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Friday, August 29th, 2003Dennis Avery
The four American children, who lost their lives in 1993, after eating restaurant hamburgers contaminated with deadly E. coli O157 bacteria, did not die in vain. In a fitting sort of memorial, U.S. school kids will start getting irradiated hamburgers in their school lunches next year - hamburgers lightly zapped with electron beams that […]
Seashells Say Earth Temperatures Driven By Cosmic Rays, Not CO2
Friday, August 22nd, 2003Dennis Avery
Dr. Jan Veizer, a geologist at the University of Ottawa, has reconstructed the earth’s temperature record for the last 500 million years, using the fossilized remains of seashells. He was surprised to find a major global warming-cooling cycle every 135 million years, a time period that coincides with no early phenomenon.
Then Dr. Nir Shaviv, […]
What Would The Precautionary Principle Prevent?
Thursday, August 21st, 2003Dennis Avery
Western Europe is going to ban all new technologies (perhaps so we won’t have to worry about changes upsetting our lives). They’ve already banned genetically modified foods, and now they want the rest of the world to follow their “precautionary principle” by prohibiting all new technology until it’s proven it will never cause harm […]
Was The Blackout Caused By A Paralyzing Green Wave?
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003Dennis Avery
The huge Northeast electrical blackout was not caused by a flaming hijacked jet from al
Qaeda. But perhaps Earth First should get some of the blame. Ultimately, the blackout was caused by a paralyzing Green wave that is as serious a threat to our future as Moslem extremism.
America has been pretending it was going to […]
Current Species Extinction Rate Lowest in 500 Years
Friday, August 15th, 2003Dennis Avery
The world is losing wild species only half as rapidly as 100 years ago, and the rate of extinctions is now the lowest in 500 years. Moreover, mankind now has enough knowledge of high-yield farming, and forest and wildlife management that we shouldn’t have to suffer massive wild species losses in the future. This […]
Environmental Working Group: A Scare A Day
Wednesday, August 6th, 2003Dennis Avery
Suppose your gracious new neighbor took you aside one day and quietly warned that serving non-organic fruits and vegetables to your family was endangering your kids’ health. Suppose she offered a professional-looking ‘index of danger’ showing your supermarket’s peaches, apples, spinach, celery, and potatoes were all too dangerous to eat. You’d probably be devastated.
Then […]
Will Blight-Proof Biotech Potatoes Bring Us Lower-Fat Fries?
Friday, August 1st, 2003Dennis Avery
Biotechnology has just produced another massive breakthrough for world food security-a blight-proof potato. Researchers used biotech to insert a gene from a wild Mexican potato to create the first high-yield potato with complete resistance to late blight.
Late blight is the terrible epidemic disease that starved a million Irish farmers to death in the 1840s […]
Foes of the Environment: Genetic Contamination Needless Roadblock to GM Crops
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003Dennis Avery
Those who call themselves advocates for the environment continue in their desperate campaign against biotech-improved crops — the most critically needed farming technology in half a century. In a world that already farms nearly half the non-ice covered land on planet earth, yet faces a doubling of global food demand over the next half-century, […]
Did Mayan Civilization Collapse Due to Global Cooling?
Monday, July 28th, 2003Dennis Avery
The famed Mayan culture of Central America collapsed about 1200 years ago due, say recent findings, to prolonged drought driven by global cooling.
New research shows a profound 9th-century drought crisis in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where the big Mayan cities thrived for 1,000 years. The Mayans suffered at least 100 years of low rainfall, punctuated […]
Does CO2 Really Affect Temperatures?
Monday, July 21st, 2003Dennis Avery
The global warming theory says more CO2 in the atmosphere will trap more of the sun’s heat and “overcook” the planet. The global climate computer models are programmed to assess how much overcooking we’ll suffer.
But, in the past, have changes in CO2 levels raised-or lowered-real-world temperatures? Recently, both the earth’s temperatures and the CO2 […]