Monday, April 11, 2005
Pollution...
ITEM ONE
Fellow SoCal Alliance member Cheat Seeking Missles has had a great couple of posts recently on environmental matters in his field. This one examines extremism in the environmental movement and this one looks at the continuing efforts to link environmental problems with Christian escatology. Some people really need to figure out that there is a whole bunch more to being a Christian than reading books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
ITEM TWO
This story about the new cancer-risk guidelines adopted by the EPA makes a point that I continually return to:
ITEM THREE
I love it when we shoot ourselves in the foot. This article points out how relatively insecure the storage of nuclear waste at nuclear power plants is. Meanwhile, this article objects to the proposed Yucca Flats nuclear waste disposal site based on some paperwork issues. So, we are going to leave our wastes in an insecure situation because some scientists made a legitimate decision to exclude some data from a study based on a likely computer glitch.
ITEM FOUR
Look, smoking is not the brightest thing in the world to do, but do we really have to carry things this far.
Fellow SoCal Alliance member Cheat Seeking Missles has had a great couple of posts recently on environmental matters in his field. This one examines extremism in the environmental movement and this one looks at the continuing efforts to link environmental problems with Christian escatology. Some people really need to figure out that there is a whole bunch more to being a Christian than reading books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
ITEM TWO
This story about the new cancer-risk guidelines adopted by the EPA makes a point that I continually return to:
Mr. Walke's organization was one of the few environmental groups to temper its appreciation for the new guidelines by raising concerns over language inserted by the Office of Management and Budget that allows outside groups to challenge scientific conclusions before they become part of the new guidelines. Dr. Jennifer Sass, a defense council senior scientist, said that such "expert elicitation" provides an open invitation to the chemical industry to weaken the guidelines and to delay their being put in place.I get it now, experts that weaken regulation are 'for sale,' but not the ones that support strengthening it.
ITEM THREE
I love it when we shoot ourselves in the foot. This article points out how relatively insecure the storage of nuclear waste at nuclear power plants is. Meanwhile, this article objects to the proposed Yucca Flats nuclear waste disposal site based on some paperwork issues. So, we are going to leave our wastes in an insecure situation because some scientists made a legitimate decision to exclude some data from a study based on a likely computer glitch.
ITEM FOUR
Look, smoking is not the brightest thing in the world to do, but do we really have to carry things this far.
NEW research suggests women who smoke while pregnant are putting their grandchildren as well as their children at risk, writes Jonathan Leake.So we are going to create a whole new panic about a habit that everyone knows has significant health risks, based on a suggestion? Just once I'd like the proof before the panic.
The study suggests that some of the chemicals in smoke can permanently alter the DNA of those exposed to it in ways that can be inherited by smokers? Children, grandchildren and possibly subsequent generations too. (emphasis added)
