A must see 9 minute video.

Regardless of your opinions on the global climate crisis warmtacular jamboree, you really should take 9 minutes and watch this video. Then share it with someone. You’ll see why by the end.

If you hate Youtube or want a possibly higher quality version, try break.com: http://www.break.com/index/tough-to-argue.html
- shawn

His grade was well.

Stephen Colbert did an awesome bit on the topic of viewing An Inconvenient Truth in universities. Unfortunately, wordpress and comedy central videos don’t embed. So you get a link.
For your viewing pleasure: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=87003 
- shawn

Climate change deniers win

I hereby officially announce that those denying climate change, global warming or whatever it’s called this week, win. You are right, best and smartest. Good one. Climate change debates are a moot point, and honestly I couldn’t care less who thinks they are right anymore. It actually doesn’t matter one bit.
Please allow me a chance [...]

US blocks environment progress at G8 conference

The USA has blocked environmental progress at a meeting of the G8 nations in Germany. As usual the USA was unwilling to participate in any global plans to help preserve the world’s climate. The item on the table this time was carbon trading. In a nutshell this system allows developing countries to grow their economy [...]

Inuit far more inconvenienced than you are

A lot of people complain about how all this environmental hype is just inconvenient. It’s too hard to recycle a bit or not drive a gas guzzling car to look cool. Maybe those complainers could try having their whole bloody village sink? I’m almost certain that village sinking trumps having to find a new ego [...]

How can a tiny change still matter?

It can be tough to wrap your head around why it matters to make tiny and seemingly pointless changes in our lives in the name of the global good. How can a small change on your part actually matter in the big picture? The short answer is of course, volume. However, here is a really [...]

NFL plants 3000 trees in Florida

The NFL wanted to claim that the Superbowl was carbon neutral, so they are planting 3000 native mangrove trees in Florida. Critics are saying that this doesn’t actually make the event carbon neutral, but I personally am just shocked that they even thought to do it. I can’t bring myself to criticize that effort, even [...]

Exxon now hiring naysayers, apply within!

As we all know, the IPCC report is out and it states just how jacked up the climate is. All the analysis of the report seems to confirm that the 2500+ experts, 800 contributing authors and 450 lead authors from 130 countries do in fact have a clue.
The only news from the denier front are [...]

13% of Americans have never heard of ‘global warming’

In a classic case of the worst offender being oblivious…
OSLO (Reuters) - Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world’s top source of greenhouse gases, a 46-country survey showed on Monday.

The report, by ACNielsen of more than 25,000 Internet users, showed that 57 percent of people [...]

2000 Indonesian islands underwater by 2030

Officials in Indonesia expect to lose 2000 of their 18,000 islands to rising water levels by the year 2030.
The assessment by Rachmat Witoelar was the government’s bleakest yet of the effects of global warming on the Southeast Asian nation that is made up of some 18,000 islands, most of them unpopulated.
“It is very, very serious,” [...]