Category Archives: Life as I find it

The Optimistic Environmentalist

As a child of the 1960’s On April 22, 1970, I, along with 20 million others that day, attended one of the first Earth Day celebrations. We had heard the predictions and we were duly frightened. In those days, most of us in the environmental movement worried about air pollution causing another ice age throughContinue reading “The Optimistic Environmentalist”

Six Reasons Why Fancy TP is No Big Deal

Well, an article in the October 2, 2009 issue of The Week caught my attention. It’s titled “Soft toilet paper: Environmental threat?” If you’re not familiar with The Week, it draws from multiple sources to give an idea of the news and opinions currently filling newspapers, magazines, and our airwaves. One of the sources quotedContinue reading “Six Reasons Why Fancy TP is No Big Deal”

Ersatz Coffee

As you may know, I’m supposed to cut down on my coffee drinking. I’ve written about it before, here (Coffee East of Java), here (Coffee, East of Java, Part Deux), and here (Teecino, Not Quite Coffee). Well, I have found something that tastes sorta, kinda, like instant coffee: Inka Naturalis, an instant beverage made fromContinue reading “Ersatz Coffee”

Reading the Rocks in Time’s Basement

Paul Sheehan at the Sydney Morning Herald, wrote an overview of the book Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer. His article is titled Beware the climate of conformity. He says that he has been guilty of conformity in the past. I think the 500 pages (230,000 words with 2311 footnotes) will be interesting to read.Continue reading “Reading the Rocks in Time’s Basement”

Reading the Rocks in Time's Basement

Paul Sheehan at the Sydney Morning Herald, wrote an overview of the book Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer. His article is titled Beware the climate of conformity. He says that he has been guilty of conformity in the past. I think the 500 pages (230,000 words with 2311 footnotes) will be interesting to read.Continue reading “Reading the Rocks in Time's Basement”

Perhaps some other laws have been ignored too?

I mentioned a scientific paper the other day that is making its way through peer review titled, Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics by Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner. It seems there may be other laws of physics that have been slighted, see On the First Principles ofContinue reading “Perhaps some other laws have been ignored too?”

Drat, that pesky second law of thermodynamics

Authors Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner argue that within the frame of physics there can be no greenhouse effect. Abstract: The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes aContinue reading “Drat, that pesky second law of thermodynamics”