Category archive: Environmentalism
That which we call ethanol subsidies, by any other name, would still stink
By Chuck Roger • August 25th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Our federal government continues to run a con that hands six billion taxpayer dollars a year to companies involved in producing ethanol-doped gasoline that damages engines, increases carbon emissions over pure gasoline, and costs more than pure gasoline. Yet earlier this year, Congress defeated attempts initiated by Senators Tom Coburn and Dianne [...]
Congressional Cowardice Sustains Ethanol Subsidies
By Chuck Roger • August 18th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér At this moment, $6 billion in annual federal subsidies continue to be paid to American farmers to grow corn for producing ethanol. The ethanol continues to be added to gasoline, creating a mixture which will damage vehicles’ engines and result in carbon emissions no lower than those produced [...]
Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance
By Chuck Roger • August 5th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. CNSNews.com reports that the Department of Education hosted an event in which children were read scientifically baseless claims from books featuring Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]
EPA’s Ozone Charade Chokes Industry for No Health Benefit
By Chuck Roger • August 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Environmentalist ideologues in the Obama administration are making up more reasons to wipe out more jobs. The story is a sordid one. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson calls a tightening in the ozone standard during George W. Bush’s presidency “not legally defensible.” Why? Not because the lower threshold is [...]
Programming Scientists to Perform Social Engineering
By Chuck Roger • June 14th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at National Association of Scholars By Chuck Rogér An Arizona State University professor wants to train physical scientists to be social engineers. Political science professor David Guston contends that “stakeholders” in academia and industry should work with consumers and the feds to manage the “societal implications” of “environmental health and safety issues” surrounding certain technological [...]
Obama’s Symbolic Chevy Volt Folly
By Chuck Roger • June 8th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, May 31, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Among 116 electric cars that the Obama administration intends to buy with taxpayer money, 101 will be Chevy Volts. The program will also include installing charging stations in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and Washington, D.C. According to USA Today, “The moves are [...]
Straw Man Environmental Alarmism 101, California Style
By Chuck Roger • April 15th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 14, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Course Description: Learn to craft false statements that appear factual and to justify “fixes” for imaginary problems. The student learns how to apply said fixes to an agenda which addresses environmentalists’ most precious issue: human-caused global warming. Course Instructor: An associate transportation planner with the [...]
California Assembly Outlaws Economics 101
By Chuck Roger • April 12th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér The California Assembly has passed a bill, which if signed by Governor Brown, will legally compel power companies to generate a third of the state’s electricity from sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy by 2020, a 1000 percent increase in nine years. Peter Miller, a senior scientist at the NRDC [...]
The Sierra Club’s Mission
By Chuck Roger • January 10th, 2011 12:30 am
Originally in American Thinker, December 24, 2010. “Don’t you care about global warming?” asked a sign carried by a Sierra Club demonstrator. The preachy admonishment packs the same intellectual weightiness as “Free the color purple!” Well-adjusted people “care” about neither purple nor global warming. Colors and recurring natural climate phenomena fly below the radars of emotionally [...]
Taxpayers are funding anti-capitalist indoctrination of schoolchildren
By Chuck Roger • November 3rd, 2010 2:11 am
In keeping with my recent focus on environmental nut-jobs hell-bent on de-developing the United States and “saving the planet,” we go to PBS station WGBH in Boston–yes, the same station that produces This Old House. WGBH approached Annie Leonard with a proposal. Leonard is the creator of the venomous, lie-filled, anti-capitalist, anti-American video, The Story [...]
Pushing Junk Science on Children
By Chuck Roger • October 7th, 2010 2:47 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 6, 2010. Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we are doomed. This is a story about the ruling class [...]
Gaia squealing in delight
By Chuck Roger • October 1st, 2010 2:37 am
All-knowing government bureaucrats will tell us what household appliances we will be allowed to use. This is not a bad joke. This is a bad reality. Assistant Energy Secretary Cathy Zoi is overjoyed about her U.S. Department of Energy “mandate” to order Americans to use only certain household appliances. In fact, let’s allow Zoi to [...]
Academic environmentalist arrogance: If we green it, they will buy it
By Chuck Roger • September 16th, 2010 2:58 am
When someone is described as having a “career as an environmental activist,” you know you are dealing with a lefty ideologue. But for our edification, we turn to the source in which the claim appears. ASU Magazine, the official publication of Arizona State University, recently ran a story titled, “Fields of green: sustainability’s intersection with [...]
Wind and solar power job fantasies
By Chuck Roger • June 25th, 2010 8:54 pm
“Green” energy is the way of the future, right? In a word: No. Consider: Wind turbines are only possible because taxpayers subsidize their production. Navigant Consulting estimated that if federal tax credits for solar power and wind energy were discontinued, these industries would lose 77% of their employees. The statement is part of a Commonwealth [...]
Ramming headlong into economic ruin–intentionally and for no good reason
By Chuck Roger • April 30th, 2010 9:35 pm
Behold the thinking of a know-it-all progressive zealot: Trade can be green, and world trade rules can be tools to make it so. Here we have the quintessential progressive, James Bacchus, former member of Congress from Florida and former chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Bacchus also chairs his law [...]
The color green, eco-zealots, and economic suicide
By Chuck Roger • February 28th, 2010 10:10 pm
If you live in Portland, Oregon, with unemployment exceeding the national average — in fact, over 10% — and one of the weakest economies in the weak but “green” Pacific Northwest, do you vote to: Revisit your “green” policies in light of how they further weaken the economy and increase unemployment; Ignore the problem and [...]
The Governator is fed up with eco-nuts
By Chuck Roger • February 15th, 2010 10:17 pm
The Wall Street Journal‘s John Fund tells us that even though “Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is as green as any governor… he’s had enough of the mindless interference with development that characterizes the actions of many environmentalists. In a state where one out of eight workers is unemployed, Mr. Schwarzenegger is asking the legislature for more [...]
