Yearly Archives: 2008

THE WORST CLIMATE PREDICTIONS OF 2008?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on December 30, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—“2008 will be the hottest year in a century:” The Old Farmers’ Almanac, September 11, 2008.   We’re now well into the earth’s third straight harsher winter—but in late 2007 it was still hard to forget 22 straight years … Continue reading →

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EXERCISING MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO WATER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on December 22, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—The United Nations’ new “senior advisor on water”—a Canadian woman named Maude Barlow—says everybody has a right to water.   What that means, I guess, is that I have a right to take a bucket down to Whiskey Creek—a … Continue reading →

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GREEN CARS FOR CHEAP GAS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on December 15, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—Now we’re going to give Ford, GM and Chrysler billions of dollars so the Feds can order them to build more “green” cars—with gas now costing $1.49 per gallon. How many Americans will pay $30,000 for one of these … Continue reading →

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FICKLE SUN BROUGHT DOWN ANCIENT EMPERORS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on December 8, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—A North China cave stalagmite just produced an amazingly precise record of China’s rainfall over the past 1800 years, proving that variations in the sun’s activity—through weaker monsoons and poor rice crops—helped bring down three historic Chinese dynasties (the … Continue reading →

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THANKSGIVING’S FUTURE: KANGAROO INSTEAD OF TURKEY?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on December 1, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—Incoming President Obama will undoubtedly call for a renewed crusade against greenhouse gas emissions. Will Thanksgiving dinners in the future feature kangaroo instead of turkey?   Don’t get me wrong. Turkeys emit lots less greenhouse gas than beef cattle. … Continue reading →

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SLUMPING CARBON PRICE WORRIES GREENS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on November 17, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—The price of carbon has slumped in Europe’s emission trading—for the second time in two years. The long-term investments needed to reduce humanity’s greenhouse emissions are being discouraged. The carbon price is meant to offset the economic cost of … Continue reading →

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THE “NEAR-VIRTUAL REALITY OF MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on November 11, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA— “As Barack Obama shifts from a waking dream to the real world, he faces the near-virtual reality of climate change. He has to move decisively.” (Ian McEwan, “A New Dawn,” Wall Street Journal, Nov8/9.) What is near-virtual reality? … Continue reading →

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CHINA SENDS GLOBAL WARMING RANSOM NOTE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on November 5, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—China has now destroyed Western hopes for a new global warming agreement, just weeks before global talks in Poland aimed at writing a successor for the Kyoto Protocol— which expires in 2012. China has attached a ransom not to … Continue reading →

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ALASKA’S GLACIERS ARE GROWING, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Posted on October 30, 2008 by cgfi
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CHUCHVILLE, VA—Alaska’s glaciers grew this year, after shrinking for most of the last 200 years. The reason?  Global temperatures dropped over the past 18 months. The global mean annual temperature has been declining recently because the solar wind thrown out … Continue reading →

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TROPICALWASTELANDS TO CROPLANDS WITH BIOTECH, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY AND ALEX A. AVERY

Posted on October 13, 2008 by cgfi
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CHURCHVILLE, VA—Imagine Africa feeding itself comfortably, instead of being overwhelmed by its own expanding population. Imagine millions of tropical consumers being fed without clearing more forests, thus protecting the wildlife in the very regions where most of the species of … Continue reading →

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