Posted on 01-14-2010 | By: admin |
Category : Carbon Offsets, Forestry, Global Warming
Humans and trees both have a death rate of 100%. That fact quite often gets lost on environmentalists who imply that a tree saved today is a tree saved forever. Bernard Heinrich, in a December 20, 2009 article titled Clear-Cutting the Truth About Trees, confronts this and other misinformation. Heinrich is a retired PHD Professor of Biology from the University of Vermont. Continue Reading
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August is one of the two months is which Reel Time is not published.
Your next Reel Time should be available Friday September 3 or Monday September 6.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents…. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.
Max Planck, the father of quantum mechanics and a Nobel Prize winner.
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
The quote is originally attributed to Ogden Nash, but the economic philosophy has been adopted by dedevelopers - such the unibomber, President Obama, and his new science chief, John Holdren.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
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Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba’s Constitution…this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist.
Herbert Matthews, New York Times Feb. 1957.
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However, the absolute level of new home inventory is at its lowest since the early 1970s.
From Kevin Mason, Equity Research Associates. July 21, 2010.
The problem now is soft demand, not excess supply.
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