Globetrotting NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD VEHICLE REGISTRATION GLOBAL WARMING A cool reception
JUDITH CURRY, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, thought she was teaching in a university. But it was more like a sectarian organization, reports PJ Media, so she quit. As Curry writes in her blog, “I no longer know what to say to students ... regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS (her emphasis) in the field of climate science.” Because of her work concerning
In for a penny — and many pounds
NICK STAFFORD PUSHED FIVE WHEELBARROWS FULL OF PENNIES — for a grand total of US$3,000 — into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office. His goal: to pay for the registration of two vehicles, reports Virginia’s Bristol Herald Courier. But why all the pennies? Stafford was angry that the DMV refused to give him the
direct number for the local office. He finally secured the number aſter filing a complaint under the Freedom of Information Act. Hoping to make the DMV staff understand all the time they had caused him to waste, Stafford waited until they counted every single one of the 300,000 pennies. Of course, it cost him an extra US$840 to hire 11 people to unwrap the pennies he had procured from the bank and to buy five wheelbarrows to carry them. — Yan Barcelo
FLYING CARS Driven to distraction
GOOGLE’S DRIVERLESS CAR is just around the corner, and now, not far behind (or above) is the Airbus pilotless flying car, reports Reuters. Airbus CEO Tom Enders announced at a conference in Munich that his company plans to test a prototype of a self-piloted flying car by the end of 2017.
Although the flying machines are reportedly meant to reduce gridlock on city roads, blogger George Hobica has another view. “I can only imagine the noise we will suffer through if Airbus Group’s latest vision reaches fruition,” he writes on
airfarewatchdog.com. “Consider: hundreds if not thousands of individual helicop- ters, guided by GPS, radar and lasers, plying the skies, each one emitting a loud, droning, whirring buzz.” — YB
6 | CPA MAGAZINE | MARCH 2017 Gift wrapping?
MUCH OF THE VACUUM packaging decried by the green movement is actually good for the environment, says The Economist. According to the United Nations, a third
of the food produced by humanity never reaches the plate. When food is thrown out, all the water, fuel and other resources that went into it also get wasted. Meat is especially costly in terms of resources. The methane belched by livestock during digestion creates as much pollution as all the vehicles in the world. Vacuum packing meat makes it possible to extend its lifespan. That way, less gets thrown out. And the emissions created during production are far lower than those associated with waste. — YB
uncertainties in climate science, Curry has been characterized as “antiscience” by those who defend the “scientific consensus” concerning the development of a man-made global warming catastrophe. — YB
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