Archive for the 'Environment' Category
USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes
March 3rd, 2007Total madness. Via: Washington Post: The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in high-tech plants could escape and turn up in other foods. The plan, confirmed yesterday by the California biotechnology company leading […]
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming
March 3rd, 2007That humans are causing global warming is one of the most pervasive memes in the world at the moment. I pretty much believed it, as much as I believe anything establishment science says, which is to say that I consider it along with all other perspectives. Then I met Andrew, a friend of Becky’s. Andrew […]
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
February 26th, 2007To anyone out there who still doesn’t understand the limousine liberal scam… Via: tennesseepolicy.org: Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade […]
Ocean ‘Dead Zones’
February 20th, 2007Via: Guardian: A few months ago, the clear blue Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Oregon suddenly turned a thick greenish brown. A swell of nutrients produced a bizarre blooming of plankton that reached levels never seen before by scientists. Then the plankton died and sank, causing oxygen levels in the water to plummet […]
Scientist Finds New Ocean in Inner Earth
February 13th, 2007Etidorhpa? I couldn’t resit. Via: Science Blog: A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth’s mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. It is the first […]
Direct Correlation Between Computing Power and Doom?
February 13th, 2007An 80 core CPU? Massively parallel home computers? I don’t know whether this news is more absurd or obscene. Oh sure, better games, HDTV, AI. Notice how none of this crap has anything to do clean air, food and water? How many cores will a CPU need in order to provide people with clean air, […]
UNKNOWN DISEASE WIPING OUT BEE POPULATIONS
February 13th, 2007Via: ABC News / Reuters: A mysterious disease is killing off U.S. honeybees, threatening to disrupt pollination of a range of crops and costing beekeepers hundreds of thousands of dollars, industry experts said on Monday. Beekeepers in 22 states have reported losses of up to 80 percent of their colonies in recent weeks, leaving many […]
The Untold Story of Milk
February 9th, 2007Oh man, I can’t wait to get this: The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Products by Ron Schmid. Via: Amazon Reviewer: Milk is bad for you. No mammal needs milk after being weaned. Raw milk is dirty, dangerous, and a major health hazard. Only pasteurized milk is clean and […]
Bottled Water as Ecocidal Folly
February 7th, 2007Via: Triple Pundit: Well, I doubt that Fiji has a booming plastics industry so they probably get the bottles from China. I would suspect that they get the bottles in the form of “Blanks” which are then expanded to their final size and shaped by a process called “stretch blow molding.” The total mass of […]
ORANGE SNOW FALLS IN SIBERIA
February 2nd, 2007Via: The Age: Russia’s emergency situations ministry said today it was dispatching experts to a Siberian province to find out why yellow and orange snow has been falling in several villages, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported. “A chemical test unit will be sent to Omsk … it’s main task will be to investigate pollution in […]
