So ‘they’ oppose environmental damage? ====== WSJ 8/11/2017 By Jillian Kay Melchior In front of an Iowa government building, two women admitted to an eight-month campaign of arson, vandalism and sabotage targeting the Dakota Access Pipeline. “Some may view these actions as violent, but be not mistaken,” said Ruby Montoya, 27. “We acted from our hearts and never threatened human life nor personal property.” But... Read more
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What the Dakota Pipeline Is Really About
December 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Law, Obama, The LeftAgain, this is so sad, that the President of the USA would ignore the law… =========== WSJ 12/7/2016 A little more than two weeks ago, during a confrontation between protesters and law enforcement, an improvised explosive device was detonated on a public bridge in southern North Dakota. That was simply the latest manifestation of the “prayerful” and “peaceful” protests against the Dakota Access... Read more
Green Elites Face Trump Threat
November 15 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, ScienceI do hope Mr Trump gets into this space. ====== WSJ 11/9/2016 Whatever you think of Donald Trump, his candidacy represents an important opportunity. It’s a chance to dismiss a very particular elite about whom it could be said, borrowing from Cromwell, “For any good you have been doing . . . in the name of God, go!” We are referring, of course, to... Read more
The Phony War Against CO2
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming“Every human being exhales about two pounds of CO2 a day…” ============== By Rodney W. Nichols And Harrison H. Schmitt National polls show that climate change is low on the list of voters’ priorities. For good reason: In the U.S., and for much of the world, the most dangerous environmental pollutants have been cleaned up. U.S. emissions of particulates, metals and varied gases—all... Read more
About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingWSJ 10/14/2016 By Bjorn Lomborg Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change. Their dispatches are often filled with raw emotion and suggest that residents are fleeing... Read more
The Climate Police Blink
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Global Warming, Law, ObamaWell, well. Where are all the “News Releases!”? ======= WSJ 6-16-2016 The Climate Police Blink There are few more rewarding sights than a bully scorned, so let’s hear it for the recent laments of Attorneys General Claude Walker (Virgin Islands) and Eric Schneiderman (New York), two ringleaders of the harassment campaign against Exxon and free-market think tanks over climate change. Consider Mr. Walker’s recent retreat... Read more
