Sunday, September 13, 2009

Examining the No-Impact Life
[Michelle] I wasn't able to see my family because they don't live locally, so it was great on day 366 to be able to get on a plane with my daughter Isabella and go see my parents.
Time: the future. Place: Britain
A clear starry moonless sky looked down upon a frozen Britain. A deep depression had passed through and deposited unprecedented quantities of snow on town and country. Snow ploughs and gritting vehicles had cleared a way through on the major routes, but footpaths and side roads were still not negotiable. A stationary high had now settled across the country and in the windless air the temperature was plunging steadily, already below -10C. On the hills giant wind turbines stood motionless in the still air. They were giant impotent icons of a failed religion and stark monuments to onerous and now pointless taxation over many years. In the gloom they seemed to point accusing fingers up into the sky.
I Don’t Own An Outdoor Gas Grill Because They Contribute To Global Warming, How Can I Make A Cookout Meal In A Microwave?
I want burgers, hot dogs with the looks and the taste of being cooked on a gas grill, but being cooked in a microwave.
Beck and Romm--two sides of global warming's media coin?
Both are stretching the debate on global warming far past that sensible middle ground where solutions are found.
I'm not convinced that "the middle ground" is always sensible. If one side says that we should spend $45 trillion on the global warming hoax, while the other side says spend nothing, is it sensible to blow $22.5 trillion on it?

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