Daily Archives: December 31, 2013

Like, Technology Can Totally Solve Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

USA Today tells us how technology can halt the weather In the 1890s, New York City was swamped — not by a storm but something smellier, horse manure. Horses, the primary mode of transportation, dropped more than a million pounds each day, causing a sanitation crisis. No one found a fix, and some estimated the […]

If All You See… (New Year’s Eve Edition)

…is an awesome recommendation to exercise, because fatties are bad for climate change, but exercise causes excess CO2 output, which causes the seas to rise hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Ned Hardy (who you should be checking out every day), with realistic New Year’s resolutions.

Liberals Really Psyched For An Executive Order On Minimum Wage

Also, to campaign on the issue (Washington Post) The New York Times reported this morning (echoing the reporting of Greg Sargent and others earlier this year) that Democrats plan to campaign on raising the minimum wage during the election season. Wait, I thought they were going to campaign on Obamacare? Aside from being good economic […]

What Say To A Dip In The Frigid Atlantic To “Fight Climate Change”?

Why yes, yes, these people are bat guano insane (WCSH) Mainers are jumping into the frigid ocean to raise money to support the state’s largest environmental advocacy group’s fight against climate change. The Natural Resources Council of Maine is holding a 5-kilometer race on Tuesday at 11 a.m., followed by a cold-water ocean plunge at […]

Good News: NSA Bugs Your iPhone

Is there anything domestically that the NSA isn’t bugging, other than carrier pigeons? Maybe the NSA is just into selfies? (Zero Hedge) Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday by German Spiegel which exposed the spy agency’s 50 page catalog of “backdoor penetration techniques“, today during a speech given by Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror) […]

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