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Environmental Politics

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:47:32 AM
     Robert J. Samuelson of the Washington Post appropriately calls the current political process of environmentalism "Prius Politics".  I do not agree necessarily with his solution, but at least he recognizes the phoney political game surrounding the debate.
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A New Movie-About Global Cooling?

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:23:38 AM
     The director of 28 days later, Danny Boyle has made a new movie with the premise of a dying Sun and eight astronauts have to fly there and jump start the nuclear reaction inside of it. The Toronto Star gave it 4 1/2 stars. Sounds dumber than the earlier post of DiCaprio's show.
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Savior DiCaprio

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Monday, July 30, 2007 11:18:39 PM
     leonardo DiCaprio is working in conjunction with Discovery Channel to make a new show staring the enviro-actor DiCaprio rebuilding the Kansas town of Greensburg. The show "Eco-Town" will premiere on Green Planet, a new Discovery Channel due to air early next year.
    Isn't this just fabulous! 

    Been on vacation the last week and didn't do any posting, but I do have quite a bit of stuff to share. Started the new book Unstoppable Global Warming-Every 1,500 Years by authors Dennis Avery and Fred Singer.(Those two names inspire sneers and nashing of teeth from the global warming advocates.)
Unfortunately, I lost it on the way from baggage claim to the car. I will have to buy another now.

    I read about 50 pages on the flight back, and found it compelling. I will give a review when I get a new one a finish it.
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Boring?

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Monday, July 23, 2007 12:53:19 PM
     What does this mean for my blog site?
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Carbon Neutral "24"

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Monday, July 23, 2007 12:42:59 PM
     Keifer Sutherland, a.k.a Jack Bauer, blames all of us for global warming.

Star Kiefer Sutherland has already filmed a public service annoucement which begins: "Global warming is a crime for which we are all guilty!"


  While on the set of "24" they plan on being carbon neutral by the end of the season.

Wonder how long it will take them to incorporate a climate change story line.

    "On the next "24". Jack must save the members of the IPCC at the U.N. who have been taken hostage by a rouge global warming denier group. He has 24 hours to stop them before they set off a CO2 bomb over Lincoln, Nebraska, possibly killing hundreds. Jack also finds an unexpected enemy in chloe O'Brien who is not convinced that CO2 is the problem. Meanwhile, Audrey Raines won't give up her Hummer, putting added stress on her and Jack's relationship."

    I will bet the farm that at least in one episode of next years show their will be at least one mention of global warming in the show. Mark my words.



 

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Recycle Thieves

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Monday, July 23, 2007 11:17:57 AM
     Stealing recyclable's has been a problem for quite a while for some communities. Several products like copper, aluminum, even plastic milk crates (just about anything in a recycle bin) can score someone a few extra bucks. It's simple economics, once you put a value on something, even garbage, it becomes a target for the criminal. 
    Denver has been hit hard by this problem with criminals going as far as yanking complete sprinkler systems from the ground to sell the copper. Where I work, we have had aluminum wheels and radiators stolen right off the trucks in our lot. 
    One good way to look at it though is that it is being recycled, not sent to some criminal regime to help kill innocent people or something.
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Worm Composting

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Monday, July 23, 2007 9:56:56 AM
     If you live in an apartment or townhouse, here is a way to compost your food scrapes instead of sending them down the garbage disposal, or throwing them in the trash can.

My question is, if you live in an apartment, what are you going to do with the compost? If you have an outdoor deck, then it will work in potted vegetable plants. Although your neighbors might have a thing or two to say about it.
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The Politico

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:11:00 PM
     The Politico has an Insider Series on the Global Warming Committee in congress. I will have to follow this one.
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Al Gore...OOOPS!

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:53:04 PM
     Al Gore has to be careful all the time now when you are such a big star; even watching what what you have for dinner.
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Jay Leno's Green Garage

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:45:49 PM
     The Tonight Show's, Jay Leno is trying to reduce is impact on the environment. Guess he needs to do something before some greenie decides that he has too many cars and starts an "anti-jay" campaign.

 

 


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The Making Of An Arctic Tale

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:51:50 AM
     The new National Geographic Films "Arctic Tale" depicting the hard life of a polar bear and a walrus as they grow up in the cold is all fabricated. 

    ...Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, a husband and wife who have spent the better part of two decades filming the Arctic’s hulking, reclusive and sometimes deadly mammals for television nature shows, sifted through more than 800 hours of their own footage and that of other filmmakers to assemble a fictional, family-friendly coming-of-age tale.

    Just so you are not confused when you go to the movie, it's not real. The footage is real, what is happening on the footage is real, it's just several different animals playing the same part. And you can bet the story will be sad, showing how difficult life has become because of climate change.

But anyway you slice it, it is still a fictional story.

“It isn’t fictionalized in the way that ‘Transformers’ is fictionalized,” Mr. Leipzig said. “This genre is movies about the creatures of the world as they actually exist, with their real behaviors documented by the foremost wildlife cinematographers in the world and crafted into stories that can entertain and educate audiences and where there are deep resonances that audiences can respond to.”

    And I would agree, as long as the audience is made aware that the story line has been fictionalized.
What this boils down too is the twisting of the truth. Plain and simple.
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Another "10 Things" List

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:54:01 AM
     The "10-things-you-can-do-to-fight-global-warming" list are everywhere. People write their little articles on doing your part to save energy, stop polluting and help the environment, in hopes of spreading their brand of religion. 
    This article in The San Diego Union Tribune gives us all the same things except for number ten:

    10) Don't listen to the naysayers who say global warming is unproven. It's just not so. There has been a lot of misinformation spread by a tiny handful of people who love the limelight they get for being contrary. (Some of them love the money they've gotten from the fossil fuel industry, too.) But the vast majority of climate scientists have been in agreement for a decade or more about the reality of global warming and its human causes. Scientists have done their part; now it's time for us to do something before things get worse. 

    She is actually suggesting you don't listen to the other large group of scientists who suggest that maybe it's not completely understood what is happening. Most of who she calls "deniers" are not denying global warming, they are questioning the science and the motives behind it all. And as far as money goes, well, there is plenty on that side as well, I would guess 5 times more.

   

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Taking It Off For The Environment

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:21:14 AM
     Spencer Tunick, the photographer who has made his mark by getting thousands to take off their cloths for his pictures, is looking for people to do it again, only this time he wants them to do it on a glacier to draw awareness to global warming. Greenpeace is sponsoring the event.
    I guess the best way to draw attention to anything is to do it nude, although for secularists there is no shame in that.
    Here is the web site if you want to sign up. Unfortunately I have a prior engagement, so I won't be able to make it on that day. Darn...
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Those Self-Rightous Prius Owners

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:52:25 AM
     If you want to make a statement about the environment, then buy a Toyota Prius. Along with that feeling of righteousness, you get a few perks, at least in California. Free parking, free express lanes, and you still have half-a-tank of gas left at the end of the work week. 
    But some of the non-Prius drivers think those that own one are becoming smug.
This article  points out some of that smugness, and some of the satirical views of the popular Comedy Central show South Park.
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Denver's Tricky Ozone

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Friday, July 20, 2007 10:58:11 AM
     Vincent Carroll of the Rocky Mountain News, cited a study from two California researchers and Doug Lawson from the Nation Renewable Energy Labs in Golden regarding an interesting fact about Denver's ozone levels. It seems that the levels are higher on the weekends than on the weekdays.
Seems odd, right? But what they found is all about chemistry.

    But as Lawson points out (and as he and others have explained in previously published research), the mix of pollutants may be at least as important as their total quantity.
So while there are fewer hydrocarbons polluting the air on Sundays than on Wednesdays, the decline in nitrogen oxides(NOx) is even steeper because so many diesel trucks and buses are off the road. 

    Here is a great idea; let's figure out the effects of our emesis programs placed on the automobile and diesel engine industry before we enact them!

    You have to sign up to read the study, which I may or may not do later. Of course I feel it should be made public, but that would not make them any money I suppose.
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