Bookworm Beat 2/24/23: The East Palestine illustrated edition
These memes cover a whole lot more than just East Palestine, but it’s absolutely the dominant topic in this meme round-up.
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Tag: Environment
A young Leftist, to his horror, realizes Trump is successful
I couldn’t stop smiling after reading a young Leftist’s horrified realization that Trump is a successful president who has undone all things Obama. A friend sent me a link to an article in the online student newspaper at his son’s college. The student author, proving himself wiser than many in
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat (10/3/14) — End of the week roundup and Open Thread
Ebola in America is a failure of Big Government Yesterday I pointed out that, in all times and all places, protecting a population from epidemic disease is one of government’s core functions. (It’s irrelevant that these efforts often failed; government was still expected to make them.) Obama is failing that
Continue readingOil boom!
I met a semi-retired petroleum engineer in Alberta that was working on the Canadian tar sands development. I asked him what he had heard regarding the size of the Bakken oil field. He indicated that, pessimistically, it contained 1x the reserves of Saudi Arabia, while the optimistic projection was 3x the Saudi oil reserves.
Continue readingI can see the future for Fairfax homeowners
Humans produce waste. Not just bodily waste, but all kinds of garbage. Most of what we know about Stone Age cultures comes from examining their garbage piles. If Fairfax, California, has its way, though, archaeologists are not going to have an easy time of it if they’re scavenging Fairfax garbage
Continue readingKnown Unknowns in Climate Research
I know that we have been round and round on climate issues in our always edifying Bookworm Room discussions, so here is an interesting lecture that I found at our friends at Flopping Aces. The lecturer, Prof. Courtillot, professor of geophysics at the University of Paris, does an excellent job
Continue readingEnvironmentalism is for the birds
As Kate over at smalldeadanimals likes to say, now is the time when we juxtapose: First, a video (you need to watch this to the very end, but *** Caution***graphic imagery may be disturbing to some): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofoxM-tqPew&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] (h/t smalldeadanimals.com) Then, compare this to the self-serving bloviations of a hard-Left legislator
Continue readingBeing a contrarian and NOT buying (or being) green *UPDATED*
Am I the only one who has had it up to here and more with the relentless imperative that I buy green? I have this incredible urge to pollute and waste. I do not like being bullied, and I am being bullied. When I’m at the store, surrounded by all
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