If 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 somewhere other than where it belongs; with the environmental groups. Groups like the Sierra Club, who have hogtied the Forest Service for years and forced a policy of "hands off" management of the forests through years of
litigation. We all know the Forest Service can do a better job, but if they could spend their time managing the forests rather than managing the lawyers they need to defend themselves....

Sorry, the link for "where it belongs" is to a pay site from the Albuquerque Journal

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Here's a good one about an environmental law you've probably never even heard of. It even predates the ESA.

I 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.

Education is worthless if you don't use it!! Get out and vote!!!

Missing 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 admit that the US may actually be on the right path, they now find themselves in a position where they may have to criticize one their favorites, a downtrodden (by the US probably) Third World country.

Read this...
"Even as activists succeed in getting the U.S. government to declare more and more forestland off limits to tree harvesting, America is destroying more forestland than ever before." What? We are destroying more forests? Not really, although it is our fault. (isn't it always?)
Here's the rest of the article.

One 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 where the story comes from; none other than CBS News. Here is the website of CBS' source.

Of course, they did leave themselves an out in the last couple of paragraphs. I guess they don't want the bogeyman to go away completely.

Excellent, excellent, excellent! I don't know what else to say about the environment links on the NCPA website.

Do 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.

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Here'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 Annan is jumping on the United States bashing bandwagon. Never mind that scientifically the Kyoto agreements are about as strong as a wet noodle, that doesn't seem to matter...Here's some commentary from the Washington Post.

Again, silly me. I thought the UN was for the good of ALL nations. Silly me.

Rational 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. One answer is that ten bankrolled preservationists advancing a regulatory strategy can outsmart ninety who aren't paying attention any time," and how it applies to property rights. This comes from the Anchorage Daily News and is a well timed piece of advice.

There'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.

Here'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.

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I 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 Pendleton because it might disturb the environment. The Army, has had to place 250 foot "buffer zones" around the trees at Fort Hood to protect any potential nesting sites for the birds. That makes it really hard to practice field manuevers. We need to decide who's more important American soldiers or trees and birds

Are 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.

I 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 in particular for me. "Bush Environment Record" Interesting, until you see, surprise, surprise, that the information on the President's environmental record comes straight from the Democratic Policy Committee! Hmm, wonder if they'll give him a favorable review. That's just the start, go see for yourself.

Some people are just plain stupid!

Finally, 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 how their decisions affect the people they are supposedly charged with helping. It seems to me that the plants and animals are being put first. Here is a great example of what I am talking about.
Look at this map and pay special attention to the dominant color.

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There'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 here or elsewhere.

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 how their decisions affect thepeople they are supposedly charged with helping. It seems to me that the plants and animals are being put first. Here is a great example of what I am talking about.
Look at this map and pay special attention to the dominant color.

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Since 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 WorldNetDaily by Henry Lamb. Check out his website and subscribe to his newsletter if you haven't already at ECO