Saving the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Could Endanger Oil Production
by As a friend of mine said after reading this article, "Step on the thing and start drilling!" I’ve been to this part of the country …
Category: Environment
Words of Wisdom: Environmentalist Grandstanding
Jason Avark writes: The current state of environmentalism seems a form of moral preening — a very self-promotional way for “green” adherents to publicly display …
Cold Showers and How Sometimes Liberal Guilt is Hilarious
The overblown, self-important angst of some liberals is so stupid it’s painfully funny to watch. The cold shower to this humor is the knowledge that …
Energy / Environment / Law
Guerilla Environmentalism or Fraud?
Tim DeChristopher, a Utah economics student, is – for now – the proud possessor of the obligation to buy drilling rights from the federal government …
Business / Energy / Environment / Liberalism
The Wisdom of Markets
Crowd-sourcing, capturing the “wisdom” of the mob, was what the cool kids were doing not so long ago. Witness the rise of the Daily Kos …
Barack Obama’s Priorities
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama recently participated in an anti-global warming rally in California during which he said that few of the nation’s problems were more …
Global Warming Science
Dr. David Evans, a pioneer in the modeling of climate change, now says that there’s no definitive evidence that man-made carbon emissions are contributing to …
Save Your Home from a Wildfire, go to Jail
Ross Curtis, along with family and friends, saved his Big Sur home from being destroyed by a wildfire. Moreover the backfire he set seems to …
Environmentalists, Progress, and Fantasies
I enjoyed Jim’s letter to the Bryan/College Station Eagle so much I had to re-print it here: Power to the people The environmentalists claim the …
Fighting Fires with Money
The main reason that California’s fires are such a problem is because of the proximity of housing enclaves to the repeat burn zones. Firefighters do …