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Sunday, September 28
IBD: Raked Over Coal
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 28 Sep 2008 03:16 PM EDT
Al Gore has rightly been scolded for encouraging civil disobedience to stop global warming. But his little-noticed follow-up statement might be even more foolish — and dangerous.
When it comes to sheer crackpottery on environmental issues, no national figure can measure up to the lofty standard set by the former Tennessee senator and vice president. This is a man who is leading a caravan of humming hybrid drivers to nowhere and is willing to criminalize those who disagree with him to get there.
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Tuesday, September 16
Much touted Denver DNC carbon offset program a resounding success by raising $18.34
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Riley Jones
on Tue 16 Sep 2008 12:17 PM EDT
Results of a program using Aspen’s Canary Initiative to sell carbon offset credits to Democratic National Convention attendees are a little underwhelming.
The program, set up by the DNC Host Committee through the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau and rolled out about a week before the convention started, raised a total of $18.34 worth of Canary Tags, offsetting 0.9 tons of carbon emissions.
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Monday, September 15
Gore gets the Last Laugh
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Riley Jones
on Mon 15 Sep 2008 03:50 PM EDT
Al Gore, left, and Clay McKinney stand on his houseboat, Bio-Solar One, which the Gores keep docked on Center Hill Lake.
His large Nashville home, utility bills and jet travels have drawn flamethrowers over the last year and a half. Now, it's a houseboat he bought this summer.
"Here's the good news for him," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "It doesn't matter a whit. He's out of politics. He's won the Nobel Prize, the Academy Award and goodness knows what else. ... He's got the last laugh on anybody."
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Sunday, September 14
The Honey Badger: World's Most Fearless Animal
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Riley Jones
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 03:40 PM EDT
Climate change heroes' sham case
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 02:38 PM EDT
ONE commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent. It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it. European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, for example, used this argument when he presented the European Union's proposal to tackle climate change earlier this year.
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Problems with the Climate Models
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 02:47 AM EDT
Recalling that people such as Robert F. Kennedy have called climate skeptics “traitors”, David Suzuki calls for their jailing, the Grist website called for Nuremburg trials for them, NASA’s Dr. Jim Hansen calling for their trials for treason, along with the habitual insults from Al Gore, its been difficult for anyone to respectfully dissent. It’s been difficult to stick to the rules of hard science, by demanding evidence and replication, both of which require questioning but are often followed by insults and threats.
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Saturday, September 13
Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 13 Sep 2008 10:00 PM EDT
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.
Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change.
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A Melting Arctic: Happy News for Mankind
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 13 Sep 2008 02:09 AM EDT
The Earth is currently in the geologic epoch known as the Holocene. This began nearly 12,000 years ago when the last ice age (more precisely, the Weichsal glacial) ended. Temperatures warmed, glaciers began to retreat, and the Arctic began to melt. This began what is called an interglacial: a warmer period between glaciation.
We tend to think of the poles as immutable, but geologically speaking, permanent polar ice is a rare phenomenon, comprising less than 10% of history. Icecaps form briefly between interglacials, only to melt as the next one begins -- this time around will be no different.
So we know the Arctic will eventually be open water. The only question is how it will affect us.
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Monday, September 8
Drill Here, Drill Now
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Riley Jones
on Mon 08 Sep 2008 08:34 PM EDT
Sunday, September 7
Obama supporters mourn the loss of some trees (not satire)
by
Riley Jones
on Sun 07 Sep 2008 01:17 PM EDT
Monday, September 1
Global COOLING (Yes, you read that correctly)
by
Riley Jones
on Mon 01 Sep 2008 07:43 PM EDT
The record-setting surface of the sun. A full month has gone by without a single spot Source: Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a "mini ice age". For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.
Thanks, Steve
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Gustav weakens to Category 2 as it nears La. coast
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Riley Jones
on Mon 01 Sep 2008 10:08 AM EDT
A weakened Hurricane Gustav closed in on flood-prone coastal Louisiana Monday, bringing punishing wind and sheets of rain. But the storm veered away from New Orleans, where only a few holdouts and those that refused to abandon Bourbon Street remained.
Gusts snapped large branches from the majestic oak trees that form a canopy over St. Charles Avenue. Tens of thousands were without power in New Orleans and other low-lying parishes, but officials in said backup generators were keeping city drainage pumps in service.
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