offered by Night Writer from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: “Folly is a more dangerous enemy to the good than evil. One can protest against evil; it can be unmasked and, if need be, prevented by force. Evil always carries the seeds of its own destruction, as it makes people, at the least, [...]
by the Night Writer I wonder what the carbon footprint is of killing enough trees to print a 1200+ page report, distributed to Congress, that no one reads? Monday morning on Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, co-anchor Steve Doocy talked with Obama Administration Energy Czar Carol Browner (video): STEVE DOOCY: “[I] know the bill [...]
by the Minfidel …especialy when she’s being ironic. Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker. Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds [...]
by the Minfidel Suppressed photo of Air Force One taking a shortcut en route to an Earth Day speech: Either that, or the President’s jet could be taking the long way around to Mexico to deliver Tamiflu and 100 Acorn Community Organizers to over-throw the drug cartels. HT: The Lumberjack (again). bookmark to:
by the Night Writer A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in my warm house, in a comfy chair, just flicking my gloveless fingers over my keyboard and I discovered that the amount of global sea ice was as high as it had been at any time since 1979, according to satellite observations of [...]
Satellite photos show Lake Superior nearly iced-over on March 3, 2009. Image from N.O.A.A. Reportedly, this phenomenon happens about every 20-30 years. Another source reports that global floating sea ice levels this year are as high as they were in 1979, using data and a chart from the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center: [...]
From Chris Muir’s Day By Day web-comic: Boy, and I thought Keanu Reeves creeped me out. bookmark to:
They’re making Dr. James Hansen sweat again. From a Christopher Booker column in the Telegraph, The World Has Never Seen Such Freezing Heat (emphasis mine): 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 [...]
Snow falls in Baghdad for the first time in 100 years. In other news, the temperature in Hell dropped to 34 degrees. bookmark to:
Thanks to Gary at The Llama Butchers for pointing me toward Atomic Trousers’ fisking of the top 10 worst liberal bumper stickers. If you’re wondering how you can fisk something one to five words long it simply means you haven’t been paying attention. Here’s one of the 10: “Remember Katrina. Fight Global Warming” – Fight [...]
