Second snowiest snow season for the Northern Hemisphere on record ( 3 of the top 5 in last 4 years)
The hemispheric snow extent for the November to March snow season was the second highest on record behind only 1977/79. 3 of the top 5 snowiest such periods have occurred in the last 5 years amazingly.Charging fatter people more to fly? It's Samoa Air that should be ashamed | Ally Fogg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Airlines are often accused of treating their passengers like pieces of meat, but Samoa Air have broken new ground. With an innovative ticket-pricing policy, the company are now not only weighing their customers' baggage at check-in, but weighing the person too, and charging a variable rate per kilo per mile.Flashback: Fat people blamed for global warming - Telegraph
Basic physics confirms that the weight of passengers does affect the fuel costs of flights, and one can understand why obesity is a particular problem for airlines in the South Pacific. Samoa is the second most obese country on earth, squeezed between the neighbouring island nations of Nauru and American Samoa.
British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets.Instapundit » Blog Archive » #GREENFAIL: Solyndra 2.0: Fisker Automotive is teetering. How many others in the government loan p…
#GREENFAIL: Solyndra 2.0: Fisker Automotive is teetering. How many others in the government loan program that funded Solyndra will eventually fall? But the connected folks got their money out first. That’s what matters.Ethanol Fraud and Why You Pay More at the Pump
Why in the world is the government still forcing ethanol down the gas tanks of American consumers? Ethanol was meant to help clean up the air and to keep gasoline prices in check. It does neither. Instead, it degrades the environment and is currently boosting gas prices. Talk about a teachable moment. No program could better explain why so many Americans oppose Big Government.
Most Americans probably assume that corn-based ethanol is “green” -- it is not.
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"Most Americans probably assume that corn-based ethanol is “green” -- it is not."
Of course it's green! People don't know what Green is.
"British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets."
This probably is the real reason behind the push to get people to lose weight.
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