Environment

Quote of the week #22 – Experts say that fears surrounding climate change are overblown

Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

The Times posted a surprising story this weekend that has skeptics cheering and alarmists hopping mad. It’s deja vu all over again. (See QOTW#21) Roger Pielke Sr. will be happy, because land use change is prominently mentioned. Here’s the line: “The evidence of climate change-driven extinctions have really been overplayed,” Here’s the article, highlights mine: From the...

• Experts say that fears surrounding climate change... - GREENIE WATCH

Vegetarian's Rebuttal to 'The Carnivore's Dilemma'

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled " The Carnivore's Dilemma "--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst these voices is Michael Pollan, author...

Where Is All the Carbon Coming From?

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2009/11/where-is-all-carbon-coming-from.html Call it energy anorexia -- the Obama - Pelosi - Brown - Rudd disease. Like anorexia nervosa, energy anorexia is a deadly pathological response to an imagined problem. Energy anorexia threatens the life of the body -- in this case the nation. There is no greater threat to an industrial economy than the restriction and destruction...

• Where Is All the Carbon Coming From? - Al Fin

Blackouts and Bankruptcies

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/blackouts_and_bankruptcies.html How Cap and Trade is destroying the economies of Europe.

When did saving the planet get so dull?

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6517138/When-did-saving-the-planet-get-so-dull.html A first hand account of what it is like to cover the UN climate change negotiations.

Electric Mole Takes a Bite Out of Energy Costs, with Help from Solar Power

Green Options (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Veteran solar installer Parkson Corporation is lending its expertise to a new wastewater treatment plant upgrade for the town of Berlin near the Maryland coast. When it’s finished, the new plant will almost eliminate the use of fossil fuels for drying and converting biosolids, also known as sludge , into a lightweight Class A soil amendment or sustainable fuel. The process is pushed along by...

The Daily Maverick :: Too late to cool it?

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2009-11-03-Too-late-to-cool-it If we're now wondering what happened to global warming, perhaps it is not such a good idea to drop a dead weight on the already-fragile global economy. Perhaps it is time to let reason triumph over emotion, and spend our efforts on problems we know exist and know how to solve. Let us hope the UN's Copenhagen Climate Change...

Climate change is all about power

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

http://www.examiner.com/x-1449-Dallas-Libertarian-Examiner~y2009m11d7-Climate-change-is-all-about-power When the time of the Coming Ice Age came and went and nothing froze over they turned the thermometer upside down. No more Coming Ice Age. Coming Global Warming. But it still was never really science. The "scientific consensus" was built on scientific conjecture and flawed computer modeling...

SAB Miller Uses Brewery Waste from Alrode Brewery in South Africa to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Green Options (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to treat the waste leaving its Alrode Brewery in Gauteng, South Africa. Anaerobic fermentation of organic material produces methane, which is used to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel based energy. Copper brewhouse in a Trappist brewery Brewery Waste & Biogas In the brewery the waste is a...

Al Gore: Junk-science huckster

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115253 Once again, Democrats refused to permit the Republicans' intended witness to testify. They knew Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, would rubbish Gore's Doomsday scenarios. So Gore was allowed to mislead Congress and promote his unfounded assertion that humanity faces "an irreparably...

Handmade Holidays: Scrap Wood Snowmen

Green Options (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Do you woodwork? Chances are you have a box of leftover odds and ends of wood that can be turned into something cute for the holidays. My husband has a huge box of wood pieces that he throws leftovers into after he’s done making a project. These pieces can range from tiny little scraps to half a two by four. But for some reason he had a bunch of pieces that were all about the same size left...

Economic death march in Europe

Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

"European non-ferrous metals producers may move to countries where environmental legislation is less strict unless the impact of forthcoming measures is reduced, an industry spokesman said on Thursday. Javier Targhetta, president of Eurometaux, said the industry was concerned over high and unpredictable power costs [and] the added cost of a new emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2013 ... Targhetta...

11/6/2009 -- AP News in Brief

Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

AP News in Brief 11/6/2009 By The Associated Press Fort Hood, surrounding community mourn victims of deadly on-post shooting in Texas FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to e

Climate sceptics persist against Turnbull

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-sceptics-persist-against-turnbull-20091107-i2vs.html The sceptics dominated debate on climate change in a meeting of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party yesterday. One rank-and-file Liberal member was given rousing applause when he said global warming was a natural phenomenon and the theory that human activity had caused it was ''absolute...

'Fashion Delivers' $1.2 Million to Victims of Natural Disasters

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Barney's Simon Doonan and Sesame Workshop's Gary Knell at Fashion Delivers/ K.I.D.S. gala in NYC. Credit: Thomas Iannaccone, Via WWD Fashion Delivers , a non-profit organization that supplies victims of natural disasters with donated product, and Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) raised almost $1.2 million dollars at their annual charity gala Read the full story on TreeHugger

• K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers Gala Raises $1.2M - Women's Wear Daily

Preserving Przewalski's Horse

morrisanimal | 07/01/2009

Dr. Wynne Collins didn't set out to save the Przewalski's horse—declared extinct in the wild 40 years ago. But today, as a doctoral student at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, Collins works hard to preserve the world's last truly wild horse. Her early research efforts were funded, in part, by one of Morris Animal Foundation's (MAF) first Fellowship...

Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy

www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/19/2009

The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering...

Solar Panels, Solar Energy Trends

gamishev | 03/03/2009

The demand for the solar energy is on the rise these days. The increased concern about the Global Warming and various widespread forms of pollutions has resulted in growing concern about the alternative sources of energy. There has been observed a dire...