Monday, July 26, 2010

Mini cattle may shrink the hoofprint of eating beef | Grist
Cows (deservedly) get a lot of grief for beef's hefty contribution to global warming, which means we should steer clear of adding more of them to the world, right? Basically, yes.

However, if you apply the theory of the Incredible Shrinking Man to the bovine world, more-but-mini cattle may give some relief to climate-conscious humans who still salivate for steak on occasion.
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Ten mini cows -- the greenhouse-gas-burping equivalent of one regular cow -- can be pastured on the same five acres that previously would support only two full-sized cows.
Manmade Global Warming: The Solution - Ricochet.com
Now, if those True Believers would give up their cars and big homes and truly change the way they live, I can’t imagine that there wouldn’t be some measurable impact on the Earth in just a few short years. I’m not talking about recycling Evian bottles, but truly simplifying their lives. Even if you were, say, a former Vice President, you would give up extra homes and jets and limos. I see communes with organic farms and lives freed from polluting technology.

Then, when the rest of us saw the results of their actions—you know, the earth cooling, oceans lowering, polar bears frolicking and glaciers growing—we would see the error of our ways and join the crusade voluntarily and enthusiastically.
C3: Does Global Air Pollution Kill More, or Global Warming? The Idiocy of Warming Alarmists & Liberal/Left Politicians
While the leftist political elites and the chattering class continue to waste valuable time and resources on a problem as about as real as the TV series Lost's smoke monster, millions continue to die from air pollution that can be controlled and eliminated. This can be accomplished without the trillion dollar sacrifices (demands) to line the pockets of big lobbyists, such as Gore, Goldman Sachs, and Soros.
Brumby’s latest green promise: unaffordable, undeliverable and insincere | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Victorian Premier John Brumby promises to shut down six per cent of his state’s electricity supply, ramp up the prices of what remains and make the whole ruinous deal conditional on huge subisidies from a federal government unwilling to give them.
All that green can’t hide the red | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Gerard Henderson notes the infiltration of the Greens by the “watermelons” - green outside, red in.
Portland detectives take fossil-fueled trip to San Francisco to interview Nashville mansion-dwelling, chakra-releasing sex poodle
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Detectives have interviewed former U.S. Vice President Al Gore this past week in San Francisco, a law enforcement source has confirmed to KATU News.

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