• The Environment

    Dishonor Roll

    By Posted on 5.19.2008 1 Comments

    If you’re like millions of Americans, summertime means heading to the beach with sunscreen and, of course, beach reading in tow. Along with the latest Grisham novel, you may want to bring along something a bit more serious: the current report by the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI). It has all the elements of a good thriller—suspense, high-tech gadgetry, villains—and it can help preserve the marvels of the offshore world for future generations to enjoy.

    7.13.2008 at 09:46pm - Comment by Scottar

    Scottar As physicists and weathermen know, oceans are not heated due to air temperature, It's the reverse. Air temperatures are heating from the ocean's temperature, after all, it's what drives hurricanes and tropical storms. So what's heating the oceans? It's not CO2! So what is causing global warming-uh, oh, excu'se me, it's now- 'climate change'. What are they going to call it next, Gore's folly?

  • The Environment

    Carbon Discredit

    By Posted on 7.1.2008 8 Comments

    When the Weatherbird II cruised up the Potomac River and into the nation's capitol in March of last year, spirits were high. The freshly painted 115-foot research vessel was about to set sail for what would be the world's first for-profit effort to "fertilize" the ocean with iron, growing a vast forest of marine plant life that would pull the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The lap through Washington was an effort to drum up support for the voyage to the iron-deficient waters west of the Galápagos Islands.

    7.13.2008 at 09:40pm - Comment by Scottar

    Scottar As physicists and weathermen know, oceans are not heated due to air temperature, It's the reverse. Air temperatures are heating from the ocean's temperature, after all, it's what drives hurricanes and tropical storms. So what's heating the oceans? It's not CO2! So what is causing global warming-uh, oh, excu'se me, it's now- 'climate change'. What are they going to call it next, Gore's folly?

  • The Environment

    Cheney Cut Testimony on Health Consequences of Climate Change to Avoid Regulation, Claims EPA Official

    By Posted on 7.8.2008 5 Comments

    In addition to drowning polar bears and winning Al Gore a Nobel Prize, climate change may have serious public health consequences. But thanks to Vice President Cheney, you may not find out what those health implications are until you feel them. Today a former Environmental Protection Agency official said Cheney pushed for the deletion of key components of congressional testimony.

    7.9.2008 at 01:40pm - Comment by Scottar

    I believe Cheney is well justified in deleting those reports as the EPA is over regulating air standards to ridiculous extremes. There still is no consensus that CO2 drives climate change and it benefits plant growth mostly. Just go to this site: http://www.canada.com and lookup the 'The Deniers' series to see what a crock AGW is. CO2 is not a poisonous gas but a benign GHG. It no more causes diseases than farts cause asphyxiation Further proof: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/06/28/lawrence-solomon-what-i-told-the-petroleum-club.aspx Hansen should be tried and convicted of science fraud! Scottar



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