The Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch are reporting a Washington Post story on the federal push to make the polar bear the first mammal to be listed as in-risk of extinction due to global warming. According to the reports, “The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act,
In what has to be the most telling example of the desire of government to use violence as its primary means to any end, officials in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland and Ontario, Canada, have destroyed over 20 million ash trees in an attempt to slow the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer. The larvae of this voracious Asian pest — first identified in
The two birds: My wife’s desire for additional landscaping; and, your carbon guilt. It’s really simple. You go to The CarbonNeutral Company website and calculate the amount of the carbon emissions resulting from your daily commute. Note the estimated values for carbon mitigation. You then go to PayPal and send me one of the amounts shown. Don’t
In conjunction with the DVD release of the BBC’s series, “Planet Earth: The Complete Series,” AOL is currently offering a short quiz and a video contest. Hysteria first: The 10-question quiz “ Planet Earth by the Numbers “ has a certain spin, to say the least. Note question 10, my favorite: Question: According to some estimates, by 2050, CO2
The local PBS station is due to rebroadcast the Nova program Magnetic Storm . The significance of the program is twofold. On one hand there is the prediction that Earth is long overdue for its magnetic poles to once again flip; north to south, south to north. On the other hand, and more ominous, there is the prediction that the Earth’s magnetic
Talk about internal conflict: On one hand, national security and all that, while, in the other hand, an ear of freshly-boiled, sweet corn. Sure, we all know that every kernel diverted from the production of ethanol is another seed of our destruction; oil production, global warming, etc. Yet, it is Father’s Day. Do I forsake and say, “No thanks,
Please note that I do not subscribe to the panicked cries of human-induced, carbon-based global warming. But, just for fun, let’s assume that the cries are indeed true. Ever since Mises exposed the negative effects of government interventions, politicians, bureaucrats, and most economists have attempted to refute those truths. A leading fallacy
Government green included, of course. Can you answer the following questions correctly (take a guess if you like, I did)? 1. Which two of the following are considered sources of potable water in LEED? (Choose two.) A. irrigation wells B. captured rain water C. municipal water system D. municipally supplied reclaimed waste water 2. For a
It’s tornado season here in Ohio. This afternoon as a few funnel clouds were forming miles from my house, I received a call from my mother living in Florida. Seems she was not about to wait for her son to make his yearly Mother’s Day call as she had urgent news. CNN and other news outlets were reporting funnel clouds and tornados in central Ohio,
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