Air pollution from wood stoves kills 2 million, affects health of 3 billion
13 Oct 2011. Inefficient Developing World Stoves Contribute to 2 Million Deaths a Year. ScienceDaily.com Smoke emitting stoves cause so much indoor air pollution that at least 2 million people die...
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Ant BioInvasion Crazy Ants are replacing Fire ants. This is not a good thing! If you do some research on crazy ants, you will miss the fire ants. Researchers reported that where crazy ants take...
View ArticleWorldwide hunger and starvation
Kenneth R. Weiss. 22 July 2012. As the world’s population grows, hunger persists on a massive scale. Nearly 1 billion people are malnourished, and a child dies of hunger every 11 seconds. Los Angeles...
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Gail Tverberg: 8 pitfalls in evaluating green energy solutions
Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions November 18, 2014 by Gail Tverberg Does the recent climate accord between US and China mean that many countries will now forge ahead with renewables...
View ArticleDeforestation continues, despite forests being the best way to keep warming...
[This is a cut, re-arranged, and reworded summary, see the original article for details. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com ] McKenna, Phil. 2015-11-26. Sputtering Corporate Effort to Save...
View Article“World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”
Preface. I’m sure anyone reading this post knows it is too late to do anything but eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow … Although this warning was widely published, it was left out of over half of...
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Book: John Perlin’s “A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization”
Preface. This contains excerpts from John Perlin’s “A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization”. It’s one of my favorite books about natural resources, exploring the role wood has played in...
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European Power plants are burning American forests
Preface. Incredibly, this article doesn’t address the fact that after you cut down a forest and convert the wood into pellets destined to be burned in European furnaces for “clean energy”, the next...
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China is deforesting Russia
Preface. Here’s more than half of a New York Times article about China deforesting Russia. Yikes! Peak oil had better come soon before we denude the earth. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com...
View ArticleClimate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important...
Preface. I’ve noticed that in the half dozen science magazines and several newspapers I get practically the only environmental stories are about climate change. Yet there are 8 other ecological...
View ArticleForests make the wind that carries the rain across continents
Preface. This is a controversial theory that if true, “could help explain why, despite their distance from the oceans, the remote interiors of forested continents receive as much rain as the...
View ArticleInsect & other BioInvasions
Preface. Invasive insects that have no predators in the U.S. can only be somewhat reduced with oil-based products that will grow scarcer as petroleum declines. Pesticides are made out of oil and...
View ArticleHeat effects on habitability, biodiversity, and invasive species
Preface. Due to limits of human heat tolerance, much of Earth’s surface may not be habitable by 2300 if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the current rate. But we can’t continue at the current...
View ArticleAir pollution from wood stoves kills 2 million, affects health of 3 billion
13 Oct 2011. Inefficient Developing World Stoves Contribute to 2 Million Deaths a Year. ScienceDaily.com Smoke emitting stoves cause so much indoor air pollution that at least 2 million people die...
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