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Need A Green Car?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, October 03, 2008 7:26:50 PM
   In case you are looking for a new or used car that is healthy for our environment, click here.
They have electrics, hybrids, biodiesels, and those cute little SmartCars. Something for everybody!
 
 

Its Wintry Ways

The Fortwo can be great fun in winter, but all is not perfect. The diesel engine itself is fine. It starts without a hiccup, the 'glow plugs' needing about 12 seconds to warm things up in the combustion chamber in a -6C degree cold start. The typical diesel racket disappears quickly as you drive off, but the interior is slow to warm up on a cold day (heated seats, a $350 option, help you wait).

That said, the Fortwo needs work in the defrosting department. In one instance, I needed to alternate between the defrost and instrument panel vent positions, blower at full force, to keep the long windshield and big side windows frost-free in -8C temperature. Still, we needed to scrape the side glass.

The standard wipers are also long and flimsy-looking. In addition, the triple-jet windshield washer nozzles are not very powerful and set too close to the base of the windshield to cover it fully, even with a long squirt.

Then, you face the challenge if replenishing the windshield washer fluid reservoir. One first needs to unlock and remove a panel just below the right-side wiper (I used the ignition key). Good luck if everything is frozen in place. Then, you need to aim well, because the filler is small and tucked in low inside. Bottom line: the Fortwo's Canadian Winter-readiness could be much better.

All this glass surface pays off, though. On a sunny winter day, the fabulous panoramic view to the front and sides turned a simple drive on a country road into a truly joyful experience. No kidding. A Smart will do this to you, repeatedly.
 
 
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Millennium Seed Bank Broke As Well

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, October 03, 2008 7:09:31 PM
   With financial banks dropping like flies here in the states, it now seems the Millennium Seed Bank in Britian is out of money. Of course the only thing deposited their is, well, seeds. Frozen seeds.
 
Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank was opened to a fanfare of acclaim in 2000 with the aim of being the plant world’s ark by gathering seeds from every flowering plant on the planet and keeping them safely in cold storage.
It has enough cash to keep it open until the end of 2009 but managers have been unable to secure adequate funding for 2010 or beyond. More than £100 million is needed for the seed bank to have a chance of reaching its 2020 target but less than a fifth has been offered.
 
Ten per cent of all flowering plants around the world are threatened and by ensuring their seeds survive they can be saved for future generations. More can be grown if the species die out in the wild or become so rare as to be unviable in the long term Professor Hugh Pritchard, head of conservation at the Millennium Seed Bank Project, said that with plants already dying out the seed bank’s task becomes more urgent with each year.
Such is the impact of mankind’s activities on the planet that researchers estimate at least four species of plant vanish every year.
Hopefully, someone will come through for them. Yet, sometimes in nature, plant life and animal life, for that matter, go extinct. It has happened before, why not let it happen now?
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Odd Green News

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:39:17 PM
    Here are some intersting things in the world of green via Instapundit.  Here is one below...
Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit
 
You can buy this thing on Amazon! It's a gigantic solar-powered battery charger! What it is, is a good excuse to have a discussion with the wife about how you need a bigger garage so you can be more Earth friendly! Of course the problem with that is it won't work in a garage unless you have one without a roof. That's okay, It will make a great conversational piece sitting in your driveway (when it is sunny)while it is charging one of the two car batteries you might have.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
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Going Green On Ammunition?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:19:22 PM
   This Speakout letter in the Rocky Mountain News today was so sincere it almost made me puke. The funny part is when they started harping on how New York and California are doing something about this horrible problem.
 
  In areas where lead bullets provide a clear threat to wildlife, land and wildlife managers should monitor lead poisoning and regulate use of bullets more closely. For the California Condor, measures have already been initiated: in October 2007 Governor Schwarzenegger of California signed the Ridley-Tree Condor Conservation Act, outlawing the use of lead bullets for hunting in reintroduction areas for the condor. Similarly, in New York, the Department of Environmental Conservation has switched to green ammunition for firearms training in an attempt to limit wildlife exposure to lead.
 
   Umm, excuse me, but that is not why it was switched in those states. They are chipping away at firearms, plain and simple. Most hunters are not happy about this new law in California..
 
"I've been hunting D7 since I passed the safety course, and I've never seen a condor," Walls said. "It's just a way to make some money off hunters, and it's an extra hassle for wardens."

The sentiment is a common one at the Department of Fish and Game regional headquarters in Fresno. Twelve deer hunters were interviewed this week as they exited the building. All knew about the ban on lead bullets; none was happy about it.

"It's a joke," said Barry Milner, who drew a deer tag to hunt in the Eastern Sierra outside the no-lead zone.
 
Maybe he has never seen one because they are all dead already from lead poisoning?
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Sarah Palin's Global Warming 'Kinda' moment

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:01:03 PM
   According to Maura Judkis of the Huffington post, it does 'kinda' matter.

In the continual stream of open-mouth-insert-foot sound bites from Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric is this latest tidbit:

"I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate because the world's weather patterns are cyclical, and over history we have seen changes there. But it kinda doesn't matter at this point in the debate what caused it. The point is it's real; we need to do something about it."

Well, kinda, it does matter. Because knowing and caring about the cause of a problem help us determine the solution—whether it's climate change or anything else that affects our country. Right? Not that this is the first time Palin has proved herself to be cavalier about environmental issues, which she's changed her position on before.
 
   The left wing nutters are simply hacking every single sentence Govenor Palin said into how dumb she is. It is ridiculous, rude, and tiresome. At least she is not a bonehead like Biden.
 
 
 
 
 
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Today Is Change A Light Day

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:46:50 PM
   Did you know that today was change a light day? Don't worry, it seems only .01% of the population here in the U.S. knew about it.
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Europe Is Smokin'

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:37:45 PM
   What are those europeans doing? They are the one who are so concerned about global warming, yet a new study out shows that it is warming faster in Europe than the global average. The intersting thing is what the report says should be done about it.
 
The report says working toward a new global climate deal remains important. But interestingly, it also says the priority should be advancing technological solutions, creating incentives for populations across the globe to preserve their forests, and making the most vulnerable populations more resilient to heat waves and flooding.

In particular, the report highlights the need to review how to manage irrigation and whether rivers will be able to help keep nuclear power plants cool in the future. It also urges Europe to do more to protect people from insect-borne diseases and flooding rivers.
“What is now needed is a massive scale-up in renewable energy technology development and transfer, investment in energy and resource efficiency, adaptation actions and efforts to reduce deforestation, increase the resilience of ecosystems and reduce effects on human health,” the report says.
 
It has changed from what we have to do to prevent global warming to what we have to do to get prepared for it. Are they giving up, or is this the natural progression of the U.N.'s  plan to rule the world? Opps, sorry! What I meant to say was their plan to save the world.
 
 
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Enviromental Gloom and Doom

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:26:07 PM
   At a 'wildlife summit' some scientists decided that do to climate change, wildlife will suffer greatly.
 
Climate change threatens to kill off up to a third of the planet's species by the end of the century if urgent action isn't taken to restore fragile ecosystems, protect endangered animals and manage growth, scientists warned Wednesday as a wildlife summit opened.
The even admit as much in the article:
 
   "Much of the predictions are gloom and doom. The ray of hope, however, is that we have not lost our opportunity. We still have time if we act now," said Jean Brennan, a senior scientist with Defenders of Wildlife and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
 
We must act now...or something...
 
 
 
 
 
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