http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/environment/ en-us Sun, 12 May 2013 11:17:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3018418/posts Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama-Huntsville who may be the world’s most important scientist. He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine. That doctrine has always been dubious and is often defended by attacking the integrity of anyone who dares to raise questions. Spencer is a rare combination of a brilliant scientist and a brave soul willing to risk his livelihood and reputation by speaking plainly. The global warming promoters say we must scrap the world’s energy infrastructure in favor of green energy. They say that burning coal,... Somewhat Reasonable Blog of the Heartland Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3018418/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 11:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018120/posts With a veto-proof majority, the Missouri legislature approved a popular bill protecting private property and due process rights by banning a deeply controversial United Nations “sustainability” scheme known as UN Agenda 21. The legislation, SB 265, now heads to Democrat Governor Jay Nixon, who has not yet taken a public position on the issue. ~snip~ The widely criticized UN scheme, adopted by governments and dictatorships worldwide at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro more than two decades ago, has been marketed as a way to make humanity more “sustainable.” According to UN documents, however, Agenda 21 essentially seeks to... New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018120/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2013 04:24:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017496/posts Former Vice President Gore on Tuesday said "there's no such thing as ethical oil," slamming the notion that importing oil from U.S. ally Canada was better than doing so from unfriendly nations. “There’s no such thing as ethical oil. There’s only dirty oil and dirtier oil,” Gore told Canada’s The Globe and Mail during a Tuesday event in Toronto. Gore was responding to Globe and Mail Editor in Chief John Stackhouse on whether it made a difference that oil sands from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would come from a democratic nation. U.S. backers of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline have pointed... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017496/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 17:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015585/posts Previewing an upcoming story for NBC's Rock Center on Friday's Today, correspondent Ann Curry warned that tribes of the Amazon rain forest "are sharpening their spears and preparing their blow guns to fight Ecuador's new plan to auction as much as 8 million acres of the rain forest for oil drilling." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] She then cited Boston University biology professor Kelly Swing arguing that "America, a top importer of oil from Ecuador, shares responsibility for this coming conflict....And the toxic legacy of past oil drilling in other parts of the rain... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015585/posts#comment Sat, 4 May 2013 01:55:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014111/posts I've done work for T. Boone Pickens and the Pickens Plan since 2008. I wanted to mention this at the top because we're going to be discussing natural gas. Don't…don't go on your next email yet, this is actually pretty interesting. New data from the Environmental Protection Agency indicates that drilling for natural gas releases significantly less methane (the main component of natural gas) into the atmosphere than previously thought. Twenty percent less. This is not seen as good news for the ultra-environmentalists who fervently believe that any fuel made from fossilized plant or animal matter (coal or natural gas)... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014111/posts#comment Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:58:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012836/posts Raleigh, N.C. — It took just 45 minutes Thursday morning for the Senate Commerce Committee to approve a massive rollback of rules and regulations meant to protect the state's environment. Senate Bill 612 would require cities and counties to repeal any rules stricter than state or federal law. It would also require a list of environmental oversight boards and agencies to repeal or rewrite any state rule stricter than federal regulation on any given matter. Those agencies include the Mining and Energy Commission, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Environmental Management Commission, the Commission for Public Health, the... WRAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012836/posts#comment Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:37:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3012722/posts On April 22, in cities across America, some environmental activists will celebrate Earth Day, claiming only increased government control can protect the environment. Those celebrations will expose a couple ironies. First, many activists will arrive in a Toyota Prius, which has become the symbol of environmental consciousness. Ironically, however, the Prius is not a triumph of political planning but of the free market. In the 1990s, while California was requiring "zero-emission" vehicles, leaders at Toyota and Honda saw an opportunity to sell cars to people who want to spend less on gasoline, drive a car that emits less carbon dioxide,... Michigan Capitol Confidential http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3012722/posts#comment Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:04:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3010863/posts Today is being celebrated by modern pagans as “Earth Day.” It is a date set aside to worship the earth (paganism). Today is also the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, (April 22nd 1870). Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, and political philosopher among other things. Lenin created the Soviet Communist Party. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3010863/posts#comment Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:24:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3010848/posts Earth Day is here again, but few people seem interested any more in global warming. It's plausible to inquire whether people realize we've got a duty to protect the environment. Actually, "protecting the environment" is not necessarily the same topic as "global warming." Confusion about the two needs to be cleared up American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3010848/posts#comment Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:52:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007894/posts The massive Thirty Meter Telescope will be able to image objects 13 billion light years away, near the beginning of time. Set atop Mauna Kea, the Thirty Meter Telescope will be able to observe planets outside our solar system. (Credit: Courtesy TMT Observatory Corporation) If you love eye-popping images of space, here's welcome news: the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources has backed building what's to be the world's largest, most powerful optical telescope above the clouds atop the volcano Mauna Kea. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will have a primary mirror of 492 segments measuring some 100 feet... CNET http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007894/posts#comment Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:36:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3006501/posts Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property. The tax, officially known as a "storm water management fee," will be enforced in nine of the state's counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to "raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay," according to MarylandReporter.com. Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a Wednesday afternoon press release. The law "requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain... Breitbart's Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3006501/posts#comment Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006224/posts Do you suppose the eco-trendy crowd really, carefully thought this one through before jumping on the self-righteously outraged bandwagon? I have some pretty severe doubts on the matter, but they're in this thing, and they're certainly not going to back down now that they've invested so much time, money, and media coverage to the issue --- even though killing the Keystone XL pipeline will not prevent oil companies from developing Canada's tar sands even a little bit. Stopping their product from moving through pipelines simply means that they’ll have to seek other markets, i.e. shipping it to China via tankers,... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006224/posts#comment Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:32:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004685/posts FORT BLISS, Texas -- A West Texas military base said Friday it plans to build the U.S. military's largest solar energy farm. Fort Bliss commander Gen. Dana Pittard made the announcement and touted the Army base's other green initiatives, including planting 14,700 trees, encouraging the use of energy-efficient vehicles and building bicycle lanes. The Army wants to generate about one gigawatt of power from renewable energies by 2025 -about a tenth of its total consumption or enough power to supply at least 250,000 homes. However, Fort Bliss decided to take it even further and plans to become a "net zero"... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004685/posts#comment Sat, 6 Apr 2013 00:28:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004614/posts The book of Genesis was written in part to counteract a theory later known as Manicheanism. It held that a god of good created spirit and a god of evil created matter. In this view, the more spiritual we are, the less we are connected to matter. This position suggests that by withdrawing from matter, we will become more spiritual. Logically, this would make the fallen angels, who are pure spirit, models of spirituality. Genesis, for its part, tells us that God looked on each level of creation to see that it was good. Evil was not to be identified... Crisis Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004614/posts#comment Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:16:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3004583/posts Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long campaigned for the fashion industry through organizations like Fashion’s Night Out and the CFDA. And now it seems as if all that fashion do-gooding has panned out—it’s won him the cover of the eco-friendly May edition of L’Uomo Vogue, Italian Vogue’s magazine for men. For the event, the New York City mayor and C40 Climate Leadership Group president was photographed by Italian photographer Francesco Carrozzini in a conservative though spiffy dark suit and striped tie. Of the casting choice, Italian Vogue editor in chief Franca Sozzani told the Financial Times: “I did think it might... The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3004583/posts#comment Fri, 5 Apr 2013 19:33:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003734/posts Environmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations -- or hate trees and animals. I love trees and animals. But you can love nature and still hate the tyranny that environmental regulations bring. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced it will boost gas prices ("only" a penny, although industry says 6 to 9 cents) to make another minuscule improvement to air quality. In New York City, my mayor wants to ban Styrofoam cups, saying, "I think it's something we can do without." Congress already dictates the design of our cars, toilets and light... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003734/posts#comment Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:46:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002772/posts Despite deficit woes, Obama pushes forward on bizarre projectsWhile the U.S. Senate, for the first time in years, has adopted a budget, it includes $1 trillion in new taxes, adding to the record deficit. The budget also doesn’t align with a House plan that spends hundreds of billions of dollars less. Both, however, project spending more than the government receives far into the future. But even so, frogs, Uganda and pine cone projects apparently are so important to the Obama administration that it’s worth borrowing money and paying interest to fund them. WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002772/posts#comment Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:02:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002541/posts The resolution to implement Meatless Mondays was unanimously passed by the St. Mary’s College SGA in early December after months of inter-campus debate. According to the resolution, the concept of Meatless Mondays upholds the college’s mission to be environmentally sustainable by decreasing its dependence on factory farming. The eight-week long trial program will cease the serving of meat, with the exception of deli meats, in the Great Room (the college’s main dining hall) on Mondays. Meat options will continue to be available at other campus eateries, including the Grab-n-Go and the Upper Deck. St. Mary's College newspaper http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3002541/posts#comment Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:23:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001928/posts Sir John Beddington, the government's retiring Chief Scientist has been doing the media rounds today, telling anyone who'll listen how "Climate Change" is still a serious problem about which we should all worry greatly. Has he looked out of the window recently? Looking out of my window just now, I noticed that the Northamptonshire landscape was completely blanketed in Dr David Viner. Just like it was yesterday. And the day before that, when we rescued two orphaned lambs from the frozen fields. Which isn't something you normally expect in March, is it? I'm sure I know what Beddington would say... Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001928/posts#comment Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:30:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999455/posts Bad Data: As yet another Solyndra looms, a new government report shows that by the government's own broad definition of a green job, more can be found in a coal mine than near a solar panel. The second annual Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on "Employment in Green Goods and Services," released Tuesday, will be the last, allegedly a casualty of the same sequestration that claimed the White House tours and may doom the Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn. That is probably a good thing, for if it were published as a book, it would deserve... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999455/posts#comment Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:47:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999224/posts For all the Obama-era talk of decline, there is at least one reason why America probably won't, at least not quite yet. "Peak oil" and our "oil addiction" were supposed to have ensured that we ran out of either gas or the money to buy it. Now, suddenly, we have more gas and oil than ever before. But the key question is: Why do we? The oil and gas renaissance was brought on by horizontal drilling and fracking that opened up vast new reserves either previously unknown or considered unrecoverable. Both technological breakthroughs were American discoveries, largely brought on... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2999224/posts#comment Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:19:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998409/posts Climatologists and meteorologists are familiar with the last Mini Ice Age (MIA) that occurred between 1350 and 1850 AD. It is also referred to as the Little Ice Age. Suffice to say it was cold and, as such weather cycles tend to do, it altered history in a variety of ways. The failure of crops was one aspect of the cold spell and in France the revolution that overthrew the monarchy is attributed to the unhappiness of its citizens, but famine in the northern hemisphere was widespread. In the United States, it is best recalled for the horrid winter our... Theo Spark http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998409/posts#comment Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2998345/posts With Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s appointment of a financial manager in Detroit, the working class in the city is about to be subjected to a financial dictatorship modeled on the savage wage and benefit cuts imposed by the Obama administration during its forced bankruptcy and restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. Like the auto workers, the city’s public sector workers and residents will be forced to sacrifice their jobs, pensions and the needs of their families to pay for a financial crisis they did not create. The script is the same. According to the politicians from both big... Glenwood Springs Post Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2998345/posts#comment Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:31:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996913/posts The Los Angeles Times ran a Thursday editorial by Middlebury College Professor Bill McKibben arguing that allowing millions of illegal immigrants into America will reduce global warming. “I feel it's urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to step out of the shadows and on to a broad path toward citizenship,” wrote McKibben. “It will help, not hurt, our environmental efforts, and potentially in deep and powerful ways.” McKibben says that while the average American has a larger carbon footprint than a person living in the developing world, bringing more immigrants to America would likely reduce their tendency... breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2996913/posts#comment Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993405/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced his nominees to lead a new U.S. push to tackle climate change on Monday, choosing an air quality expert to run the Environmental Protection Agency and a nuclear physicist to head the Department of Energy. In a widely expected move, Obama selected agency veteran Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator and scientist Ernest Moniz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take over for Steven Chu as Energy secretary. Obama also announced his choice to lead the White House budget office - Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Walmart Foundation,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993405/posts#comment Mon, 4 Mar 2013 22:07:30 GMT