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Stewardship Notes
- Rhetoric, Meet Reality: How Physics Dooms Demands for Renewable Energy
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 22, 2010)
A friend wrote,
This morning in the NYT I read that the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences believes that the case for Man-Made GW is “overwhelming.” All that I read from Cornwall is that it is “underwhelming.” How can there be such a disjunction among scientists? Do you...
- Some Possible Consequences of Cap and Trade
(May 14, 2010)
by John Swayze, Ph.D., Medicinal Chemistry
Retired Organic Chemist
Whichever of these bills becomes law [the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed last July in the House the Kerry-Lieberman “American Energy Act” recently submitted in the Senate, or a compromise between the two], I anticipate...
- What Will Kerry-Lieberman Do to Future Global Temperature? And What Will It Cost?
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 13, 2010)
The American Power Act just introduced in the Senate by John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) would require reduction of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 17% below 2005 emission levels by 2020, 42% below by 2030, and 83% below by 2050. Achieving that will cost trillions of dollars and millions...
- Oil Slicks and the Free Market
By James Tonkowich, D.Min. (May 10, 2010)
The BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is bad news for everyone, but it impacts and will potentially destroy the livelihood of the thousands of independent-minded watermen (and waterwomen) who ply their trade in the Gulf’s waters. There’s only one place to look for a solution: the free...
- It’s All About ‘Climate Sensitivity’
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 7, 2010)
If everyone agreed that our atmosphere were to warm only 0.0001 degree C for every doubling of carbon dioxide concentration, nobody would give a hoot about anthropogenic global warming. If everyone agreed that it would warm 20 degrees C for every doubling, everybody would be in full panic...
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