As everybody probably knows, Michael Crichton died the other day. I thought I would take the opportunity to link to a great speech he gave at CalTech in 2003 entitled Do Aliens Cause Global Warming?
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials […]

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John Tierney has an article up about Ray Kurzweil, futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near. If you agree with his ideas, as I do, it will change the way you view both the future and the present.
Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite, but by all means, I implore you to read […]

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A group of renowned nuclear physicists, economic experts, and energy policy professionals are saying that despite the problems our oil dependency causes, new nuclear plants are a bad idea.
I had been in favor of increasing nuclear power use, because my understanding was that new technologies (we haven’t built a new nuclear plant in the US […]

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Despite his casual relationship with the truth, Al Gore has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
He joins such notable recipients as Jimmy “Ignorant Douchebag” Carter and famous terrorist Yasser Arafat.

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Bjorn Lomborg has an interesting Washington Post piece on global warming and some sensible steps that can be taken to ameliorate its effects.
Proponents of pacts such as Kyoto want us to spend enormous sums of money doing very little good for the planet a hundred years from now. We need to find a smarter way. […]

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Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.
The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.
Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient […]

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MotorTrend has a great round-up cataloging our environmental betters and their “do as I say, not as I do” lifestyles.

The thing is, while the hysterics are fretting about the “horrors” of global warming and the plight of poor little Knut, more than one million people (most of them women and children) are dying every single […]

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Instapundit linked to a piece on Bjorn Lomberg in Newsweek. I found the following contradiction interesting..
Think of it this way: you spend bushels of R&D money to invent an efficient windmill and use it to cut, say, 100 tons of carbon per year. The cost per ton would be exorbitant. But once the blueprints […]

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An interesting comparison. What is more important, talking the talk, or walking the walk?

House #1 A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more […]

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