The school boards of eight Florida counties have passed resolutions insisting that evolution be presented alongside alternative theories of organismal origin and development.When you let politicians run schools; less science, more pandering.
Place a tax on each ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) embodied in fossil fuels. Set the tax high enough to initially stabilize nationwide emissions, and then have the tax rise over time, generating steady cuts in pollution. Use tax revenue to (1) compensate lower income Americans for higher energy prices, and (2) to assist impacted workers, especially in coal mining.Why do they think redistributing taxes to the poor will offset higher energy prices? Higher energy prices would potentially make everything more expensive. It is the height of ignorance to think that you can accurately predict what effect such taxes would have on the economy as a whole. And why is "fighting global warming" more important than raising the poor out of poverty?
To the extent that coal use is unavoidable, only allow coal plants that capture and permanently sequester their emissions in geologic formations.Do they understand the impact that such a policy would have? What ecological impact will pumping CO2 into oceans have - will we be over "fighting global warming" in 50 years and blathering about "fighting ocean carbonation" instead?
By 2030, require by law that all new buildings in the US be "carbon neutral" (no net emissions of global warming pollution from fossil fuel combustion).Will such measures include second and third level effects? Or will be simply moving CO2 creation outside the home or outside the borders like the UK has done?
Set the emerging biofuels sector on a sustainable basis through: (1) A Low Carbon Fuel Standard that sets a goal for reducing carbon intensity in the total light and heavy duty vehicles fuels mix by10 percent by 2020, and (2) Mount a major effort to research, develop, demonstrate and deploy sustainable biofuels feedstocks and technologies.I'm impressed that they know that this is the best option available - they should be in the energy business instead of the business of other people's energy. Will they be subsidizing ethanol to counteract the poorer gas mileage? Will all of those tax dollars from taxing pollution go far enough? Do you think that they have accounted for all of the impacts of switching to biofuels?
Prevent CO2 emissions and remove atmospheric CO2 through forest conservation, management and restoration. Include forests in cap & auction system, allowing the trade of forest emissions reductions that are real, additional, verifiable, and permanent.Focusing on biofuels destroys forests, just not forests at home. Would they be so infatuated with biofuels is they destroyed forests? What is more important - biofuels or forests?
DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy Stewart Baker called today for national ID checks when Americans buy prescription drugs. This is yet another in a growing list of activities that federal authorities would bring within their control should the national ID system created by the REAL ID Act be implemented.Drivers licenses are too close to "show me your papers please" for me as it is - at least there are 50 of them. Can you imagine the shenanigans if the fed got ahold of the records?
Part of me wants to hope that states are standing up to a growingly overbearing federal government - but that never happens. Are states just looking for a handout? Are they pissed because Congress isn't handling out fat cash in exchange for decreasing our liberties?State Rep. Scott Lansley, R-Sabattus, said the state won’t back down in their refusal to participate in the REAL ID Act.
Lansley sponsored the resolution barring Maine from participating in the REAL ID Act. It passed under the gavel in June. Sixteen other states passed similar resolutions.
Yet some Web sites are growing obsessed with beating the competition, when they should be obsessing instead over meeting the needs of customers, the analyst said.Is it possible to compete without trying to meet the needs of the customer?
You can define an educated person in a number of different ways. An education person could be someone that has completed some level of formal schooling. An educated person could also be someone that has specific knowledge in a particular area. How one defines an educated person is going to depend greatly on context and experience.
My definition an education person is someone that is cognizant of what they do not know. I do not view a person with decades of schooling pontificating on areas outside their areas of expertise to be well educated, but the humble farmer that can speak confidently about the quality of soil, but defers to others on topics outside his experience to be well educated.
I believe that a well educated person understand that the world is an immensely complicated place that is unable to be comprehended by a single person. An educated person is comfortable saying I don’t know or I am not sure.
Most importantly an educated person acknowledges that the world is an uncertain place and feels comfortable admitting that they may be wrong, even on their firmest held beliefs.
An Ohio lawmaker is proposing his state help its citizens track the locations of registered sex offenders by using RFID technology.Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to strap a big flashing blue light to their heads that yells "I am a molester"?
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Supporters of [the technology] say that the device provides an easy method for concerned individuals to know when one is nearby. According to one of the investors in the project, "it gives you an opportunity to gather your family, get in the car and lock the doors."
