Month July 2011

Piracy ransoms going to terrorist groups

We appear to now be at a point in time with piracy where if a company tries to free captured mariners with ransom money, the company would be subject to prosecution for illegally financially supporting global terrorism. That’s a pretty…

The solution to global warming. Keep polluting

A new study demonstrates why global surface temperatures defied a decades-long trend and didn’t continue to rise between 1998 and 2008: Pollution-spewing, coal-burning power plants in Asia, while emitting warming greenhouse gases, simultaneously sent cooling sulfur particles into the atmosphere.…

The Big Gulp as the mother of all water wars

The water wars never really go away even if they aren’t always in the public view. But be assured, the politics of water in California is generally more akin to a street fight than anything else. The problem, as always,…