If it weren’t already obvious to you, I’ll let you in on a secret: scientific hypotheses regularly affect the selection and organization (and therefore the content) of what passes for scientific data. In other words, scientists regularly confirm with the “evidence” only what they already believe to be true and are aiming to “prove.” This is […]
Continue reading →There are two major inter-related reasons we are dependent on oil (either foreign or domestic): conventional cars and conventional power plants. Tesla Motors may have found a way to make real progress to get around these two obstacles. Whatever your opinion of the Green Energy movement (and its many-times liberal enthusiasts), there is no doubt […]
Continue reading →There was a good bit of conservative outrage when Obama promised during his State of the Union address that he would get things done without Congress if he needed to: But what I offer tonight is a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of […]
Continue reading →In comments recently, John Kerry tossed out the environmentalist version of Pascals Wager: If we make the necessary efforts to address this challenge—and supposing I’m wrong or scientists are wrong, 97 percent of them all wrong—supposing they are, what’s the worst that can happen? We put millions of people to work transitioning our energy, creating new and renewable […]
Continue reading →The EPA is on a tour promoting Earth Day, a move which has prompted some environmental groups to cry foul. See, the tour is intended to promote the cutting of greenhouse gases in order to curtail climate change, but ironically (or hypocritically, as the case may be), the tour itself will require the use of […]
Continue reading →I’m sure this will come as quite a shock to our faithful readers, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admitted that it can’t actually reproduce the “science” it has been using for years as the justification for its Clean Air Act. I remember very distinctly the attitude on the Georgia Tech campus toward the environmental […]
Continue reading →This is apparently not a joke. Remember “Perri-air” from the movie Spaceballs? That was a parody of what I’m sure the writers thought was a ridiculous trend—bottled water. When I was younger, many members of the older generation thought bottled water was ridiculous. Why would you need to bottle water? And why would you pay […]
Continue reading →An interesting article in the Washington Examiner pointed out that more than 700 new species are likely to be added to the ESA (Ecological Society of America) Endangered Species List. According to the article, the data upon which these decisions is made is often not disclosed to the public (for reasons I can’t understand). Nonetheless, […]
Continue reading →Talk about a tempest in a tea cup. Chipotle, the hip “fast food” joint that caters to the skinny jeans and tasteful nose ring crowd, put out a guacamole crisis warning a little while ago. Apparently, Chipotle thought everyone needed to know that guacamole might be dropped from their restaurants because of … climate change. […]
Continue reading →G. K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy: Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin—a fact as practical as potatoes. . . . Certain new theologians dispute original […]
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