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Minerals Management Service Does What James G. Watt Designed It To Do In 1982

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Gulf leak oil slick. Image credit: Reuters A New York Times news analysis reminds us that James G Watt, Interior Secretary Under President Reagan, formed the US Minerals Management Service back in 1982. This is the same James Watt who was once awarded a plaster foot with a bullet hole in it for his tendency to mouth off and foment culture wars. For an example, here’s a cite from Wikip… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Consensus Matters II: Blogging is not Science

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: InfoThought When I wrote a post last week asking why so many people hate environmentalists , RecycleNot brought up a climate skeptic/denialist talking point I hadn’t heard in a while—that science does not work by consensus, and that argument from authority is a logical fallacy. On the face of it, it’s an attractive argument for those who don’t believe in man-made climate change, and one we heard many times when TreeHugger was inundated with ‘skeptic’ commen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Seinfeld Rickshaws, Bike Taxis and Other People-Powered Transport

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: Screen capture . An important anniversary recently passed with little or no fanfare. April marked 12 years since the airing of ” The Bookstore ,” the classic Seinfeld episode when Kramer and Newman try to start a rickshaw business in New York City. Their plans failed, hilariously, but the world knew overnight what a rickshaw was. What have rickshaws been up to since? Well, they were popular in Asia years before they became a Seinfeld plot … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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