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  • Balanced article! But mention coming technologies, too.

    Thank you for a well-researched and balanced article. I'm Alberta-born, but not involved in any part of the oil industry - and as some posters have noted, we get very little from the resource exploitation except jobs. I bike to work and pay extra for household electricity to have it (notionally) come from Alberta's many wind farms. But I have ...
    Posted to Green Room by rbrander on June 19, 2009

  • Air travel is hard to offset

    The problem with air travel is that it much more polluting than driving and you go much longer distances. Most estimates say air travel produces more than half a pounds of CO2 per mile per passenger. Of course this depends on a lot of factors such as how full the plane is, but the airline industry uses cheap, dirty fuels and they are incredibly ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by Intersection on December 23, 2008

  • Hybrids, not as good a move as you think

    Before you go out and buy a hybrid you may want to look into turning your current vehicle into a hybrid. In recent years many advances have been made towards using hydrogen in conventional gas burning engines. While some ideas seem to have been made by crack pot hippies or your neighbor experimenting in his garage some ideas will actually work. ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by allanmain on July 8, 2008

  • Massive Groundwater Mercury Cleanup

    Is it five years from now when the first big wave of long-lasting CFL bulbs will hit American garbage cans? I understand that it's more mercury in the air today to generate electricity for incandescents than is used in the CFL bulbs today. But our children or grandchildren will curse us and pay billions to clean-up the groundwater polluted by ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by ScheduleC on February 13, 2008

  • Methane? CO2? H2O? Try Sunspots!

    I slap my forehead every time someone hauls out charts comparing the human production of CO2 with the recent trend in global warming. They just don't get it: Correlation does NOT imply causation, a fact the entire US medical community got handed to them a few years back when they noticed a correlation between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by swamper777 on February 9, 2008

  • Re: the actual temperature record contradicts you, green lan

    bmgreene: Also, the last I heard, they have yet to come up with a computer climate model which shows any decent corelation with known historical data when run backwards in time. backwards in time? causality doesn't work that way. you can't model the racked balls at the beginning of a billiard game by modeling the shots backwards. but you ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by gzuckier on January 29, 2008

  • Re: CO2 and H2O

    San: ''No, by decades I mean decades.'' Then you are a retard who never took an environmental science course. So.... why is the CO2 in the atmosphere accumulating, then? Why is it 30% higher now than 100 years ago? Aren't the trees doing their part? Do they need to be instructed as to their proper behavior? Is this one of those ''I ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by gzuckier on January 24, 2008

  • Re: CO2 and H2O

    San: ''And no, trees don't tend to grow more when there is more CO2'' And Duke university seems to think quite differently, seeing as how they had a large research school devoted to CO2 levels and trees, and have proven it to be the case. Yes, they certainly do: ''But both scientists cautioned that such a high sustained uptake is actually ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by gzuckier on January 24, 2008

  • Re: CO2 and H2O

    Eigenvector: Pathetic, again you post a factually inaccurate counter to the arguments against global warming. First you hose up gasoline, now you flub CO2. First and foremost, the creating of CO2 is ALWAYS accompanied by H2O when dealing with combustion products. In fact the ratio of CO2 to H2O is 2 water for 1 CO2. It isn't tough to figure ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by gzuckier on January 24, 2008

  • Re: Balmy 59 Degrees?

    San:If you paid any attention, it was about writing style, not about science. what it was about was that somebody read the words ''the planet's average surface temperature would be somewhere between -9 and -34 degrees Fahrenheit, rather than the balmy 59 degrees it is today.'' and thought not only that that meant that the author was lying ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by gzuckier on January 23, 2008
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