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Green May Not Be All That Green After All

Is Green Technology all just a matter of smoke?

As we love to do around there, poking fun at the media and tearing apart their work as a news reporting mechanism, one of the worst places they seem to fail over and over is in the realm of "Green".

Case in point is with the new yet to be released Chevy Volt.  When it was first introduced by Chevrolet, it was promoted as the answer to ending the use of petroleum products.  It was also promoted by everyone, that this car's GAS engine would get 150-mpg while PERIODICALLY charging the battery.  They ranted that this was the first car to get its energy for the drivetrain ENTIRELY from electrical power.  They even claimed a 650 mile range.

Yet, reality rarely makes good bedfellows with PR.

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Pat Sajak vs The Zombie Horde

Yes.  Pat Sajak is that awesome.  He isn't just a game show host, he is also a freedom fighter against the zombie horde!

That zombie horde??  Yes, the horde from the zombies of those alarmists on man-caused global warming apocalypse. 

And all he uses is his 12-guage shotgon of wit and the ever-explosive and wide-impacting logic bomb.

With these two solitary weapons at his disposal he lays waste to the vaste advancing zombie horde.  See how he conquers all.... Continue Reading »

Newsflash: Hippies Still Lack Intelligence

Despite the fact that Canadian geese are so numerous as to be a health risk [PDF] in many areas, a group of aging hippies in Oregon continue to illustrate everything that went wrong with our country some 40 years ago:

Service planned to mourn geese euthanized in Bend

BEND -- To mourn the death of 109 Canada geese that were euthanized at the behest of the Bend Park & Recreation District, some city residents plan to hold a memorial service at the Galveston Bridge in Drake Park on Thursday evening to remember the slain birds.

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"I think a memorial like this will help people console each other," said 62-year-old Bend resident Foster Fell, as he stood outside the Bend Public Library with fliers decrying the park district's use of lethal methods on Canada geese. "I, myself, in the last few days have been nursing a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat."

Fell said he moved to Bend two years ago to "rub elbows" with Central Oregon's wildlife, and during that time found the Canada goose to be an iconic image of the city and its parks. When he found out that the park district was going to start killing the geese, he started organizing a campaign to persuade it to maintain its nonlethal efforts to control the population.

It delights me to no end to point out that this token resident is a relative newcomer who thinks he knows everything there is to know about Bend, Oregon—and is more than comfortable pushing the other citizens of Bend into conforming to his ideological preferences (which in this case appear to be "nature worship.")

This phenomenon is not limited to Oregon by any stretch of the imagination. From Raleigh, North Carolina to suburban Fairfax County, Virginia, I've seen many cases where newcomers insist on dictating policy to long-time residents who have a vested interest in the area. From tax increases to bond issues, these people pile endless amounts of debt and government spending on the populace, only to lift tail and run to neighboring counties once their economic policies come home to roost in the form of decimated quality of life.

If the press were really interested in a hard-hitting story, I'd definitely be interested in hearing what your average American thinks of his newly-arrived dictatorial neighbors.

Considering that this would invite commentary approaching disdain of our urban "betters," I'm not holding my breath—But it'd be interesting to hear nonetheless.

Incidentally, I'd place odds that Foster Fell attended Woodstock at somewhere north of 100%.

(with thanks to captainfish for the tip)

Welcome the Pretendustrial Revolution!

Ace of Spades commenter Garrett provides fodder for a doozy.

The Department of Pretendustry: Suggests garrett.

We should create a full cabinet-level department for pretendustry, because plainly we're a world leader in pretendustry. Certainly we're losing all desire to compete in dirty, filthy industry.

But we remain the most pretendustrious nation in the world. Our gross pretendustrial output is rising every year.

On a related note, Snapped Shot Earth Science Laboratories is now accepting cash donations from corporations seeking to increase their Gross Pretendustric Output. We are world experts at applying Deming's famous Total Quality Management process—to wit: pretending to be productive by checking checkboxes excellently—and will apply TQM using our patented management techniques to ensure the greatest flux potential of your environmental business needs!

Or something, uhh huhuh.

Let's Do Some Comparing And Contrasting

So, it has been a month now since the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded from a very large plume of natural gas.  And the media have been constantly hyping up the coming apocolypse of the Gulf's ecosystem and seafood industry.  Yet, what have we really seen?

No one can seem to find the oil.  But that doesn't stop the media and local governments from over-reacting to even the slightest bit of oil found on beaches.  They have even pounced on balls of oil found on some beaches as their evidence for the coming Gulf catastrophe.  However, that oil turned out to not be from this leak of interest.  Continue Reading »

Understatement Of The Day

This understatement of the day comes from Dr. Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia.  She is involved in scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf in relation to the latest BP\Transocean's oil leak. 

The oil leak is currently spreading out in layers within the water column due to the chemical dispersants that are being pumped in down at the site of the leak.  Here is how the fine Doctor describes the oil....

Given their size, the plumes cannot possibly be made of pure oil, but more likely consist of fine droplets of oil suspended in a far greater quantity of water, Dr. Joye said.

If that isn't an understatement of an underwater oil leak.....

Actually, I would actually tend to agree with the fine Doctor.  I would say that the Gulf of Mexico is a great quantity of water. 

Didn't Connor McCloud Try This Already In Second Movie?

And, I seem to recall that that experiment failed miserably then too.  Yet, Green Libero Socialists really want to change our environment in order to prevent our environment from changing.  Newest idea is already receiving millions and millions of dinero.  Without a thought as to its repurcussions, if any.

The Silver Lining Project is a not-for-profit international scientific research collaboration to study the effects of particles (aerosols) on clouds, and the influence of these cloud effects on climate systems.

The machines [up to 1,900 ships travelling the Pacific Ocean], developed by a San Francisco-based research group called Silver Lining, turn seawater into tiny particles that can be shot up over 3,000 feet in the air. The particles increase the density of clouds by increasing the amount of nuclei contained within. Silver Lining’s floating machines can suck up ten tons of water per second. If all goes well, Silver Lining plans to test the process with 10 ships spread throughout 3800 square miles of ocean. Geoengineering, an umbrella phrase to describe techniques that would allow humans to prevent global warming by manipulating the Earth’s climate...

Willis, the author of the post, is a little skeptical.

Smart move … what we have here is a non-viable non-solution to a non-problem. I wouldn’t want to comment either, especially since this non-solution will burn about 27 billion litres (about 7 billion US gallons) of fuel per year to supposedly “solve” the problem supposedly caused by CO2 from burning fuel …

What a denier.

Well, maybe they are thinking that if we personally are not able to use gas by then, then there will be more for them to use.  But, still, we see them destroying the environment by trying to save it using their crazy ideas.  Like dumping tons of iron in to the oceans.  And that plan was approved too without caring about the repurcussions.

OH, COME ON!!! Seriously?

I just yesterday posted how the Warmists could not let a good weekend go without trying to ruin things.  Not to be outdone, the scientists have their own doomsday message. 

And, if history is any guide, a scientist with an agenda is as dangerous as a Socialist with an agenda.

Get ready for a journey through the fanciful delights from the mind of a scientist.

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Happy Easter - We're All Gonna Die!!

Seems, even a wonderful weekend designed with happiness, glee, future-looking, smiley rabbits, chocolate-love hangovers, and kids in their Easter best is just something that can't be allowed to stand.  Warmists just can't leave well enough alone.  Even for one weekend.

But, according to the Warmists, we are still "all gonna die!".  Even if there is no proof, they just can't seem to spout their illogic fast enough.  And Easter weekend is not even safe from their vitriollic ant-human rhetoric.

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Ooch. Now That's Gonna Cost Ya

Man, how unlucky Iceland must be to have Mother Nature mad at them. This non-green activity is really going to cost their pocket book.

With that European Carbon Trading Ponzi Scheme, Iceland is really gonna pay for it. Ooch.

Am wondering how long it will take for the Goreacle to declare Iceland an enemy of Climate Change.