On one of my post the other day, Anne asked in a comment, “What, other than cost, is the downside of reducing our carbon footprint [to prevent global warming]?” There are steps that we can take to reduce a footprint, carbon or otherwise: Move to a metropolitan area. Urban areas, due to their compactness, areContinue reading “The Copenhagen Consensus”
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Happy Earth Day
On April 22, 1970, I, along with 20 million others that day, attended one of the first Earth Day celebrations (Read the history of Earth Day here, written by the founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson). The one I went to was held at Santa Monica City College (yes, Dustin Hoffman’s and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s alma mater). InContinue reading “Happy Earth Day”
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?”
Samboja Lestari
Willie Smits is working to turn the deforestation, caused by palm oil plantations in Indonesia, around. His district had been deforested because of the desire for palm oil to make bio-diesel (download a BOS report on the threat from palm oil). His organization, Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS), has created 3,000 jobs through reforestation at SambojaContinue reading “Samboja Lestari”
Samboja Lestari
Willie Smits is working to turn the deforestation, caused by palm oil plantations in Indonesia, around. His district had been deforested because of the desire for palm oil to make bio-diesel (download a BOS report on the threat from palm oil). His organization, Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS), has created 3,000 jobs through reforestation at SambojaContinue reading “Samboja Lestari”
Tree-Free Living is not a Good Idea
… or very silly if you think about it. One of the blogs over at EcoFriendlyDaily.com recommends “Creating a Tree-Free Home.” “Tree-free” did not turn out to be as onerous as I thought it would be: “Tree-free means reducing or eliminating paper products in the house. There are a million places we use paper everyday,Continue reading “Tree-Free Living is not a Good Idea”
Toilet Paper, Hummers, and Global Warming, oh my!
Peg Fong from the EcoGeek blog asks “Which is worse? Hummers or toilet paper?” She cites a February 25, 2009 New York Times article, Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests. According to the Times’ article, “[F]luffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin AmericanContinue reading “Toilet Paper, Hummers, and Global Warming, oh my!”
Ten Million
That’s the number of jobs the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said that investing in sustainable forest management could create worldwide. According to a recent study by the International Labour Organization, unemployment worldwide could increase from 179 million in 2007 to 198 million in 2009, it could go as high as 230 million.Continue reading “Ten Million”
Nullius in Verba 