Really? What a disappointment: President Obama will announce new plans to drill for oil and natural gas off America's coasts Wednesday but will rule out drilling off California, Oregon and Washington state through 2017, administration officials say. Obama's plans will include opening new areas of coastal Virginia and other parts of the mid-Atlantic region, Alaska and the eastern Gulf of … Read More
Fox News Will Believe And Report Anything
The Fox Nation headline yesterday: Global Warming Activist Freezes to Death in Antarctica. This caused much chortling among Fox News fans, who left comments like this: I'm sorry but this is about the funniest thing I've ever read!! Talk about what comes around goes around!!!!!!!!!! Ya get what you ask for – this has it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you FOX I … Read More
The Stupid — It Hurts
I've seen a lot like this lately in the form of political cartoons, blog posts, radio rants, tweets and other asides — all from the conservative ranks. It all comes down to the same thought process: there is a lot of snow; therefore, global warming can't be true. Messages like this come from people who are either too stupid or too … Read More
Bin Laden Comes Out Against…. Global Warning?
Apparently so: Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change. In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations. "This is a message to the whole world about … Read More
Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please
Sarah Palin weighed in on climate change this week in a painfully bland op-ed in the Washington Post. (No, of course she didn't actually write it — Bill Kristol, I'm guessing, did). It was largely a rehash of one of her Facebook posts on the subject, where words like "science" and "experts" were put in scare quotes. On Laura Ingraham’s radio … Read More
EPA: Greenhouse Gases Endanger Human Health
That may not sound like news, but it is. Believe it or not, this was an open question under the Bush Administration. In fact, during the Bush Administration, the EPA did nothing to regulate. It was so bad that several states (like Massachusetts) and environmental groups tried to sue the EPA to do its job. The EPA at the time argued that it … Read More
I’m So Sick Of “Climategate”
Let me get this straight. The email of one British university gets hacked and stolen, and when you cherry-pick the results, it allegedly shows that the scientists "faked" data to make it look global warming was caused by human activity? Look, assuming all that is true, I would like the proponents of this "gotcha" to answer me one question: What … Read More
Republicans’ Boycott of Climate Change Bill Committee Fails
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have been working for weeks on a bill to address climate change, and Republicans on the committee wanted to stop it. Their tactic? Not showing up. Republicans were aware of committee rules saying that no business could go forward unless two members of the opposite party were present. So, every day this week, … Read More
Melt The United States
Think about how vast the United States is. Leave out Alaska and Hawaii and just focus on the lower 48. Think about how expansive it is, how long it takes to travel from one end to the other. That's about the size of the Arctic polar ice cap — during warm months — for the end of the last century. Even … Read More
The Cove Trailer
A documentary about dolphins is one thing. A documentary about dolphins which plays like The Bourne Identity? Yeah, I'm curious….
Stats From The Cash-For-Clunkers Program
The Top Ten Cash for Clunkers Trade-Ins: 1998 Ford Explorer 1997 Ford Explorer 1996 Ford Explorer 1999 Ford Explorer Jeep Grand Cherokee Jeep Cherokee 1995 Ford Explorer 1994 Ford Explorer 1997 Ford Windstar 1999 Dodge Caravan The Top Ten Cash for Clunkers New Cars: Ford Focus Honda Civic Toyota Corolla Toyota Prius Ford Escape Toyota Camry Dodge Caliber Hyundai Elantra … Read More
America’s Best Idea
Wondering what documentarian Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz) has been up to? He's putting the finishing touches on his six-part documentary, National Parks: America's Best Idea, which premieres on PBS on Septmber 27. Yeah. Not a grabber. Not for me anyway. I mean, an hour or two, at best. But six parts?!? But it's Ken Burns, so I'll give it … Read More
Snakes In The Carolinas
No, not another post about Mark Sanford. I'm talking about snakes. Actual snakes. Big ones. I'm talking about Burmese pythons up to 25 feet long that eat kitties and poodles and potentially, babies. Now scientists fear this invasive species is silently slithering northward. *** "The question is really, well, can they survive in a place like South Carolina or North … Read More
Dumping Waste Into Clean Water Doesn’t Violate The Clean Water Act
SCOTUS ruling today: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Clean Water Act does not prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from allowing mining waste to be dumped into rivers, streams and other waters. In a 6-to-3 decision that drew fierce criticism from environmentalists, the court said the Corps of Engineers had the authority to grant Coeur Alaska Inc., a … Read More
Q: When Is It Time To Start Ignoring George Will Columns Attempting To Debunk Global Warming?
(1) When you read something like this… and/or (2) When George Will starts citing cartoons to support his position.