Creeping Lunacy - Environment category

Is global warming a crisis?

Sat, 12 May 2007 02:28:53 GMT

Could it be that global warming is not a crisis? That was the question in the Intelligence Squared debate on April 18th in New York. On the no crisis side was writer and filmmaker Michael Crichton, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT Richard S. Lindzen, and Philip Stott, an Emeritus Professor and biogeographer from the University of London . On the sky is falling side is Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin Schmidt, and Richard C.J. Somerville Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Is global warming unequivocal?

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:37:00 GMT

The scientists of the world have spoken and global warming is unequivocal. Actually, it was the scientists of the UN and they actually said that global warming was probably anthropogenic (dork speak for caused by humans). This is a big leap and if they have the data to back it up, we need to get our act together as a species and prepare for the consequences of our actions.

Energy Independence Through Corn Liquor

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:59:33 GMT

As a warmer than average winter on the populated east coast has oil prices dropping, the US is about to supplement its supply of cheap oil with expensive corn alcohol. This will be domestic ethanol as high tariffs keep cheap foreign ethanol from being used. To the delight of Archer Daniels Midland, this has caused the price of corn and therefore anything that requires corn, like say food, to go up. Once again, the government tries to solve one problem and produces two.