Well, if you believe that correlation = causation, that is! But jokes aside, every time an anti-environmental icon goes down, the salmon rejoice. Not that I know much about fisheries, but salmon and Larry Craig, that’s a great combination right…
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Corn Ethanol goes boom, then bust (and is evil)
by oliveridley • September 29, 2007
Turns out that even the small increase in ethanol production (it is small if you compare it to the actual amount of gasoline used) cannot be handled by this country’s fuel infrastructure. Sudden Surplus Arises as Threat to Ethanol Boom…
Now we know where Juvenile sea turtles Hide
by oliveridley • September 27, 2007
You see the hatchlings as they dig out of the nests all small and helpless and make a beeline towards the sea. You see the adult female as she comes back to lay her eggs. You see adult males when…
The LA Times and the American Chemistry Council
by oliveridley • September 24, 2007
Giving the American Chemistry Council a forum to sing paeans to its chemical du jour is kinda like giving Donald Trump an Op-Ed column on the harmlessness of gambling. The ACC is a trade association that gets all its funding…
One Person's Carbon Offset – Another's Child labor?
by oliveridley • September 24, 2007
The ‘carbon offset’ child labourers – Times Online “Pumping furiously on a foot treadle in the afternoon heat, six-year-old Sarju Ram is irrigating her impoverished family’s field, improving the crop and – without knowing it – helping environmentally sensitive holiday-makers…
Conventional biofuels are evil, part 4233241
by oliveridley • September 22, 2007
English to American Translation: Rapeseed = Canola. Maize = Corn. Turns out that all the nitrate fertilizer you use to grow all the corn and canola you need emits a lot of Nitrous Oxide. No laughing matter, this, N2O is…
Coal is Evil, part 1201010
by oliveridley • September 19, 2007
Note: When people say “clean coal”, they are referring in part to all the actions taken to limit particle and ash emissions out of the smokestacks. This is done in a variety of ways including washing the coal to remove…
U.K Hospitals – Get that filthy tie out of here!
by oliveridley • September 18, 2007
It may be no surprise to some that doctors frequently transmit diseases amongst patients in hospitals. And bugs in hospitals, raised on a steady diet of antibiotics, tend to be hardy, drug resistant and deadly. Among the many sensible things…
Northwest Passage Opens – Life is Unfair
by oliveridley • September 17, 2007
While developing countries face devastating droughts, floods and general mayhem due to climate change, it appears that melting ice in the Arctic could expose all kinds of mineral resources, including more oil to accelerate global warming, to the very countries,…
Pesticide Screening Using a CD Player and CDs.
by oliveridley • September 16, 2007
Who said CDs were dead, this is, hands down, the coolest paper on screening techniques I have seen in a while. I haven’t seen the rest of the paper, not Open Access, of course, but the abstract does make it…