Having read a 2012 article by Shawn Lawrence Otto of Scientific American, Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy, I felt compelled to add my two cents. According to Otto’s article, America is slipping off its science foundation fostered by the political right. “…Science…
The controversial subject of geoengineering or weather modification, popularized and oversimplified with the term Chemtrails, is once again stepping from the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny. A Harvard team, led by scientists Frank Keutsch and David Keith,…
“The reason there’s pollution in the world is because the Bible said ‘Subdue the earth’.” – UW-Madison landscaping professor on the first day of class in 1970 (I think something was lost in his translation, like “dress and Keep it”)…
In early August a press release was issued in response to the U.N.’s IPCC latest report on the nonexistent climate change crisis, asking Congress to fund HR 3195, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Fund Act to the tune…
Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax is now fully authorized under a new state regulation, and the deadline to appeal that regulation has passed with no appeal filed. Only the one-vote Republican margin in the…
Under the old, conservative thought regime, the environment was for man. Under the new, man is for the environment. The very conception of “environment” has been inverted. The qualitative has been replaced with the quantitative. The argument is now for…
YES the Amazon is on fire but these fires are part of “slash and burn” agriculture, something that farmers and ranchers have been doing for hundreds of years. It is as Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientists, says – “this…
During the 70’s the environmental movement was about saving the earth. Unfortunately, as greed thrust itself into the movement, the battles became more about lining the pockets of left-wing bureaucrats and radical left-wing organizations than about saving anything. A July…
The American beef industry has long been a target of the environmentalists and their allies in the animal rights movement for some time. To understand the reason is to know that protecting the environment is not the goal, rather the…
“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” – Michael Crichton, MD. Scientists understand that observations are rarely complete because interpretations often vary. There is usually considerable…
Okay, let’s get this straight, right up front: global warming has been totally and thoroughly discredited as the shameless, heartless fraud that most of us knew it was from the very beginning. Global warming is a hoax, exactly like the…
Because they live on the unstable surface of a planet with an energetic atmosphere and an even more energetic interior, human beings sometimes find their circumstances violently altered by things like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hailstorms, volcanos, and meteoric impacts. For…
Does the immense, awe-inspiring improvement in human life brought about by what radical environmentalist call despoiling the planet not count for anything? Apparently not, at least not since the world’s elite discovered the road to personal wealth and power through…
The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are ravishing the planet, the earth’s population is threatened by catastrophic climate change, millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren’t coming back, the oceans are rising, and millions of species…
Just when you have a glimmer of hope that the United Nations had given up on demanding vast sums of money and repressive bureaucratic control to combat global Armageddon that exist only in the virtual world of computer models, they…
