Friday, July 31, 2009

The Barack backlash: How Obama's presidency has gone from deity to doubtful | Mail Online
It is all spectacularly batty. Right-wing Americans have embraced conspiracy theories since the Cold War days when they professed that adding fluoride to the nation's water supply was a communist plot to poison the free.

Modern doom-mongers are warning nervous hicks that measures to tackle climate change threaten their sacred hamburgers: greens advocate cutting meat consumption because livestock generates so much methane gas, and Obama is seen as a green.
Wayne Brandt: Actually: Use a tree, save a planet
The wood table at which you may now be sitting to read this article, surrounded by the wood that's framing your home, are all storing carbon dioxide. And they'll continue storing it for the life of the table and house.
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Wayne Brandt is executive vice president of Minnesota Forest Industries.
If the carbon dioxide in all wooden tables was added to the atmosphere tomorrow, would the weather change measurably?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When they accuse us of being "doom mongers" and considering modest conveniences like hamburgers as "sacred",then surely the greens couldn't possibly themselves be fearmongers ("we're frying our own planet, we're all going to die because of carbon") and wouldn't themselves have anything "sacred" (windmills, solar, anti-nuke-cult, earth worship, green socialism government programs).
It's so good to know the media is not biased and not picking sides on the issue of AGW.