Environment

Absurd Blog Post At Arctic News Predicts 10 °C Rise In Global Temperatures By 2026- QUADRATIC To EXTRAPOLATE!

Am debunking this page because it makes a scary prediction of a 10 °C rise by 2026. It is very very silly. By far the silliest post I’ve seen on climate change, and that’s saying something, I’ve seen some ridiculous posts, but this takes the biscuit. I ca ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 16 2021 - 10:08am

Is The Science Behind Climate Change Done?

According to NASA ...

Blog Post - Mark Pierce - Dec 22 2021 - 4:34pm

2022 Is The Year 'Soylent Green' Took Place- Here's How Food Science Saved The World Instead

In the 1966 Harry Harrison novel "Make Room! Make Room!" concerns about population control were the driver of the plot and the storytellers were various people in New York City when the world has reached a population of 7 billion. You have probab ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 3 2022 - 6:08pm

Brad Pitt's Green Housing Is Making Some Hurricane Katrina Survivors See Red

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation built 109 eye-catching and affordable homes in New Orleans for a community where many people were displaced by damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now this housing development is in disarray. ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 31 2022 - 3:40pm

How Climate Change Impacted Diets Over 7,000 Years

Before the invention of modern science and technology, where many diverse foods can be grown in areas once considered inhospitable, the whims of nature determined what you ate, and if you ate at all.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2022 - 11:41am

Environmentalists Say Less Phosphorous Will Make Lake Erie Less Toxic- Science Knows They're Wrong

Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can produce toxins and deplete lakes of oxygen when they die.  It can be dangerous for both pets and people. In August 2014, nearly half a million people in the Toledo area were without tap water for nearly th ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2022 - 2:58pm

Farming: More Fertilizer Can Even Eliminate Yield Loss Caused By Excess Pre-Season Rain

Though activists try to portray farmers as slathering pesticides and fertilizer on land, anyone who has farmed know it is just the opposite; land is their greatest asset and given price competition they need to control costs and inputs as much as possible. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2022 - 3:58pm

You Don't Want To Be A Billionaire, And That's A Good Thing

Some politicians and cultural activists may claim that humans are propelled by consumerism but a new paper finds that isn't true. And that it is not true is a good thing. If we were all driven by greed, there would be no poverty. Developing nations wo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2022 - 10:46am

Congo Basin Peat Bank- NOT Lungs- No Impact On Breathing- One Of The Most Intact Tropical Rainforests And We Are Saving It

This was potentially a good article by the BBC except that sadly it used an absurd click bait title and had several serious factual errors ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jul 8 2022 - 10:01am

Environmental Governance

Lately I’ve been thinking and writing about environmental governance. Here’s a summary. It has to do with the consequences of not thinking systemically; combining top-down and bottom-up policies; technology forcing; fairness and the SDGs; and prospects of ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jul 12 2022 - 10:04am