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Posts in category "Environment"

Study: No global warming in the past 15 years

Is global cooling next? According to the Mailonline: The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 1, 2012 at 12:10 pm
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Save us from the politics of science

It’s bad enough when politicians and true believers distort scientific findings for their own purposes. But when scientists do it, we’ve reached a dangerous point in intellectual discourse. Such is the case with the widespread belief that evidence of global warming is incontrovertible. Thankfully, some scientists courageously have decided to publicly challenge this numbing, politically... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 31, 2012 at 11:36 am
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Startling finding: More energy is frozen in methane deposits in the Arctic than all the known fossil fuels combined

Whoa, that’s quite a claim. But scientists and environmentalists have known it for a while, at least since 2005 when those deposits were confirmed. But it seems to have escaped public attention. Especially when it comes to the debate that pits renewable and green sources against fossil fuels, such as petroleum, coal and natural gas... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 16, 2012 at 11:34 am
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Congress does right; defeats $6 billion corn ethanol subsidy

Unbelievable, but true. One of the most sacred of cows, the corn ethanol subsidy will not be renewed. Here’s where Friends of the Earth and I agree. Here is part of its news release: Corn ethanol no longer a sacred cow; After long campaign, diverse coalition prevents renewal of blenders’ tax credit Washington, D.C. — Congress... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 23, 2011 at 11:15 am
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Another wrong global warming prediction that was never to be doubted

This one is from Britain’s Met Office (originally an abbreviation for Meteorological Office, the nation’s weather and climate forecaster). Turns out that none of the office’s global warming predictions have been correct, forcing it to “move the goalposts” in an attempt to retain some credibility. Here’s the analysis from the Global Warming Policy Center, an organization that has... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 1, 2011 at 1:24 pm
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Global warming impacts may be inflated: scientific article

No, this is not an article written by a “climate change denier.” It is a peer-reviewed article in the respected journal science. To quote directly from the article’s synopsis: Assuming paleoclimatic constraints apply to the future as predicted by our model, these results imply lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought. Basically... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 28, 2011 at 4:04 pm
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Indecision, your name is Barack Obama

In a perverse way, President Barack Obama could be described as courageous for making such a cowardly decision. Environmental studies have been made, plans have been drawn and construction was ready to begin on a vital link in America’s energy grid–until Obama stepped on it for political reasons that are so obvious that even he... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 14, 2011 at 7:26 am
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The media's fracking gas problem

Two months ago I wrote about the promise of natural gas made possible by a method of freeing from shale deposits deep under the surface. It’s called fracking and you would have thought from some of the reaction that I had used the other F-word. Here’s what I wrote in a Tribune op-ed and posted... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 20, 2011 at 8:05 am
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Bighead Asian Carp could be big money for Illinois

Word of Illinois’ campaign to create a public taste for sauteed fillets and fried fish cakes made from bighead Asian carp has reached even the distant shores of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where we are vacationing with gracious friends. It was national news because Illinois seems to have lost its mind by asking people to, in... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 28, 2011 at 3:50 pm
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Hey, Obama, want to help small businesses? Just leave them alone.

This open letter is based on an interview I conducted with a contractor who’s desperately trying to keep his head above water. He isn’t named for obvious reasons. Dear President Obama, If you want to help small businessmen like you said in your jobs plan, it’s simple: Stop trying to help us. I’m a contractor... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 14, 2011 at 9:00 am
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