environmental concerns

The first time I put a fluorescent bulb into a lamp I was appalled. It seemed to give everything a sickly gray glow. I waited to see if I would get used to it, but no. I also accidentally broke one and wasn't sure of cleanup protocols. Then I noticed a halogen option appear and I find these...

As you know California is getting ready to start construction on a 500 mile long high speed train system. A project many support because it will get people out of cars and airplanes in a state where the quality of air is a huge pressing concern. But getting environmental clearance for the...

I wish to attempt a rational skeptical discussion of economic, social, political, environmental, and technological issues relating to so-called "peak oil" and "peak everything" claims. This will require multiple threads, but I want to begin with some of the basics. At this point, I don't even...

So, sorry I have been away from the Skeptoid forums for a while, and as this wouldn't there, I thought I would put it here, as it seems to be a political debate more than an issue of environmental science. More accurately it is a question of when environmental science is the basis for policy...

"Originally, the great mama brought us into being so we would be guardians of nature. You, the little brother, was given this knowledge of how to treat the earth and the water and the air. At some point there was divergence and you, the little brother, went on a different path." - Jacinto...

OK, with a little tyke on the way, I have been bombarded with lots of different information about raising a child. One of my friends had her baby in January and swears by cloth diapers. She is very zealous about their use and insists that they have less of an environmental impact than...

Article Yikes! That video looks bad. I'm surprised that comparatively few were injured.

Mark Steyn: The Ecopalypse, 96 Months Away? Syndicated column via The Bulletin (Philadelphia) And a little something for Americans: Just had to share. :cool:

OK, not sure if this aspect of the Somalian piracy issue has been discussed here, but I found some articles and thought I would put them here for some kind of response. The short version is that when the Somalian Government collapsed in 1991, they effectively lost any ability to protect their...

http://www.slate.com/id/2212792/ http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/budget.departments/index.html?iref=newssearch • It cuts funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage program. Funding for the program "will be scaled back ... while the Administration devises a new...

Palin, thinks Polar bears are doing just fine. I think she is intentional misleading because of the threat to oil and gas development in prime polar bear habitat.... but I will give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she is just undereducated. I agree, both are unbecoming for a...

So an interesting article came out today on MSNBC that questioned the new carbon craze that is spurring a new market. First, they mention Gore says that he offsets his 10,000 square foot house carbon foot print by buying carbon offsets. Should the guy who is taking every opportunity he has to...

It just seems so ironic to me. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=524313

Enviros admit they were wrong. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/3/4/120527