Tag: global warming

Business

Opinion: Any “fix” for global warming should require skin in the game

The government’s track record on fixing things isn’t particularly good. Remember when President Johnson declared war on poverty? We lost. I was still a teenager when the government declared war on cancer. We lost that, too. The war on drugs? A weed tycoon was the second-highest paid CEO in the country last year. Sounds like […]

June 19, 2019

Equipment

Construction industry deserves more objective debate on global warming

Since construction equipment sends about 22 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air per gallon of diesel consumed, the topic of global warming, aka climate change, is not irrelevant to our industry. Unfortunately, you cannot have an objective conversation about this, thanks to the vast numbers of people who form opinions without ever investigating […]

July 3, 2017

Business

Global warming: There is no solution…as long as we look to Washington to provide it

There was panic all around this week with reports of ice sheets breaking up in Antarctica and usually dependable journalists like Robert Sameulson declaring that there is no solution to global warming. No solution? Nonsense. Of course there’s a solution. What’s holding everything back is that most of the media and nearly all of our […]

May 16, 2014

Equipment

Fossil-fueled vehicles better for environment than electric?

Over the 4th of July weekend—while you were busy polluting the air with your holiday grilling—you might have missed this well-documented piece on the environmental effects of the electric car, called “Unclean at any speed.” It does a good job of eviscerating what is now a lie so commonly told that most people believe it: […]

July 22, 2013

Equipment

Opinion: Why I write about Global Warming on a construction equipment site

A reader from Europe recently asked why I spend a lot of time blogging about global warming and other such environmental topics, as this is a website primarily dedicated to heavy equipment and construction. Since his was a reasonable and well written letter, I did not immediately trash it as one has to with most […]

July 17, 2013

Equipment

German researcher says Global Warming is a dud

This morning’s Spiegel (the German equivalent of Time magazine) has a refreshingly sober interview with Hans von Storch, one of Europe’s top climate researchers, on why global warming is not panning out. The numbers don’t lie.  For the last 15 years atmospheric temperatures have flatlined even as emissions of carbon dioxide have soared. Billions of […]

June 24, 2013

Equipment

Brower and Gore: Environmentalists then and now

One of the pleasures of going home for the holidays is sometimes finding the books I  left behind in college and getting to reread them. This year I stumbled upon a 1977 copy of John McPhee’s Encounters with the Archdruid. The book concerns three trips McPhee took with the “Archdruid,” David Brower, the controversial executive […]

January 9, 2013

Equipment

Global warming: the ultimate conspiracy theory?

If I were to ever concoct the perfect conspiracy theory it would involve something nobody could control (like the weather), be blamed on something people hate (too many cars) and be prophesied by a group of group of mysterious priests whom everybody respects, but nobody understands (scientists). Dang it, global warming theorists beat me to […]

December 26, 2012

Construction Equipment

Maybe this explains global warming

Global warming, Anthony Watts

August 14, 2012

Equipment

Is CO2 the wrong greenhouse gas?

Greenhouse gas, CO2, Global warming, environmentalist, James Hansen, construction equipment industry, diesel, gasoline, coal

June 5, 2012