2 Cents Worth for December ‘09

Still scattershooting with these ideas and opinions that are worth at least the advertised price.
With the price we just paid to Nebraska for Nelson’s vote on the Health Care bill we should own the State.  I mean it will add up to billions of dollars over time.   How much can all the assets in Nebraska [...]

Science, Sunshine and the Climate Debate

 
I was cleaning out and sorting some old files,  records and the accumulation of “stuff” that builds up during a lifetime the other day.  I came across a news clipping from the Washington Post in 1978.  At that time I was writing a couple of novels and my wife had cut it out for me [...]

Climate Change, Science and Argument

Some in Congress seemed determined to pass any legislation they can to affect our economy and the use of carbon based energy sources.  Likewise they are moving hard to empower the EPA and every other agency of government with any additional powers they can conjure to enhance the same agenda.  It strikes me as more [...]

Population and Pollution–Choices or Panic?

Surely you have noted the recent news articles about the connection between population and the envoirnmental concerns.  Some group of, no doubt, really smart people concluded that it is us that are the problem.  Each one of us adds to the pollution issue and each of us uses up tons of carbon during our life [...]

Time And The Challenge of Global Warming

The massive cap and tax bill passed out of the House is in a moment of hiatus before it gets to serious Senate consideration.  I sure hope cooler heads, no pun intended, prevail over there.  All the science folks admit that the proposal will have minimal effect on the carbon emissions worldwide.  That is especially [...]

What Is the Greatest Envoirnmental Concern?

Just last week there was a news article about the Cal. Governor making a trip to Fresno to talk about the pending budget crisis there.  As you recall the voters had just voted down the tax hikes and were in no mood for greater government spending.   As important as that issue is in California it [...]

Numbers

Numbers have always played a significant role in the news of the day.  If there is a natural disaster we want to know how many people were injured or killed, how many homes were destroyed, etc.  If there is a war going on we like to have the casualty reports of dead and wounded.   The [...]

Rising Waters or Rising Rhetoric?

Government, Inc., is in full stride on a broad front to reduce carbon emissions so the world will be safe from the rising oceans, at least so goes the theory.  Of course those bright p0liticians in Washington assure us it is not a theory but an established scientific fact that carbon emissions will cause the [...]

The Miracles of Man and Nature Will Save Us–If

The House has passed out of committee the Cap and Tax law to reduce carbon and other emissions.  This is in conjunction with and in addition to the CAFE standard increases that have  been announced by the White House to great fanfare.  All of this is done to protect us from ourselves and to save [...]

Tomorrow’s Problem Is Water and Energy

We are inundated these days with constant predictions of doom and gloom about the demise of the world as we know it due to a perceived Global Warming crisis that will destroy animal life and damage the earth to such an extent that Man will be threatened with extinction.  You have certainly seen and heard [...]