I was wandering around on the site of a favorite author of mine, James P. Hogan, when I came upon a link to an article put out last year by Marlo Lewis, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in response to Al Gore’s “documentary, ” An Inconvenient Truth. You can find that article…
Category: Environment
Toxic Food
The Houston Chronicle recently reported some disturbing environmental news: For the first time, Texas has generated its own “dead zone” in coastal waters, scientists say. The 1,750-square-mile area of oxygen-depleted water, stretching from Freeport to Matagorda Bay, is potentially deadly to marine life. … Until this summer’s heavy rainfall, Texas A&M University oceanographer Steve DiMarco…
Two types of Liberal Derangement
First off, I am not a fan of Michael Savage, but one of his books is titled Liberalism is a Mental Disorder and I think he hit that on the head. To whit I will point out two items for your reading pleasure. First, while driving to work this week I was listening to NPR…
The Ethanol Problem
David Broussard recently penned a piece describing the problem with the push to use ethanol as a “renewable energy source”, one that is supposed to ease our dependence on foreign – read “Islamic” – oil. As David says, the dream of replacing gasoline with corn alcohol simply is not going to happen: The US uses about 130…
Obligations
There are those who believe that the United States is obligated to help poor nations because we are “rich”. And there are those who believe that America’s influence in the world must be reduced so that their own can increase. The interests of these groups intersect in the debate over global warming which, to summarize,…
Houston Air Quality
It’s nice to know that I only live in the city with the 9th worst air quality in the country. Here’s an idea: build a bike lane that actually goes someplace and see if people ride on it. Stupid idea? No worse than a train going from downtown (nowhere) to the medical center (nowhere)… Meanwhile,…
White House Tells EPA to Omit Important Content From Report
How about telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but? If Christie Whitman cares so much about the report’s integrity, she ought not to have run out on her job.
Environmentalists Never Happy
Now they’re complaining about hydrogen as a new environmental debate as erupted over hydrogen fuels. Can anything be worse than burning oil and driving Ford Expeditions???
Croc Files
Killing of gator upsets Cinco Ranch residents in Houston. Local news ran a video tape of law enforcement dragging this animal down the street behind a truck before shooting it. Where’s the sense in that? Has anyone at the sheriff’s department heard of animal conservationism? Call the Crocodile Hunter, for Pete’s sake. Update A little…
Life and Death in Houston
Watch out for your children in Hockley, Texas. It seems that some people, and here I’m talking about those who persist in owning dangerous dogs, cannot be taught new tricks. What will it take to convice these dim-wits that these animals have no place in human society?Naturally it takes a real tragedy for the obvious…