By Larry Bell Right off the bat, let’s understand that no one, much less those of us who live in Houston and other areas along the Texas coast along with my numerous friends in the entire state of Florida, need to be reminded of widespread terror and tragedy which can be wrought by a single…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was September 9th, 2017
Hurricane Irma – Resilience Needed: Last week’s TWTW discussed Hurricane Harvey, which ended a lull of almost 12 years without a major hurricane making landfall in the US. A major Hurricane being defined as category 3, or above, on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale used by the National Hurricane Center, with sustained wind of 111-129…
Featured Blog, Sean Hackbarth
U.S. Chamber’s Donohue: We Will Fight for a Modernized NAFTA
It’s time to “ring the alarm bells” on NAFTA, the head of the U.S. Chamber warned. The business community will fight to make sure it’s modernized, because abandoning the North American Free Trade Agreement is a “existential threat” to the continent’s national and economic security, said U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue. Speaking ahead of…
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Climate Change IQ Questions
Would lowering atmospheric C0 2 prevent or mitigate hurricanes? Answer: No The Galveston hurricane and floods of 1900, half a century before humanity could have influenced climate to any measurable extent, killed 8,000-12,000 people and remains to this day the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. [1] After a 12-year hiatus,…
Voice of Jerusalem, Yoram Ettinger
UNmasking the UN
What should be realistic expectations from the UN against the backdrop of the recent visit, to Israel, by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterrez? On December 22, 2011, the UN General Assembly held a “moment of silence” in honor of the deceased North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-il, a leading violator of human rights, promoter of…
Voice of Jerusalem, Yoram Ettinger
US anti-Semitism superseded by civic foundations
Contrary to European anti-Semitism, the recent episodes of anti- Semitism in the US – such as hundreds of white supremacists, bearing torches and giving the Nazi salute – represent a negligible American minority, religiously, socially, ethnically and politically. These episodes defy the civic, moral and religious foundations of the US, as well as the US…