Category Archives: Environment

Gore Loves The Environment

Really? Former Vice President Al Gore appeared in Berkeley on Monday to lend his celebrity and reputation as a crusader against global warming to a measure on California's Nov. 7 ballot that would tax oil companies to raise $4 billion for green energy projects. “I'm here to change peoples' minds on the climate crisis and […]

Northeast Global Warming Can Be Solved

Here they go again, more "global warming is only caused by Man" hysteria: TRENTON, N.J. – Global warming could strain the Northeast's power grid, farms, forests and marine fisheries by the next century unless carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by 3 percent each year, according to a report released Wednesday The climate in the nine […]

Gore Smacked Around Down Under

Priceless, simply priceless Former US vice president Al Gore has found himself at the centre of an Australian political spat as he promoted his environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" Down Under. Gore, who lost narrowly to President George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential race, was caught in the crossfire between rival Aussie politicians disputing […]

Beer Monday Linkfest: RIP Steve Irwin

On this Labor Day, it's a sad day. One of TV's biggest icons, and a man who showed us nature in all her glory, Steve Irwin, died yesterday (our time) Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier […]

Polls Now Determine Science

Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable A Washington pollster says the majority of U.S. residents are connecting intense weather events like Hurricane Katrina and heat waves to global warming. They can connect them all they want, all 1,018 people surveyed, but that doesn't make it true. Hey, maybe Man is causing Global Warming (which I doubt). But, we […]

Hey, Al, How’s Your Environment?

I heard about this on the radio, but I did not know where the story came from. Fortunately, Carol at The Median Sib did (from the UselessA Today) Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a […]

Hurricanes And Global Warming: Not So Fast

I thought that ALL scientists agreed that Global Warming As Caused By Man was responsible for hurricane strength and amount (from The Washington Post) A year after Hurricane Katrina and other major storms battered the U.S. coast, the question of whether hurricanes are becoming more destructive because of global warming has become perhaps the most […]

The Governator Goes Green

All in all, I respect Ahhhnold for being environmentally responsible and respective. However, Ahhhnold, along with the California legislature, is making a play that could destroy, or at least seriously diminish, California's economy California is forging ahead with the most aggressive U.S. program to reduce global warming — a plan that pits Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger […]

Beer Monday Linkfest: Really Hot. Not Global Warming

How to stay cool in this heat [gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3016740906169073770″][/gv] Before the global warming caused solely by Man conspiracy nuts get started, the current heat wave is nothing new. During the Battle of Monmouth, June 28,1778, the day was almost, if not higher, then 100 degrees. Almost as many, if not more, men lost their lives […]

Hurricane Evac Orders? Bah Humbug

Apparently, last years hurricane season, one of the most active ever, including Katrina and Rita (I sitll like Ophelia), has not changed peoples minds One in four people in Southern coastal states said they would ignore government hurricane evacuation orders, according to a Harvard University survey done earlier this month. The most common reasons respondents […]

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