Monday, February 06, 2006
Pollution...
Let's start our look at the lunacy this week with this story
Wants to make you question your "faith" in science, doesn't it?
Real Environmental Problem - they exist, and here is a classic example
Yet another example of misplaced faith.
Remember the SOTU this past week and the President's pledge about wind power? - OOPS!
The market for these is relatively small and the amount of CFC's involved minute on a global scale - this is sheer pettiness, and worse it is backed by the medical community because it will fatten their wallets.
Environmental action is supposed to make life better for people - this will have precisely the opposite affect.
Related Tags: pollution, wind power, oil tank removal, asthma inhalers, endangered species
That finding contradicts research touted by Interior Secretary Gale Norton last February when she proposed removing the mouse from the government's endangered species list. Critics say it also undercuts the administration's claim that it uses the best science available in promoting fewer protections for imperiled wildlife.This illustrates better than a lot of stories what so much environmentalism is really about - enriching lawyers and empowering bureacrats. Most people think this stuff is about science, but here you have two very reputable scientists that cannot agree - which is in fact the case with lots of this stuff.
The previous study, which was done by a biologist since hired by Norton's department, concluded there was no genetic difference between the Preble's meadow jumping mouse and the much more common Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse.
Wants to make you question your "faith" in science, doesn't it?
Real Environmental Problem - they exist, and here is a classic example
Near midnight, tenant Andrew Meyers reported a pungent chemical odor in his 298 East 8th St. home to the Boston Fire Department. BFD spokesman Scott Salman said firefighters found between 40 and 80 gallons of heating oil in the basement after laborers hired by landlord Sergio Jean attempted to cut an oil tank in half and remove it without notifying proper waste disposal authorities.This is definitely a botched tank removal with potential huge consequences - but what's wrong with this picture? The problem wasn't that the idiots used a sparking saw to cut a vessel containing a combustible material spilling a huge amount in an exclosed space -- no the problem was they forgot to call "authorities?"
Yet another example of misplaced faith.
Remember the SOTU this past week and the President's pledge about wind power? - OOPS!
Wind farm production could be placing Scotland's white-tailed eagle population under threat, a wildlife charity has warned.Finally, this story may be truly evil.
RSPB Scotland said the discovery of four dead white-tailed eagles near a wind farm area off the Norwegian coast gave cause for concern.
It fears that the eagles may have been killed in turbine collisions.
Asthma sufferers may not be able to buy nonprescription inhalers much longer because the devices contain propellants that harm the ozone layer.Look, the medicines are incompatible with other propellants. Now, while OTC asthma inhalers are of limited value, they do help, I know from personal experience. They provide relief for people who might not otherwise get it, due to a lack of finanacial resources to see a physician (as when I was young), a fear to doing same, or other complicated reasons.
The market for these is relatively small and the amount of CFC's involved minute on a global scale - this is sheer pettiness, and worse it is backed by the medical community because it will fatten their wallets.
Environmental action is supposed to make life better for people - this will have precisely the opposite affect.
Related Tags: pollution, wind power, oil tank removal, asthma inhalers, endangered species
