Category Archives: Climate Change

Thorium based energy economy?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

Here’s an interesting idea. Apparently there’s a company in the US that is about to release a small power generating device capable of providing up to 250 megawatts of power in a 500 pound unit small enough to fit in … Continue reading →

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Reevaluating some global warming claims (polar bears probably not going to drown)

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

There’s a group that’s been looking at driftwood dispersal as a measure of the historic extent of the ice sheets in the northern hemisphere. It’s interesting right now because there’s been a series of claims that we’re close to or … Continue reading →

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Global “cooling” due in large part to coal plant increase

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

Why is the Earth so different than Venus? Both planets are roughly the same size, and both exist within what is known as the “Life Zone” in the solar system. (The Life Zone is the region of solar space where … Continue reading →

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Climate change God’s judgement not Man’s fault?

Posted on January 5, 2010 by

The BBC has a report this morning on a growing sentiment in parts of the developing world that the climate change that they are witnessing is not due to the actions of humankind. They are a result of God’s judgement … Continue reading →

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Climategate and the Irish Church scandal

Posted on November 30, 2009 by

Last week, while most of us here in the states were busy spending time with family and friends, the ongoing scandal of “Climategate” took a couple of new turns. Climategate is the popular term referring to the release by a … Continue reading →

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Global warming: no turning back?

Posted on November 23, 2009 by

So okay, the headline is a little alarmist. I should probably say “Rising C02 levels” rather than “global warming” and “rising in spite of any efforts to stop them” instead of “no turning back”. But that will hardly make people … Continue reading →

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Overuse of natural resources ’caused Nazca collapse’

Posted on November 3, 2009 by

Back when I was in High School and the works of Eric Von Daniken were still new and popular, I was fascinated by the mysterious works of the Nazca people in Peru. Von Daniken claimed that the giant figures that … Continue reading →

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Study: Wealth buys rescue from urban heat island

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

News of a study linking death rates caused by the weather to the mean income of a neighborhood was just published here in Arizona: “[The] link between money and the ability to cope with extreme weather emerged clearly in the … Continue reading →

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Supernova event recorded in the Earth’s ice

Posted on February 23, 2009 by

Neat! New details about a claim I remember being made at the beginning of this decade: “Chinese and Arabic astronomers left historical documentation of a supernova that occurred in our own galaxy in the year 1006 (SN 1006), and another … Continue reading →

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Return to Virtue

Posted on November 14, 2008 by

I just posted an article over at the Episcopal Cafe pointing to this wonderful lecture by the Abbot of Worth. It’s the inagural Noah Lecture (a british charity) and deals primarily with finding a theological basis for sustainable living. The … Continue reading →

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