Archive for the 'climate change' Category
Tony Hayward is a Piece of Shit.
Don’t fight the power, just shoot the motherfucker…
Via Weather Underground:
Satellite imagery today from NASA’s MODIS instrument confirms that a substantial tongue of oil has moved southeast from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and entered the Gulf of Mexico’s Loop Current. The Loop Current is an ocean current that transports warm Caribbean water through the Yucatan [...]
Thanks BP!
“Under the leadership of Secretary Salazar, we’ll employ new technologies that reduce the impact of oil exploration. We’ll protect areas that are vital to tourism, the environment, and our national security. And we’ll be guided not by political ideology, but by scientific evidence. ”
“Ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates of the left [...]
Read More..>>Deep Thought
Why do the people on my teevee keep calling the Gulf Coast Oil Chernobyl a “spill”?
“Spill” isn’t the right word at all: it’s not even a case of minimizing the disaster, like calling a sucking a chest wound a paper cut, although that is also true.
An “oil spill” at least as most people define it [...]
Offshore Oil DRilling Banned Again
Well, THAT was quick:
No new offshore drilling will be authorized until authorities learn what caused the explosion of the rig Deepwater Horizon, an aide to President Barack Obama said Friday as oil oozed ashore in Louisiana.
Senior adviser David Axelrod also defended the administration’s response to the April 20 accident in the Gulf of Mexico, [...]
Coming to Your Coastline!
Obama Administration, march 30, 2010:
The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
The proposal — a compromise that will please oil [...]
New Philly Weekly: Climate Change Follies
I’ve always been confused by the debate between which term is more appropriate to describe humanity’s carbon dioxide driven destruction of our world: global warming or climate change? “Climate change” has such a passive sound to it, but “global warming” is confusing: how come it snows so much if the globe is getting warmer?
So for [...]
Is Obama Tearing Down Appalachia Because He Couldn’t get their Vote?
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Obama, August 27 2007:
He said the country also needs a forward-thinking energy policy, and he alluded to his disapproval of the coal mining process of mountaintop removal.
“We’re tearing up the Appalachian Mountains because of our dependence on fossil fuels,” he said, sparking loud applause.
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Obama, March 2008:
“I want strong enforcement of the Clean Water Act. I [...]
AIG Gets a Bailout. Hurricane Victims Must Sink or Swim.
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Big tip of the hat to Richard at All Spin Zone for covering the government and media blackout of the Hurricane Ike aftermath:
It’s been almost five days since Ike ripped through southern Texas. This past Saturday, the media was wall-to-wall Ike, as the huge storm came ashore in Galveston, and tore a path [...]
Let’s Drill in San Francisco Bay (Updated)
Weak and disgraced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who won’t impeach George W. Bush is leading the push to repeal the ban on offshore oil drilling:
led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, they are offering a mix of proposals that would allow drilling, with the waters off Massachusetts, Virginia, and Georgia most likely to [...]
We Are SO Going to Die
North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer
There is no land at the North Pole, but as long as anyone has looked, it has remained a giant block of ice year-round. Scientists have been watching Arctic sea ice melt more and more each year. But each summer in recent years, the amount of ice [...]
