330 ppm Climate Refugees | Real Science

Top scientist Bill McKibben​ promises Eskimos that 350 ppm will save their igloos, but apparently he just pulled that idea out from some dark nether region.

Browner, Colbert, the EPA, and Broken Windows | Watts Up With That?

. The EPA itself said that to implement the full CO2 regulations on all emitting point sources would require a quarter million new federal employees … I mean, all those shiny new jobs will whack ugly old Mr. Unemployment on his head right there!

Articles: How Many Electricians Does It Take to Screw In a Light Bulb?

I'm not sure how much you'd be willing to pay an electrician to change just one lamp, but I'm sure you would absolutely blow a fuse if you were asked to pay (as taxpayers did) the almost $1,100 that the county paid my company to replace just one light bulb on that day. The county did in fact "party like it's 1999," but it did so on the taxpayer's dime.

While not all of the tasks were as blatantly wasteful as the one given on that day, it seems as though my company was hired to help dispose of some "surplus" cash that the county was given for those "Y2K" projects. Basically it's the same concept as one of those "use it or lose it" year-end monetary bonfires we've all heard about.