquarium – two white beluga whales wearing Santa hats. But environmentalists are saddened by the sight of what they say is the final humiliation for the whale in a country that hunts them down with […]
November 29, 2007 – 6:19 pm
Yikes! A powerful earthquake rocked the eastern Caribbean on Thursday, sending office workers and shoppers on several islands fleeing into the streets. Minor injuries were reported on the island of Martinique. The earthquake which struck at 2 p.m. EST, with a magnitude of 7.4, was centered 26 miles southeast of Roseau, the capital of Dominica, […]
November 28, 2007 – 7:06 pm
And good for him. If only Ted “Hiccup” Kennedy would follow along and allow the Cape Wind Project to proceed (Boston.com) His son may be known as a big friend to Big Oil, but George Herbert Walker Bush is showing a green streak these days. The former president earlier this month installed a 33-foot-high, $14,000 […]
November 19, 2007 – 4:52 pm
At least this article doesn’t go down the climate change road Attention San Francisco shoppers: Plastic grocery store bags are going, going, gone. Starting Tuesday, large grocery stores in the city can no longer use the traditional plastic bags that are a staple of the supermarket checkout line, as a city ordinance passed earlier this […]
November 17, 2007 – 12:31 pm
Run for the hill, run for the hills! An analysis of satellite imagery of the Gulf Coast shows that Hurricane Katrina destroyed an estimated 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, an unprecedented loss of forestland that will reshape the region for generations, Louisiana researchers reported today. The death of the trees from wind damage […]
