For Immediate Release: June 17, 2008 For Further Information, Contact: Adam King, 615.383.6431 adam@tennesseepolicy.org Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for…
Category: Ridiculae
TV Network Tells Kids How Long Their Carbon Footprint Should Allow Them to Live
This is environmentalism jumping the shark: Click image above to play the game I don’t know where to begin, except to say that when we see things like this, we…
Global Warming Kills "Nessie"
Global warming gets blamed for a lot of things, like in the 90’s, when that California Cheese commercial came out blaming everything on “Its the El Ninnnnoooooo…..”. Every day we…
Top Ten Science Based Predictions that didn't come true.
There’s an article in the New York Times pushing a something called “the five stages of climate grief” done by a professor at the University of Montana. This got me…
Quadrillions and Quadrillions (with apologies to Carl Sagan)
OMG, it’s full of BS! The ultimate ridiculous chutzpa lawsuit has just been filed against the US Army Corp of Engineers for damage associated with Hurricane Katrina. Its over 3…
The Weather Channel is up for sale
I wonder if Heidi Cullen comes with the deal? 5 billion dollars seems a bit steep. Any takers? From Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times: The Weather Channel,…
Don't send Coal for Christmas, send Carbon Credits!
Got a person on your christmas list that is fully deserving but can’t find that lump of coal at K-Mart at the last minute? Thanks to the good folks at…
NASA blows wads of cash on celebration parties
From Slashdot: “NASA spends between $400,000 and $1.3 million on a party at every shuttle launch, according to CBS. Select personnel are treated to 5 days at a 4 star…
2007 Weblog awards allows post closing voting
What a mess, the weblogs award has a major screwup, and people can still vote hours after the polls have closed. While my IE6 browser will not allow additional votes,…
Now I've seen everything
Now I’ve seen everything. A house shaped like a toilet, complete with a center opening in the roof. From www.greenthinkers.org they write: The house is owned by South Korean sanitation activist…
911 Truth
You can use your mouse to interact with the flash graphic above. The Chico News and Review has gotten quite a number of letters on their 911 Truth article which…
Light Bulbs and Mercury Part 2
In my last entry I raised three questions about Compact Flourescent Light bulbs aka CFL’s 1) What about regular fluorescent tubes? They have mercury too, and sometimes in greater quantity.…
Steel and Concrete -vs- Fire
This Thursday, the Chico News and Review will be doing a story covering the pro and cons of the people that have been lobbying editor Evan Tuchinsky for more coverage…
Light Bulbs and Mercury
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labor — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy…
Follow up to "Cell Phones Kill Bees" story
About two weeks ago I published this story about the loony idea that was proposed by some researcher in Europe about “cell phone radiation may be killing bees”. I pointed…
The Carbonica Card – don't heat home without it
A recent investigation by the Financial Times says that the new Carbon Credit Industry may already be rife with fraud. Hmmm…now where have we heard that before? Among the findings:…
Ultimate lunacy: Dell says plant "virtual trees" for Earth Day
From the "you’ve GOT to be freaking kidding me" department: Dell’s Virtual Plant a Tree for Me program into the computer game Second Life has many tech savvy people wondering…
Delta Airlines says: A sucker born every minute
Recently I received this email from Delta Airlines with the offer that now I could pay extra money for my airline ticket so that Delta could contribute to global warming…
Panic of the Day: Cell Phones Kill Bees
There’s an article on UK’s The Independent website about a most unusual scientific theory. “Cell Phones kill bees.” From the article: Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile…
Weather Channel Issues Ultimate Professional Insult
UPDATE: The national website www.junkscience.com has referenced this blog entry. From the waaaayyyy over the top department: The Weather Channel’s climatologist, Dr. Heidi Cullen who hosts the program “The Climate…
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