David Cronin: The true cost of eating meat

At lunchtime EU officials can visit highly subsidised canteens and tuck into the cheapest steaks in Brussels. Perhaps this helps explain why they are so blind to the true cost of meat.

Bradbury will kick off SAM Saturday

Jean Baumann, who served along with Bradbury in Al Gore’s 1,000-volunteer “army,” thinks the former Oregon secretary of state is just what SAM needs to get off to a strong start.

“Bill has really fine-tuned Al Gore’s slideshow to make it more real,” said Baumann, who is chair of the Lake Oswego Sustainability Advisory Board. “People will also have the opportunity to talk to Bill in the lobby later.”

Gore's Profitable Environment - The Philadelphia Bulletin

But the Capital Research Center (CRC), a nonpartisan watchdog organization that monitors the activities of nonprofit groups is not so sure. CRC reported in its August 2007 newsletter "Foundation Watch" (”Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade: The Money and Connections Behind It,” by Deborah Corey Barnes), Mr. Gore "has established a network of organizations to promote the so-called climate crisis."

The report also noted GIM’s role in the climate change business. It said, "GIM appears to have considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms that currently exist: the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) in the U.S. and the Carbon Neutral Company CNC) in Great Britain. CCX is the only firm in the U.S. that claims to trade carbon credits." It also revealed that Mr. Gore’s nonprofit arm "Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP), budgeted $300 million to promote climate change.

CRC concludes, "If carbon emissions trading ever comes to the United States, Al Gore will be uniquely positioned to cash in....Meanwhile, Gore is pushing for tougher environmental regulations on the private sector. It wants “cap-and-trade” legislation so that companies will be forced to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and buy carbon credits."

AMC - Blogs - Horror Hacker - Scott Sigler column

Pinker thrilled audiences in his 1989 debut as an energetic serial killer. He had few roles since then, his only other significant credit coming from An Inconvenient Truth, where he once again played a bad guy -- the evil destroyer of all things good and the bringer of endless doom (also known by the shorter name "electricity").

"I learned a lot from Al Gore," Pinker said. "Here's a guy who's winning Oscars and making millions by pulling on heart strings and preaching doom while racking up a carbon footprint bigger than King Kong boofing on a rain forest bong. I figure, if there's a sucker born every minute, why can't I get a taste?"