Archive for 2005
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Monday, June 20th, 2005Dennis Avery
A new study of California elephant seal pups and their weaning weights predicts that a 25-year cycle warming has ended, and the second half of a 50-year cycle has begun to cool the northern Pacific. Historical fish catch data indicate the ocean cooling trend is likely to last until about 2025.
Burney Le Boeuf […]
Center for Consumer Freedom: Striking Back at the Food Police
Sunday, June 12th, 2005The New York Times
By Melanie Warner
Correction Appended
WHEN it comes to food fights, John Belushi’s character in “Animal House” has nothing on Rick Berman. A prominent Washington lobbyist, Mr. Berman runs the Center for Consumer Freedom, a nonprofit advocacy group that is financed by the food and restaurant industries. Two months ago, after a report in […]
Global Warming’s Impact-A Pro Con Article
Friday, June 10th, 2005Dennis T. Avery
California’s economy threatened
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says California will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050. The question for today is whether this defense against global warming will “terminate” California’s economy.
We’ve already seen the answer, and so has California.
Five years ago, power shortages were forcing rolling blackouts across the Golden State. Traffic lights […]
U.S. Corporations Have Been Cleaning Up And Seeking New Technologies For Decades
Friday, May 20th, 2005Dennis Avery
To hear most environmentalists and their pals in the mainstream media tell it, America’s largest corporations only recently abandoned their “public be damned” ways and embraced the green revolution.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius is a prime example. Normally an astute observer, Ignatius recently began a column with this lead: “The chief executive of […]
Global Warming Famine or Feast?
Thursday, May 19th, 2005Dennis T. Avery
and H. Sterling Burnett*
For over 30 years, Lester Brown, a MacArthur Foundation “genius award” winner and president of the Earth Policy Institute, has warned that human activities threaten agricultural productivity and human well-being. Brown and other environmental lobbyists argue that continuing human-caused global warming poses a significant threat of world famine. They say […]
Climate Forecast: Warm and Sunny
Thursday, May 19th, 2005Dennis Avery
Only in the past 20 years have scientists begun to understand that the Earth has a moderate, persistent 1,500-year climate cycle that creates warmings and coolings. Sunspot records and the isotopes of carbon, oxygen and beryllium trapped in ice cores and cave stalagmites indicate that this process is driven by a small cycle […]
Should Cities Ban Public Pesticide Use?
Friday, May 6th, 2005Dennis Avery
Should cities ban pesticides on public property? Los Angeles found it couldn’t keep its playgrounds usable without herbicides. Many schools have found they can’t keep down rats and roaches—and the diseases they spread—without chemical help.
Oakland, California, found it had a fire problem. In 1991, flammable trees and shrubs on the city’s hillsides turned […]
Meeting The Needs Of A Hungrey World—What Role Does Biotechnology Play?
Friday, April 29th, 2005Alex Avery
The short and the sweet of it is that the world is in the midst of the largest increase in global food demand in human history. At least a doubling of food demand will unfold in the next 30-40 years, primarily as a result of economic growth in Asia, but also in Eastern Europe […]
Why Does The Government Have A Choke-Hold On My Lawn Mower?
Friday, April 29th, 2005Dennis Avery
I’ve finally figured out how to start my new lawn mower.
I just disconnect the spark plug wire, use a plug wrench to unscrew the spark plug itself, spray some starter fluid into the open cylinder through the spark plug hole, replace and reconnect the spark plug, and pull the rope. If it doesn’t work […]
Should Lincolnshire Be Farmed?
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005Dennis Avery
The short answer to the title question is: Yes, Britain’s farmland—including Lincolnshire—should be farmed.
Indeed, it must be farmed, to:
Help save the world’s remaining wildlands and wild species, especially those in the tropics, from being plowed for low-yield crops as world population attains its peak of 8-9 billion mostly-affluent people.
Minimize soil erosion, the most important […]