Climate Thugs – From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an insight into the rough tactics of environmentalism’s most excitable followers. But resistance is not futile! UK faces green agenda backlash as energy prices rise – The British government faces a public backlash against its green energy agenda as consumers are unwilling to spend more on [...]
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(by Bill McKibben, LA Times, 10 May 2011) McKibben strays into forbidden territory in the LA Times with pure hype. Because of his penchant for making amazing unfounded claims, he has been called "the skeptics’ best friend." Willis Eschenbach eviscerates his arguments, shining the light on some of McKibben’s fabrications. Never mind the lack of [...]
Video from CNN shows the March 2011 tsunami crashing into Fukushima nuclear site. Another site, at Scientific American, gives facts and figures regarding this disaster. And below is a simulation from NOAA, showing the propagation of the tsunami from its source. The response by the dark green environmentalist crowd to this horrific [...]
Thank the Lord the death toll is incredibly low. One could easily imagine millions perished in this disaster, but as of today 6,539 were killed in the disasters, mainly in the tsunami.
This volcano, and some others that I hope to blog on, erupted shortly after the 9.0 quake shattered Japan. The 1,421-metre (4,689-feet) Shinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range saw its first major eruption for 52 years in January. There had not been any major activity at the site since March 1.
Today the largest earthquake in its history struck Japan. A magnitude 9.1 quake struck at 38.322 lat., 142.369 lon., with a focus 24.4 km beneath the ground, making this the fourth largest recorded earthquake in history. It occurred off the east coast of the island of Honshu. The USGS provides a list of the earthquake [...]
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