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POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…
ON Reuters, readers learn:
Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday, with particular melting in the Chukchi Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast.
The story is illuastrated by a picture of a polar bear - as it must be. The bear seems to be drowning in a choppy sea. Unless it’s put down first.
MILY Cyrus hates global warming, loves Jeee-sus. It’s not hot, but it, like is, you know.
Here’s teenaged Miley’s new song. It’s hot, like really cool, you know, like wow:
Oh, the earth is calling out,
I wanna learn what it’s all about,
But everything I read – global warming, going green
I don’t know what all this means, but it seems to be sayingWake up, America, we’re all in this together…
This lands is your land, this land is my land, from New Orleans-on-sea to Baghdad…
THE sea ice is melting. Polar Bears are upon us. The whales are melting!
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. - The Indepedent
See the graph? It shows the current and expected sea ice area in the Northern hemisphere:
THE sea ice is melting. Polar Bears are upon us. The whales are melting!
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. - The Indepedent
See the graph? It shows the current and expected sea ice area in the Northern hemisphere:
MADONNA is against global warming. She’s on, er, tour:
Environmental organizations got into the commenting zone last week when Madonna’s crew publicly released the amount of crap and resources going into her “Sticky and Sweet” tour. In particular, the peeps over at CarbonFootprint.com released figures showing that her 45-day concert extravaganza is equivalent to the carbon output of around 160 Britons — in one year.
We get the blame and she’s not even British…
JAPAN does not kill whales for food or sport. Japan investigates whales and the causes of whales by removing them from a watery environment by way of large hook.
And whaling pays off. Reports the Guardian:
The team says its study offers the first evidence that global warming could be harming whales, because it restricts their food supplies.
Whales are in danger! How do we know this? Because Japan has killed 4,500 whales since the late 1980s.
Thanks, Japan. Thanks for the tireless research…
JAPAN does not kill whales for food or sport. Japan investigates whales and the causes of whales by removing them from a watery environment by way of large hook.
And whaling pays off. Reports the Guardian:
The team says its study offers the first evidence that global warming could be harming whales, because it restricts their food supplies.
Whales are in danger! How do we know this? Because Japan has killed 4,500 whales since the late 1980s.
Thanks, Japan. Thanks for the tireless research…
MADONNA has been performing in Cardiff. She is striking a blow for the John McCain camp. Obama is doomed.
During the show at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, an image of John McCain was flashed up alongside those of Hitler and Robert Mugabe.
It’s a subtle message that was back-dropped with scenes of global warming and devastation. The song was called Get Stupid.
IN Australia the poor are being persecuted by the warmists:
Maribyrnong Council has a plan for saving the planet from global warming. It involves sending in the carbon cops to audit people too helpless to object:
Facilitate energy and water saving audits for Meals on Wheels clients
First they came for the poor and the frail…
BARACK Obama’s mouth is controlled by global warming:
Barack Obama and Joseph Biden both fluffed their lines today as the new White House running mates ceded an opening to their Republican enemies by veering off-script.
Perhaps it was the temperature nudging 100 F (37.8 C) that forced Senator Obama into a slip of the tongue as he introduced Senator Biden as “the next president’’ before correcting it to vice president.
What happens if it’s too cold?
MORE news from Napal, where the hunt for a virgin girl-child has been abandoned.
No, dear reader, Napal is not twinned with Basildon. The search for the “living goddess” has been scrapped after it was branded outdated by the supreme court. The Beaks have ruled that the “deity” must go to school.
More on that here.
Says the supreme court:
GLOBAL warming headline of the day: thermal knickers up:
Sales of thermal underwear soar in dismal summer - Daily Telegraph
Global warming - let’s consider the evidence…
THE Telegraph brings good news for nose touchers, long held to be liars of the worst sort:
Liars blink less frequently than normal during the lie, and then speed up to around eight times faster than usual afterwards.
So reports Lucy Cockcroft, who, sadly, does not equip her feature with a video of her typing, and blinking.
In other Telegraph news, Roger Highfield tells us:
Many pensioners in the Bulgarian village of Gorno Osenovo, who go to bed with the sunset and wake up at sunrise, have never heard of carbon dioxide. They don’t get electricity either.
But a new plan by Brussels to make European Union energy companies pay for the carbon dioxide they emit from 2013 threatens to lift energy costs to the point where building grids to remote places like Gorno Osenovo would be impossible.
Poor people victims of rich know alls…
WIND. Sun. Power. But can you put it all somewhere less windy and sunny?
In this year’s great energy debate, Democrats describe a future when the U.S. finally embraces the anything-but-carbon avant-garde. It turns out, however, that when wind and solar power do start to come on line, they face a familiar obstacle: environmentalists and many Democrats.
To wit, the greens are blocking the very transmission network needed for renewable electricity to move throughout the economy. The best sites for wind and solar energy happen to be in the sticks — in the desert Southwest where sunlight is most intense for longest, or the plains where the wind blows most often. To exploit this energy, utilities need to build transmission lines to connect their electricity to the places where consumers actually live. In addition to other technical problems, the transmission gap is a big reason wind only provides two-thirds of 1% of electricity generated in the U.S., and solar one-tenth of 1%.
Only last week, Duke Energy and American Electric Power announced a $1 billion joint venture to build a mere 240 miles of transmission line in Indiana necessary to accommodate new wind farms. Yet the utilities don’t expect to be able to complete the lines for six long years — until 2014, at the earliest, because of the time necessary to obtain regulatory approval and rights-of-way, plus the obligatory lawsuits.
In California, hundreds turned out at the end of July to protest a connection between the solar and geothermal fields of the Imperial Valley to Los Angeles and Orange County. The environmental class is likewise lobbying state commissioners to kill a 150-mile link between San Diego and solar panels because it would entail a 20-mile jaunt through Anza-Borrego state park. “It’s kind of schizophrenic behavior,” Arnold Schwarzenegger said recently. “They say that we want renewable energy, but we don’t want you to put it anywhere.”
Let’s burn fat people instead…
GLOBAL warming panic: rising sea levels:
People living on some stretches of coastline will be forced to abandon their homes and move inland as sea levels rise, the new head of the Environment Agency has warned -Daily Telegraph
THE 11,000 inhabitants of a tiny Pacific country that was predicted to vanish under water because of the effects of global warming have been given a reprieve because sea levels have begun to fall - Daily Telegraph
At least we can swim…
NBS is so very green:
NBC Universal will also specifically seek out advertisers with green-friendly messages when it’s selling commercial time on NBC and its other networks this spring.
The company says it isn’t only preaching to others; NBC Universal is installing large solar panels at the company’s movie studios in California, and has eliminated all plastic foam from company cafeterias.
Tied to Earth Day on Tuesday, the special “Green Week” effort is the company’s second in six months. NBC Universal is following the lead of corporate parent General Electric Co., which is among many companies sensing that the public looks kindly on pro-environmental efforts.
How green?
WTHR, the NBC affiliate for Indianapolis, reported from Beijing and described the NBC set used for the network’s two highest rated news broadcasts, “NBC Nightly News” and “Today,” as air conditioned – even though it is outdoors.
“The set is outside, but air conditioning vents make the weather bearable,” Anne Marie Tiernon wrote for WTHR Eyewitness News…
As green as a greenhouse…
IT’S time to abandon Liverpool, ther;s just no need for it:
THE Policy Exchange, a “centre right” think tank, has suggested in a new report that people in Liverpool and some other places in the north should abandon their cities, which are “beyond revival”, and move down south.
While that is undoubtedly a daft suggestion aimed at stirring up controversy, the fact remains that Liverpool is a city in a place where, in the 21st century at least, nobody really needs a city. I love Liverpool (some of my close relatives are Scousers) but it’s out on a limb and can’t compete with Manchester. Until the day when the docks make a comeback, that isn’t going to change.
As the report’s co-author, Dr Tim Leunig of the London School of Economics puts it:
People in Liverpool are better off than ever before. But they have only got better off at the same rate as the rest of the country, so Liverpool is not catching up with London or the south east. It is not because people [in Liverpool] are lazy or feckless. It is because Liverpool is less well-placed to do business. The chance of Liverpool catching up with the UK average in the foreseeable future is close to zero.
