Golden Rice was declared safe for consumption by Canada recently. This has huge implications for the rest of the world, where Golden Rice can be vital resource in tackling vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition. Genetically modified (GM) crops are engineered to display traits that are otherwise absent or subdued in natural crops. For example, gene…
Larry Bell
Syria, Iran, North Korea Share Three Strategic Imperatives
Previous White House administrations have dealt President Trump a lousy hand in in high-stakes nuclear gambles with Syria, Iran, and North Korea, along with their Russia and China backers. Fortunately, the tables may finally be turning. Adversaries who have become accustomed to winning through deceit and intimidation have finally met an opponent who is evidently…
Visitor Posts, Viv Forbes
The Forecasts will Fail, The Cold will Prevail, King Coal will be Crowned Again.
“Unless we stop using coal And force green energy goals, The ice sheets will melt Big droughts will be felt And islands will sink in a hole.” But the sun refused to conform And blizzards became the new norm. Green energy failed The warmists were nailed And King Coal he grew strong in the storms.
Larry Bell
Coal Cuts Dangerously Clip Texas Power Capacity
As reported in the Hoston Chronicle (chron.com), “Texas’ electricity grid operator expects the state’s power demand to hit an alltime high this summer, possibly requiring customers to reduce power consumption and triggering emergency measures to keep electricity flowing through the grid.” Titled “A Summer Bummer Looms,” the article goes on to say that the Electric…
Larry Bell
California’s Petroleum Wars Costly in Dollars and Sense
Oil companies, energy producers, car manufacturers and customers who depend upon all three, are finally experiencing an overheated man-made climate threat truly worth worrying about. It is arriving in the form of expensive and irrational anti-fossil legislation and litigation. On March 7, a three-judge panel in the 9th District Court of Appeals in San Francisco…
Free Articles, Howard Hayden
EPA should ignore anti-coal activists at listening sessions
By Tom Harris The first of three new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public listening sessions on the proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will be held this coming Wednesday in Kansas City,Missouri. Later sessions will be held on February 28 in San Francisco and March 27 in Gillette, Wyoming. The Sierra…