Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense: The global warming lie doesnt help the environment

Repeating the same old lie, fairy-tale story, myth and con – i.e., “man-made” global warming – doesn’t help the environment. Nor does it help in convincing consumers, and companies, of the need to use energy more efficiently. Common-sense people simply switch off when they hear the same old tired talk of non-facts and ideological drivel.

Thanks to the snake-oil salespeople, or con-artists, who keep perpetuating the myth of “man-made” global warming, real issues have been ignored – such as providing people with clean air and water. By putting precious funds into so-called “carbon-footprint reduction programs and measures”, we are taking valuable resources out of the system that could be used for measures based on actual science (and common sense).

Dirt eco-dome to rise in Rochester | democratandchronicle.com

Call it an "eco-dome," "moon cocoon," or "modern mud hut," an earthen structure of minimally processed local materials will soon be rising in Rochester.

The City Planning Commission approved North East Area Development Inc.'s application on Monday to construct a 30-foot diameter dome that will be made primarily of bagged dirt. The eco-dome is expected to be the first of its kind in the city.

NEAD plans to use a building technique designed by Iranian-born architect Nader Khalili. In the 1980s he presented it to NASA as a way to build lunar dirt structures. In the years before his death in 2008, Khalili promoted the process as a way to build affordable structures that aren't harmful to the environment.

His wife, Iliona Khalili, was on site at NEAD's Freedom School on Tuesday, teaching youth how to fill grain bags with dirt to create circular rows of giant soft bricks that would be held together with barbed wire. The students worked on a practice dome this week on the front lawn of their Goodman Street school.