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New Study Shows No Link Between Climate And Hurricanes

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Friday, February 29, 2008 7:15:14 PM
   I have to wonder how much money we had to pay these brainiacs to fiqure this one out. 
 
   “We found that although some decades were quieter and less damaging in the U.S. and others had more land-falling hurricanes and more damage, the economic costs of land-falling hurricanes have steadily increased over time,” said Chris Landsea, one of the researchers as well as the science and operations officer at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami. “There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts.”
 
   Nothing like making note of the obvious. Yet, it would seem there is even more to this then what they have said in this study.
For instance, how about the fact that we had levee's off the coast of New Orleans that we knew could not handle a catagory five hurricane, and those same levee's where supposed to keep the water back from a city that is nine feet below sea level. How about that for obvious! Or how about the simple fact that things cost a lot more today. The same amount of damage today as thirty years ago has an economic impact  three to four times as great.
   We keep building fancier resorts and bigger homes along the coast line and yet we should all feel sorry for the bozo's who lose their home to a hurricane. Granted, it is sad, but I simply can't find it in me to have a lot of simpathy for them when you live in a hurricane zone.
 
 
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Al Gore Has A "Virtual" Discussion On Global Warming

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:47:54 PM
   Al Gore and Cisco's CEO will be discussing how important they both are with each other. Notice Al's new title..
 
 VoiceCon(R), produced by CMP, today announced that Nobel Laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will join Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and Sue Bostrom, Cisco Chief Marketing Officer at VoiceCon Orlando 2008 for a discussion on the critical role technology innovation can play in mitigating climate change. Using a Cisco TelePresence system, Gore and Chambers will engage in a virtual discussion as if they are in the same room even though they will be thousands of miles apart.
 
   Also notice that they will be having a "virtual discussion". Isn't that what all global warming discussions are?
 
The definition of virtual according to the American Heritage Dictionary:
  1. Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name: the virtual extinction of the buffalo.
  2. Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.
  3. Computer Science Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network: virtual conversations in a chatroom.
   Makes perfect sense, does it not? 
 
1. Global warming exists, but not in actual fact. 
2. Global warming exsist in minds of many scientists, especially in their imagination.  
3. Nearly all of the global warming scenerio's and/or predictions have been done with the help of super-computors creating GCM's (global climate models). Virtual scenerios of global destruction.
 
 
 
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Packing In The National Parks

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:25:34 PM
   The U.S. Interior Department is finally going to consider letting the public bring firearms into national parks, thanks to the Bush Administration and a majority of senators. The NRA-ILA has been spearheading this operation for years and is finally getting a response.
 
“Law-abiding citizens should not be prohibited from protecting themselves and their families while enjoying America’s National Parks and wildlife refuges,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “Under this proposal, federal parks and wildlife refuges will mirror the state firearm laws for state parks. This is an important step in the right direction.”
 
Of course, the New York Times  editorial board had a few words on the issue.
 
We urge the Interior Department and the National Park Service to retain their sensible gun rules as they stand.
We also urge the 51 Senators who like the thought of guns in the parks — and everywhere else, it seems — to realize that the innocence of Americans is better protected by carefully controlling guns than it is by arming everyone to the teeth.
 
 
As usual, the Times editors seem unaware of how silly their argument is. To them, the choice is between "carefully controlling guns" and "arming everyone to the teeth." But no one favors "arming everyone to the teeth" (whatever that means). Instead, gun advocates favor freedom, choice and self-responsibility. If someone wishes to be prepared to defend himself, he should be free to do so. No one has the right to deprive others of the means of effective self-defense, like a handgun.
Having the ability to protect yourself is vital, and that ability should not be denied in a national park.
 
 
 
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The Tonight Show's Jaywalking

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:13:47 PM
   Here is a fun video on the Terrapass Blog (the carbon credit people) from The Tonight Show. Every once in awhile he has this thing called "Jaywalking" where he invites people off the street to answer really easy questions. Once he startes asking the questions and you start hearing their answers, you begin to realize the immense failures our public school systems has produced.
Anyway, the link to the video is here.
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The Oscars Learn To Be Green

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:50:39 PM
   If you are wondering what the Oscars are doing to reduce their impact on the environment, well, they have learned a few things.
 
   This year, the Academy, the Oscar telecast producer Laura Ziskin and the entire production team endeavored to select supplies and services with a sensitivity toward reducing the threats we face from global warming, species extinction, deforestation, toxic waste, and hazardous chemicals in our water and food. With guidance and assistance from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-partisan environmental and advocacy organization, we learned that it was easy (and often cost effective) to make simple changes to reduce Oscar's ecological footprint. Here are a few of the things we learned (with help from the NRDC website www.nrdc.org): 

  If you read the list of things they learned, it's quite impressive. Last year they bought carbon offsets, just not clear on what they did this year.

 
 
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Another Movie On Global Warming

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:03:40 PM
   I had the pleasure of watching the movie "Everythings Cool" tonight. It was entertaining, and funny at times, as it tries to bring the story of a few people's quest to make global warming a global issue. In the end they succeeded.
   Yet, with all the talk that global warming is the end all issue, they don't talk about the science much. Instead it's about how the debate is over and how the "other" scietists are simply deniers. Big oil is the bad guy, while the good guys, James Hansen, Ross Gelbspan, and Heidi Cullen have been redeemed, because of all the hard work they have put into this issue over all these years.
   So in the end, nothing new here, just more talk about how global warming is going to kill us all if we don't act soon.
   
 
   
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Dirty Coal Spomsors Texas Democratic Debate

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:14:42 PM
Laurie David is pissed off because the democratic debate in Texas the other day was sponsored the coal industry and promoted by CNN.
 
Not a single question about how America could kick our oil addiction, or how we might rejoin the international commitment to address global warming. Nada.
Instead viewers were left with the coal industry's ridiculous ads -- part of a $35 million PR campaign by the coal industry -- which further confuse Americans about King Coal's pollution legacy. When will CNN and other debate hosts ask the tough questions -- or any questions -- about the biggest threat to the planet?
 
Here is the cool GE commercial about clean coal. Coal is sexy!
 
 
 
 
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Making Biofuels Causes Global Warming

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:14:51 AM
   Here is another story about how even when we are trying to slow down global warming, we are still causing it.
 
Do you get the feeling that none of these climate change "scientists" have any idea what is going on?
 
Biofuels such as ethanol from corn and biodiesel from palm oil typically start out with a "carbon debt."
Before these biofuels could reduce individual carbon dioxide emissions, they would first have to pay off this debt, which would take decades or centuries.
 
   The big thing now is to count carbon weight.  Climate scientists are measuring all the carbon any given thing gives off naturally, then add that to any changes we make to it, and then subtract that from the benefit we are trying to make from it.. But what we are finding is that everything efeects everything else and when we try to change it, well, we create more carbon. 
So, according to these really smart scientists, carbon is the problem and we need to put the Earth on a diet; start counting the Earth's carbon calories.
 
   
 
 
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Shading Your Windows From Global Windows

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Saturday, February 23, 2008 7:38:34 PM
   The New York Times had a sit-down with chief executive Marv Hopkins of Hunter-Douglas. One of the questions was about global warming.

Q. Is global warming helping your bottom line?
 
A. I can’t measure it, but many of the unique window coverings we’ve developed are cellular — they have an insulating air space in the middle, between two or three layers of fabric — and do a great deal to reduce energy needs in the home by helping to keep the cold air out in the winter and the heat out in the summer. Our products are green. We see an opportunity going forward to promote these advantages even more strongly to a receptive public.
 
The media has simply accepted climate change to the point that now these type of questions seem completly legitamite. I have to wonder if Mr. Hopkins thought the question was odd or if he is sold on the whole thing too.
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Carbon Fasting for Lent

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:17:52 AM
   The Church of England is telling its parishoners rather than fasting in the traditional way, which is Jesus instructed us to do, they should instead reduce their carbon footprint for Lent.
 
Bishops Richard Chartres of London and James Jones of Liverpool recently partnered with the U.K.-based nonprofit organization Tearfund (Jones is a vice president) to promote a Lenten "carbon fast," a plan that prescribes a household energy-saving tip for each of the period's 40 days. Carbon-cutting reflects the Christian value of caring for the poor, the logic goes, because coastal and drought-prone third-world regions are disproportionately affected by global warming.
 
The logic behind this sounds more like environmental activism, and replacement of GOD's word. If you go to Catholic Online, or simply read your bible, it's clear that Christ told us to fast. And that means not eating, praying, and turning your mind towards GOD. Things GOD told us to do that will effect change. Turning your thermostat down for Lent may make you feel good, but it will do nothing for the poor and needy.
 
Here is a qoute from a catholic saint about what Lent is supposed to mean.
 
"Fasting is directed to two things, the deletion of sin, and the raising of the mind to heavenly things. Wherefore fasting ought to be appointed specially for those times, when it behooves man to be cleansed from sin, and the minds of the faithful to be raised to God by devotion: and these things are particularly requisite before the feast of Easter." - St. Thomas Aquinas ("Summa Theologica" 13th century A.D.)
 
GOD askes that we turn our mind towards Him, not the environment. GOD help us.
 
 
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Love, War, Guns, And Baseball

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:35:25 AM
   Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe wrote an opinion piece this morning, blasting a few republicans for holding up a BATF nomination and being too nice to Roger Clemens. What the two have to do with each other, other than Mr. Cullen doesn't like republicans, is beyond me.
 

So, some cow chip-kickin' senator from Louisiana doesn't want Mike Sullivan, the US attorney in Boston, to become head of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms because Sullivan wants to make it harder for people to get guns

Um, isn't that what the head of the ATF is supposed to do?
 
No, that is not the mission of the ATF. And what is it with the cow chip-kickin' refernece? Is he trying to be funny?
 
The last time we heard from Senator David Vitter (R-Brothel), he was jammed up in some prostitution scandal. After his name turned up in the D.C. Madam's little black book, Vitter apologized and said he had sinned. In Louisiana, they have a name for politicians who spend more time on hookers than on government business: The Honorable.
 
Okay, we get the point, you don't like Senator Vitter. He is not done though. He saves a cold hearted stab for Senator Larry Craig as well
 
Besides Vitter, the other clown holding up Sullivan's appointment is Larry Craig, the senator from Idaho who likes to sit around men's rooms, tapping his foot.
 
But then Mr. Cullen switches gears and starts blaming the majority of republicans for what he thinks is good-ol'-boy-buddying-up to Roger Clemens.
 
Last week's farce that was the congressional hearing on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by Roger Clemens played like a too-long skit on "Saturday Night Live." It was another depressing display of the sort of partisanship that plagues us.

And to think for all those years I thought the R after Clemens's name in the pitching line meant he threw right-handed.

There is no question that, for the most part, Republicans kissed The Rocket's much punctured rear end while Democrats took an appropriate adversarial stance.
 
It is hard to disagree with him on the media circus that followed the "Roger Clemens Show" at the capitol. I am still trying to fiqure out why the govenment needed to be involved in this thing in the first place. But for Mr.Cullen to blame this stupidity on republicans is just as stupid.
 
But all that aside, Mr Cullen just wants us to get along.
 
As for The Honorable David Vitter and The Honorable Larry Craig, they should rethink their decision to go to war over Sullivan's nomination. Make love, senators, not war.
 
 
 
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GM Vice Chairman Bod Lutz Defends His Words

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Friday, February 22, 2008 7:12:25 PM
   Bob Lutz is not backing down from the statements he made about global warming, and he shouldn't since what he said is true.
 
General Motors Corp. [GM-N] vice-chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s...," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.
Mr. Lutz, GM's outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas.
 
 D-Magazine had the original story from last month, where he also said this:
 
– Global warming is a “total crock of ****.” Then he added: “I’m a skeptic, not a denier. Having said that, my opinion doesn’t matter. (With the battery-driven Volt), “I’m motivated more by the desire to replace imported oil than by the CO2 (argument).”
 
Works for me.
 
 
 
 
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Your "Climate Change" Tax Dollars At Work

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Friday, February 22, 2008 12:04:53 PM
   It would seeem the USGS would have better things to study than this.
 
If you are interseted in slithering fork-tongued reptiles, here is a good place to go.
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Who Did Al Gore Vote For?

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:14:24 PM

   We know who he didn't vote for. Actually, he ain't saying. But since he voted early, that probably meant he voted for Hillary. But since he is not saying...maybe that means he voted for Obama. And if he did vote for Obama, and it got out, he may find himself out of the Clinton's good graces, which may be bad for your health.

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Putting The Hit On Business...Al Gore Style

Posted by Aaron McLucas on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:01:18 PM
   Stopped by Al Gore's blog today to see what he was up to, and found that he spoke the other day to some Wall Street tycoons about watching where they invest their money. Al was warning them on investing in companies that rely heavily on the carbon based energies.
 
"You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you — as my longtime good redneck friends in Tennessee say, I guarandamntee you — that if you really take a fine-tooth comb and go through your portfolios, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets," the former vice president said.
 
   Al's a real card, isn't he?
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