Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
Veggie food v. global warmingWhat is next breathing......ENOUGH already, I am sick to death of hearing about this made up lie to control what people drive, what they eat, how much energy they use to now meat!Good grief, there is NO proof of any of this except an agenda being...
The Belgian city of Ghent is the first in the world to officially push for less consumption of meat. This is political, not religious. Ghent is drawing attention to the contribution of greenhouse gases from livestock raised for meat. The U.N.'s FAO says 18% of all greenhouse...
Lovelock: the final warningoverpopulation?Seriously now...overpopulated? on what grounds? Manhattan, L.A., New Dehli, Mexico City, Hong Kong? yes. Take a drive through Wyoming and see how long it takes you to pass a house. Wyoming is one of the least populated states in the USA, and it has nothing to do...
Global warming effects? Ask a birderFor those interested in assisting the collection of birding dataThe annual 'Great Backyard Bird Count' (a project sponsored by Cornell's Ornithology dept.) is this upcoming weekend (Feb 12-15). Instructions on counting and submitting your data are available athttp://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/A simple count takes only fifteen...
Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...Here's a better ideaBurn the freaking methanol in an internal combustion engine. Catalyst requirement gone.Sheesh.Just another example that global warming really isn't about global warming. Making and burning methanol is carbon-neutral, but note how the idea of simply manufacturing methanol to...
Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...
Add another choiceHarry, you need to add another choice on your survey."If the climate [b]IS[/b] warming, it is part of a natural cycle and has very little to do with mankind's actions, and there is very little that we can do to affect it."another choice being added--Harry FullerFuller, why the...
Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...
We Americans are rightfully known the world over for being impatient. Why haven't we won the war, it's been six weeks already? Where's my burger, I've been standing here fifteen seconds? Fast food. Fast cars. Fast lanes. Fast forward. Fast tweets from...
There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...
Not related to ZDNet. So why are you blogging here?ZDNET says of itself:"ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals." and "Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers the best tech news, and resources for IT hardware, software, networking and services."Given the above, why are you here,...
SurpriseSurprise, surprise.Environmentalist are destroying AmericaLets see how long people go without jobs/food trying to believe the lie of 'global warming'......Good grief, I think the Liberal media must be on staff here.Articles about not driving, not using A/C everyone doing with less.Gee, I guess we can all live in mud huts...
His memory and legacy will be used as more fodder in the political wrangling over global warming. The late, great Dr. Borlaug certainly helped stave off worse human starvation. To the global warming deniers he put the lie to worries about population growth. This planet can hold...
more moronic poll choicesAt what point could the people who create these polls pick 5 choices that are meaningful instead of parodies of any rational opinion?Targeted to it's marketRational opinion no longer required.RE: Global warming, bring it onI think that a severe ocean-raising global warming has the potential to adversely...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard Jason D. O'Grady: Apple removed blood stains from Snow...
Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...
yes lets all starve In the name of a myth.Isn't this an IT site? I don't manage cows thank you very much.There is no worse combination than...ignorance AND arrogance in the same individual - when you think you know but haven't got a clue. It is probably an incurable...
On the other hand...While he might have messed with the heads of the Birkenstock set, he also might have more than compensated by drawing in other people. Personally, I've been turned off by stores touting "natural" foods as the answer to every question, but after hearing the boss speak...
You want a planned commune? or Liberty?"The political issues these rankings bring to mind? Sprawl and zoning, or lack thereof. Government regulation of housing and development. Lack of urban concentration of population. Mass transit or not. Trains. Buses. Bicycles. Sidewalks, which have become a sign of downscale housing in some...
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