tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:20:29 +0000Global WarmingDIGESTRKReligion: Radical EnvironmentalismCap and tradeRecyclingAlternative EnergyCarbon taxesFoodAerosolsCarbon OffsetsCommon Agricultural Policy (CAP)PigouPigovian TaxesRent-SeekingRadovan Kazda <br>Environmental Policy Analyst <br>Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik <br>radovankazda[at]institute.sk <br>http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)Blogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-1885717190516591290Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:09:00 +00002009-02-11T23:44:25.727+01:00http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/wac173351.htmlLandfill Criteria For Municipal Solid Wastehttp://www.env.gov.bc.ca/epd/epdpa/mpp/lcmsw.htmlZväčšiť mapuhttp://yosemite.epa.gov/r1/npl_pad.nsf/a36badb0f3493aff85256bc8005c97e1/85a36a0b09ec450e85256b4200604ec1!OpenDocumenthttp://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2009/02/lowell-landfill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-3698997795958840557Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:05:00 +00002008-08-30T10:47:03.541+02:00Global WarmingYeah!http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/penn-jillette-on-greenest-convention.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-6049796671003911223Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:53:00 +00002008-08-29T07:58:20.097+02:00Global WarmingBy Jeff PoorBusiness & Media Institute8/26/2008 4:57:38 PM Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, are big fans of Hannah Montana – and maybe there’s a reason why.Teen star Miley Cyrus, known as Hannah Montana in the Disney Channel TV series television of the same name, is now crusading for global warming alarmism. But she admits she isn’t http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/hannah-montana-what-is-global-warming-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-2889088421020718969Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-12T07:00:02.218+02:00Global WarmingReligion: Radical EnvironmentalismDo you ever wonder how communism could last for 70 years in Russia? Surely there was plenty of evidence, for decades, that the system was failing: food shortages, declining life expectancy, increased infant mortality, low standards of living, primitive hospitals, and sanitation facilities lagging far behind those in Western Europe and America — not to mention pollution far worse than in the West.http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/edmund-contoski-global-warming-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-2324908115504006792Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-11T07:00:02.436+02:00Alternative EnergyGlobal WarmingWhat is the impact of high level of gas prices? Alternative energy? What a bizarre idea!Daniel Henninger:For years, hyperactive environmentalists have burned votive candles to the spirit in the sky, hoping she'd levitate energy prices high enough to make alternatives to oil economically feasible. That day has come. Result: The oil has hit the fan.With gasoline over $4 and with life as they love http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/daniel-henninger-mrs-pelosis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-7125289967287272958Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-10T07:00:02.569+02:00Religion: Radical EnvironmentalismPART 1PART 2PART 3http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/penn-teller-being-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-5283389802390362376Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:20:00 +00002008-08-09T07:26:52.327+02:00Global WarmingReligion: Radical EnvironmentalismA leading British energy company blitzed the newspapers with full page colour advertisements this weekend which encourage children to sign up as "climate cops" and keep "climate crime case files" on their families, friends and neighbours. The ads, run by Npower, promote a website at www.climatecops.com where "trainees" must complete three missions before they can join the "elite cadets" and "http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/job-for-parsons-descendants-british.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-7598422463036177656Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:17:00 +00002008-08-05T10:20:12.785+02:00Global WarmingPiers Akerman:The latest blow to the Government’s apocalyptic prophet is news from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago. According to the Barents Observer there are open areas in this area in most years during July - but this year the area is covered by ice. A fortnight ago a Norwegian research ship, http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/norwegian-meteorological-institute.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-602704896468449902Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-04T07:00:02.667+02:00Global WarmingDHAKA (AFP) - New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say.Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/oooops-bangladesh-gaining-land-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-5862409841243166097Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-03T07:00:02.246+02:00Global WarmingPresident George W. Bush achieved some significant changes to the global warming status quo at the recent G8 summit in Japan. From today's Wall Street Journal: Kyoto's Long Goodbye:One of the mysteries of the universe is why President Bush bothers to charge the fixed bayonets of the global warming theocracy. On the other hand, his Administration's supposed "cowboy diplomacy" is succeeding in http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/wsj-kyotos-long-goodbye.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-4743593412141873136Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-02T07:00:05.013+02:00Global WarmingDavid Evans, a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005:When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/australian-scientist-doubts-climate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-4021869185740559617Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-08-01T07:00:05.664+02:00Global WarmingEd Struzik, Canwest News Service, Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (link) EXCERPT: After a remarkable 37-year experiment, University of Alberta scientist David Schindler and his colleagues have finally nailed down the chemical triggers for a problem that plagues thousands of freshwater and coastal ecosystems around the world.Fifty years ago, no one knew what exactly caused algae blooms to http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/08/phosphates-and-nitrogen-not-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-1482077998750560798Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:05:00 +00002008-07-31T10:05:01.120+02:00Global WarmingFormer Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. - Overheated claims: Scientists advocating for action are overselling the predictive capabilities of climate models – June 17, 2008 – (link)‘No convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide…will cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere’ – By Dr. Fred W. Decker, Professor of Meteorology at Oregon State http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/marc-morano-gores-really-inconvenient_31.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-1334864316546209257Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:50:00 +00002008-07-30T09:50:01.235+02:00Global Warming RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS CHALLENGE CLIMATE CHANGE CONSENSUS - Russian scientists 'reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming' - The Hindu – India’s National Newspaper: July 10, 2008: Excerpt: As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/marc-morano-gores-really-inconvenient.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-569589258152632550Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:43:00 +00002008-07-29T09:50:46.267+02:00Global WarmingNew Christopher Monckton's paper Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered (link) demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F. Lord Monckton concludes –“… Perhaps real-world climate sensitivity is very much below http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/climate-crisis-what.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-3841548518984278645Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:57:00 +00002008-07-15T13:03:39.233+02:00AerosolsGlobal WarmingWhat is the main effect on global warming?Michael Asher (DailyTech.com) on a new research - influence of aerosols on European climate. (link)A new study suggests much of that warming isn't due to global warming at all, but rather a decrease in atmospheric pollution as a result of clean air legislation. The cleaner air has fewer small particles known as aerosols, which tend to block sunlight from http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/global-warming-caused-by-aerosols.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-5913241250128285718Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:21:00 +00002008-07-09T09:31:47.939+02:00DIGESTGlobal WarmingIn a news conference held in Orlando, Florida today, Mr. John L. Casey, Director of the Space and Science Research Center, issued a landmark declaration on climate change. (link)“After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community acknowledges that the Earth has http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/global-warming-has-ended-next-climate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-4489036110052445405Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:52:00 +00002008-07-07T16:23:17.117+02:00Cap and tradeDIGESTGlobal WarmingHow to eliminate carbon dioxide from atmosphere?What a childish government's hobby to think about that! But seriously: if the governments want to do it, they would have to look at economic arguments. Two of light economic analysis of the "great global warming dilemma" offer Stephen Gordon and John Whitehead.Stephen Gordon at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative (link):What distinguishes the two is whathttp://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/great-global-warming-dilemma-cap-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-1409889161635233056Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:44:00 +00002008-07-03T23:50:29.143+02:00DIGESTGlobal WarmingAustralian researchers are not convenient scientists: they assume global cooling!By Michael Asher, DailyTech.com (link)A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia is warning of upcoming global cooling due to lessened solar activity. The study, written by three Australian researchers, has identified what is known as a "spin-orbit coupling" affecting the rotation rate of the sunhttp://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/australian-researchers-say-gobal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-8950105941571082679Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:02:00 +00002008-07-02T16:13:39.570+02:00DIGESTGlobal WarmingBy Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal (link)Amount of scientists who belive in man-made global warming theory is shrinking. "NASA confirms that the hottest year on record in the continental 48 was not 1998, as previously believed, but 1934, and that six of the 10 hottest years since 1880 antedate 1954."But what is most considerable, Climate Alarmism spreads as a new ideological branch of http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/07/global-warming-is-sick-souled-religion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-7606255908186417159Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:08:00 +00002008-06-29T11:16:48.778+02:00DIGESTReligion: Radical EnvironmentalismBy Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal (link)The Great Democratic Final in green coat. Excellent paper on democratic green machinery.Convention organizers hired the first-ever Director of Greening, longtime environmental activist Andrea Robinson. Her response to the mayor's challenge: "That terrifies me!"After all, the last time Democrats met in Denver -- to nominate William Jennings Bryan http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/06/greenest-stupid-show-on-earth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-4649057397554316021Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:00 +00002008-07-03T10:29:52.070+02:00Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)DIGESTBy Radovan Kazda, blog.sme.sk (link in slovak)Who is the enemy of european farmers? Marginal right political parties or Emanuel Goldstein? European Commission will explain it to you. And the deliquent is: free market.Let me quote what Commission means about free market in agriculture:It is certainly not the time to abolish the CAP, as some have suggested. The market has a very important role to http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/06/common-agricultural-policy-wonderful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-2436439742171015692Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:46:00 +00002008-06-24T08:42:26.222+02:00By Radovan KazdaGeorge Carlin (alias Filmore from the best modern fairy-tale recent times) speaks about that why we are here.Carlin's show "The Planet is fine" read here and here.George Carlin - Saving the Planet (The Planet Is Fine)http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/06/tribute-to-george-carlin-1937-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-1462253164826732618Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:05:00 +00002008-06-23T02:15:16.809+02:00Cap and tradeCarbon taxesDIGESTPigovian TaxesJim Manzi, TheAmericanScene.com (link)Reactions:- Ryan Avent at gristmill.grist.org (link)- Daniel Hall at CommonTragedies.wordpress.com (link)http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/06/conservative-view-on-carbon-taxes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27227432.post-715549277605854098Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:21:00 +00002008-06-23T01:26:42.400+02:00Cap and tradeCarbon taxesDIGESTGlobal WarmingPigouJim Manzi, TheAmericanScene.com (link)Ronald Coase’s lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize in economics is very instructive. When discussing one of the two papers for which he won the award, The Problem of Social Cost, he had this to say:I was exposing the weaknesses of Pigou’s analysis of the divergence between private and social products, an analysis generally accepted by economists, and that http://fmenviro.blogspot.com/2008/06/ronald-coase-on-pigovian-taxes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Radovan Kazda)0