In case you've been wondering, Congress is still mucking around in the barnyard. Fox News reports this morning that farmers could be taxed for cow flatulence which, of course, would increase the cost of beef for all Americans.
But don't worry, cuz science arrives with the rescue--even when it's quite obvious to even laymen who take the time to listen, that there is absolutely no great environmental threat emanating from bovine or any other man-controllable source.
GLENN:
I hate fluorescent light bulbs, hate them with everything in me. Hate
them, hate them, hate them. My kids, I'm not burying food. You know,
Bill O'Reilly was like, oh, he's storing up food and burying food in
the backyard. Nope, you know what I have buried in the backyard?
Incandescent light bulbs. George W. Bush as a Christmas present to you
and me, he banned incandescent light bulbs, 2012, 2013 you are not
going to have the incandescent light bulb anymore. And I want to thank
him from the bottom of my heart. I hate that ugly sterile light. They
suck all the happiness and joy out of your life and also they're a pain
in the ass to get rid of. If you break one, we showed this on TV the
other day. If you break one, I mean, it is a 12‑step process to get rid
of it. You just don't sweep it up because it has Mercury. Now, I've
hated it because it's a pain in the neck, it doesn't solve global
warming, they are ugly. You name it, they are being forced on us. I
don't want them. But I had no idea that they were actually killing
people. Did you know that? Green Hell today, our Inconvenient Book
comes out, is it today in paperback? And there's a new chapter and it's
a very good chapter. Kind of an update on everything. This was a best
seller for I don't even know, 25 weeks or something like that on the
New York Times best seller list and it's a great book, and it's out in
paperback. But anyway, we wanted to do an inconvenient update for you
on green energy and light bulbs. Who knew that they were actually
killing people? Steve Milloy is with us. He's the author of Green Hell:
How Environmentalists Plan to Take Control of Your Life and What You
Can Do Stop Them. Hello, Steve.
MILLOY: Hey, Glenn, thanks for having me.
GLENN: I had no idea that they were killing people. How are they killing people?
MILLOY: Well, apparently all these bulbs were made in China. We
used to make the incandescents in Kentucky but can't co‑that anymore.
So we make these compact fluorescents in China where there are
basically no occupational standards, safety standards and it turns out
that more than 90%, more than 90% of the Chinese workers making these
bulbs have been poisoned with Mercury because you can't make these
bulbs without Mercury.
GLENN: How do you mean ‑‑ 90% of the workers in China been poisoned with Mercury?
MILLOY: Right. 90% of the workers have been poisoned so badly that they have to be hospitalized.
GLENN: How are they being poisoned?
MILLOY: Well, they just work, you know, they work with Mercury.
Mercury is a, you know, a toxic substance in high enough doses and
these guys are, you know, putting the Mercury in the bulbs and
apparently, you know, they don't do it in a very safe way. They must
almost I guess handle the Mercury with their hands, I guess, and ‑‑
GLENN: Do you think it's possible that maybe they are waiting for
us to sign the Kyoto treaty before they start handling Mercury properly?
MILLOY: I don't know. You know, China's got a long way to go in
terms of environmental protection and occupational safety laws and, you
know, right now we're saving the planet but killing the Chinese
GLENN: We're not saving the planet. I'd actually consider ‑‑ I
wouldn't do it but I'd consider it. I mean, I can't take it. You know,
I was in the Bush White House in the oval office and I think I may have
been the only person that's ever done about, but he turned around for a
second and, you know, you just don't want to say, so George, what's in
the lamp? What kind of lights do you have? So as he turned around, I
looked into the shade and it was one of those stupid curly light bulbs.
I swear to you if the secret service weren't there, I would have taken
a lamp, I would have! Thrown it at the fireplace, Mr. President. But
the secret service was there. So I backed off.
MILLOY:
You know, these bulbs are expensive, they don't work because they are
made with cheap components, they are poisoning workers, they are
actually ‑‑
GLENN: Yeah, but they're Chinese. Al Gore doesn't care about the
Chinese. They don't count. They have more. We'll make more Chinese.
MILLOY: Yeah. I guess, you know, that's ‑‑ with the DDT ban, you
know, we killed all the poor Africans, no one cares about them, they
can't see them.
GLENN: Yeah. Okay, so I'm interested because you say, and what you
can do to stop them, that's in the title of the book, and what you can
do to stop them. All right, go ahead.
MILLOY: Well, I think that people first need to educate
themselves. This is not about the environment. This is about the left
social and political agenda. You need to grab your politicians, local,
state, federal by the lapel, shake them until they understand it and
people need to get active. While we come home at the end of the day,
spend time with our families, have dinner, the greens are out there at
those city council meetings, county council meetings, planning
commission meetings announcing their agenda and the politicians only
see them. You know, we start to make a change with the tea parties, you
know, we talked about this before. We need to have green tea parties
where people, you know, protest that, you know, the cap and tax that's
coming down the road, you know, President Obama wants to put smart
meters on our house to ration electricity to us, you know, in the
hottest day of the year when you set your thermostat at 72, you know,
President Obama through your local utilities is going to reset it to
82. Now, if you want that kind of stuff to happen, you know, don't ‑‑
keep doing what you're doing, but I think that ‑‑
GLENN: People say that that's ‑‑ people say all the time, Steve,
that that is ridiculous, that that's never going to happen. I mean,
what is it going to take besides it actually happening for people to
understand this is what they're going to do? They are going to regulate
the temperature in your house for the common good.
MILLOY: Glenn, I have wasted the last 13 years trying to educate
people on the science behind the green movement. They haven't taken to
that. So now I'm going, well, this is what they're going to do to your
lifestyle and they're going to tell you where to live, how many
children you can have, where you can work, what kind of car you can
drive, how much energy you can use, what kind of food you can eat, how
much water you can have, what kind of toilet paper you can use, I mean,
they are regulating light bulbs in your house. If people don't
understand, then I guess they are going to have to experience it.
GLENN: So Steve, I'm doing a piece tonight on GE and actually
ACORN as well and I'm trying to track down all the more than of ACORN
and I'm finding all these front organizations, and it's stunning the
corruption that is going on and no one is looking for it, nobody wants
to find it, nobody wants to see it because everybody is in on making
money. When it comes to the green movement, tonight I'm also doing a
segment that we started just producing this morning. I saw some of the
pieces of it this morning that, you know, you have Jeffrey Immelt
coming out and saying about healthcare and green that he's so excited
because the future is all about a Fusion of industry and business with
the government.
MILLOY: Right.
GLENN: And it's going to be great.
MILLOY: Right now ‑‑ well see, you know, and the thing is Jeffrey
Immelt, he wants government laws to make people buy his windmills. He
wants government laws that, you know, get healthcare off his back
because he doesn't want to pay for healthcare for his workers. He would
rather have the government do or the taxpayer.
GLENN: But also GE health ‑‑ I mean, GE is going to get so
unbelievably wealthy from the federal dollars being spent on GE
products.
MILLOY: It's the corpocracy. And this is another thing that people
‑‑ you know, I used to be against antitrust. I think that, you know, we
need more antitrust now. We need to split up these big companies
because they're cozying up with the government. It's terrible.
GLENN: Objection, Steve, thank you very much. I'll talk to you
again. He's the author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to
Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them.
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.
This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.
So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
Bugged By Global Warming [Excerpts]
...Some global-warming
advocates have turned the issue into a religion -- the believers shall
be exalted and the deniers shall be burned at the stake.
Many
in the media -- folks who are supposed to be skeptical about things --
are as enamored of the "humans-are-destroying-the-Earth" story-line as
they are of Barack Obama. They love to report doomsday scenarios that
scare the bejesus out of us.
Corporations have jumped on
board. They don't want bad press for denying or contributing to
warming, and the better-run corporations are exploiting the frenzy to
make dough.
As more folks embrace a religious conviction that
humans are the cause of warming, the politicians are right with them.
There aren't many votes in second-guessing the global warming gods.
Both presidential candidates are in the global warming camp.
And
the do-gooders, who love to control what the rest of us do, believe
they've finally landed an issue that will give them the power they seek
-- the power to make the rest of us sacrifice on a global scale to save
Mother Earth.
The do-gooders are making tremendous headway. That's why I recommend you bone up on your cooking techniques.
You
especially might want to master the use of garlic and butter and other
spices and herbs that will effectively mask the taste of those crunchy
critters we usually step on or swat.
You might want to invest
in a good-quality blender, too ("bugamole," anyone?). Because the
global-warming frenzy is picking up intensity. And that means one
thing.
Bugs. They want us to eat bugs.
Tom Purcell's weekly political humor column runs in newspapers and Web sites across America. Visit him at www.TomPurcell.com.
from Michelle Malkin
Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it. This is easier said than done for millions around the world, as evidenced by protests in Mexico over the cost of corn tortillas, and in Italy last September about the price of (wheat) pasta.
Alan Grainger from the UK's University of Leeds examined UN analyses going back almost 30 years, and found that "evidence for a decline is unclear".
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), he proposes a global forest monitoring system.
The UN admits there are problems with the data, but says tropical forests are certainly in retreat.
Dr Grainger is not so sure. "People have been assuming that forest cover is shrinking," he told BBC News, "and certainly deforestation has been taking place on a large scale."
But, he says, there is also evidence that in some countries, forests are expanding spontaneously.
We can no longer put off investing in an independent scientific monitoring programme
Alan Grainger
"Our analysis does not prove that tropical forest decline is not happening, merely that it is is difficult to demonstrate it convincingly using available tropical forest area data," he writes in PNAS.
This week's cold snap drove at least 100 manatees into canals near a Tampa Bay area power plant.
Tampa Electric Company's power plant in Apollo Beach discharges warm water into the canals, heating them to around 75 degrees. The result is a 30-acre sauna for manatees.
The endangered marine mammals prefer
warm water. Water temperatures outside the canals in Hillsborough Bay
had dropped to about 55 degrees — too chilly for manatees.
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