For my friends on the left – the right is not the only ‘camp’ with ‘duds’. ============= In “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” a Hemingway story, a man goes big game hunting who should have stayed home. Tom Steyer maybe should have stayed home. The hedge-fund king has sought to propel himself to the top circle of Democratic money men and... Read more
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
May 5 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingI commend Mr Rossiter for speaking up. ======== “Western policies seem more interested in carbon-dioxide levels than in life expectancy.” Every year environmental groups celebrate a night when institutions in developed countries (including my own university) turn off their lights as a protest against fossil fuels. They say their goal is to get America and Europe to look from space like Africa: dark,... Read more
Cannot See the Forest for the Deer
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EnvironmentGotta love Bambi.. don’t you? ============= By Al Cambronne The U.S. now has 30 million deer, a hundred times more than a century ago. From California to Long Island, the rising deer population has resulted in widespread property damage and crop losses, as well as an increase in Lyme disease and often fatal deer-car collisions. The causes are clear: a lack of natural... Read more
Stuck on a ship of cold fools
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingNot that you hear anything at all about ‘the mission’ on the ‘major media’. ================= YOU have to feel a touch of sympathy for the global warming scientists, journalists and other hangers-on aboard the Russian ship stuck in impenetrable ice in Antarctica, the mission they so confidently embarked on to establish solid evidence of melting ice caps resulting from climate change embarrassingly... Read more
The Chevron Shakedown Exposed
October 19 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Politically correctInteresting, but not a surprise. “Follow the money.” ============ When plaintiffs lawyers attack, corporations usually settle to avoid the astronomical costs of litigation. One happy exception is Chevron, CVX +0.11% which chose to fight an environmental tort shakedown in Ecuador. The result has been a tragicomic parade of malfeasance and outright fraud, much of which is now being revealed by the... Read more
Climate of Uncertainty
October 3 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming======== Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than doubled in size—to some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. That’s the good news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global surface temperatures have remained essentially flat. That’s the mystery: If... Read more
