In 1938, Walter C. Lowdermilk, Vice-Director of the Soil Conservation Service, was dispatched by then Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, on a world tour to learn of soil conservation successes and failures. Lowdermilk called the enterprise, “agricultural archaeology.” Lowdermilk packed the family Buick with provisions and his wife, son and daughter, niece, and his ownContinue reading “Postcards from 1938-1939”
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Liberal professor unlikely AGW skeptic
“I have great distrust for it [Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming]. It is not driven and motivated by true concern for social justice and the environment; it can only be about powerful financiers…Someone is going to make a lot of money from these schemes.” – Dr. Denis Rancourt
‘Environmentalism’ doesn’t need to address climate change
Dave Roberts wonders on Grist.org (motto: “A beacon in the smog”), “Can we survive in conditions [caused by global warming] that humanity has literally never faced?” Oh I think so. In fact,our species have faced such occurrences. Notable warm periods occurred from 230 B.C.E. to C.E. 140 and C.E. 640 to 760 (Report: “Two millenniaContinue reading “‘Environmentalism’ doesn’t need to address climate change”
Letter to UC Berkeley’s “Daily Californian”
Here’s a letter I sent off to the Daily Californian: On the Daily Californian’s opinion page on July 26, 2010 (Berkeley-BP Deal Only Looks Worse Post-Spill), Miguel Altieri writes, “This Berkeley-BP deal was signed without wide consultation with the faculty and despite warnings from a great number of faculty…” At the nub of it, hisContinue reading “Letter to UC Berkeley’s “Daily Californian””
Nullius in Verba 