Unfortunately, the Sierra Club leadership appears to have a paucity of understanding of the issues surrounding Marcellus shale hydrofracking activities. The national Sierra Club has come out full-bore in favor of hydrofracking because the resulting natural gas is cleaner and emits fewer greenhouse gases than coal. The local upstate New York Sierra Club people, however, [...]
Archive for February 2010The Texas Tribune reports that Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. … Isn’t Texas the state that has some sort of [...] See it on YouTube: ThinkProgress has a post with a picture of Senator Jim Inhofe’s grandchildren’s igloo, built during the recent DC snow events with the sign “Al Gore’s New Home.” Perhaps it was all in good fun. These people can’t be serious in implying that snowstorms invalidate the mechanisms by which carbon dioxide and other gases trap heat [...] Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has resigned, as detailed in a UN press release. As reported here in Spiegel Online International, After July 1 of this year he’ll move to the private sector as a “Global Advisor on Climate and Sustainability” for the Dutch-headquartered audit and consulting firm, [...]
Feb
20
2010
Today’s Washington Post has an editorial endorsing the Obama administration’s plans to promote nuclear power, noting also that the president has proposed increasing the size of the federal loan guarantee program for building nuclear power plants from $18 billion to $54 billion The conclusion I’ve come to is that this approach is primarily a jobs [...] Recent, highly relevant data shows very clearly that US loan guarantees to help a nuclear plant get built in Georgia are based upon cost estimates that just don’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s a pity that it will take many years and a lot of money to learn the truth. President Obama formally announced a [...]
Feb
18
2010
This screed is a response to some local folks who were having some trouble with over-stuffed mailboxes, among other issues. First, the magic words, to repeat with every company and other organization that you are in touch with, if you wish to minimize your mail: Can you please opt me out, from everything that I [...] Many who follow the sludge debates (primarily issues surrounding land application of wastewater sludges) are very interested in high tech alternatives. In all events, caution is always called for when information about such alternatives comes out, particularly when they are in press-release form. There’s a press-release style news article going around now about a technology [...] Guinea pigs apparently make sensible eating, particularly in war zones where larger livestock are subject to pilfering. The International Center for Agriculture notes the discovery |
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