The Last Frost

There's something to be learned every day. Up until recently you couldn't get a tattoo legally in Oklahoma. So people had to resort to getting their tats from underground artists or they had to drive their gas guzzling SUV's across state lines for the service.

So Michael Kimball writes, that if Oklahoma only were to legalize porn, the poor and sex obsessed Oklahomans wouldn't have to burn so much fuel to get their fix.

"the future of our children depends on easy, local access for Oklahomans to porn."

Sounds reasonable to me, and it kills two birds with one stone… or something like that.

Legalizing Porn in State Could Curb Global Warming » [OUDaily]

This is great because one of the leading sources of Methane, a greenhouse gas, is bovine biogas; otherwise known as cow farts. In fact there are serious scientific studies on the amount of gas a cow can actually pass. As a side note, Saturday Night Live did a skit on this very subject. 

Anyway, some students at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA have developed a hybrid car that runs off of cow manure. The manure is converted into purified bio-methane through an interesting and likely stinky process. They say one cow can produce enough excrement, in one day, to power a car for 15 miles.

Read More » [ABC News]

Guess who? Yup, it's Fox news again. Their latest expert analyst Jonathan Hoenig states that global warming is a bunch of huey. That it was dreamed up by a bunch of hippies who hate technology and economic advancement.

This guy might be onto something. I know there are a bunch of hippies that would love to do away with technology so they can sit in a field and smoke weed all day. Hell, I would like to sit in a field and smoke weed all day with them. Actually no, I take that back, I'd rather sit at home on my shiny MacBook Pro blogging about them. Unfortunately for all of us, the existence of a few hippie socialists does not mean global warming is just an acid induced hallucination, that's just silly.

Read More »  [Think Progress]

The CEI , the wonderful organization that brought us the pro CO₂ ads last week, have graced us with another gem. In this ad, they humorously attack Gore’s cross-country travelling to get the word out on global warming as a major contributor to CO₂ emissions. What do they care though, to them CO₂ is life, not a pollutant.

So the wind farm complaints just keep rolling in lately, but this one stood out from the rest. Apparently living near a wind turbine can be a pretty nasty experience. Everything from sickening inaudible vibrations to the flickering shadows from the blades which can make people dizzy, not to mention the cancer risk from the EM radiation. 

Anyway, in this example a lawyer trying to prevent a windfarm from being built has likened the project to:

"…psychedelic disco party that will have nearby residents vomiting in their back yards"

I don't know what to say. 

I wish Halliburton was involved with this, then I'd have another reason to think they were total assclowns. Not that I need another reason, anyway a group called the Yes Men (theyesmen.org) perform what they call 'identity correction'; they explain it best.

"Honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else."

They recently attented a conference called the Catostrophic Loss conference, where they posed as Halliburton executives touting their latest and greatest solution to global warming. It's completely ridiculous, yet it seems like they received some genuine interest in their Survivaball technology, a one person gated community. You gotta love their creativity.

"They call it pollution… we call it life."

They're absolutely correct that CO2 is necessary for plant life, but there are a lot of things that are good in some ways and bad in others. I would love to hear them apply this logic to say a victim of Hurricane Katrina. Water is needed by our bodies for survival, you call it a flood we call it refreshing! I call it a bunch of corporate jackasses arrogantly insulting my intelligence.
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Just what we need, more corporations telling us everything is fine and under control. Apparently Exxon is involved in the funding of these ads. Strange since they have admitted [Chron.com] global warming is a threat.

So that's that, CO2 is good for you… now get back to work.