“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
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
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
What Kills More People Cold or Heat?
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, Obama, ScienceSomething your mother probably never taught you. ========= WSJ 4/7/2016 By Bjorn Lomborg The Obama administration released a new report this week that paints a stark picture of how climate change will affect human health. Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans. The report is subtitled “A Scientific Assessment,” presumably to underscore its reliability. But the report... Read more
Animas River Accounting?
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionYou want to talk about ‘hall passes’ or what? ============= WSJ – 2/17/2016 If a private company dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into Colorado waterways, we’d be flooded with daily media updates for months. Yet the press has by now forgotten the disaster unleashed in August when EPA contractors punctured an abandoned mine. New evidence suggests the government isn’t coming clean... Read more
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment
When it’s in your backyard… But I thought everyone was in love with “Green”? ===== By Robert Bryce Feb. 7, 2016 4:30 p.m. ET 895 COMMENTS Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in December introduced a sweeping renewable-energy plan that would, among other things, require tens of thousands of new wind turbines. Sen. Sanders’s “people before polluters” proposal may help rally his followers, but it won’t be... Read more
