Lee Judge / The Kansas City Star (October 22, 2009)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Fox Repeats Lies - Gasp!
Sean Hannity's Bogus Russian Climate Scandal
| Tue Dec. 22, 2009 4:50 PM PST
Late last week, Fox's Sean Hannity sent global warming skeptics into their biggest tizzy since ClimateGate when he announced that "a major Russian climate change organization dropped a bombshell:
The Institute of Economic Analysis now claims that much of its climate data was tampered with by a leading British research center. In fact, they say that any of their data that could help disprove global warming was simply ignored. Not exactly the news that all the alarmists in Copenhagen were now hoping for.
The conservative media has seized upon Hannity's "bombshell" as apparent confirmation that ClimateGate was but the tip of a solidly frozen iceberg. "Climategate goes SERIAL," crowed a blogger for the UK Telegraph, joining a chorus of triumphant skeptics in the Washington Times, the Investors Business Daily, and the Examiner.com, which described the IEA as a "key Russian ministry." What none of them mentioned is that the IEA is actually a libertarian think tank that has no scientific expertise in climatology but numerous ties to industry-backed climate change denial groups in the United States. (Needless to say, British scientists never tampered with the IEA's "data" or any other climate data)
Friday, December 25, 2009
Republican vet understands what he fought for.
"That was one of the most moving speeches I have ever in my life heard. It brought a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat. This remarkable and truly honorable man puts humanity into such clear perspective, I can only hope that the haters and the naysayers will stop, listen & reflect in their hearts the admonition to love and respect others of good will as we would want to be loved and respected. Unconditionally & without reservation."
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Greening the Desert - Part 1 and 2
When there’s no soil, no water, no shade, and where the sun beats down on you to the tune of over 50°C (122°F), the word ‘poverty’ begins to take on a whole new meaning. It is distinct and surreal. It’s a land of dust, flies, intense heat and almost complete dependency on supply lines outside of ones control. This is the remains of what was once called the ‘fertile crescent’. It is the result of thousands of years of abuse. It is a glimpse at a world where the environment – whose services provide for all human need – has all but completely abandoned us. This is a glimpse at the world our consumer society is inexorably moving towards, as our exponential-growth culture gorges itself at ever-increasing rates.
The original Greening the Desert video clip has been watched hundreds of thousands of times and has been posted to countless blogs and web pages in the datasphere. Although only five minutes long, it has inspired people around the globe, daring the lucid ones amongst us, those who can see the writing on the wall, to begin to hope and believe in an abundant future – a future where our survival doesn’t have to be based on undermining and depleting the very resources of soil, water, phosphorus, etc. that we depend on. The work profiled in that clip demonstrates that humanity can be a positive element within the biosphere. Man doesn’t have to destroy. Man can repair.
Greening the Desert II: Greening the Middle East from Craig Mackintosh on Vimeo.
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