Ecologists Discover Forests Are Growing Faster
Golly gee, who would’ve guessed. More atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures, and longer growing seasons make trees go faster.
The ecologists call these factors - the “culprits.”
Could’ve fooled me, I thought faster growing forests was a good thing - an indication of plants growing faster, ergo more food for us humans.
Interestingly, Science Daily [...]
A Logic Error, If Anyone Cares
No one expects consistency from Democratic politicians, but the Institute for Energy Research notes an egregious contradiction in President Obama’s FY 2011 budget:
[Obama's budget] contained $36.5 billion in new taxes over ten years on the oil and gas industries, while heaping new billions in taxpayer support for politically-favored energies.
The White House budget request claims that, [...]
GISS: ‘No evidence of CO2 driven global warming in any of the US temperature data’
It’s an astonishing admission, especially when it’s coming from Reto Ruedy at GISS, one of global warming alarmist James Hansen’s top analysts. And yet, as AJStrata notes at the link, with no evidence whatsoever of AGW active in the US, Americans are supposed to cripple our economy and shell out billions in tax dollars? [...]
Reason.tv’s Health Care Remix (The Real World D.C.)
From the folks over at Reason tv, we see D.C. as it really is:
Coming this winter to C-SPAN:
The true story… of 535 politicians…picked to live in two houses…work together and their lives taped…to find out what happens…when Congress stops being polite…and starts secret, detailed negotiations on a sweeping, transformative health care reform bill…
This is the [...]
Man-Made Global Warming Alert: Record Cold Grips Europe, North America and Asia
While freezing weather gripps large parts of the United States early this morning - with no relief in sight for the rest of the week, Britain struggles to cope with the freezing weather conditions, other countries throughout the world are also finding themselves in the same predicament.
This, while new research finds there’s been no rise [...]
Saving Your Tax Dollars, Bottom-Up
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The President made clear early on that part of the way he intended to change the way Washington does business is by looking in every nook and cranny of government both for waste and abuse, and for ideas on how to root it out. Speaking in the Diplomatic [...]
