Flooding was caused by a decision long ago to allow people to settle on the flood plain rather than just having fields which would benefit from the ... More »

All ancient civilizations have collapsed due, for the most part, to two factors. The destruction of the environment or the dead weight of too many ... More »

Perhaps the city should say to the Catholic church that they won't be able to continue their tax free status if their priests don't stop abusing ... More »

The letter of marquis might be the solution to saving world fisheries.

Part of a paradigm shift we will all have to make if we are to continue living in a reasonably intact society.

This article weakens the sun spot theory of climate change. The observed very low sun spot activity is oft quoted as the reason for the little ice ... More »

As Lithium batteries become less expensive, do all suggested but with Li rather than Pb batteries. Retrofits like this could create considerable ... More »

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans in their previous guise allowed the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to be destroyed. Why would behave be any ... More »

Taking its lead from our politicians, the audience and panelists were far too interested in simply shouting down Mr Griffin and far too uninterested ... More »

In the past, America has backed some of the shonkiest governments and dictators if they seemed to be willing to follow the American line. This is ... More »

As they say in the recuiting posters. Join the Navy, See the world. Meet lots of interesting people and Kill them. Now you can do it from a ... More »

A sensible species would take this decade or two respite from a warming world to drastically reduce carbon emissions. We will likely use it to deny ... More »

Combined with demand balancing and smart grids, this sort of innovation is going to create a full package to replace coal generation.

To repeat a previous comment, Is this any surprise in a country in which 40% of the population believes that the entire universe was created some ... More »

With global warming it is reasonably likely that the Hadley cells will shift their locations, resulting in a change in prevailing winds and in ... More »

The best and most effective thing Pres. Obama could do is to announce that he has too many other things to do than to spend all his time trying to ... More »

Americans have to learn to play the ball, not the man. To look at what their leaders say and more important what they do rather than how good they ... More »

When you read that about 40% of Americans believe that the world and the universe was created by a being in a nighty living up in the clouds of our ... More »

If you can ignore the moral repugnance of applying torture and the horrible psychological effect on the torturer, consider the well documented ... More »

Through no fault of his own, Norman Borlaug's green revolution was an almost unmitagated disaster. One more such revolution (which is being ... More »

It is only a gut feeling but having heard the review of "The Cove" and considering that Killer whales are top predators just as are dolphin, the ... More »

Americans are fighting a people that make the Martins and the McCoys look like choir boys with short memories. Their way of life is vendetta ... More »

The last green revolution staved off starvation but resulted in 700m more mouths to feed and nature which provides so much for free pushed further ... More »

Irrigation/hydro-electric dams have two purposes. One is to create head to enable water to be sent down irrigation pipes or down generator ... More »

Praise the lord and pass the collection plate. Has anything changed since Elmer Gantry