By Ron McCarley In today’s world, appearing “green” has become more important than the reality.   Any company with the word “green” or “environmental” in its name is a step ahead.   For example, “Environmental Toxic Industrial Sludge, Inc.” might be applauded today for its non-efforts.   And a green-colored truck or package helps.          Environmental magazines advertise exotic trips for the ‘faithful’, where adherents can disturb Earth’s pristine ecology while claiming to protect it from everyone else.   Annually, tens of thousands of U.N. IPCC climate attendees arrive in private planes and limousines at faraway tourist … Continue reading FEELING SO GREEN IN A POLLUTED WORLD

By Ron McCarley In 1799 George Washington went riding on a miserable winter day.   That night he developed a severe sore throat, and had difficulty breathing.   A team of doctors determined that his bodily humors – biles, phlegm and blood – were out of balance, so they began draining his body of 40 percent of its blood, also prescribing vomiting, enemas, and blisters.   He died later that day. Bloodletting was practiced from Old Testament times until the late 1800’s.   Barbers even performed it, as symbolized by their red and white candy-striped poles.   If bloodletting didn’t … Continue reading MONKEYS ARE AS ACCURATE AS SCIENTISTS AND POLITICIANS

By Ron McCarley The information contained in this article is false.   Any confusion created by the author is purposeful, intended and entirely the fault of the reader.    Newspapers by 2030 will print special editions devoted solely to obituaries, the result of climate change. All those climate books, written by people with degrees in basket-weaving and the like, are unbiased and objective, while real climatologists should be ignored and vilified.  Wind turbines are reliable, never-failing, with useful lives as long as any conventional utility.   And ice throw, bearing failures, parasitic power consumption, numerous raptor kills, fires, pulsing sounds, shadow … Continue reading EVERYTHING IN THIS COLUMN IS FALSE

By Ron McCarley “What gets us into trouble is …what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”  (Mark Twain)       The Assertion: Discover magazine, June 2017: “All we know so far is that…those [Antarctic] waters are getting warmer…, but the actual mechanisms are still uncertain”.      Fact: British Antarctic Survey, January 22, 2008, 9 years earlier: “First Evidence of Under-ice Volcanic Eruption in Antarctica”      Fact: Ohio State University via WUWT website, July 10, 2015:   “Study finds surprisingly high geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet”      The Assertion: European Geosciences Union, February, 2014: “The researchers believe Jakobshavn Isbrae [Glacier] is in an unstable state, meaning it will … Continue reading ARE THE POLES REALLY WARMING?: THE MEDIA’S BIPOLAR DISORDER