Animals
Mar
Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction
From a Columbia University press release, here’s a case where the early speculation of science was wrong. Originally global warming was blamed, but it turns out to be El Niño helping along an already established pathogen.
Mar
If only Global Warming were dinosaur science…
It’s obvious where this is leading. Not to science, but to anecdotal “evidence.” Frank goes on about what his friend is telling him about disappearing this and that. And then laments on how Climategate has stopped science in its tracks.
Mar
Why won’t they just leave polar bears alone?
It all started with a polar bear and even after a wealth of evidence and scientific research proving that polar bears are thriving, the AGW cause is liable to bring about the extinction of the species purely by their obsessive desire to photograph them all the time.
Mar
What’s New? Harpooning whales speeds up global warming
Just when you think the believers of AGW can’t possibly come up with anything sillier they prove you wrong. Now whaling speeds up climate change!
Mar
‘Tofu free Tuesday’ makes more sense than ‘Meat free Monday’
If you want to be a vegetarian that’s your business and I won’t persecute you for it. All I ask is that vegetarians allow me the same courtesy.
Feb
Cow farts and Dr Pachauri
Eating meat doesn’t produce methane – fact. If you maintain a herd of ruminants (cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels), then you will be producing methane. But, then so does rice cultivation.
Feb
No money in gassy Camels
Scientists have found camels to be the third-highest carbon-emitting animal per head on the planet, behind only cattle and buffalo. Culling the one million feral camels that currently roam the outback would be equivalent to taking 300,000 cars off the road in terms of the reduction to the country’s greenhouse gases.
Jan
Iquanas in the coal mine
More bad news coming from those “canaries in the coal mine,” as Al Gore would say. “Iguanas dropping from trees, manatees huddling around waters warmed by power plants and marine turtles being whisked away to shelters–Florida’s unusual cold snap is a deadly one for tropical wildlife.” So says Jaun Castro Olivera of AFP. Olivera reported: [...]