tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38568702012-02-16T12:48:36.629-08:00Conservative NatureEnvironmental news from the right! Fight back against the "consensus"...Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-62806786326036336402012-01-25T19:33:00.000-08:002012-01-25T19:34:31.960-08:00Interesting article on satellite measured surface temperatures. Seems its getting colder.... Hmm, wonder how that could be?
Read the article here: http://tinyurl.com/isitcoldMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-26263728029568478832011-12-25T09:23:00.000-08:002011-12-25T09:23:04.145-08:00We do have environmental problems, but most of these, if not all of them, are manageable problems with rational solutions.
-Michael Coffman
Saviors of the Earth? (1994)Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-69445083545438037052011-12-15T20:03:00.000-08:002011-12-25T09:24:08.978-08:00The care of the environment is important, but what is equally important is that we don't take care of the environment so well that we can never enjoy it...
With that said, here is a very interesting quote:
“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-1144706462155233922006-04-10T14:59:00.000-07:002006-04-10T15:01:02.166-07:00Global Cooling?This comes as somewhat of a follow up to the previous post...Is it true? Has global warming stopped?If so, I need to go buy a winter coat...Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-1143936922320229262006-04-01T16:14:00.000-08:002006-04-01T16:15:22.333-08:00Ice Age or Global Warming?This is an interesting site. Has a ton of information, statistics and data.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-1143431493188089982006-03-26T19:49:00.000-08:002006-03-26T19:51:33.200-08:00Rent a kid?If this story is true it is really disturbing.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-1143170954428866432006-03-23T19:28:00.000-08:002006-03-23T19:44:07.873-08:00Think again...Still think the U.N. and all of its programs are benign? Think again.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-1143081533802166742006-03-22T18:36:00.000-08:002006-03-22T18:38:53.813-08:00Is the Endangered Species Act a good law? Read this article and decide for yourself. You probably know my opinion already...Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-925044432003-04-12T16:17:00.000-07:002003-04-12T16:20:04.000-07:00After a long hiatus......
Yet another example of environmentalists not thinking all the way through their actions.
Mexico may retaliate against American trucks. Now, I don't want unsafe Mexican trucks on our highways any more than the next guy, but here is a prime example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. In their zeal to "protect" our environment the environmentalists have sued and Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-892147312003-02-16T18:23:00.000-08:002003-02-16T18:23:23.630-08:00Almost 2 weeks have gone by since I last thought of posting. Here are a couple of tidbits I ran across today.
An interesting history of The Nature Conservancy
Arabic illegals?
Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-883635382003-01-31T20:51:00.000-08:002003-01-31T20:51:28.480-08:00Discussion boards will be closed while I decide where to move them to. I know, I know, some of you (my faithful reader) are saying "Discussion boards, what Discussion boards?" Wel'' there are some but they don't work very well. soooo........Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-883634672003-01-31T20:49:00.000-08:002003-01-31T20:49:46.000-08:00Hoisted on their own PETArd! What? PETA's polls aren't scientific and unbiased? Tell me it ain't so!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-881937002003-01-28T19:21:00.000-08:002003-01-28T19:24:52.000-08:00This is worth taking a look at. LandSense
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-881297582003-01-27T17:49:00.000-08:002003-01-27T17:50:41.000-08:00"The quickest way to kill your kid is to strap them into an SUV." Robert Kennedy Jr. (National Resources Defense Council) on O'Reilly Monday night. Not to be crass, but who's kids are more likely to die in an accident, yours in your Suburban or somebody else's in the Kia? You know the answer, I know the answer, apparently the NRDC doesn't.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-880587042003-01-26T12:16:00.000-08:002003-01-26T12:18:18.000-08:00Wow! More proof, this time from Pennsylvania that the Wildlands Project is not pro-nature, its anti-people.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-879625202003-01-24T08:34:00.000-08:002003-01-24T08:52:00.000-08:00Doesn't this headline really just say it all?
The compromised Sierra Club: Once a bold defender of the planet,America's largest environmental group has become a cheap political prostitute
An interesting article on the inner turmoil the Sierra Club is going through.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-878227852003-01-21T20:28:00.000-08:002003-01-21T20:29:14.000-08:00Looks like some extreme environmental movements are having to confront the consequences of their actions. Maybe they will be forced to abandon their "people aren't important" attitude. I hope so.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-875106622003-01-15T18:50:00.000-08:002003-01-15T18:50:41.000-08:00What do you think of this? Code of the West: City slickers, you have been warned!
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-874521562003-01-14T18:58:00.000-08:002003-01-14T18:59:50.000-08:00Letting science rather than emotion make the decisions? What a radical idea!
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-872873922003-01-11T18:46:00.000-08:002003-01-11T19:05:04.000-08:00Do you want some hard science on global warming? Here is the place to get it.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-870949832003-01-07T20:07:00.000-08:002003-01-07T20:12:56.000-08:00Another land grab by the environmentalists? Would you believe the Grand Canyon?
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-870434982003-01-06T20:40:00.000-08:002003-01-06T20:50:23.000-08:00">This one bears paying attention to. From the LA Times no less.
Sorry, you have to register to read this story. Its free, though! :)
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-869874012003-01-05T19:13:00.000-08:002003-01-05T19:15:58.000-08:00Looks to me like some institutions of higher learning have decided to forgo academic independence and turn to outright advocacy. I fail to see why we need to understand environmental radicals any more than knowing that they don't value human life. Well, Cal State Fresno feels different, they are sponsoring a conference...... well, ">take a look for yourself.
Hmmm.... Does this mean they Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-869449772003-01-04T19:20:00.000-08:002003-01-04T19:23:04.000-08:00Do you think that Portland has the right idea about how it should grow? Its system has been called Smart Growth, here's an article that should make people think twice about this so called "smart growth." It turns out that in their zeal to protect anything living (except people) the environmental movement is hurting the people who need help the most. Read on
Another favorite of smart growth Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-869055772003-01-03T19:40:00.000-08:002003-01-03T19:40:47.000-08:00Are environmentalists altrusitic? I don't think so, I think that what they really want is power and the environment is just their vehicle. So, with that in mind, they will attack anything that anybody who is deemed an enemy of the environment does, as this example shows.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-867931352003-01-01T11:11:00.000-08:002003-01-01T11:11:56.000-08:00Happy New Year! Apparently PETA doesn't like the word happy. Well, at least not when its
connected to cows. Hope you and yours are happy!
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-864619232002-12-23T19:10:00.000-08:002002-12-23T19:11:51.000-08:00I grew up in the Army and I used to think the Army Corps of Engineers was a cool name for a cool organization. (I don't really know if the the Corps is actually affiliated with the Army, do you?) Anyway, then I grew up and heard of stories like this one involving a Habitat for Humanity project in Florida.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-863458542002-12-20T19:12:00.000-08:002002-12-20T19:13:46.000-08:00I didn't see the opinion that this ">letter is in response to, but I sure do like what the writer has to say about forests.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-861426642002-12-16T18:16:00.000-08:002002-12-16T18:16:44.000-08:00What does sustainable development mean to you? Henry Lamb of EcoLogic has an opinion worth reading.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-859169552002-12-12T15:16:00.000-08:002002-12-13T12:16:24.000-08:00The Humane Society is pretty mainstream, right? Are you sure?
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-857625972002-12-09T19:27:00.000-08:002002-12-09T19:27:37.000-08:00Yet another article on my favorite topic, eco-terrorism! I think they are a real menace and we need to support the FBI in its efforts to track these nut cases down and stop them before somebody gets hurt or killed.
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Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-856537322002-12-07T14:12:00.000-08:002002-12-07T14:12:40.000-08:00
Greens want a new State Lands Commissioner. I went to college with the current land commissioner, Mike Anable. He is a good man and I consider him a friend. Do what you can to show support for him.
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Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-856229402002-12-06T19:23:00.000-08:002002-12-06T19:24:37.000-08:00One of the complaints from environmentalists that I hear a lot is that we are developing over all of the wilderness areas. How about this fact.... ntentModules/printstory.jsp">46% of land on Earth is undeveloped. So let's see, in 2 million years humans have developed just over half of the usable land. Doesn't seem to me that we will be running out any time soon.
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Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-855180022002-12-04T19:34:00.000-08:002002-12-04T19:34:55.726-08:00To both of my faithful readers! (hehe) Sick children will keep me from posting for the next couple of days. Stay tuned....Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-854602012002-12-03T18:57:00.000-08:002002-12-03T18:58:13.000-08:00An environmentalist complaining about other environmentalists? The author of
this article from the Denver Post has a wonderful point about the environmentalists who are trying to get rid of ranching.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-854121232002-12-02T19:24:00.000-08:002002-12-02T19:24:40.000-08:00Aah... the joys of the holiday season. You know, like when ">PETA compares turkeys to terrorists. Yes, you read that right, turkeys are terrorists!
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-851935292002-11-27T19:49:00.000-08:002002-11-27T19:50:33.000-08:00What is the real motivation behind the "What would Jesus Drive?" campaign? Here's some very interesting speculation from Rich Lowry.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-851449042002-11-26T20:23:00.000-08:002002-11-26T20:24:41.000-08:00Here's the headline Environmentals brace for Bush 'onslaught'. Read on....
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Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-850863132002-11-25T18:36:00.000-08:002002-11-25T18:36:44.000-08:00One of the best pieces on
old growth and the "natural state" of forests that I have seen in a long, long time! An absolute must read!
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-849548212002-11-22T19:40:00.000-08:002002-11-22T19:41:02.000-08:00I don't know about you but I just love it when PETA gets strung up by their own petard. Here's a story from CNS News to illustrate. Also check out this ad that is running or is going to be run in L.A.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-848846062002-11-21T12:01:00.000-08:002002-11-22T19:40:44.000-08:00"What would Jesus do?" In principle that's a good thing. But this just goes too far. Picking your car this way?
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-847383762002-11-18T18:07:00.000-08:002002-11-21T12:02:41.000-08:00I know you've heard of the Kyoto Protocols, but did you know that even developing countries are rejecting them? What? Its not just the evil old United States that doesn't agree with them? Get the story here.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-846878762002-11-17T19:11:00.000-08:002002-11-17T19:11:40.000-08:00Another land grab in the name of an endangered species? The government may declare more than one fifth of Hawaii critical habitat for 255 endangered plants and 2 insects. The most intriguing part of this is that one of the plants is almost gone already. There are only 9 specimens left! Last time I checked that is hardly enough to keep a species viable. Read about it for yourself from this Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-846471962002-11-16T20:40:00.000-08:002002-11-16T20:40:05.746-08:00A new look! Enjoy!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-846449732002-11-16T19:30:00.000-08:002002-11-16T19:33:21.000-08:00Good science is important, no matter which side you are on. Especially when it involves an issue as big as Klamath Basin became last summer.
DiscussMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-846031292002-11-15T18:04:00.000-08:002002-11-15T18:05:14.000-08:00Sustainable development. That is a very clever title that they have come up with. It sounds good on the surface. We all want things that are sustainable and development is usually a good thing. But something got twisted when those two terms were combined. If you weren't convinced that the UN is an enemy of private land ownership and is, at the least, working against the freedoms we enjoy in Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-845563982002-11-14T18:44:00.000-08:002002-11-14T18:44:58.000-08:00I know that I set this weblog up to discuss issues concerning the environment and I guess I could tie this into the environment with just a little bit of stretching, but I found the most amazing story about Scott Ritter. Remember him? He of the change of heart weapons inpector who addressed the Iraqi parliament. He gave a speech the other day, you MUST read this!
Leave a Comment!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-845513152002-11-14T16:40:00.000-08:002002-11-14T16:43:15.000-08:00Two items today.
Check out the Discussion Boards! They have been dramatically updated and upgraded!
Peta. Are they a terrorist group or not? Whatever they are they have way to much influence, even when they are not doing anything. An ad run by a group opposing PETA shows a picture of the fire in Vail that was set by ELF. Turns out PETA provided some funding to ELF. Well, the people in Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-844949942002-11-13T15:21:00.000-08:002002-11-13T15:22:30.000-08:00Whales or the Navy? Which one do you think the environmentalists prefer?
Leave a Comment!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-844422282002-11-12T15:50:00.000-08:002002-11-12T15:52:15.000-08:00Another political note. Republicans won on Tuesday, some Democrats won on Tuesday. What happened to the Green Party? Here's two links you might find enlightening. One, from plastic.com says the Greens went from being worth a "squat to a squat and a half." I found that amusing. (smile) The other is the article that led to the quote on plastic; its from the Washington Post. Enjoy.
Leave a Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-843939292002-11-11T18:09:00.000-08:002002-11-11T18:14:57.000-08:00We won on Tuesday! An historic vistory, but, is the battle over? Not by a long shot, let the demonization of conservatives begin! This article from the Desert Sun talks about how the Republicans will work to destroy the environment. To be fair, it does mention a couple of good things about one Republican and slaps one Democrat on the wrist, but the title, Power shift worries environmentalistsMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-843292672002-11-10T13:29:00.000-08:002002-11-10T13:29:42.000-08:00More on ELF. A television station in Pittsburgh sent out their investigative team. Here is the story that resulted. Most interesting to me is the link from the story to a response to some questions sent to ELF by the TV station. Fanatics of all types scare me.
Leave a Comment!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-842602372002-11-08T18:49:00.000-08:002002-11-08T18:58:25.000-08:00If you don't know already, I live in the Southwest and we had a bunch of big fires this summer, want proof? Just look at this
map. Well now it seems as if the "BIG" media folks are starting to take notice of the fires. Science is starting to show that wildfires have an effect on global warming. (Remember, global warming is a good thing) The problem is they are trying to put all of the blame Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-842066362002-11-07T19:51:00.000-08:002002-11-07T19:55:59.000-08:00Here's a good one about an environmental law you've probably never even heard of. It even predates the ESA.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-841497322002-11-06T18:51:00.000-08:002002-11-06T18:54:48.000-08:00I don't want to sound cliched but Al Qaeda is not the only terrorist group we need to worry about. Have you heard of ELF? They split from Earth First! because Earth First wasn't radical enough. They used to just threaten buildings but that has changed, as shown by the evidence in this article.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-840863692002-11-05T16:04:00.000-08:002002-11-05T16:04:17.800-08:00Education is worthless if you don't use it!! Get out and vote!!!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-840408092002-11-04T20:00:00.000-08:002002-11-06T18:56:20.000-08:00Missing the forest for the trees?
We have more trees now than has ever been recorded in the United States but environmental whack jobs are still killing themselves trying to save the righteous and venerable old growth trees, while Third World countries, starving for cash, are busily chopping their forests down.
Environmental groups find themselves in a bind, you know how hard it is for them to Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-839370392002-11-02T16:30:00.000-08:002002-11-06T18:56:53.000-08:00One of the environmental movement's big bogeymen is nuclear power and the spectre of fallout from damaged nuclear powerplants. I remember Three Mile Island and the hysteria it caused (including that Jane Fonda movie, The China Syndrome), well it turns out that the TMI accident has not had an effect on the cancer rates of people living in the area. What makes this most interesting to me is whereMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-839035832002-11-01T19:14:00.000-08:002002-11-06T18:57:17.000-08:00Excellent, excellent, excellent! I don't know what else to say about the environment links on the NCPA website.
Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-838462182002-10-31T14:46:00.000-08:002002-10-31T14:47:52.000-08:00Do you find it hard to breathe sometimes? I mean, do you find it hard to catch your breath after hearing or reading another hysterical story about how the world is going to hell in a handbasket? Well, have faith because the world is getting cleaner, its just not being reported! Here's a good example from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Comment?Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-837482552002-10-29T18:34:00.000-08:002002-10-29T18:40:56.000-08:00Here's a quote from a story the National Center for Policy Analysis posted concerning climate change and the UN. "The United Nations is determined to browbeat the United States into signing the Kyoto protocol on global warming, and is employing some pretty suspect means to achieve that end, critics say." That's right the Kyoto protocol is rearing its ugly head again, and none other than Kofi Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-836952702002-10-28T18:44:00.000-08:002002-10-28T18:44:55.000-08:00Rational ignorance. Sounds like an excuse my 7th grade students would come up with when I ask where their homework is, but its actually something we all practice. Here is some sound advice about rational ignorance, its ramifications, "Yet many wonder how a well-intentioned law morphed into the single most powerful way to control land use and destroy people's property rights and livelihoods. OneMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-836377702002-10-27T18:19:00.000-08:002002-10-27T18:19:32.416-08:00There's a new report from the UN that says mountains are in danger from farming. The report actually details 7 things that they think may be harming mountain ecosystems but the story chooses to highlight farming. What, farmer's are bad? I thought they were good guys, seeing as how everybody (yes, even the UN types) need food! Guess I have been misled.
Here's the UN report.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-835399882002-10-25T21:05:00.000-07:002002-10-25T21:06:22.000-07:00Here's an interesting thing from the Wildlife Conservation Society. I haven't had a chance to examine it in depth yet, but here it is, take a look. Map that shows the impact of humans on the globe.
Let me know what you think on the Discussion Boards.
_____Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-834948352002-10-24T20:38:00.000-07:002002-10-24T20:39:01.000-07:00I wonder sometimes, is the evironmental movement is really concerned with the right things? For instance, wouldn't the entire world be a better environment if there were no terrorists? Well, it seems that the California gnatcatcher and trees are more important than properly trained soldiers. The Marines in Afghanistan don't know how to dig foxholes. Why? Because they can't practice at Camp Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-834407712002-10-23T20:22:00.000-07:002002-10-23T20:32:40.000-07:00Are you cold? Winter is approaching and apparently its global warming's fault! A scientist has claimed that global warming could cause of all things, an ice age! Read the story at CNS News and then go to the discussion board to leave comments.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-833869782002-10-22T20:47:00.000-07:002002-10-22T20:48:27.000-07:00I downloaded a news reader to well, you know, read the news. One of the news feeds that came pre-installed was Green Nature. I clicked on one of the stories and went to their website. Looks pretty innocuous on the surface. That is until you dig just a little, notice I said just a little. If you click on the Election 2002 link you will find a series of articles on the election, one stood out Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-833301062002-10-21T19:35:00.000-07:002002-10-22T09:28:36.000-07:00Some people are just plain stupid!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-832833262002-10-20T22:21:00.000-07:002002-10-20T22:35:48.000-07:00Finally, back to today's post. Huh, back to today's post? Some weirdness happened earlier and I lost some stuff.
I really hate to sound paranoid and the idea behind the United Nations seems like a good thing, and preserving and protecting wildlife is a good thing (I do have a degree in Horticulture, you know) BUT I wonder if the UN and the people who work there and with them really understand Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-832829632002-10-20T22:09:00.000-07:002002-10-20T22:19:09.000-07:00There's some weirdness going on with the publishing software. So ignore the post right under this one and read below as I try to fix it.
Henry Lamb has a great organization called ECO, he has published an article called Green Zombies on World Net Daily about school textbooks that you might find interesting.
Also, I have started a discussion board site if you want to comment on things you see Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-832826022002-10-20T21:58:00.000-07:002002-10-20T21:58:57.700-07:00I really hate to sound paranoid and the idea behind the United Nations seems like a good thing, and preserving and protecting wildlife is a good thing (I do have a degree in Horticulture, you know) BUT I wonder if the UN and the people who work there and with them really understand how their decisions affect thepeople they are supposedly charged with helping. It seems to me that the plants and Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-832353882002-10-19T20:01:00.000-07:002002-10-19T20:03:31.000-07:00Since I just started this blog, I have a whole stack of stuff to get out. So please be patient if some of this seems like old news. You should read it again anyway. :)
Here's an example of why I don't use the textbook in my science class very often, although to be honest I haven't thoroughly checked for propaganda in the text supplied to me.
Green Zombies? This is an article from Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-831920152002-10-18T16:39:00.000-07:002002-10-18T16:39:18.016-07:00Here's a site with a lot of information on the real story with global warming. Is it happening? Yes! Is it a bad thing? No!
Visit The Greening Earth SocietyMike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-831532482002-10-17T21:23:00.000-07:002002-10-17T21:23:28.530-07:00Check out the reading list in the links. Then come back here and help support this poor underpaid teacher by purchasing one from Amazon.com!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-830965242002-10-16T19:46:00.000-07:002002-10-16T19:46:32.396-07:00To fight you must be educated. I am a teacher after all... To that end, here are some books you must read!
1. A Moment on the Earth by Gregg Easterbrook.
2. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg.
--These two books are interesting because they are both written by self described liberal environmentalists. You probably have heard what happened to Mr. Lomborg. The same sort of thing Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-830462392002-10-15T20:41:00.000-07:002002-10-15T20:41:34.936-07:00A new link! About me!!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-829964702002-10-14T20:33:00.000-07:002002-10-14T20:33:16.143-07:00Here's an interesting thing I just found from the Heritage Foundation. To avoid climate change there would need to be 40 different changes similar to the Kyoto Protocol. Read it here.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-829920502002-10-14T18:56:00.000-07:002002-10-14T19:05:14.000-07:00"Human activity is undoing creation" This quote comes directly from The Wildlands Project Mission statement. This is required
reading. It is also scary in what it implies about the way they feel about people....Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-829779242002-10-14T12:55:00.000-07:002002-10-14T13:10:37.000-07:00I am still playing with templates because I haven't decided what I want it to look like, so please bear with me!Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-829489882002-10-13T21:20:00.000-07:002002-10-13T21:20:13.760-07:00Should private property owners be afraid of the UN? Decide for yourself, read this article from World Net Daily.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-829474442002-10-13T20:41:00.000-07:002002-10-13T20:41:32.180-07:00A new look! Real stuff coming soon.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856870.post-829471482002-10-13T20:34:00.000-07:002002-10-13T20:34:09.753-07:00Welcome! This is my first post to my first blog. I hope you will find some interesting information here. We need to keep our side informed of all the craziness about nature, the environment, and the sometimes whacky environmentalists.Mike Joneshttps://profiles.google.com/114085027264619354874noreply@blogger.com0