In a great victory for the common people that are tired of the obssesvie Global Warming Hysteria, The folks at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences have vetoed an idea by Fox to have a green carpet instead of the traditional red one. Right now I take any sign of sanity I can get.
http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2007/08/emmy_academy_vetoes_foxs_green.php
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece
Walking causes more damage than driving according to this study.
Test: walk up and down the block, have the test subject feel your forehead.
Next, drive a car up and down the street, have the subject touch the manifold.
Discuss the results.
Yes, there are nuts out there on the far left who want us to all go live in caves and eat roots and berries. But they're no crazier than the head in the sand crowd who swears up and down nothing is happening at all and if it was the billions of tons of junk we pump into the atmosphere couldn't possibly be contributing and besides, China is doing it too.
No matter how you cut it, and whether or not climate change is "real" it cannot hurt us to do whatever we reasonably can to preserve the only world we've got. What harm would have been done, for instance, if 20 years from now we were to discover that the fingers in the ears crowd was right and we had reduced pollution by 25%? Can anyone argue that a reduction in greenhouse gases and other poisons would be a bad thing?
Congratulations on your (was it "little" or "great") victory. Here's one for combating climate change - admittedly a "little" one.
House Energy Bill Will Strengthen Energy Security, Save Consumers Money, Create Jobs, and Fight Climate Change, Science Group Says
Amendment Establishing a National Renewable Energy Standard Adopted
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/
house-energy-bill-passes-0055.html
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977076766
The requirement for Renewable standard is unacceptable because it is not cost effective right now. If it was cost effective it would not have to be a law. Regardless it is not the job of federal government to put requirements on energy companies. The US Supreme Court should do their job and throw out laws that Congress passes that exceed their authority.
Then three of the most known climitologists from NZ, US and UK have changed their opinions on global warming after relloking at the evidence and finding the flaws they missed in the first reports. Try looking up different issues in a Google search on Artic Ice melts, and you'll find reports as far back as from 1850's of period melts with the temps below 0 that at the time could not be explained. Too much information that does not add up to prove Global warming.
It still passed. End subsidies to the fossils, and you might have an arguement. On another thread, you said you don't generally favor subsidies, but we still need the power. I responded that we should pay the real cost of the power rather than the subsidized price. I don't remember your response to that.
I think if we were having to pay the non-subsidized, real costs of energy, then renewables would easily make their way into energy markets - they are nearly competitive with fossils now.
On this point, I'm not totally disagreeing with you. I think a good case can be made for government not interfering-but also for not fighting mideast wars "to protect our vital national interests in the region."
http://www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid5.php
An excerpt from "Natural Capitalism":
"The most basic way to close loops is to reuse the wastes produced
both on the farm and downstream in the food-processing industries. A
typical Nebraska harvest season results in an accumulation of distressed
grain—damp or otherwise below-grade. This waste could
make enough ethanol to run a sixth of the state's cars for an entire year,
if those vehicles were efficient enough to get 90 mpg, probably less than
a first-generation Hypercar. With equally efficient cars, the straw
burned in the fields of France or Denmark would run those countries'
entire car fleets year-round. Similar waste exists in the form of nutshells
in California, peach pits in Georgia, cotton-gin trash in Texas—that
latter of a quantity adequate in the early 1980s to fuel with alcohol every
vehicle in Texas. Most other organic wastes can also be usefully recovered
and converted. Inedible vegetable oils can be cooked in a solarheated
catalytic device with wet or dirty ethanol or methanol to make
esters that are better diesel fuels than petroleum diesel. Altogether, the
diverse streams of farm and forestry wastes can probably provide
enough sustainably grown liquid fuels to run an efficient U.S. transportation
sector, without any further reliance on special fuel crops or
fossil fuels.Across the United States today, more than 85 million tons of
bio-based products and materials, valued at about $22–45 billion, are
produced annually,43 yet now most of these farm and forestry residues
are wasted, benefiting neither the economy nor the soil.
Natural Capitalism, pp. 201-2.
My icon is my 2001 Honda Insight - 62.2mpg over just under 70K miles. I've done many other things to conserve energy, including buying green energy from Sterling Planet.
http://www.sterlingplanet.com/
Many utilities offer the option of buying green energy. Maybe yours does. You can find out here:
http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/locator/index.htm
Finally, you might be interested that going green is ultimately proving to be the most economic choice. Take a look. Save some money!
https://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid151.php