Tired of the debate? Environmental scientist David Keith discusses a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice cap, it could work. Keith discusses why it’s a good idea, why [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
David Keith: Terrible Surprising Ideas To Solve Climate Change
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Politics, Science, tagged climate change, David Keith, geoengineering, global warming, TED on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Climate Change Felt On Other Planets
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Science, tagged Benny Peiser, Chris Gupta, climate change, global warming, Habibullo Abdussamatov, Jupiter, Lori Fenton, Mars, Pluto, solar irradiance, solar system, Triton on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Scientists are grappling with a warming phenomena observed on other planets in our Solar System and are at a rush to explain it (since there aren’t any gas-guzzling SUVs on those planets last they checked).
National Geographic reported about the findings of Habibullo Abdussamatov on Mars:
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical [...]
Schwarzenegger Vetoes Global Warming Education, Alaska and the World are Getting Colder?
Posted in Environment, Politics, Science, tagged Alaska, climate change, education, Fox, Glenn Beck, global warming, Schwarzenegger, temperature drop on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Something odd on Glenn Beck a couple of months ago, Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoes a bill to teach global warming in California schools just as Alaska records its coldest(??) summer on record.
Meanwhile more odd things on Fox News earlier this year, temperature stations around the world are registering temperature drops:
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Glenn Beck On Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Science, tagged Al Gore, climate change, Glenn Beck, global warming, Inconvenient Truth on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First, a retaste of the popular documentary:
Now, more of Glenn Beck on his analysis of the fear mongering done by climate change lobbyists:
And a great treat, sentiments from the global warming messenger himself: Al Gore:
Michael Crichton On The Parallels Between Environmentalism and Organized Religion
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Psychology, Religion, Science, tagged climate change, environmentalism, global warming, Michael Crichton on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a leadership conference broadcast over C-Span, a student freshman asks a poignant question of popular author, Michael Crichton: “why do you say environmentalism is a religion?”
Crichton explains his view on the many parallels between the climate change movement as it stands today and the functions and characteristics of what is considered organized religion.
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Glenn Beck: Climate Change = Climate of Fear
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Politics, Science, tagged Al Gore, climate change, Glenn Beck, global cooling, global warming, Inconvenient Truth on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In this video CNN’s Glenn Beck takes on the fear mongering of the global warming movement in his special “Exposed: The Climate of Fear”. Glenn Beck is very popular on CNN and this video is very easy to watch and entertaining. But it is informative as well. It does a good job of refuting Al [...]
The Miraculous Ethanol Cure: Not Quite What You Think
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Politics, Science, tagged alternative energy, climate change, corn, ethanol, global warming, renewable energy, sugar on October 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Along with the climate change movement comes the movement for renewable energies, one of which is Ethanol–produced from corn and sugar plantations. It’s a natural alternative to petroleum and is a cleaner and cheaper fuel. The push for ethanol and similar alternative fuels is one of the fiercest lobbies especially in US politics.
Should it be? [...]
Sustainable Development = Food Scarcity?
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Finance, Science, tagged agriculture, climate change, CO2 emissions, crops, food scarcity, global warming, sustainable development, water on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This alert comes from CO2Science.Org
In a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, four British scientists report that “agriculture accounts for 80-90% of all freshwater used by humans,” that “most of that is in crop production,” and that “in many areas, this water use is unsustainable.” As a [...]
The Weird Mathematics Behind The Kyoto Treaty
Posted in Critical Thinking, Environment, Politics, Science, tagged base date, climate change, CO2 emissions, global warming, Kyoto Protocol, Kyoto Treaty on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some interesting info I encountered, which I bet 95% of people are ignorant about regarding the climate change facts. This is regarding the famous Kyoto Protocol or Kyoto Treaty.
In case you aren’t up to speed about the Kyoto Protocol, from wikipedia:
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]











