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Stewardship Notes
- Just How Big Is a Modern Wind Turbine?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 22, 2010)
Source: Molonglo Landscape Guardians, http://www.mlg.org.au/visual.htm. (95 meters = 311.68 feet; 35 meters = 114.83 feet; 70 meters is 229.66 feet.)
Now imagine thousands of those along the crests of hills or just offshore of a beach that once had a beautiful view. Environmental blight, anyone? CA
- All You Need to Know About Wind Power, in One Place
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (July 8, 2010)
John Droz, Jr., a physicist and Cornwall Newsletter reader, recently wrote to tell us about his website, WindPowerFacts. There Droz--a long-time movement environmentalist and member of various environmental advocacy organizations--presents, in a cool and measured way, the scientific facts about why...
- Climategate: The Dust from the Exposure of Post-Normal Science at Work Just Won’t Settle, No Matter How Much True Believers Wish it Would
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 22, 2010)
People right at the top of the pecking order of alarmist climate-change “scientists” know exactly what they’re doing—post-normal science, not real science.
Consider Mike Hulme, founding director of the Tyndall Centre and Professor of Climate Change (note that title—not of climate, but of climate...
- Anti-Human Philosophy from Singer and Benatar
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (June 15, 2010)
David Benatar, with whose book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence Peter Singer here interacts, thinks the world would be better off without people. “Benatar claims, inter alia, that deliberate procreation is immoral; that abortion is morally mandatory if possible before...
- Calling Cap and Tax a Job Bill Doesn’t Veto Economic Reality
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 27, 2010)
In case you were wondering whether Senators Kerry and Lieberman had found a way to cancel economic reality by creating a government program that would create more jobs than it destroys, the answer’s in. Congressional Budget Office says policy like the “American Power Act” would destroy more jobs...
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