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Global warming means more raw sewage in local water: report

Public health and safety threats are escalating in Metro Vancouver because an aging sewage handling and treatment system will fail more often as a result of climate change, according to a federal report uncovered by The Vancouver Sun.

The report says heavier rainstorms will frequently overwhelm portions of the region's sewage system and accelerate the spill of raw sewage into Burrard Inlet and the Strait of Georgia.

The Reference Frame: Bangladesh gained 1000 squared km recently

As AFP, BBC, and others report, satellite images combined with old maps have revealed that the country has gained 1,000 squared kilometers since 1973 (more than 1 percent of the Czech Republic) and it seems to be continuing gaining landmass, roughly 20 squared kilometers per year.

Well, what was the mistake of the "scientists" who are predicting something completely different? Well, just as in many other cases, they have only counted contributions of one sign (negative sign) but they have completely omitted the contributions of the opposite sign (positive sign) that turn out to be completely crucial for the landmass budget, especially sedimentation and dams. New dams can reclaim up to 5,000 additional squared km in the near future, including new islands.

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Wind Breaker: Senate Again Rejects Tax Breaks for Clean Energy

The renewable-energy industry’s still out of luck: The U.S. Senate tried and failed again to extend the tax credits that make clean energy competitive. That leaves the crucial government support even closer to expiration at the end of the year, and means lots of renewable-energy projects in pipelines around the country could get cancelled.

Despite calls from people as disparate as Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens for more clean energy, the Senate vote wasn’t even as close as previous efforts to extend the tax credits—51 senators voted in favor, to 43 against. The measure needed 60 votes to be filibuster-proof—crucial at a time when Senate Republicans are holding their support for the tax credits until Democrats offer their support for more domestic oil drilling. If the two sides can find common ground, Congress could still renew the tax breaks after the August recess.

Don Surber » Blog Archive » Ice fishing

How frozen fish can stop “global warming.”

I no more believe that man is causing the world to warm than I believe the moon is made of green cheese.

But waste not, want not, and so I support this move to ditch the fresh fish in favor of frozen fish — because less fuel is used to ship, as Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post put it, “blackfin tuna from Tobago, mahi-mahi from Hawaii and black grouper from the Bahamas” to New York and San Francisco.

Ah yes, our liberal betters eat fish with gi-mung-ous carbon footprints.

Music Preview: Toby Keith tries to stay out of left-right political debates

Keith says he's a "right-wrong guy" not a "right-left guy" and doesn't see the reason for politics in issues such as gay marriage and global warming.

"If the world needs savin' and the polar caps are melting, shouldn't we all check in and see if we're destroying this sucker?

Why Romney Matters (UNCoRRELATED)

Pawlenty has a well-established, if somewhat superficial, maverick/reformist streak, a la McCain. He's a believer in global warming and has expended a lot of rhetoric (if not political capital) taking on oil and pharmaceutical companies. He'd reinforce McCain's appeal as a somewhat unorthodox Republican.

Yeah, and they say that Romney's religion is a problem...