Tag: Environment
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Physics for future presidents is for all of us
In the most unlikely of all cities, at the most unlikely of all universities, Richard A. Muller tries to a inject a dose of sanity into science, especially the debate over climate change. “Surrounded by tree-hugging academics at UC Berkeley, he dares to argue that coal and nuclear fission are good sources of energy.”
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Academic Study Challenges Projections of Green Jobs
Global warming alarmists often argue that transforming our economy to reliance on “green” sources of energy is good because millions of jobs will be created. These new green jobs, it is claimed, will drive our economy forward and create wealth.
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Wichita Eagle letter: coal and recycling
A letter in the Wichita Eagle by a Mr. Steve Otto of Wichita (March 16, 2009) makes a few claims that require critical examination. The letter claims that “the rest of the nation is staying away from coal-burning plants.” Actual figures present a different story.
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Articles of Interest
Electric cars, Obama and education reform, Kansas online records, Proposition K.
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Increased number think global warming is “exaggerated”
A new Gallup poll shows that the trend in thinking among Americans over the past few years is that the news about global warming is exaggerated. “This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.”
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New York Times covers climate change conference before the event
The New York Times reports on the International Conference on Climate Change before the event starts, and declares that “global warming’s skeptics are showing signs of internal rifts and weakening support.”
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Just a pause in warming?
The Washington Post’s George F. Will reminds us that not too long ago — about 30 years — the New York Times was warning us of “the near certainty of calamitous global cooling.” Now Will alerts us to a Times story which tell us that “that the last decade, which passed without warming, was just…
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Cap-and-trade costs consumers
To solve the global warming crisis — to the extent that such crisis is real — alarmists often propose a cap-and-trade scheme. It seems like a reasonable solution, using the power of markets to let carbon emitters decide their preference between emitting carbon vs. reducing emissions.
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Where’s the dirtiest coal plant in Kansas?
Right north of Lawrence, home to many of our state’s global warming alarmists, stands a very dirty coal-fired power plant. James Meier explains and describes the irony in the video commentary Most Polluting Regions Among Greatest Objectors to Coal Plants.