Overpopulation is the world’s top environmental issue, followed closely by climate change and the need to develop renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels, according to a survey of the faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) reported in April 2009.“Overpopulation is the only problem,” said Dr. Charles A. Hall, a …
Month: December 2009
Russian Dead Hand Defense Strategy
The "Dead Hand" defense, a sort of Russian Roulette with the certainty of death for the other side in the event of a nuclear explosions that had not been responded to due to no orders from whomever carries the football in Russia these days. The West believes that hand to now be Vladamir Putin's; making …
Iran Nuclear Memo
A memo leaked in Iran that indicates as recently as 2007 there were discussions about nuclear weapon development. Disturbing, certainly, for Europe and Israel, for the UK and of course for President Barack Obama who will be seen by the world as the person who has to lead the charge against Iran for surging on …
Danger to Food Chain
Climate change is not being viewed as a complex problem, but more in black and white terms of the likelihood that mankind is causing it. This article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8411135.stmon the BBC introduced a new idea to Copenhagen. The idea that changes in the climate may endanger the food chain by changing the composition of the oceans …
Dubai bailed out
Abu Dhabi has bailed out Dubai's extraordinary property ventures with a US$10Billion grant to its sister state.
Blair justifies Iraq War
Tony Blair states that Saddam Hussein "had to go" as justification for the invasion of Iraq. "I would still have thought it right to remove him. Obviously, you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat," he said."I can't really think we'd be better with him and his …
Fuel alternative
A genetically engineered bacteria converts CO2 into a liquid fuel. Brilliant - is this the solution to global warming? Perhaps. The disturbing trend we see following discoveries such as this is the justification to continue to produce pollution as it is now safer to do so.
China’s inverse bubble
A population constriction, when the population is forcibly reduced by war, disease or policy requires a different set of release valves than a growing economy. Instead of inflation vs interest rates, it is deflation sets in because decreasing numbers of people create demand, in other words nobody is there to buy things. It is hard …
The crisis is Energy
The climate change debate has been set on edge by the revelation that records were "homogenised" and the original data lost by the East Anglia researchers. The conservative columnists seem to be convinced that disproving human created pollution is affecting our environment is their duty, even if it is. The risk to cities and low …