Yearly Archives: 2009

CASE FOR BIOFUELS WEAKENS FURTHER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Biofuels are a terrible answer to the fuel problem.   They force consumers to bid against themselves on food and fuel, artificially driving up the prices of both.   Biofuels take huge amounts of land to produce each gallon—and … Continue reading

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DO “FACTORY FARMS” TRIGGER SWINE FLU?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Did “factory hog farms” trigger Mexico’s recent outbreak of “swine flu”?  Not likely. In fact, today’s specialized hog and poultry farms actually minimize the potential for virus epidemics—and limit the public’s exposure to flu risks.   However, the Humane … Continue reading

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INCREDIBLE SEA LEVEL RISE IS—NOT CREDIBLE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—A recent scientific paper quoted in the N.Y. Times claimed Mexican corals that died 120,000 years ago showed sea levels might have surged 10 feet in just 50 years! If so, such a sea-level rise must have involved a … Continue reading

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WHERE’S THE RUNAWAY WARMING?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The global cooling trend that began early in 2007 continues. America’s official global reading for March, 2009 has been issued by Goddard Space Institute. The month was the coldest of this young century and colder than March of 1990. … Continue reading

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IN PRAISE OF CAGES FOR LAYING HENS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—My wife and I used to have free-range chickens. We didn’t get an abundance of eggs because the hens hid them in the barn hay—and then brought us batches of live chicks instead of breakfast makings. And, they stopped … Continue reading

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ERRATA STATEMENT

On March 30th I sent out a column titled “Now CO2 Is Declining Along With Temperatures.”  The column contained an obvious misstatement of the real data trend in atmospheric CO2, which is still rising.  We issued a “hold” on the … Continue reading

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CREATING THE GREAT AMERICAN POTATO FAMINE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—McDonald’s just agreed to pursue pesticide-free potatoes for its restaurants. The anti-technology zealots pushing this organic move had better hope the company drags its feet—or we risk having the first McDonald’s in history with no French fries. Less than … Continue reading

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HEMISPHERIC TIMING SHOWS OCEANS ARE SOURCE OF CO2, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—Australia’s Tom Quirk, an Oxford-trained research physicist, noted that carbon 14 molecules from nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and ‘60s took some years to travel through the atmosphere between the northern and southern Hemispheres.   Quirk further noted … Continue reading

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CUBANS STARVE ON DIET OF LIES, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The Cubans told the world they had heroically learned to feed themselves without fuel or farm chemicals after their Soviet subsidies collapsed in the early 1990s. They bragged about their “peasant cooperatives,” their biopesticides and organic fertilizers. They heralded … Continue reading

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WILL OBAMA LEAVE OUR CHILDREN POWERLESS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY AND ALEX A. AVERY

President Obama just killed the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility—and with it any realistic chance of actually slashing U.S. carbon emissions without massive consumer costs. Instead of more nuclear energy, he’s putting our energy future in the shaky basket … Continue reading

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