Day 159: MLwC plus new scientific evidence

There is a bit of news out today re the debate over whether we are the Weather Makers, as Tim Flannery suggests (meaning human activity has so impacted the environment as to cause a catastrophic upheaval), or whether global climate change is all part of a natural cycle.
The article from Science Daily is a bit […]

Act NOW to change America:

The House is considering, amid all the energy legislation, instituting a nation-wide renewable power standard (RPS). HR969 is up for a vote TODAY!  ACT NOW!
Oh … boring … the snores have begun …
No
Actually
CRITICAL to moving toward a prosperous and sustainable energy future.
Here is a step that you can take to Energize America.
The Energy Bill is […]

Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary Almost Financially Self-Supporting

A very few BFP commenters (it seems with an agenda to discredit the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary and donor Peter Allard) posted information that the people of Barbados shouldn’t even want to own the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary as it is (so they say) a liability, not an asset.
Nevermind the issue of a clean and […]

Amelioration of greenhouse gases by injection

Rembrandt at the Oil Drum has two interesting posts here and here. Briefly, it’s possible to inject the CO2 generated by combustion into the earth. However, it is costly, and the technology is untested to see what adverse results might occur. For example, injection into brine might force the brine elsewhere, contaminating water tables. One […]

Mr. Viddy Is Dying

Of boredom at the moment. Updates to follow…
Update:  July 31, 2007 1:59pm
Mr. Viddy is still terribly bored and he has 3 more hours left before he can escape his office prison.
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Green Candidates (Cont.) and A Bit About Bird Feeding

The Grist ran its interview on John Edwards today, and recently had a column by Umbra about the eco-correctness of bird feeders. As one who feeds birds, I found it interesting (the thing about the feeders, though the Edwards interview is interesting, too).
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It’s Hot and We Need Cooling

What about if you could: 

…make the heat go away while using nothing but water and a little electricity
…burn all the new biofuels more efficiently at best air to fuel ratio
…mix solid particles to your fuel oil while not plugging the burner
…make snow a little more more efficiently on the ski slopes
…mix chemicals with reactive and inert gases ”instantly”
…separate chemicals without ever boiling them
…evaporate water or anything that evaporates the most energy efficient […]

Montreal As Provincial Park?

Absolutely wonderful idea about ensuring a solid sustainable urban region in this article from last April.
“Since 1990, an estimated 1,000 hectares of forests have been stripped from the island to make way for private development.This city now has the lowest percentage of protected natural areas of any North American urban centre.”
Surely, and I mean you […]

Either it’s the silly season or we are all politically (not) correct Marxists; Telly-princess’s pinched bottom to be subject of global manhunt.

This today from Hot Air.
Personally, I think it was staged, so as to create yet another offence to put on the statute books;
“If a male, and while being recorded or not, pinching or appearing to pinch, or conspiring with or without others to pinch, the bottom of a state-broadcasting-female-executive, whether of the BBC or of any other […]

“These Tories Aren’t Green”

Despite John Tory’s vague promises about the environment, some see right through his rhetoric, such as Ottawa Citizen columnist David Reevely, who promptly tears of a strip off of Tory’s hide.
Consider the environmental file, where Tory promises to focus on everything. “John Tory will tackle all aspects of the environmental challenge,” his platform promises. Smog, […]