Marine Corps Banns Access To Twitter, Facebook, And MySpace

The Marine Corps recently published MARADMIN 0458/09, entitled IMMEDIATE BAN OF INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (SNS) ON MARINE CORPS ENTERPRISE NETWORK (MCEN) NIPRNET, which prohibits access,
TO INTERNET SNS FROM THE MCEN NIPRNET, INCLUDING OVER VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) CONNECTIONS.
The SNS mentioned in the order include,
FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, AND TWITTER.
At first blush this may not appear [...]

Proposal By Al Gore To Stop Global Warming It Wrong

Author Bjørn Lomborg explains why Al Gore is wrong about the proposed solutions to global warming,
These apocalyptic visions are not at all supported by the available evidence. And to me, the solutions prescribed by those leading the charge are akin to building more safari parks instead of farms to feed the hungry. Campaigners in rich [...]

Sting’s Wife Trudie Styler Destroys The Environment

Sting’s wife takes private jet from London to Washington DC, just to bring her entourage of 8.

Torture, Prius, And Feeling That You Are Doing Something

Complaining about bumper stickers is nothing new.  “My child is an honor student”,”Dog is my copilot” or “Kill your television”, have all provided ample fodder for countless rants.  With the aforementioned caveat, I must now launch into a bumper-sticker-related screed.

Obama, California, And A Looming Battle Over Corn Ethanol

Only a few days ago we were informed that California finally awoke to the undeniable truth that corn ethanol is not the answer, unfortunately a few years and a few billion dollar too late.
The California Environmental Protection Agency apparently has concluded that corn ethanol would not help the state implement Executive Order S-1-07. [...]

Carbon Offsets Will Not Help Global Warming

Carbon offsets will not help with global warming.

Majority Of Americans Do Not Believe In Man-Made Global Warming

Only 34% of Americans believe global warming is caused by human activity.

Vanity Fair Drops Green Issue

Apparently global warming does not pay,
Spring has sprung, and everything is going green. Everything, that is, except Vanity Fair, which has decided to ditch its annual “green issue”. For the past three years, the monthly glossy has made much of dedicating its May issue to the environment: from Leonardo DiCaprio posing on an iceberg to [...]

Sedatives For Al Gore: Cap-And-Trade May Die In Senate

Senate deals major blow to cap-and-trade.

Vice Presidential Mansion Viable On Google Maps

Vice President’s mansion is visible on Google Maps.

Inauguration Fails To Demonstrate Global Warming

From OpenMarket.org,
Well, the noon temperature in Washington DC at the President Obama’s swearing-in was 28 degrees F., eight degrees colder than when Bush was sworn in eight years ago.
So is that what Bush’s much bally-hooed failure to curb CO2 emissions produced in the way of climate change—a Inauguration Day for Obama that’s eight degrees colder [...]

A Google Search Has A Definite Environmental Impact

Every time you do a Google search you increase global warming.

United States And Canada To Go War Over Global Warming

Prediction that the U.S. and Canada will go to war with eachother.

Supreme Court Rules Navy May Use Sonar During Training Despite Possible Harm To Whales

Supreme Court rules that the Navy may use sonar in training exercises off the coast of Southern California, despite the possible harm that may come to whales as a result of using the sonar.

Al Gore Warns Of Global Climate Holocaust

Al Gore Op-Ed article in the New York Times about the Climate Crisis.

Wind Power Continues To Kill Birds And Bats

There is no free lunch, even if you are trying to save the environment.  From Scientific American,
Scientists have known since 2004 that wind farms kill bats, just as they kill birds, even though the flying mammals should be able to avoid them. Many biologists thought that the bats, like their avian counterparts, might be falling [...]

New Jersey Legislator Calls For End Of Global Warming Scare

The Garden State has had its fair share of political problems.  First, a homosexual admits to being Governor of New Jersey, then a former driver admits to having three-way with Gov McGreevey, followed by the governor breaking the law, and his leg, in a high-speed automobile accident.  
In an encouraging turnabout a New Jersey Assemblyman, [...]

Al Gore’s SUV Left Running While He Lectures About Global Warming

For a man not unaccustomed to hypocrisy, given the carbon footprint of this home, this should not be surprising.  But, one would think that he could at least turn off the AC.
According to National Post, while Al Gore lectured the unwashed masses about abandoning fossil fuels, his
two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV [...]

UC Berkeley Ejects Hippies From Trees To Build Football Facility

The Cal athletic department has finally succeeded in ejecting a group of longhairs who had been living in trees in an area the university had selected for construction of a new $140-million sports-training center.  A judge in Alameda County ruled,
late Tuesday, Miller orders the injunction that has been in place since February 2007 to be [...]

Forum On Physics And Society: No Consensus On Global Warming

Forum on Physics and Society (FPS), a subdivision of the American Physical Society (APS) recently reversed its stance on human-induced global warming,
There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming [...]

The Religion That Is Global Warming, Or Climate Change

Bret Stephens of the WSJ, captures the essence of those who expose the theology of global warming (or climate change):
The first is as a vehicle of ideological convenience. Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke [...]