The green problem: how do we fight without losing what we’re fighting for?
Environmentalism is stuck – factional and uncertain even of the goals we seek. But we must face facts and engage with reality. (The Guardian)
What a dilemma – if they do face facts and engage with reality then their raison d’être disappears and if they do not then they are doomed to failure and ridicule.
Posted in Activists, Enviros, Misanthropy
Going Green—but at Whose Expense?
Environmentalists celebrated World Malaria Day last week (and Earth Day the week prior). Meanwhile, thousands of African children died of malaria.
While these activists may make themselves feel like they’re saving the world, they are ignoring the best possible solution to Africa’s malaria problem: the use of DDT to wipe out the Anopheles mosquito.
Even though the World Health Organization resumed promotion of DDT in September 2006—realizing it had the best track record for saving the lives of 500 million African children—environmentalists are still emphasizing the use of bed nets instead. DDT treatments almost completely eradicated the disease in Europe and North America 50 years ago, but today an African child dies every 45 seconds of malaria.
Providing sub-Saharan Africans with bed nets has had far from acceptable success in delivering the amount of protection needed from mosquitoes. The World Bank touts the fact that 50 percent of children in Zambia are now sleeping under nets as a good thing, but what about the other half who are left defenseless against a killer disease? The Democratic Republic of the Congo had only 38 percent of children under nets in 2010.
One would question why, in the 21st century, people should have to live inside of a net in order to be safe from malaria. The world has a better solution, and it’s not the quarantine of African infants. Dr. John Rwakimari, as head of Uganda’s national malaria program, described DDT, which is nontoxic to humans, as “the answer to our problems.”
World Malaria Day 2011 had the theme of “Achieving Progress and Impact” and aims to have zero malaria deaths by 2015. If the world really wants to make progress and increase the number of lives saved from malaria, it needs to embrace for Africans the best possible technologies available today, and that means DDT. (The Foundry)
Posted in Activists, Chemophobia, Enviros, Misanthropy
Sixth International Conference on Climate Change
The 2011 Sixth International Conference on Climate change, organized by the Heartland Institute, will take place in Washington DC, June 30- July 1 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. We encourage you to attend this event that is co-sponsored by our Center. Details on registering can be obtained by clicking here.
Editorial
Calcifying Marine Invertebrates “Living in the Future”: How are they doing in the real-world Depths of pH Hell?
Journal Reviews
The Ability of Coral Reefs to Regenerate after Catastrophic Events: Can they come back from a “double whammy,” such as that provided by concomitant ocean warming and acidification?
Coral Disease-Induced Growth Anomalies: What Causes Them?: An analysis of over 900 surveys conducted across the Indo-Pacific region provides the answer.
Twentieth-Century Growth Rates of Florida (USA) Corals: How big a “hit” have they taken from the combined effects of “unprecedented” oceanic warming and acidification?
Ocean Acidification and the Velvet Swimming Crab: Can the “devil” crab cope with the pH Hell climate alarmists claim is coming?
Will Ocean Acidification — If It Occurs — Affect Marine Microbes?: Well, will it?
Elevated CO2 and Early Life Stages of Mediterranean Sea Urchins: How does the former affect the latter?
Ocean Acidification Database
The latest addition of peer-reviewed data archived to our database of marine organism responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is Collector urchin [Tripneustes gratilla]. To access the entire database, click here.
Plant Growth Database
Our latest results of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature are: Alder (Tobita et al., 2010) and Sand Sedge (Drigo et al., 2009).
Medieval Warm Period Project
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 967 individual scientists from 560 research institutions in 43 different countries … and counting! This issue’s Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Jämtland, Central Scandinavian Mountains, Sweden. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Project’s database, click here.
World Temperatures Database
Back by popular demand and upgraded to allow patrons more choices to plot and view the data, we reintroduce the World Temperatures section of our website. Here, users may plot temperatures for the entire globe or regions of the globe. A newly added feature allows patrons the ability to plot up to six independent datasets on the same graph. Try it today. World Temperatures Database.
Major Report
Carbon Dioxide and Earth’s Future: Pursuing the Prudent Path: Ten of the more ominous model-based predictions of what will occur in response to continued business-as-usual anthropogenic CO2 emissions are compared against real-world observations. (co2science.org)
Posted in Climate
There’s an app for Al Gore, Osama takes the big sleep and Prius drivers lack testicular fortitude, or something. (Daily Bayonet)
Posted in Activists, Climate change
Gasoline Prices and Taxes
Source: Red State
Everybody is asking that question these days. The average nationwide price for all grades this week is $3.96/gallon; Californians are paying on average $4.26, the highest in the nation.
Why does it cost so much, especially considering that the price was below $2.00/gallon just within the last couple of years? (SPPI)
Actually, we can drill our way to energy security
By Sen. James Inhofe
The US EPA supposedly worries about a few piffling hundredths of one percent of the atmosphere comprised of a particular species of greenhouse gas while (for now) ignoring a greenhouse gas very similar in action but comprising 1%-4% of the atmosphere and exerting 25-100 times the effect. If they want to make any measurable difference to earth’s greenhouse effect then they are going to have to start work on removing the clouds from the sky and drying the atmosphere, although this would not have the result they are looking for either because it would increase surface-absorbed solar energy. Given that their stated aims and purpose are patently stupid it is apparent they have another agenda.
Posted in EPA, Misanthropy
Alarmists Offer A Perfect Global Warming Challenge
With an issue as scientifically complex as global warming, nonscientists can often feel they simply don’t know enough about the scientific complexities to make an informed judgment for themselves. The debate over last week’s tragic tornado outbreak, however, has given us an unexpected opportunity to present much of the global warming debate in straightforward terms that non-scientists can understand and judge for themselves. If there is any global warming topic non-scientists should examine as an understandable proxy for the global debate as a whole, the alleged link between global warming and tornadoes is it. (James Taylor, Forbes)
Posted in Activists, Climate change
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