This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the news.
1. Global warming causes 817 (and counting) of the world’s ills
A web site out of the United Kingdom called Numbers Watch is keeping track of all the world’s horrors that allegedly are being caused by global warming. This site has a complete list with links to the source of each claim. As of September 13 the site had documented 817 "things being caused by global warming," such as terrorism, higher taxes, cannibalistic and deaf polar bears, plane crashes, plus 813 more. And as the site points out, all of these things are said to be happening because of a 0.006 degree Celsius annual increase in temperature.
JLF on global warming:
https://www.johnlocke.org/agenda2010/climatechange.html
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/policy%20reports/147
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/195
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/policy%20reports/86
2. John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, to sue Al Gore over global warming
This YouTube clip of meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman on Fox News’ "Red Eye" tells the story.
3. DDT ban "the modern, eco-style eugenics"
I’d like to call attention to this excellent article by Paul Driessen of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) on the murderous DDT ban that is causing billions of malaria deaths in Africa and other parts of the developing world. In addition to chronicling the history of the ban, Driessen points out how effective DDT had been in eradicating malaria from the developed world, including the U.S., before environmentalists had it banned just in time to deny these same benefits to the Third World. As Driessen notes:
Spraying the walls and eaves of houses once or twice a year with this powerful spatial repellant keeps 80-90% of mosquitoes from even entering a home; irritates any that do enter, so they don’t bite; and kills any that land. DDT is a long-lasting mosquito net over entire households. No other chemical, at any price, can do this. And no one (certainly not any eco pressure group) is working to develop one.
The DDT ban is consistent with the historical roots of the modern environmental movement, whose founders were part of the progressive eugenics movement of the first half of the 20th Century.
4. Weekly Ozone Report
For the week of September 12 to September 18, the NC DAQ reports, once again, no high ozone readings registered on North Carolina monitors. From April 1 through September 18, a total of 25 weeks, North Carolina has had 100 high ozone readings (.076 ppm or above over an 8 hour period). These readings were scattered around the state over 33 out of 39 different monitors and over 22 different days. Most of the high ozone days to date have occurred in the Charlotte area and in the Triad. [Note: When an ozone alert is made through the media, it is only a prediction. Very often an ozone alert is issued but a high ozone day does not materialize. That is why we are reporting here that during certain weeks there were no actual high ozone days even though ozone alerts may have been issued and reported in the media.]
Links to recent JLF reports on ozone:
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/234
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/229
