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Environmental Snafus

Goleta, California

Living Hell?

"Climate change will make earth a living hell!" claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don't believe him. The media say, "All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!" Bunk, bunk, bunk. They are addicted to scaring us. My new video covers four more myths about climate change: Myth 1: It's worsening droughts. The Environmental Defense Fund wins donations partly by claiming, "climate change is worsening drought!" Media morons parrot the claim. It's just not true."They are addicted to scaring us." The EPA: ...

How Does Your Garden Grow? Upon the Corpses of Millions

I have recently been scribbling elsewhere about the complete non-topics of “racist gardening” and (sigh) “multihorticulturalism,” subjects that suddenly sprouted back into ...

When Ideology Trumps Sanity

Inundated by the constant tidal wave of horrible news hitting us here at home, as well as abroad as the world finds itself in the express lane toward a massive regional Middle ...

Pedestrian Logic

Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago? You’re not just imagining it: It really has gotten more dangerous to cross the ...

A dike in Dutch National Park De Biesbosch

Not-So-Scary Truth About Climate Change

United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry says it will take trillions of dollars to "solve" climate change. Then he says, "There is not enough money in any ...

Green Groups Are No Longer Promoting a Cleaner Environment

The late, great humorist P.J. O'Rourke used to quip that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes. Well, now that can be said for traditional ...

Paris, France

The Night the Lights Went Out in Europe

Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its "power players of the year" -- for, in the publication's ...

Nationalism to Confront Globalism in Glasgow

"Extraordinary, isn't it? I've been hearing all about COP," said the queen to the duchess of Cornwall. "Still don't know who is coming. ... We only know about people who are not ...

Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord are gathered to assess how the world's nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions. ...

Why Risk It?

Twenty years or so ago I was doubtful about climate change and global warming. This was partly because I remembered that back in the 1970s we were being threatened with a new ice ...

Paranoid About Asteroids

A meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk around 9:20AM local time Friday. First there was a fireball brighter than the sun, followed by a blast wave that blew down ...

Land of the Setting Sun

Sunday was the first anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake off the east coast of Japan that produced the 45-foot-high tidal wave that hit Fukushima Prefecture. Twenty thousand ...

Nuclear Holocaust Denial

Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days"€”a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor ...

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