NYTimes Blog [insane advice to allegedly improve the world's weather]: Be a Part-Time Vegetarian | Green Prophet

You heard about being a vegawarian here, which in case you forgot, means “you are ‘aware’ that eating animals contributes more towards global warming than eating plants. So, maybe, sometimes, you will choose the vegetarian option instead of the meat option.”

The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog has just published another scheme for cutting down meat without cutting it out, “vegetarianism as a sometimes thing.” Writer Ian Ayres posted a reader letter suggesting that a group of friends get together and agree to always have one vegetarian eater among them. In other words, collective vegetarians:

“Say a group of 7 people signed a contract saying that each of them would go meatless on an assigned day each week. Thus, within the group each member could eat meat 6 days a week, but there would be one vegetarian at all times…. And of course 7 is an arbitrary number – more ambitious folks could form a team of 2 or 3.”

Ayres and his wife committed to meatless Wednesdays, and he went so far as to put money on the table in the event he is caught breaking his promise – he offered to donate $150 to charity and $100 more to the person who catches him.

It’s Time To Stand Up And Be Counted, People! « American Elephants

If you have not called or e-mailed your Representative, it’s time to do it. Nancy Pelosi is trying to force through a vote on the Waxman/Markey climate bill by Friday. No debate, no floor discussion, every legislative maneuver to rush it through quickly will be employed. They don’t want any input from you stupid voters out there. Surprise them.

This bill is a disaster for America. It is a big net job killer. Utility costs will skyrocket. It would reduce global temperatures (the supposed aim of the legislation) by 2050 by an amount too small to measure. It will invest useless billions in supposed “clean energy” that cannot produce electricity in a cost effective manner now, nor in the foreseeable future. Doesn’t work. In Spain, their wind energy investment killed 2 jobs in the wider economy for every “green job” created. And that’s without even knowing all the economic disasters they have written into the bill. It’s not available for anyone to read it. Why is that not a surprise? It is officially and euphemistically HR 2454 “The American Clean Energy and Security Act.”

frogblog » It’s a good heat tonight in DC

It’s supposed to get hotter in DC over the next couple of days and this is very good news for the planet because the House of Representatives plans to vote on Friday on the bill to set up a greenhouse emission cap-and-trade system.

[Washington, DC predicted high for tomorrow: Only 11 degrees cooler than it was on the same date 57 years ago]

Max Temperature 90 °F / 32 °C 86 °F / 30 °C 101 °F / 38 °C (1952)