Commodity of Commodities
Avoiding climate catastrophe requires of democratic capitalism that it embrace its own absolute contradiction – catastrophically. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Climate Change
About that “media bias,” or Ombudsman Ombud Thyself
Had Jennifer Rubin promoted (and admitted agreeing with) such disgusting bile toward Jews and Israelis, as expressed by Rachel Abrams (neoconservative royalty) her journalism career would have been over, but because it was directed at Palestinians, it continues to thrive. Continue reading
Why They Fight
Confident conservative white men, as a group, were almost six times as likely to believe climate change “will never happen” than the rest of the adults surveyed. Continue reading
Deserted
Ode to Spring
Hot Frogs
Cold springs have been unusual the past several years so I had become accustomed to the peepers starting their peeping in mid to late March. But this year it was only last week that I heard them at all. Then … Continue reading
Barbarism and its Discontents
[amazon-product]0981709125[/amazon-product]In The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature, Curtis White deploys for ideological battle in a literary academic’s full panoply, and there is pleasure in seeing so much wit and erudition put to such radical ends, but … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Climate Change, Curtis White, Deep Ecology, Energy & Environment, Greenhouse Effect, Sustainability
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Soon to be lapping up on a shore near you…
Just as we were beginning to discuss the political impact of the oil platform disaster, what should show up in my inbox but an e-mail from Gavin Newsom – Mayor of San Francisco, running for lieutenant governor (after having dropped … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged BP Disaster, Climate Change, Energy & Environment, Gavin Newsom
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Yet another global warming apocalypse
Seems the world’s coming to an end, again. Seems we’re all doomed, again. It’s your fault, again. Don’t know how you can live with yourself, this time. The Warmists are perspiring, as they do, over a report from University of … Continue reading
Zombie Solstice Suite – by Sully (edited by the Web Czar)
(suggested musical accompaniment) [show_avatar email=sullyaugustine@aol.com align=right avatar_size=50] [prologue and invocation] Rise, rise, cold Solstice Sun There’s scarcely time in day for fun, And tooth of wind is frightful keen, As heatless Sun is briefly seen. Now HopeyChangeys roam the land, … Continue reading
Hockey Seasons, They Come and Go
As y’all know, I love charts and graphs – maybe more even than I love formulae, and almost as much as the Global Warmists love charts and graphs. Here’s some graph fun based on ice core samples, from Watt’s Up … Continue reading
CONTENTION OF THE DAY – something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Policy decisions require real science and real solutions, not junk science and doomsday scare tactics pushed by an environmental priesthood that capitalizes on the public’s worry and makes them feel that owning an SUV is a “sin” against the planet. … Continue reading
Some businessmen realizing the opportunity to game the system…
…come up with the idea of carbon credits, based upon the latest climate scaremongerers who have moved from ice age to heat wave – both with nothing but faith backing them up. Enron is the name, and along with Goldman … Continue reading
Great memoments in jejournalistic histristory
[Jon] Stewart has now scooped Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams, and Katie Couric on Climategate. It’s kind of like Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy breaking Pearl Harbor before the news networks did. Except Jon Stewart isn’t a wooden puppet. [citation needed] … Continue reading
In other noise…
1. More on Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere II – with a climate change connection: Last seen being driven into the loving arms of Japan amidst mutual overriding needs, China is also exploring cooperation and/or collusion, rather than competition, with … Continue reading
