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By Will Offensicht | Jan 18, 2008 |
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We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 16, 2008 |
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Why can't we Americans buy cheap cars? The cheapest car in the US costs about $20,000, about 8 times the cost of Tata's offering.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 14, 2008 |
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Scientists want research grants, more published papers, and to be listened to by the general public. Bureaucrats want a bigger department and more clout. Politicians want a crisis - any crisis - so they can ride to power with a "solution".
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 11, 2008 |
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Sure, global warming seems unlikely; but if it's true, it's so awful, shouldn't we take action just in case?
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 10, 2008 |
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The ocean levels are not going to rise by 20 feet by 2100. According to the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, it's more like a single foot, or maybe 18 inches.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 9, 2008 |
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Government proposals to fix global warming won't work, at great expense.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 8, 2008 |
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Out of every million pounds of atmosphere... we are adding 6 pounds of carbon. That's .0006%.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 7, 2008 |
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The planet Mars is getting warmer too. As far as we can tell from SEC filings, neither Exxon nor Halliburton have significant operations on that planet; nor does it fall under the authority of the Bush administration.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 4, 2008 |
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Over time, it's been both much colder and a good bit warmer, than it is today. It's been reported that the hottest years of the past century was 2006 until NASA found their math was wrong: it was actually 1934.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 2, 2008 |
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The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's classic "Silent Spring" marks the beginning of a sea change: the mass attack on technology and progress as a whole, for environmental reasons.