April 7, 2011

Political Animals

Scientific American reports: Scientists want politics kept out of endangered species decisions Some 1,293 scientists have sent a letter to each and every U.S. senator urging them not to support any endangered species legislation that is based on politics rather than science. But the very existence of an “endangered species […]
March 19, 2011

Fire, Ice and Precautions

Check out a very interesting post by David Lappi on trends in global temperature: not just the last 100 years, but the last 10,000 years, the last 5 million years and the last 65 million years. The two striking things about the trends shown are the huge shorter term natural variations […]
February 5, 2011

Obama for Capitalism!

According to a report in Science, President Obama has become an advocate of market forces: Letting market forces help the United States reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by choosing “cleaner” sources of electricity has been a popular notion among some Republicans, who oppose the Democratic alternative of putting a price on […]
October 10, 2010

Green Dreams

You’ve got to see this YouTube video of the greenies’ vision of the future. The horror is that the greenies who wrote and produced it actually think it’s funny. But just imagine their reaction if it was someone else’s ad – by a company about people not buying their products, or about homosexuals, […]