Are Wildland Fires Fueling The Greenhouse?
Wildland fires are taking tons of carbon out of storage and feeding it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, as reported by Science Daily. This is the preliminary result of a study from the National Center For Atmospheric Research: massive forest fires may be contributing to global warming.
Big Brother eyes taxes by the mile
Oregon wants to collect gas taxes by the mile using GPS receivers in each car, to make up for the coming of more fuel-efficient cars. Can you imagine how silent the ACLU will be when the California Democrats propose this? (From WorldNetDaily.)
America is being invaded
Joseph Farah writes on WorldNetDaily about the problems the thousands of daily illegal immigrants cause for our country.
CA Coastal Commission ruled illegal
In what may turn out to be a major victory for property rights and making the government follow the constitution, today’s SF Chronicle reports, “Coastal Commission ruled illegal”.
As the court put it, the “agency violates ‘separation of powers’ ”.
Double standard on civil rights
I just saw a TV segment (KRON-TV) on new Calif. laws for the new year. One of them caught my eye—law enforcement agencies will now be able to get roving wiretaps. We’ve all heard Democrats complaining loudly when the Bush administration proposed this at the Federal level, but why did I not hear a peep from any of the Democrats or Calif. newspapers when the all-Democratic California legislature and govenor decided to make this law?
How to Ruin American Enterprise
In the December 23 issue of Forbes Magazine, Ben Stein asks, We’re well on our way to squelching what gives this country an edge. What would it take to kill innovation altogether?
—and then describes 12 ways to accomplish that goal. That all of these are being done should be a wake-up call to American citizens.
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Full-scale tests of nuclear waste shipping casks would build the public’s confidence in the Yucca Mountain Project even though less expensive computer modeling can gain results just as well, the government’s chief nuclear regulators said Wednesday.”
The gist of the article is that the tests already done on scale models are believed to be accurate, but doing full-scale tests will be expensive ($1 million per cask) and not yeild as much data as the earlier tests.
Fears raised over e-voting
Rebecca Mercuri, one of the world’s leading experts on electronic voting is warning the government that computer polls cannot be trusted (From the BBC).
Profile of Dr. Bill in SF Chronicle
A San Francisco Chronicle profile of Dr. Bill Wattenburg was published last Monday—the story includes a picture of the make-shift studio he broadcasts from in his mountain cabin, and paints a very accurate picture of Bill as well.
A good example of what will happen to large forest fires if we manage our forests properly by thinning them.