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Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer: Defund the IPCC

The U.N. climate change panel, the IPCC, has lost credibility over the last few years in the wake of Climategate and other scandals. Now, U.S. Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer wants to stop funding it. Here he explains why: “My legislation would save taxpayers millions of dollars by prohibiting our government from funding the IPCC. The climate panel’s scientifically questionable findings have been used to support policies I believe would be economically disastrous for our country. Criticism of the IPCC has intensified since it was revealed that leading climate scientists were intentionally manipulating data. More than seven hundred scientists have now [...]

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|2011-03-23T00:00:00-04:00March 23rd, 2011|Comments Off

Coconut powered batteries?

When you think of products made with bamboo and coconuts, things like furniture and food probably come to mind. But if some Malaysian engineers have their way, these tropical items may one day have yet another important use in the creation of high tech batteries. As reported in the environmental news network, scientists have discovered that bamboo, coconut shells and certain tropical fruit skins can be converted into a type of carbon used to make electric battery supercapacitors. Since supercapacitors are typically made from carbon created by fossil fuels, this coconut-bamboo breakthrough promises to not only provide income to [...]

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|2011-03-22T00:00:00-04:00March 22nd, 2011|Comments Off

Bird conservancy aflutter over Obama wind strategy

While wind energy enjoys a great deal of support from the Obama administration, it appears one group is not exactly flying high with enthusiasm – namely, the American Bird Conservancy.

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Craig Rucker

|2014-04-08T17:15:21-04:00March 21st, 2011|Comments Off

EPA overregulation of natural chemicals

For years, the EPA has attempted to ratchet up regulations on any number of so-called “pollutants” without good scientific reason. Such appears to be the case again, according to the Canada Free Press, concerning the chemicals perchlorate and chromium.

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CFACT

|2012-11-14T18:21:36-05:00March 18th, 2011|Comments Off

A stand of good news about Americaâ€™s trees

With our increased population, America must be losing forest land, right? Well not according to the Mother Nature Network, which reports the U.S., which has 8% of the world’s forests, now has more trees than it did 100 years ago. Citing a U.N. report, forest growth has exceeded harvest in America since the 1940's, and was an astounding 42% greater than harvest by 1997. The greatest growth has been seen on the East Coast, with the average volume of wood per acre almost doubling in the last 50 years. Increased conservation, tree planting, and the movement of people from [...]

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|2011-03-17T00:00:00-04:00March 17th, 2011|Comments Off

Chinese investing heavily in Canadian shale gas

Getting oil and natural gas from drilling is a well-known source of energy. But now, releasing gas from tight formations of shale rock is on the rise, and could prove to be a vital source of new global energy.

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CFACT

|2012-10-25T12:17:19-04:00March 16th, 2011|Comments Off

Senate bill seeks to block EPA climate regulations

Recently a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate to prohibit the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act. The National Center for Public Policy Research supports the Senate’s efforts to reign in the agency, and Dr. Bonner Cohen explains why: “The Obama EPA is trying to enact the cap, tax and trade scheme that Congress and the American people rejected. The Senate proposal would prevent EPA from usurping congressional authority. If EPA is allowed to proceed, U.S. investment could decline by up to fifteen percent, which is as large as the 2007 decline that [...]

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|2011-03-15T00:00:00-04:00March 15th, 2011|Comments Off

Bone-chilling facts about electric cars in winter

The recent cold and snowy weather across much of the U.S. reminded us that driving in winter conditions can be quite challenging. But according to an article in the Washington Post, owners of electric cars may be facing some additional bone-chilling realities since batteries run down much more quickly in cold temperatures. A change of just 10 degrees can sap 50% of a battery’s output, and running the heater to stay warm or the car radio to stay informed can drain the battery even further. Adding insult to injury, drivers could come home to find their power off, meaning [...]

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|2014-06-12T22:56:36-04:00March 14th, 2011|Comments Off

Wind power’s feathery problem

What is a federal government to do? On one hand the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking to declare the sage grouse an endangered bird. Yet on the other hand, the Obama administration would like to expand the use of wind power to generate electricity – on sage grouse habitat. The dilemma, as you might expect, is that the two priorities simply don't match. The wind turbines remind sage grouse of predators ready to swoop down on them. But the grouse habitat, according to wind energy advocates, also happens to be near an opening in the Rocky Mountains [...]

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|2011-03-11T00:00:00-05:00March 11th, 2011|Comments Off

Hunting animals to save them?

How can we save endangered species like tigers and black rhinos? Terry Anderson, executive director of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, believes in an innovative solution, and here explains how it can work: “The free market can be endangered species’ best friend. Unfortunately, landowners in most countries have no right to wildlife, but do have their land use regulated to provide habitat. Such regulations make endangered species a liability. Some southern African countries, however, allow landowners to profit from wildlife, even through hunting endangered species such as rhinos. This makes animals an asset and gives [...]

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|2011-03-10T00:00:00-05:00March 10th, 2011|Comments Off

Turning wind and solar into fossil fuel

If America started using more renewable energy from the sun and wind, what would happen on days filled with clouds and no breezes? Well this challenge may now be solved by the discovery of a microbe that converts electrical energy from the sun and wind, and stores it as methane.

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|2013-02-20T11:53:40-05:00March 9th, 2011|Comments Off

Good news for Happy Feet

Is the Antarctic ice sheet melting more rapidly because of manmade global warming? While some believe this to be the case, new research from Western Australia’s Curtin University appears to reveal otherwise. As reported in The Australian News, researchers using acoustic sensors at places in the Pacific and Indian ocean spent more than six years listening to cracking ice to determine if icebergs were peeling off Antarctica more rapidly. The system of underwater sensors, or hydrophones, were of the same variety used to detect underground nuclear explosions, and they found that after years of listening to snaps and cracks [...]

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|2011-03-08T00:00:00-05:00March 8th, 2011|Comments Off

Coral reefs ravaged by predatory starfish

Starfish make for wonderful keepsakes, and one would find it difficult to believe they could be anything but harmless. But for conservationists concerned about declining coral reefs, there is a certain type of starfish, unlike Patrick of Spongebob SquarePants, that is anything but cutesy. This, according to Planet Ark News, which notes that outbreaks of the notorious “crown of thorns” starfish is wreaking havoc in Asia’s famous coral triangle where it feeds on the pithy rocks by spreading its stomach over them and then using its digestive enzymes to liquefy tissue. Fortunately, nature can manage such problems, since there [...]

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|2011-03-07T00:00:00-05:00March 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Myths about green jobs

The creation of so-called “green jobs” is being touted as an important means of stimulating our economy. But according to economist Andrew Morriss of the group PERC, many of these green jobs are in fact harmful to economic growth. Comments Morriss: “Many of the green jobs being promised include the creation of more lawyers, bookkeepers and government workers. But creating jobs for writing and enforcing new regulations and processing paperwork does not add to economic growth, it slows it down. Growth occurs when unproductive jobs are minimized and goods and services are efficiently produced. Much of the promised boost [...]

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|2011-03-04T00:00:00-05:00March 4th, 2011|Comments Off

Time to bag reusable shopping bags?

Efforts to replace plastic shopping bags with those made of cloth are being promoted on environmental grounds. But are certain health and safety concerns being overlooked? Well according to the first-ever study on this matter by the Canadian-based Environment and Plastics Energy Council, the answer is “yes.” The study found that sixty-four percent of the reusable bags it examined contained worrisome levels of unhealthy bacteria, with more than thirty percent exceeding levels considered safe by government standards. Since the study also found forty percent of cloth bags contained yeast or mold that can lead to food poisoning, it may [...]

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|2011-03-03T00:00:00-05:00March 3rd, 2011|Comments Off