Flat screen TVs worse for environment than, well, apparently just about anything
Who knew?
A greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride, used to make the TVs, is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, said Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine.
But no one yet knows how much of it is being released into the atmosphere by industry, a report in Britain’s The [...]
Feeling just a wee bit apocalyptic
Between gas prices, the heat, and the current state of politics, blogger Julie Auer isn’t feeling very optimistic at the moment:
I went to the pool and hung out for a few hours under the blazing sun with a thin sheen of 30 sunscreen protecting me from the nourishing, punishing Ra. I got nostalgic about summers [...]
Saving the planet, one glass of wine at a time
Do your part by having a few glasses of boxed wine tonight when you get home.
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Sen. Alexander’s mixed message
Sen. Lamar Alexander talks a lot about his concern for the environment, and his support for cleaner air initiatives that might actually clear some of the coal-fired haze that plagues our region.
Yet, he too often sides with those who oppose progressive policy that might accomplish the goals he ostensibly supports. In the case of the [...]
Bob Corker confounds conventional wisdom
Sen. Bob Corker adds to his growing reputation as a GOP maverick by sponsoring some very progressive amendments to climate change legislation.
One of the more ambitious and progressive proposals in the climate debate is Peter Barnes’ “cap-and-dividend,” which would take the revenue from carbon permit auctions and distribute it evenly to every U.S. citizen on [...]
Read More..>>Global warming: the opera
For those who thought Al Gore’s climate change movie “An Inconvenient Truth” was dull, well, this probably won’t jazz it up much.
MILAN, Italy - First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is opera.
La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been [...]
Knoxville’s carbon footprint
It’s big.
Look at the breakdown, and compare it to other cities here
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“Club for Growth” targets Alexander
Apparently some group of climate change-deniers calling themselves “Club for Growth” is gearing up to go after Senator Alexander:
With $250,000 in radio and television spots, the Club for Growth is targeting Republican Sens. Alexander and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Max Baucus and [...]
Al Gore is looking out for your kidneys
Randy Neal points to new research indicating that global warming will be hard on Americans’ urological health.
I STAND CORRECTED: Randy says the post was actually penned by Sue Sturgis.
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Padgett’s Energy 2.0
Democratic candidate for Senate Mike Padgett has released his own energy plan today:
n the wake of Lamar Alexander’s speech this morning announcing a new “Manhattan Project” for energy independence, one of Alexander’s Democratic opponents, former Knox County Clerk Mike Padgett, has released his own plan called “Energy 2.0.”
Like Alexander, Padgett discusses expanding the use of [...]
The environmentalists’ conspiracy: “let them eat solar”
George Korda says he agrees with Rep. Jimmy Duncan that sky-high gas prices are part of a plot by The Sierra Club, among others:
It’s not far-fetched to say all of this is an out-in-the-open conspiracy to see U.S. gas prices pushed even higher in the name of environmental purity regardless of the effect on the [...]
Read More..>>Al Gore sours the Pickle
Our former senator basically suggested to KNS movie critic Betsy Pickle that she talk to the hand:
Gore spoke passionately for several minutes about his favorite subject, the climate crisis, and how the film “Mountaintop Removal,” about how coal mining is destroying an Appalachian community, ties into that problem. After he gave director Michael O’Connell the [...]
Al Gore causing higher grocery costs
Middle Tennessee reporter Brian Mosely blogs about ethanol:
Have you ever noticed that every “crisis” has the same solution: A changed or reduced lifestyle for Americans and the West? It always seems that if people get fat, it’s America’s fault due to our lifestyle. If they starve, it’s also our fault.
The only good thing [...]
Obama talks to Gore “on a regular basis”
From the AP today:
Democrat Barack Obama says as president he would consider putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position — or higher.
A woman at a town hall asked the Illinois senator if elected president would he consider tapping the former vice president for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming.
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Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton have ” a lot of fun together”
No…no, this one is NOT an April Fool’s gag:
The ad for Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection is set on a beach, with Robertson and Sharpton saying they “strongly disagree” about a lot of things, but agree on the need to care for the Earth.
On Monday’s broadcast of “The 700 Club,” Robertson said that when the [...]
Strange bedfellows to fight climate change together
Via Sharon Cobb:
Next week The Alliance for Climate Protection will start running ads which feature some unlikely bedfellows such as the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Pat Robertson, Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks, and Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, to drive home the point that climate change is not a partisan issue.
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