January 2, 2014 – 10:35 am
Hooray! (I’ve cleaned the story up a bit) (NBC News) All 52 passengers who were stranded aboard an ice-locked (fossil fueled) ship in Antarctica for more than a week were rescued by (fossil fueled) helicopter early Thursday, officials said. The (fossil fueled) Akademic Shokalskiy sent out a distress call on Christmas morning after it became surrounded […]
January 2, 2014 – 8:07 am
You do have to admire the stick-to-it-ness of Warmists, who are more dogmatic than followers of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, Heaven’s Gate Church or Westboro Baptist nuts (Telegraph) As the planet marked its fourth hottest year on record, a study published in the journal Nature found increasing levels of carbon dioxide will lead to […]
January 1, 2014 – 12:15 pm
Well, supposedly they had a good time for New Year’s Eve (Guardian) Passengers aboard a scientific research ship stuck in sea ice near the coast of Antarctica are preparing to spend another night on the vessel after plans to evacuate them by helicopter were aborted. The rescue mission was cancelled in the early hours of […]
December 31, 2013 – 3:13 pm
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 […]
December 31, 2013 – 7:18 am
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 […]
December 30, 2013 – 9:22 am
Salon’s Lindsay Abrams puts together an interesting list that is supposed to Prove Climate Change or something, and we’re all supposed to deduce that it is the fault of Mankind (probably you, dear reader, for refusing to use LED lights for your Christmas displays and not using carbon neutral present wrapping) and that Doom is […]
December 26, 2013 – 3:02 pm
Did you know your cable/satellite dish box was an enormous sucker of power? (Grist) When you turn off your cable box, you may think it isn’t using any power. In fact, every electronic device uses some electricity as long as it’s plugged in. These energy suckers are known as “vampires†and they account for a […]
December 26, 2013 – 7:12 am
All because you, dear reader, drove a fossil fueled vehicle to a Christmas gathering and left your Christmas lights on when not at home. This comes from the New Scientist, which, apparently, the “New” part means too much mescaline Earth’s poles are shifting because of climate change Climate change is causing the North Pole’s location […]
December 24, 2013 – 8:38 am
We’re almost to Climate Christmas, folks, just today and tomorrow Survival Guide For Climate Change Debates When extended family gets together over the holidays, dinner conversations can sometimes be awkward — such as when your uncle from South Carolina talks politics with your niece from the Bay Area. When thorny questions about climate change arise […]
December 23, 2013 – 11:52 am
I blame you, dear reader, for purchasing a non-carbon friendly Christmas Winter Festival tree (Treehugger) The second climate disaster of the year hit Toronto, Canada, yesterday as an ice storm took down thousands of trees and powerlines, leaving roads blocked and 300,000 customers and up to a million people without power in freezing weather. The […]
