Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’
Obama Flies Pizza Maker 860 Miles To Make Him Lunch
BLESSED are the pizza makers for they do bring Barack Obama his lunch:
When you’re the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do – even if that means flying a chef 860 miles.
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Posted: 10th, April 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment
Sexiest Vegetarians Of The Year
PETA has announced it sexiest vegetarian of 2009. And the winner is…Amber.
Name: Amber
Age: 29
Location: Minnetonka, MinnesotaAmber, a Minnesota native, decided to go vegetarian after reading the book Skinny Bitch and doing research on making the switch, and she’s thrilled with the results! In addition to feeling stronger both mentally and physically, she loves knowing that her carbon footprint is smaller, thanks to her vegetarian diet… Check out the cute companion animal gallery on her Web site to see for yourself! Amber’s major turn-ons are confidence, bad boys who have a heart for animals, tattoos, and creativity.
To Amber’s carbon footprint-free website – powered by free range ferrets running on a wheel of love.
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Vanity Fair Declares Climate Change War Over
HURRAH! Vanity Fair declares that Global Warming – “a threat graver than terrorism” – over! We win!
As the Indy reports Vanity Fair (Weather) has scrapped its annual green issue:
For the past three years, the monthly glossy has made much of dedicating its May issue to the environment: from Leonardo DiCaprio [her hi-flyin’ lover] posing on an iceberg to last year’s open letter from Robert Kennedy Jnr to the next president calling for action on global warming. This year, the incipient tradition has been quietly dropped.
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Catlin Arctic Survey Researchers Contract Urban Hypothermia
WHAT news from The Catlin Arctic Survey – “the international collaboration between polar explorers and some of the world’s foremost scientific bodies. It seeks to resolve one of the most important environmental questions of our time” – ?
The mission: “How long will the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover remain a permanent feature of our planet?
Take a pew.
The report:
In disadvantaged inner cities it’s known in medical circles as Urban Hypothermia. GPs adopted the term after seeing an increase, during winter, of elderly patients who have switched off their heating, fearful of the cost, and become ill as a result because of the cold.
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Posted: 8th, April 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Australian Minister Offers Free Nintendo Wii For Climate Change Advice
PENNY Wong, Australia’s Climate Change Minister, is running a competition for Climate Cops:
The competition “Think Climate, Think Change,” asks students in years 3 to 9 to use short stories, poems and art work to answer the question ”what does climate change mean to me?”
First prize is a trip for two to Canberra (the winner and a parent), a Nintendo Wii console, sports kit and Wii Fit pack, and books for the winner’s school.
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Posted: 7th, April 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
NEC Climate Cops Love Carbon Ball
GREETING, Climate Cops,
Japan’s NEC brings you carbon-conscious – “a fun and friendly way to keep tabs on their energy consumption, as well as that of their neighbors”.
While NPower snoops on your parents, NEC spies on the rest.
Developed in conjunction with major Internet provider BIGLOBE, the service — called “Carbon Diet” — includes an easy-to-install wifi-enabled device that attaches to the home circuit breaker and measures power consumption via electric current sensors. The collected data is then periodically transferred to the home computer using a ZigBee wireless link and sent to an online server for processing.
Users can log on to the Carbon Diet website to check their daily and hourly energy consumption and see how they rank in comparison with other participating households.
Break their light bulbs! Banish the sun, bringer of daymares!
Users can also see how their monthly carbon footprint compares with the same month of the previous year. Based on the degree to which users actually reduce their carbon emissions, they are awarded “eco-points” that can be exchanged for virtual soil, water, flowers and grass in a nature restoration simulation game.
Participants can also view their progress in the form of a game called “Carbon Ball,” which features dung beetle avatars in a “carbon ball” rolling contest. The distance each household’s dung beetle travels is based on how successful they are in reducing power consumption. The game is designed to instill a sense of competition to keep users motivated and focused on reducing energy consumption.
Dung. Carbon. Cung Poo?
For now, the three-month trial service is being conducted in the homes of 100 NEC employees. After the trial, NEC and BIGLOBE will work with Ex Corporation (an urban and environmental planning and consulting firm) to analyze the data and develop business models for local governments and the private sector. The company is aiming for sales of 2 billion yen ($20 million) over the next 3 years.
Obey!
Arianna Huffington Turns Green
ARIANNA Huffington, publisher of the Huffington Post is:
“Greening My House: Power Strips, White Light Lamps, Compost Jars, and Logs Made of Coffee Grounds”
Huffington “the Blackberry-toting, Bush-baiting Queen of the Blogosphere” is green? Huffington who took her surname from a marriage to Michael Huffington, the, er, oil billionaire?
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Turn The Lights Up For Earth Hour
EARTH Hour hasn’t ended yet. Years from now, men and women will emerge from total darkness to ask if the Hour of Power is at an end…
Of course, it never did get all that dark.
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Rep. John Shimkus On God Says Global Warming Does Not Exist
REPUBLICAN. John Shimkus say global warming cannot be because God tells us in the Bible when the “earth will end”:
Posted: 30th, March 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Earth Hour Triggers Global PC Virus
EARTH Hour was a huge success. But it turns out that Earth Hour is also the name for a computer virus that was triggered at 8:30 pm yesterday night. Canada’s Sun Media and the Sarnia Observer have more:
City hall staff saw the animal Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” cutouts advertised and, hoping among their DVD collection. they might help reduce scat in
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Posted: 29th, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Times Square Before And During Earth Hour
IT’S the Earth Hour Global Office – the glow is from the sense of self-worth…
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Posted: 29th, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Britney Spears Records Earth Hour Song
EARTH Hour is nearly upon us. At 8.30pm, we will go back to the future by turning off the lights and as the Daily Mail front-page headline says, taking our chances in this “COUNTRY OF ANGER AND FEAR”.
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Posted: 28th, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Hollywood Legend Killed In Dakota Floods
THOSE floods in Dakota have a celebrity element – a Hollywood legend has been drowned…
Send for Barack Obama – he’ll No-ah what to do…
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Posted: 27th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Barack Obama And The Flood
GLOBAL warming is here. But what can man do to prevent it? Barack Obama look sto the floods of North Dakota and knows. But first a look at Spain, where global warming is all about tilting at windmills an those solar gardens:Earth Hour Causes Global Warming
EARTH Hour countdown:
When asked to extinguish electricity, people turn to candlelight. Candles seem natural, but are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light globes, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights. If you use one candle for each extinguished globe, you’re essentially not cutting CO2 at all, and with two candles you’ll emit more CO2. Moreover, candles produce indoor air pollution 10 to 100 times the level of pollution caused by all cars, industry and electricity production.
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Posted: 26th, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)
Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” Under The Sea
THE long-awaited follow up to Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” is under the sea…
Posted: 26th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Earth Hour Is Cancelled
EARTH Hour is almost upon us, that time when we turns off the lights and hold a candle-lit vigil for Mother Nature.
And take care where you hold the flame – water is precious and we don’t want to get those gas-guzzling fire trucks out, so we.
Of course it’s not what we can do for Earth Hour, but what Earth Hour will do for us, mankind.
The Toronto Star has a round-up pof Blitz-themed eventsm with Patty Winsa, Gaia Girl.
Adelaide, Australia: Mayor Michael Harbison and city council are committed to the event, which will see lighting reductions at Adelaide Town Hall, Victoria Square Fountain, the Hilton Adelaide and the Westpac building, the city’s tallest.
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Posted: 26th, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Ed Miliband Vents Idiocy On Wind Power
ED Mlliband is a green shirt. Ed is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Forward with wind!
Speaking at a screening in London of the climate change documentary The Age of Stupid, Miliband said the government needed to be stronger in facing down local opposition to wind farms.
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Posted: 25th, March 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Green Shirts Want Half Of You Dead
JONATHAN PORRITT is “one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers”.
Last time we saw Porritt he was telling us how large a human family should be. Now he is..
…to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt’s call will come at this week’s annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron. The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.
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Eco-Corruption In Spain’s Solar Gardens
GLOBAL warming and the EU seems like a marriage made for corruption. One day, windpower energy mills will come on wheels, mobile sources of fuel and revenue to cross from one farm to another.
In ingeniosa Spain, the global warming industry is proving big hit for the corruptable:
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Calculating Your Water Footprint
FORGET your carbon footprint – it’s your water footprint you should worry about:
Prof Tim Lang said people needed to wake up to how much water farmers and food factories use in producing staple goods, particularly meat, coffee and milk, saying the threat to Britain’s food chain from its water footprint is just as great as its carbon footprint.
Can you make a footprint in water?
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Posted: 21st, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (13)
Man Claims Sacked For His Green Beliefs
THE new religion of global warming has its persecutors, allegedly:
Mr Nicholson, 41, was made redundant while head of sustainability at Grainger, Britain’s biggest residential property investment company, in July last year. In the first case of its kind he has been given permission to sue his former employers for unfair dismissal, arguing that his beliefs on the environment prompted clashes with other senior executives, and led to his sacking.
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Jade Goody’s Words For Natasha Richardson
JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with Michael White…
Jade Goody is dying and it’s is the media’s job to comment on it. Writing in the Guardian, Michael White criticises the mawkish tabloid coverage while playing a game of Tabloid Bingo!:
Under the headline: “Growing mood of public sentimentality worries me more than recession”
Different things trouble different people. I’m more worried by the recession and by global warming than by street crime, about which I can take sensible micro-precautions if I feel like it.
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Posted: 19th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (16)
Twin Polar Bears Born In Holland
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears making news
TO the Ouwehands animal park in Rhenen, the Netherlands, where twin polar bears are frolicking in the spring sunshine.
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Gordon Brown Praises Iran’s Work On Climate Change
GREAT news that Iran will use its nuclear power to combat climate change, says Gordon Brown.
Iran will be looking to change the climate over Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. On the BBC:
Gordon Brown will challenge Iran to join a new international effort to combat climate change by expanding peaceful nuclear energy. But Iran must also agree to stringent UN controls to ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons, or it will face tougher sanctions. Defence Secretary John Hutton explains why the prime minister is “engaging” with Iran.
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Posted: 17th, March 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
