July 22, 2010 — Just How Big Is a Modern Wind Turbine?
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...
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July 8, 2010 — All You Need to Know About Wind Power, in One Place
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... ECB
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June 15, 2010 — Anti-Human Philosophy from Singer and Benatar
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... ECB
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May 27, 2010 — Calling Cap and Tax a Job Bill Doesn’t Veto Economic Reality
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... ECB
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May 22, 2010 — Rhetoric, Meet Reality: How Physics Dooms Demands for Renewable Energy
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...
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May 14, 2010 — Some Possible Consequences of Cap and Trade
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...
CA
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May 13, 2010 — What Will Kerry-Lieberman Do to Future Global Temperature? And What Will It Cost?
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... ECB
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May 10, 2010 — Oil Slicks and the Free Market
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)... JT
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May 7, 2010 — It’s All About ‘Climate Sensitivity’
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... ECB
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May 5, 2010 — Meteorologists Blast Global Warming Fears
Well-known San Francisco-area television-meteorologist-turned-talk-show-host Brian Sussman, author of Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, which addresses... ECB
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May 5, 2010 — Exploring the World, Discovering God
Guest Blog by Tom Sheahen, Ph.D. (President, Institute for Theological Encounter with Science & Technology; ITEST is the parent organization of EWDG)
It is well known that children of...
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April 30, 2010 — Grieving at Death, Living with Risk
My email today brought me this poignant note from a sensitive, caring evangelical proponent of creation care:
When 29 miners die in a coal mine, 11 oil rig workers die on a platform, and a...
ECB
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April 24, 2010 — The Real Warfare in the Environmentalist Debate
An informal group of scientists, theologians, and philosophers of which I’m a part got to discussing the lack of critical thinking ability that plagues much environmental discussion. One... ECB
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April 21, 2010 — Belief in Manmade Global Warming Is Religious
Tim Nicholson is about $150,000 richer today than he was yesterday, because the British court system recognizes belief in manmade global warming as religious.
Nicholson lost his job when...
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April 15, 2010 — UK Parliament’s House of Commons Science Committee Releases Report on Climategate
The headline of Climate Progress’s report tells it all: “House of Commons exonerates Phil Jones.” Climate Progress, a project of the Left-wing Center for American Progress, quickly offers a... ECB
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April 6, 2010 — Dread Rising Carbon Dioxide? Think Again
Yesterday a new book arrived in my mail. Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam is by Brian Sussman, who for over twenty years served as the San Francisco... ECB
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April 2, 2010 — Congressman Expresses Grave Environmental Concerns About Marine Relocation
The Pentagon wants to move about 8,000 Marines and their families to Guam, America’s westernmost territory, as part of its forward presence strategy. With their families, that would add... ECB
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April 1, 2010 — Federal Sting Uncovers Potential for Energy Star Fraud and Abuse
The government’s popular Energy Star program claims to help people choose appliances and other products that use less energy, save money, and help the environment. Last year, we’re told, “Americans…saved enough energy to avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 30 million cars — all while saving nearly $17 billion on their utility bills.”
But a government sting has called those figures into question. QDG
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March 31, 2010 — 25 Years for FREE
One of the things I appreciate most about our friend John Baden is his relentless optimism and that optimism shines through his column today celebrating FREE’s twenty-fifth...
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