Comments henryjoe has made

new Drilling off the East Coast

Written by an eco freek, it quotes only the anti drilling advocates.  We have been drilling in offshore areas for 35 years simce the last maajor drilling spill. Multiple hurricanes, platforms in the North sea have drilled with out much of a spill.
What have been the cause of the biggest spills?  Oil tankers spillage. The Valdez spill in Alaska was a an Oil tanker running agound.  Our US ports have a huge number of tankers sailing into ports everyday. SF bay has 10 tankers sailing into the bay every day.  Where will the newxt spill occur in one of our bays when a tanker runs into another ship or runs aground in the fog.  
So way is there so much hate spewing out of eco heads. Because there is a large target - THE OIL INDUSTRY. Everyone hates them so they are easy to write that htey will benefit.  
We, the US car drivewr will benefit from off shore oil drilling.  Yes it will take years for that oil to start to flow. But eco heads said that 10 years ago.
Oh yes its nice that you want to save our coastal views, and get oil from foreign countries desp[oiling their coastal regions. But that's okay to be selfish, we're Americans!!!On Bush admin takes first step toward new offshore drilling posted 1 year ago 1 Response

Logging the watse land

Again someoen is worrying about logging a small protion of 17 million acres.  An area 162 miles square. Larger than most state.

Ohn yah, where do you think the lumber will come to build all thoise houses Obama wants to have poor people own.
Probably from some virgin third world forest depleting their wild life  and reducing the greenery that absorbs green house gases. But that kind of thinking would mean taking a global view.
This will not be a disaster.
The lake tahoe area in California was logged clear to build the mines of Virginia city in Nevada. And look at it today. Yes an area can be logged and be replanted and become a beautiful forest withn lots of wild life and one of the clearest lakes in the world.
And this plan will allow only a very small pPorbably from some third world country or the forests cleaning the air along the tropis.ortion to be workedOn Bush admin unveils new plan for Tongass forest in Alaska, ticks off enviros posted 1 year, 10 months ago 1 Response

10 HOTTEST YEARS

The ten hottest have not occurred since 1990
NASA has revised its record of the hottest years
4 of those years are now recorded as prior to 1939, Amazingly the years of the dust bowls.
Only 5 of the hottest years occur after 1995.
It is good to know that the calculation method used to correct for annual temperatures were in fact faulty and only modofied after an outsider conclusiovely demonstrated NASA's error.
This is still significant regarding the recent rise in world temperatures.  But knowing  the reasons for the high temperaturs prior to 1939 would be helpful in understanding the current rise in temperatures.  Science should be open to knowing why global temps have increased in the past, not just trying to strenthening the conclusionthat we are undergoing global warming.
On In 2008, globe will cool down a bit -- but still be bloody hot, say researchers posted 1 year, 10 months ago 4 Responses

Hansen ignores studies showing Antartic Glacial ma

Hansen refers to and uses  scientific studies re rising sea levels that support his case but ignores scientists studies and models that contest his conclusion. He then ignores data and resorts to common sense for a conclusion . How convenient. See this example from his paper

Global warming should also increase snowfall accumulation rates in ice sheet interiors because of
the higher moisture content of the warming atmosphere. Despite high variability on interannual and
decadal time scales, and limited Antarctic warming to date, observations tend to support this expectation
for both Greenland and Antarctica (Rignot and Thomas 2002; Johannessen et al 2005; Davis et al 2005;
Monaghan et al 2006). Indeed, some models (Wild et al 2003) have ice sheets growing overall with
global warming, but those models do not include realistic processes of ice sheet disintegration. Extensive
paleoclimate data confirm the common sense expectation that the net effect is for ice sheets to shrink as the world warms.On An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen posted 2 years, 6 months ago 19 Responses

biofuels Use of land vs driling in the Artic for n

In the article on the the numbers related to biofuels, the suthor calmly says that a "reasonable" chunck of land could produce108 billion gallons of biofuel.. Thats the equivalent of 4.9 million barrels per day of oil production.  But it would take 250 acres of land. A reasonable chunk!  Comparewd to the 80 million acrwes in corn today, where is all this farm land, water and fertilizer coming from.  Also it takes at best 75% of that amount of fuel to produce the end resule meaning there is at best 1.3 net barrels of biofuel produced, and at a 70% energy production of oil that's less than 1 million barreels per day of oil replaced.
We cold get that amount of ol from the use of less than a thousand acres in the Artic reserve.  Which is mnore earth friendly. 250 acres in switchgrass production with all of its fertilizer use, need for water,emissions from equipment and bio generation palnts and destruction off open grassing lands or 1,000 acres out of a 100,000 acre in Alaska.On A Grist special series on biofuels posted 2 years, 11 months ago 28 Responses

biofuels Use of land vs driling in the Artic for n

In the article on the the numbers related to biofuels, the suthor calmly says that a "reasonable" chunck of land could produce108 billion gallons of biofuel.. Thats the equivalent of 4.9 million barrels per day of oil production.  But it would take 250 acres of land. A reasonable chunk!  Comparewd to the 80 million acrwes in corn today, where is all this farm land, water and fertilizer coming from.  Also it takes at best 75% of that amount of fuel to produce the end resule meaning there is at best 1.3 net barrels of biofuel produced, and at a 70% energy production of oil that's less than 1 million barreels per day of oil replaced.
We cold get that amount of ol from the use of less than a thousand acres in the Artic reserve.  Which is mnore earth friendly. 250 acres in switchgrass production with all of its fertilizer use, need for water,emissions from equipment and bio generation palnts and destruction off open grassing lands or 1,000 acres out of a 100,000 acre in Alaska.On The numbers behind ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel in the U.S. posted 2 years, 11 months ago 28 Responses

Corps of Engineers

What a dopey article. The corps does what the Congress appropriates money for.  They build whateverthey are told to build, within the dollars they are given.  
Also, the 8 different levee boards in New Orleans were responsible for the mainteenance of the levees and in a few cases the engineering.  Who allows houses to be built upto the backs of the leveee walls, some corrupt louisianian politician.
The Federal gtovernment only plays second fiddle to local goverment and politicians.
The current ;evees were built to the existing standared - they replaced what was there before. Why? That's what congresss told them to do.
Oh if there was to be a new levee standard we would still be waiting for the decision to be made.....by the politiciansOn The Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind New Orleans' devastation posted 3 years, 2 months ago 9 Responses