Thursday, July 15, 2004
Green Stalinism - Windustry
A revealing read on the great con job that is wind power. Let’s hope Canadians delay or stall their planned wind energy investments so we can watch Britain and Germany’s disastrous foray into windmills come crashing down upon them.
What this represents is a return to the planned economy in the name of environmentalism - a kind of Green Stalinism. The consequences are the familiar Soviet ones: centralised decision-making and localised devastation.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Unlimited oil
Samizdata has an entry dispelling the peak oil theory.
Well, now Joe Brennan he has sent me a link to a piece by Chris Bennett, about the possibility that the world’s oil reserves may not be going to run out any time soon after all.
Don’t recycle
I’ve always hated recycling - here’s why.
via Adam Smith
Thursday, July 8, 2004
Propaganda machine in high gear
The City’s war against the car gets its annual boost from the health dept.
The study by the city’s Public Health Department estimates that five air pollutants contribute to about 1,700 premature deaths and 6,000 hospital admissions in the city every year.
Of course, there’s no actual scientific data presented, just more suggestions that we spend billions of dollars building subways that may or may not make any difference.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Debunking the Star
Nobody tears up The Star’s garbage output like Bob does at LIB.
Excellent, excellent, excellent piece by Mitchell Anderson in today’s Toronto Star about the happy end of our “addiction to cheap oil”. It’s not substantively good, mind you, and it’s riddled with lazy arguments and outright lies, but it’s a kickass example of the kind of tripe they’ll happily publish over at One Yonge Street.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Gas pains
Before you go spring for a new hybrid car to beat the gas prices, you may want to read the truth about their incredible mileage.
Hybrid cars are hot, but not as hot as their owners, who complain that their gas mileage hasn’t come close to well-advertised estimates.
via Econot
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Water world
More evidence that the world is changing despite junk scientists’ illusions that man is the cause of the earth’s changing climate.
Australian scientists have found the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than first thought, and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants to grow and soak up greenhouse gases.
Thursday, May 6, 2004
Before you buy
Adam Smith with an entry on what you need to know before investing in organic food - that ever growing section of your grocery store.
But Taverne’s main objection is organic farming’s inefficiency: yields are 20-50% lower than those from conventional farms. And we need to treble food production in the next 50 years to feed 3 billion extra people.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Happy Malaria day
The do-gooders are killing children with their irrational propaganda campaign against DDT. Apparently birds are more important than humans.
Malaria kills two million people a year and ravages economies. In Africa, a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds, and many who don’t die suffer brain damage.
Meanwhile, our government is busy with their own politically correct agenda over there:
Instead, we’re funding social workers to study gender issues in Kenyan villages, although how this will wipe out malaria is a bit unclear. We’re also promoting the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets, which are all the rage these days with the malaria establishment. Nets are good. “But you can’t permanently surround people with nets,” points out Mr. Innis.
Pity the (poor) children.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Eco-idiots
This story is just too foolish to pass on. Who needs terrorists to send us to the Dark ages - we’ve got home grown eco-terrorists to battle. Now they want your kids’ diapers:
“There is a way to have a baby and NOT use diapers,” says one website advocating diaperless babies. Parents are urged to get in tune with their infant’s body signals and hold babies over toilets, buckets and shrubbery or any other convenient receptacle when nature calls.
Interesting how are earthy-buddy Al Gore (who invented the internet, remeber him?) is on the board of the waterless urinal company.
via Volokh
Interesting linked site: Eco-Not
But Robert Bidinotto, publisher of ecoNOT.com and a critic of environmentalists, dismisses such notions as “primitive-worship.”
Monday, April 5, 2004
Enviro-terrorists
Kim DuToit writes about how green policies hurt the poor the most.
Roy Spencer has nailed this issue, once and for all, in focusing on the fact that most “Green” policies have minimal environmental impact, but are liable to cost billions—costs that, in most cases, affect the poor first.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Eco Terrorism
There isn’t any real proof that closing Ontario’s coal plants will save lives, but there is mounting proof that closing them will ruin lives.
Canada’s $20 billion-a-year chemical industry says Ontario’s commitment to stop burning coal to produce electricity threatens jobs and profits in the sector.
We need to worry about the terrorists within our borders, too.
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Still tilting?
For all you Laytonites that think we can survive on windpower, I give you this Samizdata entry.
The renewable energy industry suffered a setback today with the publication of a report showing that electricity from offshore wind farms will cost at least twice as much as that obtained from conventional sources.
via Kim du Toit
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Animal Terrorists
An interesting article on how PETA values the rights of animals over humans.
The “animal rights” movement is celebrating its latest victory: an earlier, more painful death for future victims of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease....Chris DeRose, founder of the group Last Chance for Animals, writes: “If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn’t make any difference to me.”
Extremist groups are killing people in ways that don’t even know.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Watch your grapes
Enviroterrorists didn’t want pesticides, so now we have black widows lurking in our fruit.
The publication notes the frequency of the discoveries has increased recently and one California entomologist said yesterday that reduced pesticide use in vineyards may be leading to more black widows being exported.