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Rush Limbaugh decided to shoot his mouth off about Motor Trend naming Chevy’s breakthrough electric car, the Volt, its Car of the Year. And they blasted back at him in no uncertain terms: Unlike you, they said, “We test, make judgments and write about things we understand.” “Motor Trend magazine, that’s the end of them,” [...]
Hansen just got back from China, and sees the Chinese as getting serious about doing something about global warming and climate change (unlike Washington, which looks to be stuck in gridlock for the next two years). “I have the impression,” he says in a recent email, “that Chinese leadership takes a long view, perhaps because [...]
Senator Tester (D, Montana) has been pushing an amendment to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 exempting small farms from the bill’s provisions. The wisdom of this legislation and the amendment are subjects of legitimate debate, but the Senator reveals his actual agenda in this quote: “Small producers are not raising a commodity, [...]
Although composting has a very strong “green” reputation, it isn’t without its environmental issues. Compost is an important source of fertilizer for Organic crops, and is widely promoted as a “green” alternative to synthetic nitrogen. The inconvenient truth is that, as a nitrogen fertilizer, compost has a carbon footprint more than 10 times as large as [...]
(From our sister blog, Planetsave.com) Coal power plants are by far the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in this country. Their pollution is making our planet a more dangerous place to live. But these coal plants also create a by-product waste called “coal ash.” Coal ash contains toxic chemicals like arsenic, mercury and lead [...]
It was supposed to be the middle-of-the-road answer to the “global warming sensationalism” of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”. But “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg’s un-scary climate change documentary, “Cool It”, appears to be anything but sensational. It opened this weekend to the rousing reception of a tree falling in the forest with nobody there. It took [...]
The anti-climate-science politicians from the Right and the anti-technology activists from the Left are independently, but quite successfully, increasing the risk of malnutrition and/or starvation for the poorest people of the world. This may not be their intended agenda, but it is the likely outcome from what they are doing. Another food price spike looming [...]
Wow. When you write a memoir, it’s sort of traditional to, you know, use your own thoughts and memories. That’s why it’s called a “memoir”. But the Huffington Post appears to have caught former President Bush in a rather bizarre form of plagiarism. Instead of using his own memories of meetings and events for his book [...]
Bjorn Lomborg’s documentary, “Cool It”, opens today. Claiming to take a middle ground between climate deniers on the right and fearmongers on the left, it could be a moderate’s dream. Or it could be yet another mishmash of garbled facts and half-baked ideas that doesn’t move the debate forward one iota. And it doesn’t help [...]
The other day we were marveling at the way incoming Republican Governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida (as well as New Jersey) are trying to kill railroad projects. Now, lefty entrepreneur Richard Branson may be picking up the pieces. Kym McNichols blogs at Forbes.com: The Virgin Group has joined a consortium to make a bid [...]
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