SATELLITE INDICATES 23-YEAR GLOBAL COOLING
May 5, 2008
BY DENNIS T. AVERY
CHURCHVILLE VA—Now it’s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a “cool” La Nina year—but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much larger and more persistent Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has turned into its cool phase, […]
Updated:New Beef Eco-Report
April 21, 2008
New Beef Eco-Report: Pound-for-pound, beef produced with grains and growth hormones produces 40% less greenhouse gas emissions and saves two-thirds more land for nature compared to organic grass-fed beef.
Global Temperatures Have Dropped: Did Sunspots Predict It?
March 1, 2008
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Three of the world’s major climate monitors have announced that the earth’s temperatures dropped over the last 12 months—by enough to virtually offset the entire “unprecedented warming” of the last century. This comes after nine years of no warming, and a net warming since 1940 of just 0.2 degrees.
Equally […]
Will Nuclear and Biotech Save Us From Global Warming?
January 11, 2008
By: Dennis T. Avery
Nuclear power and genetically engineered rice are set to help rescue the world from global warming. This isn’t really what anti-tech activists had in mind when they launched the campaign against fossil fuels, hoping to restrict our current lifestyles.
The British government has just announced that it will encourage a new generation of […]
New Year’s Resolution: Organic Farming Can’t Feed The World
January 3, 2008
By: Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—We’re already sacrificing our energy sources to “save the planet.” Now the Greens want us to give up food as well. Last summer, a University of Michigan study announced that “organic farming can feed the world.”
“My hope is that we can finally put a nail in the […]
Planting Trees to Keep the Lights On
December 21, 2007
By: Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—It’s the Christmas season, the UN’s Bali conference has just ended, and we should all have trees in our thoughts. The most popular way for people concerned about global warming to offset their “carbon footprints” is to buy carbon credits earned by planting trees. The additional trees absorb additional CO2 in […]
Our Children Should Not be Poisoned by our Food
December 11, 2007
By: Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Buying “organic” or “natural” or “local” meats won’t protect us from the deadly food-borne bacteria E. coli O157. The life-threatening bacterium sickens thousands of people every year, and kills hundreds—too many of them children.
A restaurant owner recently wrote the Minneapolis Star-Tribune claiming that if we raised our cattle on pasture instead […]
Guilt and Global Warming
November 29, 2007
By: Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The most awful thing about man-made global warming is that it’s our own fault. It’s our own greedy materialism that has the planet’s climate headed toward disaster. Or so we’re told.
The world has been through climate guilt trips before, however. During the 400 years of the Dark Ages (540 to 950 […]
Avian Flu is Coming: Hide the Chickens Indoors
November 21, 2007
By: Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—It’s time to quit playing the “organic and free-range” poultry game. Organic and free range birds carry higher bacterial risks—and now we know they could spread a deadly human flu pandemic.
British authorities have just confirmed a new outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of “bird flu” at […]
What about the Poles?
November 13, 2007
By: Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The global warming alarmists are at it again, shrieking about “ice melt at the Poles.”
“The relentless grip of the Arctic Ocean that defied man for centuries is melting away,” warned Doug Struck in the Washington Post. “The sea ice reaches only half as far as it did 50 years ago. In […]
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