Bookworm on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Climate change, Crime and punishment, San Francisco
San Francisco is a very crowded little city. Although it covers only about seven 49 square miles (it’s a little square about 7 miles on each side), it’s the fourth most populous City in California, with almost 800,000 people crammed into that little space. Interestingly, though, San Francisco did not end up going [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
….but you wouldn’t listen. You had to go ahead and do it anyway, and only now, when things are getting serious, are you figuring it out yourself. These are words parents say to teenagers, and conservatives say to liberals. In teenage land, you end up with pregnancies, STDs, and substance abuse. In liberal land, you [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
Greenies are always encouraging people to abandon their cars and opt for alternative, group transportation, such as buses, trains, carpools, etc. In the San Francisco Bay Area, one of those alternative forms of transportation is the ferry.
Up in Marin, if they use the ferry, drivers can avoid endless traffic jams over the Golden Gate Bridge [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
I grew up spending a large part of my life at Lake Tahoe. At that time, Tahoe was a brilliant blue and crystal clear. More than a decade ago, after a long hiatus, I returned to Tahoe. I was overwhelmed by the crowds, by the wall to wall houses, by the big [...]
Bookworm on Mar 19 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Climate change, Democrats, Immigration, Media matters
Today just hasn’t worked as a blogging day, what with one thing and another and another and another, ad infinitum (or do I mean ad nauseum?). I’m therefore going to take a page out Laer’s book, and just compile a whole bunch of posts into one big post. I’ll also keep updating this [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
Climate Change: When new facts emerge, the open-minded tend to alter their views. This is what has happened to a Hungarian environmental scholar whose position on global warming has been transformed.
Until his Damascus moment, Miklos Zagoni, a physicist and environmental researcher, had been touted as his nation’s “most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol.” But [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
It took me a while, but I finally figured it out. First, CNN explained to me the single greatest cause of global warming:
Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it comes to climate change. Deforestation, by varying accounts, contributes anywhere from 20 percent to 30 percent [...]
Bookworm on Feb 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Climate change, Identity politics
I’ve never been able to read Philip Roth’s novels because I cannot stand his navel gazing (or should I say penis-gazing?) characters. They are, for me, profoundly uninteresting — I find them infantile and narcissistic in their concerns. Perhaps my the problem with his writing is his thinking. Why do I say this? Because [...]
Bookworm on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
I have no comment for this one, ’cause you know what I’m thinking (not to mention the fact that I’ve already discussed this risk occurring long before the NY Times and the rest of the public figured it out):
Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Climate change, England
I would dearly love to see us stop funding Islamists by buying oil from the Middle East. To me, that means two things: examining our own oil sources (ANWAR, anyone?) and/or developing alternative energies. As everyone who visits this blog knows, though, I’ve been extremely hostile to biofuels, which I believe will [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Al Gore, Climate change
Poor Al Gore. He thought his inconvenient truth was that poor frog in the boiling water. It’s beginning to look as if the real inconvenient truth, however, may be that the anthropocentric global warming hysteria convulsing the Western world is fiction:
An inconvenient new peer-reviewed study published in the December 2007 issue of the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
Danny Lemieux sent me the link to this great test asking people to answer ten short questions about global warming. Try it and see how you do. I got 8/10 right. One of my wrong answers was genuine ignorance. The other was genuine carelessness, because I clicked the wrong button!
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Bookworm on Dec 13 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
Boy, the discoveries just keep piling up, don’t they, all indicating that Al Bore may have been over-interpreting the scientific data, just a little bit:
Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in.
In recent years, Greenland’s [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
This just in:
The researchers compared predictions of 22 widely used climate “models” — elaborate schematics that try to forecast how the global weather system will behave — with actual readings gathered by surface stations, weather balloons and orbiting satellites over the past three decades.
The study, published online this week in the International Journal of Climatology, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
Marc Sheppard deconstructs the factual assertions Gore makes in his recent Rolling Stone interview. Al Gore’s ultimate conclusions about climate change may be right but, for me, it saps his credibility when he relies on hysterical, inaccurate statements to make his argument.
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Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
I’m reading a great book right now called Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, by Bjørn Lomborg. Lomborg’s premise is simple: global warming is real and we contribute to it significantly, but our understanding of its impact and our clunky, government-driven solutions are impractical and, quite often, very harmful. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Children, Climate change, Education
Schools constantly complain about the pressure to meet actual academic standards, but they somehow always find time to beat the children over the heads with social or political issues — and always from the point of view of the Lefter side of the political spectrum:
Third-grade teacher Debbie Robles made her acting debut before a packed [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
A meteorologist who was one of the founders of the Weather Channel has finally had it when it comes to the increasingly loud voices drowning out all opposing views regarding Global Warming:
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Climate change, Health
Be fat and die has been the mantra for decades now. The scientists had figured out the direct correlation between that excess avoirdupois and death. Except it turns out it’s not that simple:
Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
I’m all for clean air and water, and a lovely environment. I’m extremely hostile, however, to being bullied. I’ve gotten to the point where I often find myself turning a light on in my home and thinking “Take that Al Gore. I’ll start conserving energy in a serious way when you move [...]
Bookworm on Oct 28 2007 | Filed under: Children, Climate change, Education
The global warming indoctrination is working — up to a point. In common with the school children in this John Stossel video, my children are worried about a climate change Armageddon and are hostile to Western culture because “it’s all our fault.” It’s a common topic of conversation. Hot days, cold days, nature shows — [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Climate change
From NewsBusters’ Paul Detrick:
CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Finally,” in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” from UK schools because, according to “American Morning,” “it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies.”
“There are definitely some inaccuracies,” Marciano added. “The biggest thing I [...]
Bookworm on Sep 14 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
No comment. The text speaks for itself:
Global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon and its effects can even be beneficial, according to two leading researchers.
Recent climate change is not caused by man-made pollution, but is instead part of a 1,500-year cycle of warming and cooling that has happened for the last million years, say [...]
Bookworm on Aug 18 2007 | Filed under: Climate change
I’ve asked it before, but I’ll ask it again: Why do so many on the Left think that the best protest is a naked one? As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a distraction from the main issue. Of course, maybe that’s the point. So often the main issues are silly that it’s probably [...]
Bookworm on Aug 16 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Climate change, Media matters
It’s old news in the blogosphere, but I was very pleased to see that The Telegraph, one of Britain’s three main newspapers had as a top story (online) Steve McIntyre’s find that NASA climate information was in error:
A US blogger has caused a stir in the climate debate by forcing Nasa scientists to admit errors [...]
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