Recent Posts Tagged With 'environment'

• Green M&M\'s

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 06:00 in business, environment, climate change, solar power, green energy

  I have been an opponent of legislative efforts of restricting carbon emissions.  I firmly believe that the vast majority of climate change is naturally occurring.  Efforts to legislate emissions through cap and trade programs will only hurt...

• Global Warming Insanity

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 19:17 in global warming, environment, climate change, carbon footprint

  The global warming cultists continue to come up with assinine ideas for saving the planet.  Here are just a few of the items that I have heard of lately. A new book has been released called Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Li...

• TGIThursday?

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 07:00 in environment, Utah, energy conservation, workweek

  Here is a government program that I can get behind. Last year, the Republican governor of Utah implemented the "Working 4 Utah Initiative" that put the majority of the state government employees on a four day, ten hour per day, work week.  The...

• Got Milk?

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 08:18 in global warming, environment, carbon footprint, milk, great britain, carbon, greenhouse gas

  Image via WikipediaBack in May, I found an interesting article about how governement advisors in Britain were developing menus to cut out so called "high carbon" foods like lamb or beef. I cited it as another example of how insane the whole global wa...

• It's The Economy, Stupid!

  Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 12:47 in environment, climate change, Economy, green energy, gross domestic product

  Unemployment officially dropped to 9.4% last month from 9.5% in June. On the surface that would be a good thing, but there were actually more people unemployed. Due to the fuzzy math used in calculating the unemployment rate (I would blame the curr...

• Another Blow to Consensus

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 12:38 in politics, global warming, environment, Al Gore, climate, earth sciences, el niño-southern oscillation

  Image via WikipediaThe Journal of Geophysical Research, after a six month peer review process, has published a new paper that argues that nearly all changes in global temperatures since 1958 can be attributed to natural causes. It is another study t...

• Nuclear Power

  Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 09:34 in technology, environment, climate change, nuclear power

  Image via WikipediaYesterday, I posted some of my feelings about the pending legislation for health care reform. It drew a rather spirited comment from the American Idiot, not on the health care debate, but rather on the climate change bill. (I will...

• Report: Dump Cap and Trade

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 21:40 in politics, global warming, environment, kyoto protocol, efficient energy use

  I didn't want to continue to dwell on the whole global warming/cap and trade subject today, but an interesting report was issued today while Barack Obama and the other leaders are trying to work out an agreement on reducing CO2 emissions. The report...

• Fireworks and the USA

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 18:48 in global warming, United States, environment, climate change, fourth of july

  Image via WikipediaI debated on whether or not to post something about Michael Jackson and the intense media coverage since his death. Perhaps I may make a post about that subject in the next day or two. Instead, since we are fresh off of our 4th o...