Friday, October 19, 2012

Devoted under-consumer feeds her friends a meal made of trash | Grist
She doesn’t use toilet paper AND she doesn’t replace her underwear? PASS.

The one good thing we can say about this woman is that she’s pretty close to climate-neutral.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Weatherbell Tolling Coldest ...
Weatherbell Tolling Coldest US November since 02 and widespread early lake effect snow season this year. BTW.Watch carib for troptorm nxt wk
Interior Dept. creates climate change [hoax] committee
The Obama administration is creating an advisory committee on climate change to advise the federal government on future operations.

The Interior Department announced the new bureaucracy in a recent federal registry notice along with a call for nominations by Nov. 19 to seat the 25-member board.

The notice specifically states membership will be comprised of state and local government employees, non-governmental organizations, Native American tribes, academia, individual landowners and business interests.
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The new committee will be chosen by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and will meet [via teleconference, or via fuel-guzzling and expensive travel?] two to four times a year.
Government may ease curbs on cheap Kyoto emission credits
The federal government appears open to the possibility of relaxing restrictions on the number of cheap Kyoto pollution permits Australian businesses can purchase to offset their carbon emissions.
Climate change target row | Islington Tribune
TOWN Hall chiefs have been accused of abandoning – without any public announcement – a target to cut CO2 emissions in the borough by 40 per cent by 2020.

But yesterday (Thurs) Labour environment chief Councillor Paul Smith told the Tribune that the council “had other priorities”.

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