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What kind of vanity degree is “environmental philosophy”?

One that takes itself seriously enough, apparently to have an adjunct professor. This one’s written a piece claiming the media don’t take environmental hysteria seriously enough, not realizing the media churn out what consumers will purchase rather than what vanity degree-holders think about. (It’s the Anthropocene, you know!) Continue reading

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“Lunatic’s raving” actually seems a bit too polite for this one from David Orr

How to Avoid the Coming Environmental and Economic ‘Perfect Storm’ – It is quite possible that by the year 2100 human life will have become extinct or will be confined to a few residential areas that have escaped the devastating effects of nuclear holocaust or global warming. —Brian Barry Continue reading

Uh-huh… Report Claims New Fuel Efficiency Standards Will Create 570,000 Jobs By 2030

New fuel economy standards proposed in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation could create 570,000 jobs between 2017 and 2030, according to a report released today by the BlueGreen Alliance. Continue reading

Geoffrey Lean: Government adviser Bill McGuire says global warming is causing earthquakes and landslides

We wonder if Government Advisor Professor Bill McGuire has noticed that the huge ice sheets of the glacial maximum no longer exist and have not done so for many millennia now. The events of which he speaks may have occurred but the necessary preconditions do not exists today. Continue reading