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Author Archives: Alex Avery
Bjorn Lomborg Responds to Scientific American Critics
Download PDF As I write these words Scientific American has as yet not given me a chance to put my side of the argument before their readers. The four critiques and accompanying editorial will be the only statement that readers … Continue reading
Rachel Carson Syndrome: Jumping to Pesticide Conclusions in the Global Frog Crisis
Download PDF A devastating and detailed review of four highly publicized case studies showing the deep anti-pesticide bias of ecologists. The report asks why ecologists continually chase chemical phantoms despite the scientific evidence and when ecology will become a science … Continue reading
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Response to PimentelResponse to Pimentel response which was not published in Science
Dr. David Pimentel’s response to our letter in Science(2005, vol. 307:1410-1411) misconstrues some of our points and is simply wrong in other areas. First, Pimentel incorrectly claims that we equated herbicide tolerant crops (HT) with no-till cultivation systems. We clearly … Continue reading
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Conservation Tillage
The Center for Global Food Issues, Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, Greenpeace Founder Dr. Patrick Moore and Syngenta Crop Protection were recently featured on WJMK TV’s American Environmental Review series hosted by 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer. This nationally syndicated program … Continue reading
Why Does The Government Have A Choke-Hold On My Lawn Mower?
Dennis 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 … Continue reading
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Call Off The Scolds and Lawyers; They’ve Changed The Fat Rules
Dennis Avery Obesity will soon be America’s #1 killer. Sue your local McDonalds. Limit restaurant portions. Put a nagging bureaucrat at every supermarket checkout stand. Oops. That was last year. The newest advice, from a variety of medical sources, says … Continue reading
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People, Progress and Planet—Earth Day 2005
Paul Driessen This year, let’s remember that billions still face real, life-threatening dangers Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore says the environmental movement “has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity.” This Earth Day, let us dedicate ourselves to restoring those essential … Continue reading
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“Dead Zones” for Rivers or People?
Dennis Avery The UN’s new Millennium Ecosystem Assessment says that unless humans stop their “unsustainable exploitation of the Earth’s resources,” our children and grandchildren will be forced to live in a “worsening environment that endangers their existence.” More than 1,300 … Continue reading
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CNN’s “Melting Point” Evidence Melts Down
Dennis Avery CNN is offering Americans a new global warming TV special—I refuse to call it a documentary—titled “Melting Point.” However, CNN’s “evidence” for superwarming melts under critical examination. First, “Melting Point” warns that Alaskan seal hunters, both humans and … Continue reading
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Reduce Global Warming? Let’s Start With Cows
Dennis Avery Virtually all of the Kyoto Protocol’s member countries have increased their CO2 emissions since signing the treaty. The political and economic costs of reducing CO2 from cars and factories have proven very high. So they just haven’t happened. … Continue reading
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