May

19

Clean Energy Fantasy: Steven Chu on The Avengers

Filed Under Entertainment, Global Warming, Politics, Science & Nature | 21 Comments

“I’d better keep this sh*t away from the Department of Energy or we’ll all go bankrupt” ***** Energy Secretary Steven Chu used the movie The Avengers, which I saw last weekend, to segue into another pitch to keep dumping taxpayer dollars down the “clean energy” money incinerator. By way of Erika Johnsen at Hot Air, [...]

Apr

15

Government Spends $205,000 to Translocate a Arctostaphylos Franciscana

Filed Under Politics, Science & Nature | 8 Comments

Before you decide if over two hundred grand for translocating an Arctostaphylos franciscana a good deal or not, allow me to put “translocate a Arctostaphylos franciscana” into language we can all understand: “Move a shrub”: The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the [...]

Feb

4

Settled Science: Republicans More Likely Than Democrats to Achieve Orgasm

Filed Under Politics, Science & Nature | 24 Comments

My own theory why Democrats have more trouble orgasming is that the solar panel arrays on their vibrators can make the experience rather cumbersome: Republicans are more likely to have better sex than Democrats, according to a new, 5,000-subject survey released by Binghamton University and Match.com on Friday. More than half – 53% – of [...]

Jan

25

Green on Green Crime: Energy Efficient Window Melts Prius

Filed Under Environment, Science & Nature | 13 Comments

The potentially destructive paradox of “green” living has reared its ugly, biodegradable head in California. From KCAL: A SoCal woman says the energy efficient window installed in a neighbor’s condominium is melting the plastic components on cars parked in her carport. Heather Patron of Studio City was dealing with a mystery regarding her Toyota Prius. [...]

Nov

30

NPR Tools Claim US is Only Major Country That Still Has Climate Deniers

Filed Under Global Warming, Science & Nature | 17 Comments

Idiotic assertion(s) of the day courtesy of NPR: …on Tuesday night’s All Things Considered, Harris was followed by NPR substitute anchor Guy Raz lamenting to Obama climate negotiator Todd Stern that “we are the only major country in the world that is still debating whether or not climate change is real.” That’s apparently a serious [...]

Nov

14

Canada’s Prime Minister May Deal with China in Response to Pipeline Delay in US

Filed Under Global Warming, Politics, Science & Nature | 20 Comments

President Obama doesn’t think he can play politics and stall on the Keystone pipeline project forever without Canada moving in another direction, does he? Maybe that’s what he wants, and if so, that could be in the works: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday that he was looking at exporting more oil to China [...]

Nov

3

Brian Williams: Nothing Like the October Snowstorm Has Ever Happened Before (Global Warming Alert)

Filed Under Global Warming, Media, Science & Nature | 10 Comments

Here’s NBC News’ Brian Williams introducing a story about last month’s northeast snowstorm, which of course was caused by — you guessed it — global warming: Everybody out East said the same thing about this freak snowstorm, `This kind of thing didn’t used to happen. This never happened before.’ And while that is true, it [...]

Sep

8

Goracle Displeased with Obama

Filed Under Global Warming, Politics, Science & Nature | 7 Comments

Remember the happier times when Hope & Change™ still rocked Al Gore’s second chakra? Those days are long gone, because now Jabba-the-Hypocrite is regretting his endorsement and is criticizing The One for being anti-science: On Friday afternoon, as brave and committed activists continued their non-violent civil disobedience outside the White House in protest of the [...]

Aug

28

Irene: The Perfect Storm of Hype?

Filed Under Politics, Science & Nature | 10 Comments

This morning while flipping between CNN, Fox News and some of the network shows, there was a collective media letdown as predictions were revised downward to match the reality of a storm that was incapable of matching the apocalyptic hype: There was almost palpable disappointment among the TV big guns rolled out for the occasion [...]

Aug

27

Of Course: Hurricane Irene Caused by Global Warming; Update: Also Caused by Republicans

Filed Under Global Warming, Moonbats, Science & Nature | 18 Comments

Al Gore is going to be very busy pulling the puppet strings on his AGW bots all day: Hurricane Irene hadn’t even made landfall in the United States before some people figured out what to blame it on. “Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming,” environmental activist Bill McKibben wrote Thursday night in [...]

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