environmental

The Story of Two Houses - Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and see if you can tell which one belongs to an environmentalist. HOUSE # 1: A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house...

http://www.environmentalwars.org/ It's coming up in a little over a week! I'll be there. So, what other JREF forumites can I look forward to seeing there?

For those who haven't heard, the Skeptic Sociey is hosting their annual convention at Cal Tech first weekend in June. It's called "the Environmental Wars" and more info can be found here: http://www.environmentalwars.org/ I'll be attending.

I am an environmental science major, I know that some of you may find that the term environmental science is an oxymoron. I personally am sick and tired of the environmentalist movement being taken over by the extreme. In many ways it is unscientific or even anti-scienctific. For example...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4745963.stm This sounds very dubious to me. Spotting erosion and deforestation from space? And this sounds like scaremongering too: Does she have any evidence that it's thinner than it ever was before? If she's so concerned, maybe she shouldn't have burnt...

With a rare glimpse inside one of China's working coalmines, Newsnight's Science Editor, Susan Watts, has been to find out if a coal-dependent future for China is inevitable. Coal built China - and fuels its relentless growth today. Eighty per cent of China's electricity comes from coal, and...

Somebody bought a Green a calculator. Somebody taught him how to use it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1357461,00.html snip:

I've come to this board as an atheist & skeptic, and after reading the various threads on environmental issues, find that I've found God again. hallelujah. (Let me explain by first choosing a definition for God: Let God= that which is beyond human understanding and exhibits a self-evident...

It looks like the Bush administration is continuing its unrelenting assault on the environment. The latest dumb bomb they've dropped? Let's exempt companies from environmental impact studies! After all, they cost money and what the heck, it's just the environment anyway. And of course, no...