Friday, June 12, 2009

Pop Vox: Newsweek's Daily Arts and Culture Blog : Author Michael Pollan [promotes climate fraud; also informs farmers that cows won't die if you feed them a little corn]
Gostin: Why is it so terrible that cows eat corn?
Pollan: Because it makes them sick when they eat it in large quantities. A little corn is not going to kill them, but when it's 80 to 90 percent of their diet, it deranges their metabolism.
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...Your meat consumption is probably your biggest contribution to climate change.
frocksonbikes.org tries to sell us on the alleged joys of riding a bike in bitter cold [to fight global warming]
And the convenience factor of Frocking around still holds. When less fortunate people are waiting, frozen, for steamy, germ-filled buses (which seem to be even more erratic when it’s cold), you zoom past on your own timetable – sporting a pretty glow in your cheeks!
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That said, we’re not in denial of the single-digit temperatures, nor the Southerly gales that remind you there’s nothing between little Aotearoa and big old Antarctica.
The Waxman/Markey Energy Bill: Hey, who turned out the lights?? | the 941
We no longer have just a theory behind the suspicions, but we have the science that backs the arguments. Even the scientists have given us a how-to manual with little stickers to put on the calendar that mark the years of our efforts. And to top it off, we have a Democratic majority! What more could we ask for?

Well frankly, a lot.

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