The list of species that global warming zealots claim will be wiped out by climate change is long: Antarctic penguins; Arctic polar bears; Australia’s koalas; British dragonflies …   
But in what could be a case of Darwinian evolution in action, the BBC reports that “great tits cope well with warming.” Presumably, great tits won’t do […]

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BURMA: The poorest nation on this earth has been hit by the most deadliest Cyclone of 2008 at May 2 unknown and unprepared, and facing the worst disaster the world have never seen before.
And yet the infamous (in-fact the most infamous) Military Junta Government is really quite busy with the REFERENDUM to approved self written […]

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Crank the Wayback Machine to Summer, 2005. When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed New London, Connecticut, to use eminent domain to take the property of people living and doing business in the waterfront neighborhood of Fort Trumbull. The Supreme’s decision on Kelo v. New London was the cherry on an ugly sundae. New London […]

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That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh…
I noted that two weeks ago…
And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys.
But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that […]

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Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke.
For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry […]

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It’s bad enough for a straight-A wind energy Musterschuler (model student) like Germany to suddenly fall back to fifth place in class (at least when it comes to the number of turbines installed last year, that is), but to be passed up in the process by the Mother of all Umweltsünder (environmental sinners), the United […]

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An EARTH DAY SPECIAL from Churchill’s Parrot blog
Granted Karl Marx was a bitter, self-loathing, misanthrope, half-crazed with envy and his own depraved world view, but at least he had integrity.  When advocating the implementation of his beloved communism, for instance, he made no attempt to sugar coat what would be required:
“The proletariat will use its […]

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The sound of bagpipes has stirred the hearts of millions, with it’s mournful dirge that tells of sorrows, glories, and the love of freedom.
But in these days of political correctness, the silencing of the pipes may become the latest casualty of the nanny state and of a large clueless European Union bureaucracy that dictates with […]

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We just delivered more rice from the “second harvest” to the rice mill for storage and milling later. We don’t worry about a shortage of rice: We grown our own, a gormet organically grown rice for the upscale Manila market.
But not everyone is so lucky.
Here in the Philippines there is a rice shortage.
It came on […]

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Or is less gas more? The Germans call biofuel Biosprit but whether you call it that or bioethanol or biobutanol or biodiesel or whatever else kind of bio something you want to call this new poo poo power stuff, well, it’s all a bunch of gas in the end. Or at least it is whenever […]

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The European Union’s carbon dioxide emissions during 2007 rose around 1.1% compared to the year before. Emissions by over 10,000 European companies who are mandated to offset pollution once they exceed industry limits, reached around 1.914 billion metric tons. Data released Wednesday suggests that 93% of the heavy industry companies had submitted their pollution numbers.
The […]

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European carbon traders are eagerly awaiting benchmark numbers on European greenhouse gas emissions during 2007. European countries ought to have submitted the data in a central system yesterday but many failed to meet the deadline.

That is why the Brussels authorities in charge of the central system have not yet released the information on the Community […]

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Here in the Philippines, it’s “Tag-init”, the hot season that lasts from now until the monsoon hits in May.
Since a lot of our power is hydroelectric, that means less power available at a time when everyone has their airconditioner on.  The result is loss of electricity. Brownouts are not uncommon here: The electricity has been […]

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I thought my eyes were deceiving me, or that my computer had decided to go into ‘meltdown mode’, when I saw the Google homepage early this morning. Had I have been running Windows (any version) I would have reached for my installation CD and reloaded it! This was a common occurrence until I switched to […]

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The Lammas are the UK’s first eco community to have been granted permission to construct a mini village. The nine families involved recently received approval to build straw bale and mud houses on a plot of 76 acres in the middle of nowhere Wales.
The name of the Welsh village where the new community is going […]

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In two days, on March 30th, the Open Skies agreement will come into effect. Airlines from the US and Europe are allowed to land in any airport on the two continents. But a trade row over carbon trading is looming on the ground.
Technically speaking, the new agreement deregulates the aviation industries of the US and […]

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An organic type solar energy which will be introduced in consumer products after the Summer is expected to speed up implementation of solar energy in every day products. The photoelectrochemical is applied in dye-sensitized cells and the technology is cheap in its application. Konarka, a Lowell, MS, based company pioneering the technology, plans to use […]

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As a Catholic Church, we need to be quite sensitive about the disposition of sacred articles that are no longer being used in our parishes. A trend developing is finding Catholic sacred articles on places such as E-Bay or other online salvage sites. The real problem with these sites is that there is no attempt […]

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The tainted heparin scandal widens.
An article posted on Medscape reveals:
The heparin-contamination saga is continuing, with the latest countries to recall products being France, Italy, and Denmark… the heparin medicinal products from Rotexmedica and the heparin API from Opocrin had all been manufactured using products sourced originally from China by four Chinese companies…
Meanwhile, another US heparin […]

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The silly season must be with us again, because two economists have done a study in Europe that correlates happiness with blood pressure. The higher the blood pressure, the less happy the people.
From a report on Medscape (registration required).
David G. Blanchflower, PhD (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire) and Andrew J. Oswald, DPhil (University of Warwick, […]

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The City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Indiana are experiencing what is called a “100 year rain.” As of 10 a.m, Evansville Regional Airport had received a record-breaking 6.52 inches of rain. The single greatest rainfall on record for Evansville was 6.5 inches, set on Oct. 6, 1910. The Ohio River is at 37 feet […]

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AFTER nearly 8 inches of rain, ditches, creeks overflowing
Last night, the Vanderburgh County Indinana Commission and Evansville Mayor Weinzapfel declared a “Local Disaster Emergency” for Vanderburgh County and the City of Evansville.
This action was taken due to concern for the high number of water covered and impassable roads in both the city and county. With […]

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Set in a little gem of a country in Africa called Botswana is a series of light hearted novels by Alexander McCall-Smith, titled “The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency”.  I refer to Botswana as ‘little’ because, although it is geographically roughly the same size as Texas, it has a total population of only 1.8 million […]

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There is sad news on I-69 today. Despite years of citizen opposition and comment against I-69, Governor Mitch Daniels and INDOT are beginning the destruction of homes and farmland in Southwest Indiana.
The homes being destroyed are in the 2 miles north of I-64. Land and homes were purchased by InDOT last summer.
On March 10th Thomas […]

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This article is a second release of this musing. It was published last June, but should have another revisit by Catholic readers. In light of the recently listed “sins” that include those against the environment. HJMN
There are always ways that the Catholic Church can join in the environmental movement in small but yet effective ways. […]

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Last week, the Heartland Institute put on “The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change“, attended by scientists, economists, and politicians who see a lot of trouble with the science, economics, and politics of current global warming hysteria.
Among the over 200 scientists was keynote speaker Pat Michaels, a must-hear and must-read on the subject…and a fun […]

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The lilly smelling three foot long lilly white spitting earthworm is going extinct, and it’s Bush’s fault.
Well, actually, the Palouse earthworm had been thought to be extinct already, since the last one was sighted in 1988, but now that an Idaho scientist found one in 2006.
So now conservationists are suing the administration to try to […]

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It’s still on line, and it’s scary. An open threat to bomb buildings and the homes of those they consider their enemy. Yet except for a few segments on the TV show “Law and Order”, it is a topic that rarely hits the news: the ongoing threat to scientists who do research on animals so […]

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And today we see more of the claims of Global warming, with little solid fact to back this stuff up. If we were to have jumped at such fear-mongering every time some group found a quick way to get notoriety, Where would we be today? Still living in caves?
So far we have heard that the […]

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Almost seven years to the day Russian space station Mir was de-orbited and fell to Earth over the South Pacific Ocean in March 2001, the U.S. Navy will fire a missile at a failing spy satellite in an attempt to break it apart while it is still high above the atmosphere.
 
Known as USA 193, the […]

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