Get out of it first, I hasten to add.
But trash that piece of crap, lemon, deathtrap now.
NOW!!!
What a perfect commercial (from the Super Bowl) for a Hummer or some other gas guzzler: tell the green police to suck your tailpipe.
But to use it to try to sell a so-called eco-friendly car?
Where can I get me an IED?
PS: The debate is raging.
I don’t know, is it me, or is it China?
A court in China’s Xinjiang region has sentenced a further five people to death for their role in July’s deadly ethnic riots, the worst in decades.
The sentences bring the number of people condemned to die over the riots to a total of 22.
Well, maybe they were incorrigible killers.
China has accused foreign diplomats of meddling in its internal affairs, after some were critical of the trial of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
The country’s foreign ministry urged those who had expressed concerns about the trial to respect its legal process.
…
“Some officials from some countries’ embassies in China released so-called statements, which is a gross interference in China’s judicial internal affairs,” Ms Jiang said, adding that these violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
She expressed China’s “strong dissatisfaction” over their actions, adding that China’s “judicial sovereignty” should be respected.
Mr Liu, a prominent government critic and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests, could be jailed for 15 years if convicted.
A writer and former university professor, he has been in jail since 2008, after being arrested for writing a document calling for political reform in China.
Known as Charter 08 and released to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it called for greater freedoms and democratic reforms in China, including an end to Communist one-party rule.
The trial has been heavily criticised by right groups, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) describing it as “a travesty of justice”.
I’m as guilty as anyone, but why did everyone know Andrei Sakharov’s name, yet so few know Liu’s?
But this one may be the most depressing of all:
A Chinese man has been jailed for 12 years for killing and eating a rare Indochinese tiger.
Kang Wannian, a villager from the southern province of Yunnan, said he had encountered the tiger while out fishing, and killed it in self-defence.
The animal may have been China’s only wild Indochinese tiger, which is on the brink of extinction.
Four other men were jailed for sharing the tiger meal and covering up the incident.
“Call the Joneses! Look what wandered in for dinner.”
Cool, you might say. Great idea:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she plans to introduce legislation today to establish two national monuments on roughly 1 million acres of Mojave Desert outback that is home to bighorn sheep and desert tortoises, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes and ancient petroglyphs.
Its centerpiece, Mojave Trails National Monument, would prohibit development on 941,000 acres of federal land and former railroad company property along a 105-mile stretch of old Route 66, between Ludlow and Needles.
Awesome, right?
Look again: what part of Dianne Feinstein don’t you get?
Some congressional Republicans accused Feinstein of engaging in a not-in-my-back-yard campaign when her plans for legislation restricting renewable energy projects in California deserts surfaced earlier this year.
The senator countered that she “strongly” supports such projects, but only if they are built on “suitable” lands.
In an effort to avoid conflicts, BrightSource Energy Inc. and Stirling Energy Systems recently scrapped plans to build massive solar and wind farms on a panoramic stretch of the proposed Mojave Trails monument known as Sleeping Beauty Valley.
“We had a project within what we understand to be the boundaries of the monument, but we recently decided to withdraw it,” said Sean Gallagher, Stirling’s vice president of marketing strategies and regulatory issues. “We’re trying to be respectful of what Sen. Feinstein has been doing in that area of the desert.”
Translation: we knew better than to cross Knuckles Feinstein.
Funny how they thought they they could get practically unlimited solar power from the desert. But Sen. Feinstein was just following Ted Kennedy’s example. So what if the wind blows consistently in Nantucket Sound? Doesn’t mean we got to put windmills in his back yard.
Oil in Alaska? Leave it there; we’ll buy Saudi Arabia’s. Coal in West Virginia? Why don’t they get green jobs?
Hope you’re happy, America. If the wait for the MRI under ObamaCare doesn’t kill you, the cold from our energy policy will. But you will have died for the sand dunes and the extinct volcanoes, so it will have been worth it.
Nasty email to NY Times reporter
h/t to John Fund. The email below, incredibly, was sent to the NY Times environmental reporter. The writer is threatening to “cut off” the climate guy at the NY Times. And he not only sent it to the NY Times. He also passed it along to his email list, which is why, gentle reader, you get to look over his shoulder and into his little mind.
Climate Scientist to Revkin: “we can no longer trust you” to carry water for us.
Posted in Environment by Steven Hayward
Okay folks, here comes a new e-mail from the climate community yesterday that I did not hack (I was copied on it), and it is a case study in not getting it. Back story: Ever since Chris Horner and I were at a conference together with warmenist Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois a couple years ago, Chris and I have been included on Prof. Schesingler’s e-mail distribution list, which usually consist of flagging climate news stories. Yesterday we got copied on this message Schlesinger sent to science reporter Andy Revkin:
Andy:
Copenhagen prostitutes?
Climate prostitutes?
Shame on you for this gutter reportage. [Emphasis added.]
This is the second time this week I have written you thereon, the first about giving space in your blog to the Pielkes.
The vibe that I am getting from here, there and everywhere is that your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists.
Of course, your blog is your blog.
But, I sense that you are about to experience the ‘Big Cutoff’ from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included. [Emphasis added.]
Copenhagen prostitutes?
Unbelievable and unacceptable.
What are you doing and why?
MichaelSo what so annoyed Schlesinger? Here’s Revkin’s offending blog post, which among other things passes along the amusing story of Copenhagen prostitutes offering free sex to climate campaigners (I’ll leave to Mark Steyn the suitable lip gloss on this story), along with some other news items that the climate campaigners don’t want reported. Judge for yourself if this constitutes “gutter reportage” and deserves censure from the climate science community. I’ll add that one of the CRU e-mails I read mentioned that Revkin is not always reliable from their point of view; I can’t now find it, but recall it vividly for the presumption that reporters are supposed to serve as mere transcribers for the climate campaign.
This raises another small but perhaps significant point that I didn’t have room to comment on in my Weekly Standard article: How is it possible for a group of smart people to write over 1,000 e-mails over the course of a decade without a single shred of wit or humor in any of them? There isn’t the tiniest hint anywhere that any of these guys ever grin. It jives with my experience of environmentalists for 20 years now that they are the single most humorless slice of humanity on the planet. (My favorite: I had a top greenie lawyer for the Audubon Society once say at a conference that “I regard the National Association of Home Builders to be every bit as evil as the National Rifle Association.” My comeback was: “I can understand why you’d think that about the home builders, but what’s your problem with the NRA?” The guy didn’t even crack a smile.) And here we see Andy Revkin threatened with a “cutoff” because he writes–on a blog–something mildly amusing about Copenhagen.
May I develop the point about the humorlessness of the environmentalists a bit? This lack of sense of humor applies to the Left most days. That is a big part of the reason that they hate talk radio. Rush Limbaugh rants about politics, but he’s also funny. Without a sense of humor, all you hear is the rant.
- Aggie
You think I’m exaggerating?
Greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday.
“The overwhelming amount of scientific studies show that the threat is real,” she said.
The announcement stems from a Supreme Court ruling which ordered the agency to determine the impact of carbon emissions not only on the environment, but on public health.
“These long-overdue findings cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean energy reform,” Jackson said.
Immediately after the announcement, Jackson will head to Copenhagen, Denmark, to participate in the Copenhagen Climate Conference ahead of President Obama’s appearance on Friday.
So we know there’s nothing political about the announcement.
The action by the EPA, which has been anticipated for months, clearly was timed to add to the momentum toward some sort of agreement on climate change at the Copenhagen conference and try to push Congress to approve climate legislation.
What changed? What made carbon dioxide so bad today that this announcement was required? And if they delayed the announcement of such an alarming development for political purposes, how many lives were put at risk?
What is really missing from any account is the nature of the threat CO2 poses: they just don’t say. Which is too bad, because I’d like to know. It certainly isn’t warming, as the uncorrupted data proves.
So what is it? Me and Ibn Saud want to know. As do the spirits of Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, et al.
From George Will discussing the nuttiness coming to Copenhagen:
Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama’s promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen.
We elected this imbecile.
- Aggie
Global warming data in the dumpster.
Cheesy, cheesy, slimy, little global warmists.
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.
Would you buy a used car from these clowns?
- Aggie
Hello, hyperventilating zealot.
Greetings, denialist scum.
Now that we’ve dispensed with the formalities, please allow me to point and laugh at you. Ahem. Ha ha ha! Point point point!
Shut up.
That’s what you’d like me to do. That’s what you’d like all of us to do. Shut our mouths and open our wallets. Did you really think it was going to be so easy?
This doesn’t prove anything.
What doesn’t?
You know.
We both do. I just want to hear you say it.
This Clim… This Climateguh. Guh.
That’s it, almost there.
This Climategate garbage doesn’t mean anything! You science-denying neocon fascist racist warmongering planet-raping… [Goes on like this for a bit]
My goodness. Feel better?
No.
Well, I do. OMG, can you believe Obama changed his mind about going to Copenhagen after all this stuff came out? It’s like sprinting to board your ship at the last minute, and it’s the Titanic.
You’re the Titanic. You are.
Should we do this some other time? You’re making even less sense than usual.
Do you really think you know more than scientists? They’re scientists.
Yes, and science is a wonderful thing. It’s improved our lives in countless ways. It also has nothing to do with what these frauds, and the useful idiots who believed them, have been pulling.
How would you know?
I can read. “Hide the decline” and “Quick, delete these files before somebody catches on” and “HOLY CRAP WHY CAN’T I GET THIS DATA TO SAY WHAT WE NEED IT TO SAY IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR JOBS” aren’t exactly complex scientific concepts.
Go to the link. It’s excellent.
- Aggie
When I hear this:
Brazil’s president said that “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world’s largest tropical rain forest.
I want to say: “cut it all down and see if I care, cholo“. More mahogany furniture for me. It may be intemperate and short-sighted of me, but act like a brat, get treated like a brat, I always say. Lula’s just a poor man’s Hugo Chavez, which is a pretty low goal in life, but he’s just managed to achieve it.
Who can take a sunrise?
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate And a miracle or two
The Candy Man
The Candy Man Can
The Candy Man Can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
Our favorite Candy Man needs to tweak the recipe a bit
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama
Oh dear. Shall I pile it on?
Why not?
Who appointed over 40 ambassadors on the sole basis of campaign contributions, or has as many lobbyists in government as did any President in memory? And who releases touchy news — whether increased unemployment or trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civil courts — on Friday nights, or wants his Democratically-controlled Congress to debate unpopular legislation on Saturday nights?
You see where this is going. Prophets fall harder than normal politicians. When you claim that seas recede and planets cool before your presence, and that Latin mottos, new presidential candidate seals, neo-classical victory trophies, and faux-Greek temple sets are the appropriate backdrops for Your speeches, then you raise the bar a bit high. Obama is not necessarily any more partisan than a Nixon or Reagan or Bush, only just as partisan — but then he claimed something quite different.
Add in the hope/change mantra, and a cadre of lackeys talking about tingling legs, his majesty Caesar, and apotheosis into a “god”, and our young Icarus was simply soaring too near the sun for his own fragile wax-feather wings. The problem is not just that Obama is proving Clinton-like in his Chicago hardball partisanship (cf. the trash-talk of Rahm Emanuel, Mao-admirer Anita Dunn, or the Truther Van Jones), but that his entire persona was fabricated on a touchy-feely “there is no red state, no blue state America.”
Despite Obama’s vows to restore science to its rightful place in government (I think that was his dig at George Bush’s opposition to human embryo, stem-cell research), we get superstition. Instead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ non-partisan, depressing unemployment figures, we are instead to rely on a new unproven notion of jobs “saved” and “created”, and in nonexistent, made-up congressional districts, listed, no less, on a government official website, www.recovery.gov.
Summer lovin’ had me a blast
Summer lovin’ happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days driftin’ away, to uh-oh those summer nights
Uh Well-a well-a well-a huh
Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far?
Tell me more, tell me more
Like does he have a car?
Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
Or, as the kidz like to say: Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama.
Remember the “reset” button promises abroad? Do we have a safer, saner relationship with Putin? Is Iran closer to disarmament? North Korea quieter? Did George Mitchell transform the Middle East? Is the “good” war still good, the “bad” one still bad? Do the Brits feel the special relationship is stronger? Maybe Sarkozy is more impressed now with America, or are the Poles and Czechs?
And do Chavez, Castro, Ortega, Morales, Zelaya, and others in Latin America feel more pressure to be democratic or less? Is one third of the planet in India and China more comfortable with the messiah Obama or with the hated Bush?
Well, enough of this silliness. I’m pretty sure that the unemployed yout’ who voted for this dufus are really missing their sexy summer crush.
- Aggie