An excellent essay on risk recommended by JunkScience.com friend Fred Singer. Continue reading
Category Archives: Risk assessment
Null results in largest environmental study of its kind
The largest meta-analysis in the world of maternal exposures to air pollution and newborn birthweights, which combined effect estimates on about 3 million births from 14 international research centers, found no link. That’s not what is being reported, however. Continue reading
Posted in EPA, Risk assessment, Scientific method
The field of environmental toxicology and chemistry embraces global climate change
…in case you didn’t already know that. Risk assessments and reasoned analyses are only as valid as the soundness, relevance and measurability of the evidence they are based upon. Environmental toxicology and chemistry continues to veer further away from science-based chemistry and toxicology. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environmentalism, Risk assessment
High speed rail proposed in Colorado
Yesterday, Colorado officials released its preferred solutions to solving the problem of congestion on I-70, now favoring construction of a futuristic high speed rail system from Jefferson County (C-470) to Eagle County Airport. The cost to taxpayers would be $16 billion to $20 billion. Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, Risk assessment
The new healthcare rules finally revealed
At literally the eleventh hour — 11:45pm EST — on Tuesday night, just before the start of the Thanksgiving holiday break, the Obama administration released its new health care guidelines under Obamacare. Continue reading
Posted in Health, Public health miscellany, Risk assessment
Michelle Malkin: CAFE kills
Mindlessly imposed fuel-efficiency standards aren’t just costly, they’re deadly. Continue reading
Posted in Fuel economy, Risk assessment
Tagged CAFE kills, hatred of humans, misanthropy
New CAFE Mandates Harm Consumers
IER Director of Regulatory Affairs Daniel Simmons issued the following statement about today’s announcement by the Obama administration of a new corporate average fuel economy mandate (CAFE): Continue reading
Oliver North: The Obama administration plan to disarm America
Nuclear plan is reckless lunacy Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Risk assessment
City destroyed by Hurricane Andrew doubles in size, and risk
Twenty years ago this week, Hurricane Andrew landed near here in a rising rage before dawn, its winds spinning into a tightening cone that peeled houses off this fingertip of south Florida by the thousands. Continue reading
Posted in Risk assessment
Activists in Argentina Expect Landmark Ruling against Agrochemicals
Over glyphosate? It’s safe to say this ruling is consistent with complete nonsense. Continue reading
Landslide fatalities are greater than previously thought
Landslides kill ten times more people across the world than was previously thought, according to research by Durham University, UK. Continue reading
Posted in Risk assessment
Light city cars’ high ANCAP ratings do not protect in real world crashes
They’re taking the long way round to not saying that CAFE standards kill people. In collisions basically mass wins. Occupant injury is inversely proportional to vehicular mass and regulations which cause vehicular mass reduction generally increase the number and severity of occupant injuries. Continue reading
Earthquake near a major city with death toll ‘unprecedented in human history’ a matter of time: Professor Iain Stewart
Unlike gorebull warblers, this guy is talking about genuine risk:
“IT’S only a matter of time before a huge earthquake strikes a major city and results in a death toll “unprecedented in human history”.” Continue reading
Who can we tell? Who can we telephone? “Don’t rely on Hollywood to stop ‘doomsday asteroid’”
“It will take more than Bruce Willis to save the Earth from a giant doomsday asteroid, according to scientists.“
Someone did tell them Armageddon was just a movie, right?
Like The Day After Tomorrow, War of the Worlds, An Inconvenient Truth, Them, The Blob, Gasland and Alien versus Predator, these are all just works of fiction, simple fantasy and escapism to be enjoyed with popcorn. You are not really supposed to believe William Shatner captained a spaceship or that Bruce Willis blows up asteroids when not hitting golf balls at greenpeace (actually the golf ball thing is appealing enough to be plausible). Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media, Risk assessment
Academies Panel Suggests Scaling Down Agro-Defense Laboratory to Reduce Cost
Earlier this year, the Obama Administration suspended plans to build the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) after raising questions about whether the government could afford the $1 billion highly secure laboratory for studying dangerous animal diseases. Continue reading
Scientists: Nanotech-based products offer great potential but unknown risks
Some experts push cautious approach as market keeps expanding Continue reading
Posted in Nanotechnology, Risk assessment
Tim van Gelder: Sustainability demands public wisdom
Sigh… Actually Tim, Australia is still pretty much a blank sheet, waiting for us to terraform into an environment that suits us better. Once we have done so we can sustain anything we want. There is nothing magical about the way it was before we started improving it any more than there is some special quality about its previous desperately unproductive state.
We were a country of nation builders but constant white-anting by the green left has eroded us to a collection of effete worriers, too uncertain to manage a trip to the corner store. That’s not ‘public wisdom’ but societal sabotage. Continue reading
Freeze on mutant-flu research set to thaw
But some fear that if more labs work on the viruses, the risk of accidental release will multiply Continue reading
Japan: Report: Public trust in scientists plummeted after 3/11 disasters
The devastation from last year’s natural disasters and the failure to prevent the Fukushima nuclear accident have led to a huge loss of trust in scientists, a science ministry report showed on June 19. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear power, Risk assessment
Paddy Regan: It’s Time To Stop Being Scared Of The Atom
Our irrational fear of nuclear power is undermining the search for a safe, clean source of energy, argues Paddy Regan. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear power, Risk assessment
