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The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
"Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age."
—MIT Professor, Dr. Richard Lindzen, a recognized authority on atmospheric science
Environmentalists' Highway
Beneath the rhetoric of survival, behind the Sierra Club calendars, beyond the movie-star appeals, lies a full-fledged ideology – an ideology every bit as powerful as Marxism and every bit as dangerous to individual freedom and human happiness. Like Marxism, it appeals to seemingly noble instincts: the longing for beauty, for harmony, for peace. It is the green road to serfdom.
—The Green Road to Serfdom, Virginia I. Postrel
"Freeze or fry, the problem is always industrial capitalism,
and the solution is always international socialism." —Harvard's Dr. Malcolm Ross
On the frontiers of junk science...
This item from a global-warming brochure predicting catastrophic climate changes, issued by the Atmospheric Division of Australia's Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organization:
"Disclaimer — The projections are based on results from computer models that involve simplifications of real physical processes that are not fully understood. Accordingly, no responsibility will be accepted by CSIRO for the accuracy of the projections inferred from this brochure or for any person's interpretations, deductions, conclusions or actions in reliance on this information."
[from issue 01-23/34 of The Federalist]
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance."
Occam's Razor (generally):
Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."
"We can't control nature."
—U.S. President Barack Obama during comments about the earthquake in Chile, 2/27/2010.
Website of Hans Schreuder, Ph.D.
The Futility of Wind Power
From Australia's Carbon Sense Coalition comes this new document intended as "a submission to the Australian Senate Enquiry into Wind Farms" on the extraordinary costs of wind power generation both economically and environmentally.
(30-page pdf file)
Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, S. Fred Singer
The most important fact about climate science, often overlooked, is that scientists disagree about the environmental impacts of the combustion of fossil fuels on the global climate.
There is no survey or study showing "consensus" on the most important scientific issues, despite frequent claims by advocates to the contrary.
[November 2015]
[122 page PDF - 1.52 MB]
World-wide Wind Turbine Accident and Environmental Impact Report
Compiled by
CWIF – Windfarm Information Forum
THE STORY of ELECTRICITY
The Institute for Energy Research
Wind Energy's Overblown Prospects
Many green energy advocates have exaggerated the capacity of wind power
to make a significant impact on U.S. electrical needs.
Any euphoric fantasy that an unlimited, free and clean alternative to carbon-cursed fossil-fuel sources is
blowing by with scant notice is exceedingly naïve and misguided.
100+ Papers Show the Sun Drives Climate
Proven by thousands of temperature datasets,
the earth's climate fluctuated cyclically in the past, and there's an overwhelming body of evidence
showing a close correlation with solar activity and other powerful natural factors.
If the IPCC had truly examined past temperature developments and
compared them to solar data, they'd have seen there is something remarkable there.
Global Warming Test
Test your knowledge and common sense in this simple 10-question test.
Genocide in Green
The EPA, Green Movement, CO2, Rachel Carson...
all explained in text and pictures.
A Rational Look At Renewable Energy
Renewable energy can be helpful to meet improved environmental targets, but we the people must recognize that the environmental benefits will come at a high price: an increase in electric rates, an increase in capital requirements, a challenge to grid reliability and net job losses. Only with our eyes wide open can we strike an informed balance and adopt a thoughtful energy policy without hype and pretense.
[23-page PDF]
The Fantasy of Storing Wind Power:
No Commercial System Exists & None is Likely
The wind industry is the perpetual infant of power generation:
always looking for the subsidies to last that little bit longer;
always promising to improve its performance;
always claiming it will outdo hydro, coal and gas – provided, of course,
that the subsidies keep flowing. When challenged about its consistent failures
to match output with demand, the wind industry and its parasites respond
by mumbling about "battery technology improving".
Climate Change Reconsidered II
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)Report: Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts. NIPCC seeks to objectively analyze and interpret data and facts without conforming to any specific agenda. This organizational structure and purpose stand in contrast to those of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is government-sponsored, politically motivated, and predisposed to believing that climate change is a problem in need of a U.N. solution.
(20-page PDF)
Wind power is only pseudo-renewable. The wind may be free.
But nothing of what's required to harness breezes to power civilization is free,
renewable, climate-friendly, eco-friendly or sustainable.
The Myth of Green Jobs
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Current renewable energy policies are no more than an unnecessarily costly means of achieving given emissions reductions. The idea, now embraced by Her Majesty's Government, that officially-created higher energy costs open up exciting new prospects for growth and jobs, is an illusion which this paper dispels effectively.
28jul21 Climate 'Scare Story' Began with Far-Left Ideology:
Greenpeace Co-Founder
Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore explains why the drive for zero emissions is unattainable and backs up what TYSK and others have been claiming for over two decades now about the agendas and lies promoted by those gaming government and the public over 'climate' and the environment.
29jun21 With Its Power Grid Under Pressure,
California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Vehicles
In the past week, the California Independent System Operator (ISO) told residents several times to voluntarily conserve energy, including asking them on social media to stop charging their electric vehicles (EVs) during peak usage times. The operator also warned users to "[avoid] use of large appliances and turning off extra lights."
14may21 International Energy Agency Report Shows That Green Energy Transition is a Fantasy Because of Dependence on Key Rare Minerals
Thomas Lifson
A prestigious intergovernmental organization created by the world's advanced economies is pointing out the bottleneck in the plans to substitute so-called green energy for hydrocarbon-based energy: the availability of key minerals necessary for battery storage, wind farms, solar panels, and other gizmos necessary for the switchover. Simply put: the world can't provide the quantity of those minerals that would be necessary, and the environmental and social impact of trying to mine them in sufficient quantities would be devastating. The cure, in other words, is worse than the disease.
28apr21 Green is the New Red
John Eidson
The Climategate cheating scandal exposed the man-made global warming theory for what it is: the most brazen scientific hoax in human history, an international collusion to destroy capitalism in the worlds largest capitalist nation to pave the way for that nations sovereignty being handed over to a global governing authority run by the United Nations. That is a serious charge on my part, so please allow me to justify it...
11apr21 Cities, Countries, and Economies Were Built With
Derivatives from Oil, Not by Electricity
Ronald Stein
Before world leaders move too fast to consummate their climate policies, they need to be cognizant of two "aha" moments: 1) wind and solar can only generate intermittent electricity, and 2) electricity cannot manufacture the oil derivatives that are the basis of the thousands of products that have built the world's cities, countries, and economies over the last 200 years.
4apr21 Wind Turbines Don't Like Cold Weather
Jack Dini
Richard Littlejohn points out in the UK there are days when the contribution of the forests of wind turbines had been precisely nothing. As the temperature plummeted, the turbines have had to be heated to prevent them seizing up. Consequently, they had been consuming more electricity than they generated. Even on a good day they rarely worked above a quarter of their theoretical capacity. And in high winds they had to be switched off altogether to prevent damage.
2apr21 It Takes Big Energy to Back Up Little Wind and Solar
Design is Complex and One Number is Obvious but Always Hidden
David Wojick
At least it's painful (and terribly inconvenient) to advocates of wind and solar power – which may be why we never hear about it, why it too often gets deliberately hidden from view. It is a big, bad number. The minimum backup requirement is how much generating capacity a system must have if it is to reliably produce the electricity we need when wind and solar don't. For most places, the magnitude of MBR is very simple. It is all the juice needed on the hottest or coldest low wind nights. It is night, so there is no solar.
20mar21 EV Subsidies, Fantasies and Realities -- Electric Vehicles Are Trendy but Not Very Earth-friendly, Affordable or Emission-Free
Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or only EVs, because they're emission-free, climate-friendly, socially and ecologically responsible, and more affordable every year. Which explains why we need subsidies to persuade people to buy them, and mandates to force people to buy them.
3jan21 New York Can't Buy Its Way Out of Coming Blackouts
David Wojick, PhD
New York City will soon be home to the world's biggest industrial-scale battery system. It's designed to back up the city's growing reliance on intermittent "renewable" electricity. At 400 megawatt-hours (MWh)... When it comes to the scale needed to reliably back up unreliable pretend-renewable electricity generation – and keep business, industry, social media and civilization functioning – New York's and America's policy makers need to start living in the Real World. Otherwise blackouts will become common.
4dec20 Sheldon Whitehouse's Climate Inquisition Continues
Five years ago, I said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) behaves like Torquemada, using Inquisition-like tactics to harass "manmade climate crisis" skeptics, and threatening to prosecute them for racketeering. He recently said Democrat control of the Senate would enable him and his colleagues to launch investigations, haul climate realists before committees (for star-chamber show trials), and even employ grand juries and criminal prosecutions – to intimidate, silence and punish climate crisis nonbelievers.
28oct20 Wind Turbines Generate Mountains of Waste
Blade Waste Alone Proves Wind is No More Green Than Solar
Duggan Flanakin
Environmentalists and wind energy opportunists (entrepreneurs who take advantage of overly generous tax credits and multiple other subsidies) want you to believe wind energy is as pure "green" as newly driven snow is white, and as cheap as Taco Bell. They never tell you about the costs -- or the environmental destruction -- that they have hidden from you for decades.
3jun20 Destroying the Environment to Save It
Whenever I hear that some community, company or country is going to implement "clean" energy or "clean" economy programs – to eliminate "dangerous" carbon dioxide emissions and "save the planet" – I think of the iconic Vietnam War era quotation, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." The Al Gore / Michael Mann equivalent of course is, "We had to destroy the environment in order to save it."
17may20 The Real Climate Science Deniers
Climate alarmists rarely lose an opportunity to brand as "science deniers" anyone who questions the mantra of "manmade climate cataclysms." But when they are confronted with irrefutable science, history and archeology those alarmists ignore the science or become unhinged in their denunciations of anyone who would dare to mention such inconvenient truths.
15feb20 Do 'Green' Buses Really Pass The Green Test?
China is seriously committed to "eco-friendly" battery-electric buses, employing mandate, subsidies and rewards to encourage a switch from gasoline, diesel and natural gas-powered buses. California, Maine, and other U.S. states and cities are following suit. Driving much of the U.S. shift is the belief that electric buses avoid "climate altering" gases, at least once they're on the road.
27nov19 The Toxic Pandora's Box of Solar Panels
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
The solar energy advocates, who only see cheap electricity with rose-colored glasses, are oblivious to the reality of cost, toxic chemicals, environmental pollution, and health hazards to humans and animals. Here are some immediate concerns about solar panels.
12jul19 The "New Energy Economy": An Exercise in Magical Thinking
Why Wind and Solar Will Never Work
Mark P. Mills – Manhattan Institute
A movement has been growing for decades to replace hydrocarbons, which collectively supply 84% of the world's energy. It began with the fear that we were running out of oil. That fear has since migrated to the belief that, because of climate change and other environmental concerns, society can no longer tolerate burning oil, natural gas, and coal – all of which have turned out to be abundant.
17may19 Inconvenient Energy Fact: It Takes 79 Solar Workers to
Produce Same Amount of Electric Power as One Coal Worker
Mark J. Perry
In a New York Times article reporter Nadja Popovich wrote that "Last year, the solar industry employed many more Americans [373,807] than coal [160,119], while wind power topped 100,000 jobs." But simply reporting rather enthusiastically that the solar industry employs lots of Americans, more than twice as many as the number of coal miners and utility workers at electric power plants using coal, is only telling a small part of the story.
16may19 'Clean' Energy Kaput: Germany's 'Inevitable' Wind &
Solar 'Transition' an Inevitable & Total Failure
Germans suffer Europe's highest power prices -- right up there with wind 'powered' Denmark and just behind South Australia, Australia's wind and solar capital -- which tops the list. Its so-called 'Energiewende' has turned into high farce: power prices are rising; hundreds of thousands of Germans can no longer afford power; the grid is on the brink of collapse; and its primary object (slashing carbon dioxide gas emissions) is an abject failure.
11may19 Back to the Medieval Green World
Viv Forbes
Greens dream of a zero-emissions world without coal, oil and natural gas. They need to think about what they wish for. First there would be no mass production of steel without coke from coking coal to remove oxygen from iron ore. People could cut trees in forests for charcoal to produce pig iron and crude steels, but forests would soon be exhausted. Coal saved the forests from this fate.
5mar19 How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine?
Because wind power fails to deliver at all hundreds of times each year, 100% of its capacity has to be backed up 100% of the time by fossil fuel generation sources – which run constantly in the background to balance the grid and prevent blackouts when wind power output collapses – as it does on a routine, but unpredictable, basis.
27feb19 The Real Reason They Hate Nuclear is Because
It Means We Don't Need Renewables
Michael Shellenberger
Why is it that, from the U.S. and Canada to Spain and France, it is progressives and socialists who say they care deeply about the climate, not conservative climate skeptics, who are seeking to shut down nuclear plants? After all, the two greatest successes when it comes to nuclear energy are Sweden and France, two nations held up by democratic socialists for decades as models of the kind of societies they want.
21feb19 Media Hysteria:
Climate Change 'Heat Records' Are a Huge Data Manipulation
Jay Lehr & Tom Harris
The idea that climate change is producing heat records across the Earth is among the most egregious manipulations of data in the absurd global warming debate. Americans receive a daily barrage from the fake news media and climate "experts" reporting that each and every day, week, month or year is the hottest on record due to global warming.
18nov18 Blaming Climate – Ignoring Incompetence
California Wildfires Incinerate People, Wildlife and Habitats.
Politicians Blame Climate Change.
Resorting to "manmade climate change" has become the favorite, most politically expedient tactic for deflecting attention away from the abject, ideological, even criminally incompetent forest management practices demanded by politicians, regulators, judges and environmentalists in recent decades.
3oct18 Rooting Out Scientific Corruption
It's about time someone exposed and rooted out this growing problem, and not just in the food arena. Countless billions of dollars in state and federal taxpayer money, corporate (and thus consumer) funding and foundation grants have fueled research and padded salaries, with universities typically taking a 40% or so cut off the top, for "oversight and overhead." Incentives and temptations abound.
27aug18 How to Solve the Plastic Crisis
Just 8 Countries Are Responsible for Most Ocean Plastic
Since Jan. 1, when China stopped accepting the rich world's recyclable plastic waste, it's gotten a ton of criticism for worsening the already deep crisis of ocean plastic pollution. But China isn't the only culprit here. This is a crisis made – and growing worse – throughout developing Asia. Just eight countries in the region are responsible for about 63 percent of total plastic waste flowing into the oceans. Little of that junk has been exported by rich economies.
17aug18 Obama Carbon Colonialism and Climate Corruption Continue –
A 3-part Series
Paul Driessen and David Wojick, Ph.D.
It's horrible enough that the World Bank, multilateral development banks and radical environmentalist pressure groups actively deny the poorest families on Earth access to the energy, agricultural and disease control technologies that have made health and living standards so good and life spans so long for so many people. For the Trump USAID to perpetuate Omaba's carbon colonialist policies simply defies belief.
11aug18 Questionable Funding for Environmental Groups and
What They Do with It
Naming Names and the Shocking Amount of Dollars Involved
Many corporations provide funding to environmental groups and the level of funding has been growing. As Steve Goreham says, "We're talking big dollars here. Corporate funding of environmental groups amounts to hundreds of million of dollars per year. In 2007, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Coca-Cola announced a multi-year partnership worth over $20 million to WWF.
4aug18 Europe Has Little Output to Show for Its Wind and Solar Investments;
Spent €5B per Gigawatt, Natural Gas Would Have Been €1B
By 2014, the European Union had spent over a trillion dollars on large scale renewable energy. Yet, that investment has provided little in terms of generating capacity and output. Out of about a total of 1000 gigawatts in the European Union at the end of 2014, renewable capacity totaled just 216 gigawatts. Germany, for example, invested $467 billion on renewable energy, installing more renewable energy capacity than any other country in Europe (78.7 gigawatts through 2014), but still relies on coal for about 42 percent of its power.
5jun18 Speculative Climate Chaos v. Indisputable Fossil Fuel Benefits
Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek
Environmental and climate activists, including cities pursuing climate lawsuits against oil companies, almost never acknowledge those benefits, which are far-reaching and indisputable. We can only hope attorneys Anne Champion, Philip Curtis, Diehl Kemper, et al. and friends of the court will do justice to the many blessings attributable to our use of these once unimaginable energy resources.
9feb18 Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?
Already viewed nearly 1-1/2 million times, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Princeton University Will Happer explains why the complexity of the atmosphere is the reason climate models haven't worked and will probably never work at predicting our planet's future climate. This is an easy to understand video – no college diploma required!
9feb18 Leasing Offshore Energy Drilling Benefits America
Under the current offshore energy program developed during the Obama years, 94% of the nation's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is off limits to leasing and drilling. Under the Draft Proposed Program (DPP) announced January 4 by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, over 90% of OCS acreage and 98% of "undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources" in these federal offshore areas (beyond the 3-mile limit of state waters) will be considered for possible future leasing, exploration and development.
2jan18 Global Warming: Fake News from the Start
The Objective of the [UN's] IPCC Was Political, Not Scientific
The political [global warming] agenda required "credibility" to accomplish the deception. It also required some fake news for momentum. Ideally, this would involve testimony from a scientist before a legislative committee. U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO) was fully committed to the political agenda and the deception. As he explained in a 1993 comment, "We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing.…"
10nov17 Renewable Energy by Royal Decree
The St. Louis city council has unanimously passed a resolution decreeing that by 2035 the city will somehow, almost magically be powered by 100% "clean, renewable" electricity. This will be achieved, city aldermen believe, via tougher energy efficiency measures and a transition to wind and solar power.
15oct17 The Obama EPA's Crooked Prosecutors – The agency's carbon dioxide climate "endangerment finding" was a kangaroo court process
Paul Dreissen
Suppose a crooked prosecutor framed someone and was determined to get a conviction. So he built an entire case on tainted, circumstantial evidence, and testimony from witnesses who had their reasons for wanting the guy in jail. Suppose the prosecutor ignored or hid exculpatory evidence and colluded with the judge to prevent the defendant from presenting a robust defense or cross-examining adverse witnesses. You know what would happen – at least in a fair and just society.
7aug17 MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen: Believing CO2 Controls
The Climate 'is pretty close to believing in magic'
"Believing this is pretty close to believing in magic. Instead, you are told that it is believing in 'science.' Such a claim should be a tip-off that something is amiss. After all, science is a mode of inquiry rather than a belief structure." "The accumulation of false and/or misleading claims is often referred to as the 'overwhelming evidence' for forthcoming catastrophe. Without these claims, one might legitimately ask whether there is any evidence at all."
5mar17 GIGO-Based Energy and Climate Policies
Things are never quiet on the climate front. After calling dangerous manmade climate change a hoax and vowing to withdraw the USA from the Paris agreement, President Trump has apparently removed language criticizing the Paris deal from a pending executive order initiating a rollback of anti-fossil-fuel regulations, to help jumpstart job creation. Meanwhile, EPA Administration Scott Pruitt says he expects quick action to rescind the Clean Power Plan, a central component of the Obama Era's war on coal and hydrocarbons.
5feb17 The Hidden Agendas of Sustainability Claptrap
Like "dangerous manmade climate change," sustainability reflects poor understanding of basic energy, economic, resource extraction and manufacturing principles – and a tendency to emphasize tautologies and theoretical models as an alternative to readily observable evidence in the Real World. It also involves well-intended but ill-informed people being led by ill-intended but well-informed activists who use the concept to gain greater government control over people's lives, livelihoods and living standards.
11oct16 Nobel Winner on Global Warming: 'Mr. President, You're Wrong';
"global warming basically is a non-problem. Just leave it alone"
"I think Obama is a clever person, but he gets bad advice. Global warming is all wet," Ivar Giaever said in a speech entitled Global Warming Revisited he gave on July 1 to scientists from 90 countries attending the 65th annual Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany.
8oct16 Experts Said Arctic Sea Ice Would
Melt Entirely by September 2016 – They Were Wrong
Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed there is far more now than in 2012... For the month of September overall, there was 31 per cent more ice than in 2012, figures released this week from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre show.
30sep16 South Australia Pays the Price for Heavy Reliance on
Renewable Energy as Entire State is Without Power
The extensive disruption follows the narrow avoidance of widespread blackouts in South Australia in July. At that time, the state government brought pressure to bear on a local power company for an idled power station to be restarted to avoid potential disruptions, following a lack of electricity generated from wind and solar sources at a time when it was unable to "import" sufficient supply from Victoria.
23sep16 Powering Countries, Empowering People – Affordable energy brings jobs, improved living standards and pursuit of happiness
Something most people in developed countries tend to forget is how essential electricity is in maintaining our infrastructure, homes, livelihoods and living standards … how many people around the world still do not have electricity … and how dramatically their lives are improved once they get reliable, affordable electricity – as much as they need, whenever they need it.
A Three-part series: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
23jul16 Science or Advocacy?
David R. Legates
As attacks on "climate cataclysm" skeptics intensify, and the Democratic Party Platform demands replacing half of our fossil fuels with wind, solar and biofuel energy by 2050 – to prevent alleged climate disasters – there is a growing need for real climate science in our schools and body politic. Unfortunately, just the opposite is happening. Schools are replacing science with ideology and advocacy.
7jun16 Bill Nye the Scientism Guy
Facts Don't Support His Hypothesis, So He Shouts Louder...
Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. István Markó
Climate scientism aggressively misrepresents facts, refuses to discuss energy and climate issues with anyone who points out massive flaws in the man-made climate chaos hypothesis, bullies anyone who won't condemn carbon dioxide, and brands them as equivalent to Holocaust Deniers.
17apr16 RICO for Government Climate Deniers?
Paul Driessen and Ron Arnold
A self-appointed coalition of Democratic state attorneys general is pursuing civil or criminal racketeering actions against ExxonMobil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other organizations. The AGs claim the groups are committing fraud by "denying" climate change. The charge is bogus. The problem is not human intervention in the climate; it's improper political intervention in climate science. It has corrupted scientific findings from the very beginning. [Note many cross-references and links]
10mar16 We Cannot Afford "Free" Wind and Solar Energy
"Ultimately Physics Dooms Both Wind and Solar"
Perhaps America's greatest investor in these technologies is Berkshire Hathaway guru Warren Buffett, who has already sunk at least $15 billion into them with "another $15 billion ready to go." At a meeting a couple of years ago he admitted "on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
7mar16 Last-ditch Assaults on Affordable Energy
Obama and Allies Double Down on Energy Fantasies
Separating reality from ideology and political agendas is difficult, but essential, if we are to revitalize our economy and help the world's poorest families take their rightful places among Earth's prosperous people. Energy reality is certainly in our favor. But ideological forces are powerful and persistent.
15feb16 Audubon Goes Over the Edge – The Society's Misleading Claims
About a Climate Crisis in the Arctic Must Be Corrected
The January–February 2016 issue of Audubon Magazine proclaims "Arctic on the Edge: As global warming opens our most critical bird habitat, the world is closing in." In reality, the magazine's writers and editors have gone over the edge, with wildly misleading "reports" on the Arctic. The magazine is awash in misstatements of fact and plain ignorance of history, science and culture.
4dec15 The Ethanol Mandate: Don't Mend It, End It
Nicolas Loris
Praised as a policy that would reduce dependence on oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires refineries to blend ethanol into gasoline, has been fraught with unintended consequences. The RFS mandates the use of an inefficient fuel, drives up food prices, and causes adverse environmental effects.
12sep15 Replacing the Environmental Protection Agency
Jay Lehr, Ph.D.
Beginning around 1981, liberal activist groups recognized EPA could be used to advance their political agenda by regulating virtually all human activities regardless of their impact on the environment... Since that time, not a single environmental law or regulation has been passed that benefited either the environment or society.
12may15 Wind Energy 'Myths' Are Spun by Lobbyists, Salesmen
Mary Kay Barton
[A May 2nd] letter in the Union-Sun & Journal by American Wind Energy Association representative Tom Vinson was typical of wind industry sales propaganda and deserves correction. The reality is: Industrial wind is a net loser, economically, environmentally, technically and civilly. Let's examine how...
10may15 The Iceman Cometh?
Could a Quiescent Sun Portend a New Little Ice Age?
Global cooling commanded extensive media attention in the mid-1970s. Then Earth started warming, and the environmentalist, media, political and regulatory classes began raising alarms... But what if Earth is about to enter another Little Ice Age? Al Gore, President Obama and other alarmists never want to talk about THAT.
10may15 It Is a Bad Time to Be In the Renewable Energy Industry
Marita Noon
2015 may go down in the books as the year support for renewable energy died – and we are only a few months in. Policy adjustments – whether for electricity generation or transportation fuels – are in the works on both the state and federal levels.
22mar15 Radical Environmentalism's Death Campaigns
The terms racism, white supremacy, crimes against humanity are bandied about so often that they have become almost meaningless... But what radical environmentalists are doing to Third World countries. By denying people access to abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, modern fertilizers and biotech seeds, and especially DDT to prevent malaria and other insect-borne diseases, they are killing millions every year.
4jan15 1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments
Against ACC/AGW Alarmism
This is a resource for skeptics not a list of skeptics. To provide a resource for peer-reviewed papers that support skeptic arguments against ACC/AGW or Alarmism and to prove that these papers exist contrary to claims otherwise:
30nov14 People Starting to Ask About Motive for Massive IPCC Deception
Dr.Tim Ball
Skeptics have done a reasonable job of explaining what and how the IPCC created bad climate science. Now, as more people understand what the skeptics are saying, the question that most skeptics have not, or do not want to address is being asked – why? What is the motive behind corrupting science to such an extent?
30nov14 Take Your Pick of Lies About Ozone, Methane or Mercury
Alan Caruba
Is it surprising that the EPA continues to tell big fat lies about anything it wants to ban, but is reluctant to show the "science" on which the bans are based? There is currently a piece of legislation under consideration by Congress, the Secret Science Reform Act, to force the EPA to disclose its scientific and technical information before proposing or finalizing any regulation.
22jun14 Fighting Executive Fiat on Climate
The Food and Drug Administration requires that companies seeking approvals of medical product meet high standards for the quality, integrity, and transparency of data... What if the same standards applied to government agencies regarding the scientists and institutions they hired or utilized? Their taxpayer-supported work affects virtually every American.
20apr14 23 Global Warming & Climate Change Stories
All Americans Should Read Before Earth Day
Kyle Becker
Whether or not one wants to promote the perfectly fine goal of fostering a better environment and leaving a cleaner planet for one's children, that should not be carried out on the basis of disinformation, hysteria, or hidden political agendas…If the green movement is about "science," then why are climate change activists against the challenging of their ideas?
13apr14 The Truth about Fracking
So what about that burning water?
Cheap, relatively clean, ayatollah-free energy, enormous investments in real capital and infrastructure, thousands of new jobs for blue-collar workers and Ph.D.s alike, Americans engineering something other than financial derivatives – who could not love all that?... The weird true thing is that water has been catching fire for a long time – "long time" here meaning way back into the mists of obscure prehistory and the realm of legend.
9mar14 The President's 2015 Budget: A Masterpiece of Energy Wastefulness
Institute for Energy Research
President Obama just released his fiscal 2015 budget... instead of keeping miners in their coal jobs that historically supplied the nation with most of its electricity, he is putting his dollars on 'clean coal and natural gas'; instead of opening more federal lands to oil and gas drilling, he is taking away standard tax deductions as applied to the oil industry and providing subsidies to inefficient technologies that supply just 2 percent of the nation's energy.
26jan14 John Beale's Deposition Reveals the EPA's Agenda:
Undermine Capitalism and America
Dan Kish responded to the revelation saying "In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps unwittingly, has laid bare the administration's end goal. The President's policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, and they are not even about energy and the environment. They are about fundamentally altering the DNA of the capitalist system. These policies are not about energy, but power."
29dec13 Associated Press Report
The Secret, Dirty Cost of Obama's Green Power Push
Report Indicts Obama, the EPA, DOE and Dept. of Agriculture
The government's predictions of [ethanol's] benefits have proven so inaccurate that independent scientists question whether it will ever achieve its central environmental goal: reducing greenhouse gases. That makes the hidden costs even more significant. "This is an ecological disaster," said Craig Cox with the Environmental Working Group, a natural ally of the president that, like others, now finds itself at odds with the White House.
Next Generation of Biofuels a "bridge to nowhere"
Ethanol from corn has proven far more damaging to the environment than the government predicted, and cellulosic fuel hasn't emerged as a replacement. "A lot of people were willing to go with corn ethanol because it's a bridge product," said Silvia Secchi, an agricultural economist at Southern Illinois University. But until significant cellulosic fuel materializes, she said, "It's a bridge to nowhere."
24mar13 Wind Turbines Kill Up To 39 Million Birds a Year!
Jim Wiegand
Since the early 1980s, the industry has known there is no way its propeller-style turbines could ever be safe for raptors. With exposed blade tips spinning in open space at speeds up to 200 mph, it was impossible. Wind developers also knew they would have a public relations nightmare if people ever learned how many eagles are actually being cut in half – or left with a smashed wing, to stumble around for days before dying.
28oct12 Energy Is Everywhere
Kenneth P. Green
Nearly half of what people pay for energy comes 'embodied' in the various goods and services that they use, and about half of that comes down to two things: food and health care. "There is no substitute for energy. The whole edifice of modern society is built upon it ... It is not "just another commodity" but the precondition of all commodities, a basic factor equal with air, water, and earth." —E. F. Schumacher, 1973
9sep12 Are wind farms saving or killing us? A provocative investigation claims thousands of people are falling sick because they live near them
"If this were the nuclear industry, this is a scandal which would be on the front pages of every newspaper every day for months on end," says Chris Heaton-Harris, the Conservative MP for Daventry who has been leading the parliamentary revolt against wind farms, demanding that their subsidies be cut. "But because it's wind it has been let off the hook. It shouldn't be."
19aug12 Wind Energy's Bird and Bat Butchery
Supposedly "eco-friendly" wind turbines are sending some of America's most important and majestic sovereigns of our skies to the edge of extinction: eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, whooping cranes, condors, herons, egrets, snow geese, bats that protect crops by eating insects, and many more.
26dec11 EPA Mercury Rules for Electricity Generating Units:
Imaginary Benefits, Extensive Harm
Craig Rucker
In Dr. Willie Soon's 85-page critique of EPA's draft rules, U.S. power plants account for only 0.5% of the mercury in U.S. air. Thus, even if EPA's new rules eventually do eliminate 90% of mercury from power plant emission streams, that's still only 90% of 0.5% – ie, almost zero benefit. The rest of the mercury in US air comes from natural and foreign sources, such as forest fires, Chinese power plants and the cremation of human remains.
18dec11 Green Technology that Pollutes the Planet
Amy Oliver and Michael Sandoval
While alternative vehicle owners, solar panel supporters, and wind turbine advocates may feel better about themselves, they're actually polluting the planet with their "clean/green" technology. Advancing these policies is beyond irresponsible, especially when the foundation of the "clean" scheme is revealed. This green hypocrisy has Mother Nature crying out for a separation of earth and state.
17dec11 When Scientists Discover Their Conclusions Are Wrong …
A J Strata
What happens when the underpinning claims of a scientific theory are proven wrong? Under the tried, true and ancient scientific method that framed the work of Newton, Einstein and uncounted others the proposed theory is deemed disproved and the scientists making the claim have to go back to the drawing board. The theory is rejected.
28oct11 Let Them Eat Windmills
Mario Loyola
The "alternative energy" movement has an enormous obstacle to contend with, namely that none of the alternative energy sources produce nearly as much energy, nearly as reliably, nearly as cheaply, as fossil fuels. Sources such as wind and solar are inherently intermittent and unpredictable, even when they are found in high enough density that it is economical to use them, which is virtually never.
2oct11 The EPA Gets Caught in a Big Fat Lie
The notion that the Environmental Protection Agency uses "science" to justify their regulations is false, just like most of the claims they issue on various aspects of the nation's environment. Their favorite scam is to estimate the number of deaths they will prevent with some new draconian regulation.
30sep11 'Green' Wind Power's Toxic Waste Legacy
Windy Scandinavia has hit this unanticipated hurdle because a key material in constructing wind turbines, carbon fiber composite, cannot be recycled and is fast filling landfills or else is being burned creating toxic emissions. The report admits, "a gigantic mountain of scrap blades is building up."
11sep11 The Slow, Certain Death of the Global Warming Theory
Universities across America have entire departments and units devoted to keeping the global warming fraud alive. The mainstream press is heavily invested in it. Schools continue to frighten children with its claims. All this and other efforts will fail because science-real science-does not support it.
29jul11 Government Funding Skews Climate Science
Forbes – Larry Bell
Who pays for all this bad science, and worse, news? We do, of course. And it doesn't come cheap. According to data compiled by Joanne Nova at the Science and Public Policy Institute, the U.S. Government spent more than $32.5 billion on climate studies between 1989 and 2009.
6jul11 UN Confesses Going 'Green' Would Cost $76 TRILLION!
Many Changes Have NOTING To Do With the Climate!
Dan Gainor
The press release for the report discusses the need "to achieve a decent living standard for people in developing countries, especially the 1.4 billion still living in extreme poverty, and the additional 2 billion people expected worldwide by 2050."...[E]radicating hunger and overcoming poverty are now part of the climate debate.
16jun11 The Myth of Killer Mercury
Paul Dreissen and Willie Soon
This vitally important commentary highlights some of the many ways EPA's new rules for mercury and other pollutants from coal-fired power plants are arbitrary, unnecessary, and based on cherry-picked and manipulated health and environmental data. The simple reality is that no American is remotely at risk from power plant mercury emissions.
13jun11 Is this the Ultimate FAIL?
Europe is Quickly Learning that Turbines Are Hazardous Waste!
Windy Scandinavia has hit this unanticipated hurdle because a key material in constructing wind turbines, carbon fiber composite, cannot be recycled and is fast filling landfills or else is being burned creating toxic emissions.
29apr11 Wind Farms in UK Operate Well Below Claimed Efficiency
The report, supported by conservation charity The John Muir Trust, said assertions about the ability of wind farms must be challenged. It concluded turbines "cannot be relied upon" to produce significant levels of power generation. 28-page PDF Report
9feb11 The Climes They Are A-Changin'
Many of our impressions of current extreme weather conditions have to do with the fact that 1) they're fresh in our memories; 2) we have better communications and 3) higher population densities than in times past.
1feb11 The Reality of a Green World
Tom DeWeese
After fighting the radical environmental movement for more than 20 years, I have come to one basic conclusion: the people who understand and care for the environment the least are environmentalists.
23oct10 Stopping A Global Killer – Malaria
It begins with a bite, a painless bite. The mosquito comes in the night, alights on an exposed patch of flesh, and assumes the hunched, head-lowered posture of a sprinter in the starting blocks. Then she plunges her stiletto mouthparts into the skin.
10oct10 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life'
—Open letter of resignation from Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.
Read the full letter and vitae of Professor Lewis.
5oct10 Climate Change Data Control; The Enemy Within
There are serious concerns about data quality. The US spends more than others on weather stations, yet their condition and reliability is simply atrocious. Anthony Watts has documented the condition of US weather stations; it is one of governments failures.
5oct10 To Spray or Not To Spray
Rolf Penner
Mosquitoes are as common to the Winnipeg experience as the wind chill in January and the blazing prairie heat radiating off the concrete in August. In all three cases, technology has been our ally by making life far more pleasant than it ever was for people who originally settled here.
29aug10 Progressives Against Progress
If one were to pick a point at which liberalism's extraordinary reversal began, it might be the celebration of the first Earth Day, in April 1970... The event brought together disparate conservationist, anti-nuclear, and back-to-the-land groups into what became the church of environmentalism, complete with warnings of hellfire and damnation.
25jul10 A Necessary Apocalypse
J.R. Dunn
The apocalyptic vision of global warming serves a deep need of the environmentalist credo, the dominant pseudo-religious tendency of our age in the prosperous West.
14jun10 Renewable Energy: There Ain't No Free Lunch
Prof. Chris Kobus, Ph.D.
When confronted with the revelation that systems need to be built to harness "free" energy, many people are perplexed as it is not something they have thought about. The reason, I suspect, is that the liberal media has dumbed down the science and inserted environmental propaganda in its place.
2jun10 NASA Gagging Policy: Scientist Quits over Controversy
Top Physicist: Greenhouse Gas Theory 'Bogus'
Confirmation of the gagging policy comes from ex-NASA high-flier, Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, who upset his former employers with the 2007 publication of his paper, 'Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary atmospheres,' in the Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service.
6mar10 Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy?
Patrick Wood
Sustainable consumption? Reconfiguring businesses, infrastructure and institutions? What do these words mean? They do not mean merely reshuffling the existing order, but rather replacing it with a completely new economic system, one that has never before been seen or used in the history of the world.
5mar10 Climategate: The Money Trail
The big-money side of this debate has fostered a myth that skeptics write what they write because they are funded by oil profits. They say, follow the money? So I did and it's chilling. Greens and environmentalists need to be aware each time they smear with an ad hominem attack they are unwittingly helping giant finance houses.
2mar10 All the Details Needed to Sound the Alarm
Against Sustainable Development
Today, those who are taking to the streets in TEA Party protests are focusing on federal issues like taxes and health care. They must learn that they can never restore the Republic if their local community is a little soviet.
1mar10 How They Distort Global Temperatures:
The Urban Heat Island Effect
How much do calculations of global temperatures represent the real temperature of the Earth? Every day new stories appear about temperature records with errors or deliberate omissions. An important part of the debate is something called the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE).
26feb10 The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory;
How NASA Distorts the Truth About Our Atmosphere
Alan Siddons
An idea has been drummed into our heads for decades: that roughly 1% of the atmosphere's content is responsible for shifting the earth's surface temperature from inimical to benign. This conjecture has mistakenly focused on specifically light-absorbing gases, however, ignoring heat-absorbing gases altogether.
19feb10 Climategate: The Big Picture
Charlie Martin
It's been less than three months since the Climategate files were first revealed to the world, and an amazing lot has happened – so much that I think it's worth bringing things together in one place.
3jan10 It Didn't Start with Climategate
John Hinderaker
The Kyoto protocol was based on fictitious science, exaggerated or fabricated outright for political purposes. The same Professor Santer who hijacked the Second Assessment Report figures prominently in Climategate. Fraud: it is the one constant in the history of the global warming hysteria movement.
25dec09 The Climate Change Scam: A Concise Summary
In the wake of Climategate, common sense deniers [neo-deniers] like to say that there is lots of other evidence for global warming, in addition to that which has been debunked by the East Anglia whistleblower. Actually, however, the scientific evidence for AGW [man-made global warming] is remarkably weak.
21nov09 Hacked Computer Files of the Climatic Research Unit
Reveal Global Warming a Deliberate Fraud
The IPCC Reports and especially the SPM Reports are the basis for Kyoto and the Copenhagen Accord, but now we know they are based on completely falsified and manipulated data and science. It is no longer a suspicion. Surely this is the death knell for the CRU, the IPCC, Kyoto and Copenhagen and the Carbon Credits shell game.
8nov09 Energy ABCs: Playing Americans for Fools
Astonishingly, other oil producing nations whose reserves are ranked behind the U.S. are Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, and Canada. The only oil "shortage" in the U.S. is one created by Congress and the energy policies of a succession of past presidents. An estimated 87% of our oil reserves remain untouched.
1aug09 Peer Reviewed Study: Virtually all changes in global atmospheric temperatures the result of nature rather than human activity
Climate scientist Chris de Freitas described the data as established, reproducible, and "out in the open." The scientists' finding flies in the face of the assertion by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in a series of reports, that "global warming" is occurring, is primarily the result of human activity, and requires urgent action.
3may09 Global Warming Alarmists Out In Cold
It's snowing in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever. Time's up for this absurd scaremongering. The fears are being contradicted by the facts, and more so by the week. Doubt it? Then here's a test.
28mar09 Complete Links to:
The second International Conference on Climate Change concluded its 2-1/2 -day run March 10, 2009 in New York City after confronting the theme "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?" The answer was a resounding "No."
1mar09 The High Price of Climate Lies
The global warming hoax didn't happen over night. It is generally dated from an appearance before Congress by Dr. James E. Hansen in 1988 predicting a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature based on the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
21mar08 'Medieval Environmentalists' attack CO2
in their efforts to Derail Civilization
Dr. Tim Ball & Tom Harris
Aside from forecasts of still primitive computer models, modern climatological research consistently shows that there is no scientific justification for the CO2/climate hysteria that has so gripped mass media and politicians.
21mar08 Environmental Extremism must be put
in its place in the Climate Debate
Many people are starting to realize that much of what they've been told about climate change by governments, the United Nations and crusading celebrities is simply wrong.
2sep07 The Year the Global Warming Hoax Died
There will be dying gasps to this hoax, not the least of which is a planned $100 million media blitz by Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, but the public is already far more concerned about instability in the Middle East, the forthcoming national elections, and shocks to the U.S. economy to accord such an effort much credibility.
26mar06 Ice Cores Show Sun, Not Humans,
Controlling Earth's Climate
Dennis T. Avery
Man's climate impacts are puny compared to the million-degree heat of the sun. There's no evidence that human-emitted CO2 has added much to the current temperatures.
12mar06 Endless Environmental Lies
The lies the environmental movement has put forth over the last few decades can and does fill entire libraries. They have been aided and abetted by the mainstream media that knows that scary news sells newspapers and attracts viewers and listeners.
22may05 Double Standards On Disease Control
Last year, malaria sent more African children to shallow graves than any other infectious disease – three times as many as HIV/AIDS, according to UNICEF. Year after year, this silent, vicious executioner infects 400 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
2apr05 The Big Business of Climate Change Research
Dr. Roy W. Spencer
A new report released today by the Marshall Institute, a Washington-based science policy group, looks at the major donors to environmental groups for climate-related activities. It finds that the vast majority of those donors represent and promote left-leaning causes.
14dec04 There Is NO Man-Made Global Warming
Americans aren't being told that a 1997 Gallop Poll of prominent North American climatologists showed that 83 percent of them disagreed with the man-made global warming theory.
6aug04 'Sustainable Development' is the Evil You Face
Sustainable Development is the 'ruling principle' for the implementation of what former Vice President Al Gore said we must all suffer through in order to purify our nation from the horrors of the Twentieth Century's industrial revolution.
31jul04 Sustainable Development 101
American Policy Center
Since the concept of 'sustainability' was first defined in the 1987 report by Gro Harlem Brundtland (VP of the World Socialist Party), it has swelled into a tidal wave that is washing across the world and has now crashed onto American shores and will soon inundate every American Community.
30apr04 DDT vs. Death by Malaria
Robert J. Cihak, M.D.
That DDT prevented 500 million deaths by 1970 and that the banning of its use in poor countries has resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths holds no sway with true believers in this doctrine. Where did this myth originate?
22feb04 The Emperor's New Climate:
Is Global Warming Real?
Duncan Maxwell Anderson
Scientists have created a global-warming paradigm for themselves that benefits them – as a cause and as a livelihood. They won't easily be dissuaded from it.
11jan04 The Endangered Species Act Deserves Extinction
Here's something that will surprise you. Originally adopted in 1973, the Endangered Species Act expired October 1, 1992! It continues only because Congress continues to fund it.
21nov03 The Real Poision is Dishonesty
Jay Ambrose
When South Africa used DDT widely, malaria cases dropped to 6,000. Five years after it switched to other techniques, the number had climbed to 60,000.
12aug03 Summer Heat
Kim Weissman
Beyond the hyperbole of calling global warming a weapon of mass destruction, let's look a bit closer at ... claims that 'The 1990s were probably the warmest decade in the last 1,000 years…'
10jun03 Revisiting the Global Warming Hoax
Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the UN's' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change do not agree that global warming is occurring.
16may03 The Real Epidemic: West Nile Fever
The EPA has stripped Americans of many of the pesticides that formerly protected them against a vast range of insect pests that spread disease or inflict millions of dollars of property damage.
14may03 Has EPA been promoting
one big secondhand smoke screen?
Joseph Perkins
One study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that nonsmokers have no increased risk of lung cancer as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood, in the workplace or from living with a pack-a-day smoker for as many as 40 years.
14may03 Judge Smokes Out Tobacco Lie
"EPA publicly committed to a conclusion before the research had begun; adjusted established procedure and scientific norms to validate its conclusion, and aggressively utilized its authority to disseminate findings to establish a de facto regulatory scheme to influence public opinion." –Judge William Osteen
27apr03 Deploy DDT To Fight Malaria
Angela Logomasini
"In the 1940s many people were deliberately exposed to high concentrations of DDT through dusting programs or impregnation of clothes, without any apparent ill effect."
–A.G. Smith of the scientific journal Lancet
5mar03 Time to Throw Out 'Myth' of Recycling
Throw away the green and blue bags and forget those trips to return bottles – recycling household waste is a load of, well, rubbish, say leading environmentalists and waste campaigners.
28dec02 Debunking Modern Climate Myths
Is global climate warming? If so, what part of that warming is due to human activities? How good is the evidence? What are the risks? – 14 Fallacies
2oct02 100 Things You Should Know about DDT
J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy
"To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT... In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable." – National Academy of Sciences, 1970
28sep02 Healthy Forests and Wise Management
Senator Jon Kyl
If we are really concerned about greenhouse gases, just stop and think, all of the emissions from all of the cars in the United States did not equal 1 day's worth of emissions from this one [Rodeo] fire.
1sep02 Science for Sale: The Global Warming Scam
Accuracy in Media
The dirty secret is that global warming is driven more by the search for funding than the search for scientific truth. "Big science" was adrift in the early 1990s, like many other beneficiaries of the Cold War, and was desperate to sustain its federal funding. Global warming had all the key attributes of the next big cause.
30aug02 The Conservative Crisis
Conservatives would never concede their liberty to Swastikas or Hammer and Sickles, but tuck it in a Green blanket called "environmental protection" and they will toss those liberties on the fire like an old-fashioned book burning.
8aug02 Environmentalism Kills: West Nile Fever Spreads
...behind closed doors, the American Mosquito Control Association fears this nation will lose virtually all of the insecticides still available to defend people against the new plague of West Nile Fever and the return of Malaria to the US.
26jul02 The Green Plan for Global Domination
Up to now no Green has so boldly stated the true intention of the movement. However, the presentation of 'Restructuring the Global Economy' was a rare occasion when deliberate deception was not used to mask the Green's true intentions.
10jun02 Climate Action Report
Dr. Sallie Baliunas, (Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Deputy Director, Mount Wilson Observatory) points out that between President Bush's proper rejection of the Kyoto Protocol a year ago and the EPA's new climate report, "in the interim there has been no new science to cause the shift in viewpoint".
6jun02 The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming:
What Does Science Say?
Sallie Baliunas – astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and deputy directory of Mount Wilson Observatory
Whereas the economic catastrophe that would occur as a result of implementing the Kyoto Protocol is a certainty, the likelihood of an environmental catastrophe resulting from a failure to implement Kyoto is extremely speculative.
1apr02 Energy Footprints
While the denizens of Washington and New York bask in their alternate energy, it won't be their countryside that is dominated by mile after mile of solar stations and wind farms; and it won't be large swaths of their fertile farmland that is seized by eminent domain to plant thousands of transmission towers and tens of thousands of miles of power lines.
24mar02 The "Complete" Green Matrix
Diane Alden
The citizens of the United States need to decide whether to take the red pill or the blue pill, because the "green cure" may not be to their liking.
4mar02 The Terrorists You Don't Hear About
This group was responsible for an attack that resulted in a $5.3 million loss in 2001... the third most destructive only to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and only one of 137 acts for which it claimed credit.
4mar02 Are Humans Using Up Too Much Sun?
Follow me closely now because you will learn why virtually everything any environmentalist or ecologist tells you is the biggest pack of lies you have heard since your husband told you you're not getting fat or your wife told you she doesn't care you're going bald.
7feb02 The Cruelty In Klamath
The cruelty perpetrated against some 1400 farm families in the Klamath Basin of Oregon was not simply a piece of bureaucratic bungling of the Bureau of Land Management. Hidden from public view was the dark hand of the United Nations' Environmental Program.
23jan02 Anti-Christ Of The Green Religion
A former member of Greenpeace, has been branded a traitor by the international environmental movement. His crime? He debunked almost all of its claims about the earth's perilous state. Now he is a marked man.
9jan02 Environmental Corruption:
A Cascade of Lies
The cascade of lies about everything environmental should, by now, have convinced the public that US government officials responsible for setting national policies and environmental groups seeking to determine what those policies should be cannot be trusted.
4jan02 Just How Crazy Are They?
In addition to the Islamic militants among us, we have a cadre of terrorists who need to be hunted and jailed before they become further emboldened to harm our lives and our nation.
1jan02 Desperately Trying to Scare You in 2002
The Earth is about 5.4 billion years old. It is, for all intents and purposes, an extraordinary self-regulating mechanism.
22oct01 The EcoTerrorist Anthrax Connection
Most ecoterrorist activity seems to revolve around one group, Earth First! It was founded in 1979 by Dave Foreman who now serves on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club.
8oct01 Toad-Throwing and Klamath Valley
Vin Suprynowicz
Congress was duped in 1973 into passing the Endangered Species Act by assurances it would be used primarily to make sure the continent's last grizzly bear, last bison, or last bald eagle wasn't shot as a pest and sold for dog food.
7oct01 America's Fifth Column in the New Century
Most Americans are blind to just how deep the anti-American, pro-communist agenda runs throughout the "environmental" movement. The Greens used the 9/11 terror attacks as an opportunity condemn capitalism and the American economic success.
21sep01 The Green Taliban of America
Until Americans understand how Greens really think, they will never understand that they are united against everything that has made America great. They oppose our economic system and they oppose virtually every aspect of the lifestyle it provides.
7sep01 PETA, Sharks, and A Cure for Cancer
"I keep waiting for some public outrage that will ultimately expose PETA as vicious enemies of the human race, but it never seems to come."
7aug01 When the Eagles Return
The fact is that the mighty green machine has been taking no prisoners for nearly two decades. That machine, as I have said countless times before, is composed of the federal government, the environmental movement and the major foundations.
3aug01 Big Oil, Caribou, and Greed – The debate over ANWR
Sure, it's possible to think this spot is beautiful. But the truth is that the beauty of the coastal plain isn't really in the eye of the beholder, it's in the imagination of the angst-ridden liberals who have never beheld the thing and never will.
1aug01 Kyoto: a global tax on American prosperity
From the beginning it has been clear that the particular mechanisms of the Kyoto Treaty were not designed to alter the global climate in any meaningful way (even if that were possible), but was rather a manifestation of the hatred of economic progress in general, and American prosperity in particular.
23jul01 "Mommy says I can't eat, but fish can."
"…the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions, possibly billions, of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species:
Homo sapiens... us." — VHEMT
13jul01 Shark vs. Boy
It is time, however, to get to the heart of the matter between the Greens and the rest of us: They do not much like human beings, and they care little about how much pain their policies bring to them.
13jun01 Kyoto Nonsense
Neal Boortz
Remember – it's not so much what the media tells you. It's also about what the media doesn't tell you. The environmental movement has become home to the old communist and socialist movements once left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
28may01 The Myth of Alternative Energy
As environmentalists roam up and down the country opposing every power plant in sight and insisting we can live in a world run on "renewable resources," they are almost invariably quoting Amory Lovins, an obscure genius who is also a bit of a crackpot.
26may01 A New Terrorism Comes Of Age
Eco-terrorists and animal rights terrorists are no longer just a small bunch of "loonies", but rather an increasingly well organized and funded group of organizations.
19may01 Court Ties Economic Impact to Endangered Species Areas
A U.S. appellate court has determined that when the Fish and Wildlife Service designates critical habitat for an endangered species, it must analyze and consider the full economic impact on the area in which the habitat is located.
9may01 For The Record
ANWAR — a little perspective from an Alaskan citizen
6may01 Above The Law
Kim Weissman unearths the tangled trail of the arsenic in the water "crisis" and reveals the contempt shown for the law by the EPA, Clinton, and Carol Browner and the efforts by the Landmark Legal Foundation to find the truth.
26apr01 Poisoned Water
The environmental movement has crossed the line from intelligent and reasoned conservation and pollution control, into outright fanaticism with an utter disregard for the human losses or financial costs that their agenda imposes.
19apr01 Who Needs Earth Day?
Those who need this kind of celebration actually need to be re-tested, or to get therapy, or both. Neither their words delivered from a podium, nor their antics delivered to the media, can help or hinder the planet.
8apr01 Vehement Environmentalism
All the elderly investors who just saw a significant portion of their retirement nest egg go up in environmentalist smoke can go whine to the local democrat congressman they helped put in office.
4apr01 Arsenic and Old Logic
Mona Charen
According to the EPA, reducing arsenic levels to 10 parts per billion will save 28 statistical lives per year. We should measure these things rationally and not lose our heads over every toxin that lurks in the muck.
3apr01 The Truth about Kyoto: Do the Math
Patrick J. Michaels
"Do the math. Kyoto was a bad deal, whether or not you care about global warming. And it's a good deal that finally there is a world leader with the courage to tell the truth."
25mar01 What Energy Crisis?
You want to see some of the dirtiest, most contaminated places on earth? Visit the former Soviet Union or communist China, where environmental destruction is the legacy of socialist central planning.
10mar01 We Thought The Eco-Nuts Lost!
The whole notion of a scientific consensus [on global warming] has been contrived to disguise the genuine disagreement among scientists on a number of different issues. ..To think that hundreds of scientists could be in full agreement in dozens of separate disciplines is ridiculous.
28jan01 Driving Them Off the Land – Eviction of Western Ranchers 'Amounts to a War of Religions'
Did the Founding Fathers really intend for the federal government to permanently own 87% of Nevada ... 68% of Utah ... 50% of the land mass of California ... for as long as the sun shall shine?
28jan01 The Biggest Liars On Earth:
The UN's Global Warming Panel
Let's understand something. The members of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are not scientists ... they are bureaucrats.
14jan01 The State-Established Religion
of Environmentalism
Nevada's Department of Wildlife is purposefully excluding scientific reports that counter their "muddle-headed" plans to protect predators such as coyote and raven.
1jan01 Paying The Piper – The Hidden Costs Of Environmentalism
It seems like a cold hard bite of reality is leaving a bitter taste in many global conservationists' mouths.
23dec00 Did a Global Cooling Usher in the Dark Ages?
S. Fred Singer
As much of the nation shivers under an early and harsh winter, history's lesson is plain to see: We should be fearing a colder climate not a warmer one.
19aug00 Destroyer of Worlds
No matter what term is in vogue at the time, it is still a pagan utopian dream rooted in the worship of nature, its roots planted deep in early human history.
12aug00 Banning DDT is Eco-Colonialism
As the United Nations pushes a global ban on DDT, developing countries resist the loss of this most effective weapon against malaria.
16jul00 Federal Suit is Act 1 in Theater of the Absurd
"United States of America, Plaintiff, vs. One Ford Tractor, et al, Defendant(s)" marks one of the most bizarre episodes in modern environmentalism.
16jun00 EPA's Way of Pulling the Pesticide Plug
The EPA's action against Dursban is primarily an exercise in convenient ethics coupled with the arbitrariness of safety factors to fulfill the intellectually and morally bankrupt anti-pesticide agenda.
19may00 Extremists Want Millions More Acres Fenced Off
Radical environmentalists want to redefine the meaning of "wilderness" while they still control the Clinton/Gore administration
19apr00 Book has the Audacity to Question the Premise Upon Which the Federal EPA has Built its Ever-Growing Power
By unearthing fascinating records from the first 70 years of this century, author shows convincingly that America was cleaning up its environment
just as fast before EPA came along as afterwards
5mar00 It Must Be Our Fault
While domestic oil reserves sit idle within the United States, we import massive amounts of the oil we use from overseas.
12dec99 Ecological Confabulation
How The Media Create Consensus With Lies
12oct99 Carbon Dioxide Not a Devilish Pollutant
10-year old prediction in House testimony upheld --
doomsayers and their computer models debunked
6oct99 Environmental Death
One would have to conclude that the ultimate goal of eco-radicals is to cause as much human misery, injury, and yes, even death, as possible.
6oct99 The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
9sep99 Why Greens Should Love Pesticides
9jul99 Global Warming's Dirty Secret
"Arrogantly dismissive of facts when they get in the way of theories"
The Myth of Scientific Consensus
on Global Warming
It Isn't Easy Being Green
Damn Statistics
Journalists' Green Hysteria
Ban of Dihydrogen Monoxide
Globaloney
Five Reasons Why The Science of Global Warming Is Nonsense
Heartland Institute
The Junk Science Home Page
MasterResource
A free-market energy blog
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
Science and Public Policy Institute
Energy Tribune
North American Platform Against Windpower (NA-PAW)
Truth About the Great Wind Power Fraud
CWIF
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I was brought in as an Art Director by McGraw-Hill Professional to help revitalize their directory design. My solution reinstated their famous logo designed by the modernist pioneer Ladislav Sutnar in 1939 as the keystone of the visual identity.
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Hiking in the Holy Land
One of my highlights during April was hiking in the West Bank. A group of hikers was trekking the Nativity Trail from Nazareth to Bethlehem and I joined them for a day, beginning at the Huwara Checkpoint at Nablus to the hilltop village of Duma just a little North-east of Ramallah. It was about 20 kilometers of fairly easy hiking. The was even a 72 year-old woman in the group who kept up fairly well with the group.
En-route we passed through several villages and saw some beautiful vistas to the east, all the way to the the mountains of Jordan. The terrain was hilly with only a few steep slopes. We carried light day-packs and plenty of water, and had lunch at a shepherd's hut perched on the side of a hill.
Hiking the Holy Land is a wonderful way to get a feel for the country, its people, and the pastoral lifestyle that many of them still live. The guides are knowledgeable and there is an opportunity meet many kinds of people from all walks of life. In addition to exploring the countryside there is also an overnight stay in Nablus and a tour of the Old City.
Despite the Occupation many Palestinians still live in isolated communities that have seen the coming and going of many conquerers who leave ripples in their wake, but have not disturbed the generational traditions of the people who live on the land. If you are visiting the country on a biblical tour, heritage tour, or just coming to visit, consider hiking in Palestine to get some fresh air, incredible views, and meet the people of the land. The 11-day treks include overnight says with village families and Bedouin. See you on the trail . . . .

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This Saturday, July 11th is Bison Day at Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve in Westfield Iowa, about 15 miles north of Sioux City and all ages, including preschoolers, are welcome. Bison Day is totally free to attend, and events will include seeing live bison, bald eagles, and other raptors, as well as face painting, cooking and firefighting demonstrations, a scavenger hunt, and other fun activities for kids. Water and lemonade will be provided, but visitors are encouraged to bring their own food for snacks or lunch. The event runs from 9am to 3pm and visitors can come any time to stay for as little or as long as they'd like within those times. Hayrides to go see the bison will be at scheduled times throughout the day and visitors can sign up for a time after arriving at the preserve, and the bald eagles should be viewable from noon to 3pm. the Nature Conservancy owns and operates the preserve and runs the Bison Day event.


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Beau Waters – West Coast Eagles
Beau Waters is the vice-captain of the West Coast Eagles. After an extended absence due to injury he returned last year (2010) and had a great season, leading the team in marks and loose-ball gets and was third in the best and fairest. He was drafted in 2003 and in 2004 he was a NAB AFL Rising Star Nominee and was part of the premiership side in 2006.
Beau Waters answers the Fast Four
What is the first book you remember reading?
Paul Jennings-Misery Guts
Is there a book you think everyone should read and why?
To kill a Mockingbird- A terrific insight into equality and values and puts modern era problems into perspective.
The life of Pi- A fun book about how to put a positive on any situation, creative thinking but a scary thought to be stuck on a boat with a tiger!!
Has there been a character you really liked and why?
Again Atticus Finch, he has patience and great virtue. He always shows respect and is a terrific role model.
Where is your favourite place to read?
I'm a big reader before I go to sleep, it clears my mind and relaxes me.
Beau Waters
Graceling
By: Kristin Cashore
Katsa lives in a world where gifted people are recognised by the two different colours of their eyes. These people are called Graced and they are both feared and exploited. Katsa is one of the 'graced' but her's is a graace she despises for her's is a grace of killing. This gifting means she is feared and an outcast, she has very few friends. Katsa knows she is a tool for her king and does his will, sometimes with great reluctance. She is defiant in her own way when she can be and is thankful for the existence of the secret Council, and their backing.
When on a secret rescue mission Katsa comes across a mystery she becomes determined to solve. This takes her further than she thought and as she continues to dig deeper into the intrigue she uncovers a terrible darkness originating from the kingdom of the One-eyed King. Some things turn from being a mystery to solve to a battle to survive and save the life of a young girl in the process. Katsa does what she believes she must and in the process discovers her grace is not what she always thought it was and that maybe someone could love her for who she is.
Cashore has penned a wonderful and detailed story. A technicolour world populated with amazing characters. The packaging surrounds an intriguing adventure woven through with a romance made all the more complicated by the situation the characters find themselves in. Katsa is a great character and is accompanied by other interesting and well developed companions. This story hooked me in and kept me reading eagerly till the last page.
This is not always considered a YA novel, sectioned often in the SF section of a store but in the US it is marketed that way and certainly the age of Katsa means it fits there quite well.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Kristin Cashore
The Red Trailer Mystery
By: Julie Campbell
Trixie Belden Series bk 2
Jim Frayne has just inherited half a million dollars but he doesn't know about the money because he has run away again, hoping to avoid his step-father. Trixie and Honey are off on his trail. They want to find him to tell him the good news and offer him a proper family.
No matter that she already has one mystery to solve, Trixie has a way with just attracting more. She knows something isn't right when they meet up with another family traveling in a luxury trailer like them, she just doesn't know what. Then the daughter Jo goes missing and they find out the trailer The Robin, has been stolen. Trixie is determined to figure out what is really going on. Now Trixie and Honey are looking for two missing people, but it may not be as difficult as it seems.
These books are, of course, a little dated but values and descriptions like that aside the stories hold up alright. The characters complement each other and balance the story out. Trixie and Honey are both passionate and fun, with Honey being the gentler personality toning Trixie's wilder impulses. Jim brings a maturity to the group. With so many things to figure out the Trixie Belden books were, and I think still are, fun adventure stories.
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Categories: Crime
Fiction 8-12, Old Favourites
Trixie Belden
By: Lili St Crow
Strange Angels bk 4
Dru is back and really pissed. Graves is still missing and Dru is done with playing nice, listening and doing what she is told. She is sick of the lies, of being sheltered and of the fact no-one seems to know where Graves is or even really looking for him. Finally she is let out on a hunt as bait but when it goes wrong the Order decide it's not wise to allow that again, she is too valuable to them.
Thankfully the wulfen are around, and she has brief moments of freedom when they allow her to run with them.
She hopes Graves won't be too damaged by the time they find him, and holds on to the hope that the broken Ash can be restored. Even with Anna gone Dru can still be reached by her enemies in the Schola Prima and it is all starting to take a toll. When certain information comes her way she finds she has reached her limit. She heads out on her own terms, if the Order want her they will have to keep up. Is Dru strong enough to face Sergij, save Graves and survive? And will she ever bloom?
The lastest in the Strange Angels series and (spoiler alert) sadly Graves isn't in most of it. However it must be said that other characters step up to the plate and nicely fill the gap. Dru's relationships with the other wulfen are a nice counter to her strained relationships with the djamphir. Even though there is no Anna at the Schola there is still plenty of plotting and intrigue. The layers are well developed and the traitor is not instantly recognisable (or at least wasn't to me). In some ways where the story has been left feels like a beginning and in some ways close to an end. All of which left me wondering where she is going to take it next. The only thing that bugged was the mention of a random character that sounded too familiar too me and jolted me right out of the story (a Cajun named Remy who throws cards).
Publisher: Razorbill
Categories: Fiction Horror & Ghost Fantasy
By Lili St Crow
Dru is part of the real world, a place where monsters exist and will quite happily rip her to pieces. But when you are going to grow into something incredibly deadly to those monsters, their thinking makes perfect sense. Dru didn't ask for any of this though She didn't want to be taken to a reform Schola or then transferred to the Schola Prima – the central djamphir training facility and home to the Order.
Graves and Christophe would like to take each other apart and balancing them and the other wulfen and djamphirs isn't always that simple. Now Dru's training also begins in earnest, which is good because 400 year old Sergej is hungry for her blood and won't stop until it no longer pumps through her veins. To complicate matters even further Dru finally meets the other Svetocha, Anna. Anna is used to running things and having the Order at her beck and call. She doesn't like to share and is more than a little annoyed at Dru. Dru doesn't understand why but it becomes clear that it is because Dru has Christophe.
At least Graves is still around and the werewulf attack he survived turned him into a loup-garou, a prince among the wulfen.
The third book in the Strange Angels series and the intrigues just keep coming. This continues to be an engaging read, the characters and their interactions. I am partial to Dru's drive and her desire to not sit back and wait for others to do for her, I also continue to like the relationship between Dru and Graves. There is plenty of action and loads of sly machinations. There are truths and half-truths. If you have enjoyed this series so far, this is a read that won't let you down.
Categories: Fiction Adventure Horror & Ghost
Burn Bright – Book Trailer
This is the new Young Adult novel by Australian Sci-fi writer Marianne de Pierres. It is a dark dance through a world of pleasure, fun and no adults. There is more going on under the surface though and this book will take you on a wonderful journey but make sure you stick to the paths.
Me and My Mum
By Alison Ritchie and Alison Edgson
Little Bear's Mum is awesome. She can do so many things. She can roar and skate, do tricks and swim like a fish. She is also brave. The thing Little Bear thinks is best though is how she holds her cub tight. Little Bear wants to be just like Mummy Bear one day.
This is a charming and heartwarming story about the bond between mother and child. It reminds me of some of the things I've done with my girls and those precious moments we share when our children are young. The illustrations are beautiful, bringing warmth and softness to the story. A lovely book to share.
Publisher: Magi Publications
The Knight of Spurs and Spirits
By: Terry Deary
Sir Robert is the last knight of Hylton and he is rude, nasty, lazy and has a terrible temper. Mary the maid is frightened of him and for good reason, she has felt his whip on more than one occasion. Robert the stable boy also has to be careful to please his master, but one day when he is terribly cold, he falls asleep instead of getting Sir Robert's horse ready to go hunting. Something more terrible than whipping happens to him.
This is part of Terry Deary's Knights Tales series. These are short stories that are based on historical events and packaged towards younger readers. There is enough going on to keep a reader interested and enough pictures to break up the text, making it easier for younger readers. At the back the epilogue contains the historical facts on which the story was based. Not a bad way to get a little history into a growing brain.
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Betrayals
Dru is no longer alone as she was the night her father became a zombie she had to kill but the situation she now finds herself in is one that may take her a while to figure out. There is so much for her to adjust to. Her only friend Graves has been bitten by a werewulf and no-one can say how that is going to turn out. Dru is not entirely human thanks to her mother's blood running through her veins, this makes her a Svetocha, a female djamphir, that makes her something like royalty in this little community and that is something she doesn't want. Then there is the new school, a secret Schola for djamphirs and wulfen and she is the only girl, which is turning out to be more than a minor pain in the butt.
As if all that wasn't enough there is the training and learning mixed in with the certainty that someone at the school is trying to kill her. Finding her place amongst the wulfen and djamphir, when all they have ever been is enemies, is not going to be easy. Then again, Dru's life never has been that easy.
This is the second in the Strange Angels series and it is full of intrigue and action. Dru's frustrations are palpable as she and Graves adjust to their new lives. The half truths and infighting create layers and suspense that keeps you engaged in this dark world. I continue to enjoy these characters and the dark world they inhabit and am looking forward to what will be revealed next.
Categories: General Horror & Ghost
Dru Andersen is a not so average teen who travels from place to place with her Dad hunting the things that go bump in the night. All manner of monsters come across their path, they destroy them and move on. Then one fateful day her father hasn't returned from a hunt and the scritching on the back door turns out to be the zombie he has been turned into.
Dru's life is turned upside down. Now the monsters are hunting her and it's only all the training her Dad gave her that is keeping her safe. Then a goth boy named Graves befriends her and things get more complicated. Can Dru remember all she has been taught and get both of them to survive when the werewolves and vampires are coming?
A dark and entrancing world that breathes a little freshness into the genre in that Dru is a hunter. I like that she makes mistakes and learns from them. I like that she struggles and still tries, even while hearing the voices of those who trained her. I also enjoyed the dynamic between Dru and Graves. This is one of the few paranormal YA books that has held my attention (though admittedly there are a lot that I haven't read). St Crow has created a blended world, one where the monsters fit seemlessly into the world we know, it is both vivid and intriguing.
Categories: Fiction Horror & Ghost


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Q: The values of $k$ for which $ \log(2x) \leq kx \leq e^{x/2}$ for all $x > 0 $ So I'm trying to solve a system of equations and I checked some other guys solution and he divides the function by the derivate, like so: $f(x)/f'(x)$.
Find the values of the real constant $k$ for which this holds true:
$$
\log(2x) \leq kx \leq e^{x/2}, \quad x > 0
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I convert this into 2 systems of equations:
$$
f(x)=\log(2x)=kx \ and \ f'(x)=1/x=k  \\
f(x)=e^{x/2}=kx  \ and \ f'(x)=\frac{e^{x/2}}{2}=k
$$
Then I got stuck,checked some other guys solution and he did this: $f(x)/f'(x)$ for both equations. Why?
Sorry for the long winded explanation but I really can't figure out why it's $f(x)/f'(x)$.
Progress
Figured it out. Dividing $f(x)$ with $f'(x)$ is just another way of creating an expression for x and inserting it into the other equation in the system.

A: You are given two functions, $f(x) = e^{x/2}$ and $g(x) = \log(2x)$ for $x > 0$. The problem is to find out which lines through the origin $h(x) = kx$ pass in between these curves for all values of $x > 0$. The first thing to do, is to sketch a plot of $f$ and $g$. This plot shows that there is indeed a gap through which straight lines through the origin will pass.
The line with the maximum allowed value of k will pass just underneath $f$. Therefore we must find the point $(x_0, f(x_0))$ on $f$ where the tangent passes through the origin. Now the derivative of $f(x)$ is given by $f'(x) = (1/2)e^{x/2}$. Therefore the tangent for $x=x_0$ is given by the equation:
tangent to $f = (x_0, e^{x_0/2}) + p (1, (1/2)e^{x_0/2}) $
The intersection with the $y$-axis is obtained by setting $p = -x_0$. The corresponding $y$-coordinate becomes $(1 - x_0/2) e^{x_0/2}$. Therefore $x_0 = 2$ is the solution. Substituting this value in the tangent yields $k = e/2$. This is the upper bound for $k$.
For $g(x)$ we find the derivative $g'(x) = 2/x.$ The tangent through a point $x0$ on $g$:
tangent to $g = (x_0, \log(2x_0)) + q  (1, 2/x_0)$
The intersection with the y-axis occurs when $q = -x_0$. The corresponding $y$-value is $\log(2x_0) - 2$. Solving yields $x_0 = (1/2)e^2$. Substitution in the tangent yields $k = 4/e^2$. This the lower bound for $k$.
In summary, we find that the set of straight lines through the origin that pass in between $f$ and $g$ are given by $y = kx$ with $k$ in the interval $(4/e^2, e/2)$.

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Arizona Lawmakers Seek Religious Compromise in LGBT Antidiscrimination Bill
Arizona's new law would prohibit discrimination against transgender and gay people. However, it includes an important compromise which would allow churches and other religious organisations to be exempted from the legislation.
H.B. 2802, introduced by Rep. Amish Shah (D–Phoenix) and House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R–Mesa) would extend housing and public accommodations discrimination protections to gay and transgender people. Exempt are places of worship and religious schools as well as food preparation facilities that have been inspected by religious leaders in order to meet varying dietary requirements.
Conversion therapy to minors for the purpose of "curing" their homosexuality or transsexuality is also prohibited by this bill. However, it only applies to licensed health professionals and excludes clergy members.
This proposal is very similar to the Utah Compromise, a 2015 bill that was passed in Utah. Public support for the bill was shown by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leaders who helped to pass it.
This bill would be similar to the Federal Fairness for All Act, which expands federal anti-discrimination law to encompass gays/transgenders. However, it also provides exemptions for religious people and churches.
Equality Arizona is a LGBT non-profit group and released a statement supporting the bill. It said that "this historic measure was the result of years of thoughtful dialog between leading Arizona LGBTQ organisations, business leaders, communities of faith, and communities to support a bill which aims at updating Arizona's anti-discrimination laws while still preserving religious liberty." Arizona's Mesa and Scottsdale have passed similar compromise ordinances against discrimination.
But, today's state of popular culture is not one that allows for compromise. It is the Deseret News In 2020, it was noted that states have not followed Utah's example to try to include LGBT people to discrimination laws. However, they did protect a level of religious freedom. Federally, the Fairness for All Act is dead. Democrats are backing the Equality Act which would limit exemptions for institutions and religious citizens.
A full LGBT backlash has been underway in certain red states legislatures. Florida's Republican Governor. Ron DeSantis supports a bill to significantly restrict the freedom of educators to discuss LGBT topics in schools. This also gives lawyers and parents an opportunity to bring nuisance suits in order to cash in on this culture war.
Although H.B. Although 2802 remains a compromise bill, Shah and Bowers' decision to team up for a compromise is worth noting. It does not provide exemptions for small businesses that may have religious objections in providing services or goods for gay weddings. And because the Supreme Court declined to actually decide whether the act of making a wedding cake counts as speech under the First Amendment—and thus whether public accommodation law compels firing up the oven—expect to see more compromises that allow some people to opt out of anti-discrimination, but not others, even when both groups seek exemptions for the exact same reason.