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July 02, 2007
End of Days!!!!! Alert.... [Yawn]
Via Noel Sheppard, it seems the Gorebot is breathing fire again. Fortunately, decades of human experience have taught us that there is virtually no pressing social or economic problem that cannot be solved by a three day rock concert and some really prime weed:
Consider this tale of two planets. Earth and Venus are almost exactly the same size, and have almost exactly the same amount of carbon. The difference is that most of the carbon on Earth is in the ground — having been deposited there by various forms of life over the last 600 million years — and most of the carbon on Venus is in the atmosphere.As a result, while the average temperature on Earth is a pleasant 59 degrees, the average temperature on Venus is 867 degrees. True, Venus is closer to the Sun than we are, but the fault is not in our star; Venus is three times hotter on average than Mercury, which is right next to the Sun. It’s the carbon dioxide.
This threat also requires us, in Reagan’s phrase, to unite in recognition of our common bond.
Next Saturday, on all seven continents, the Live Earth concert will ask for the attention of humankind to begin a three-year campaign to make everyone on our planet aware of how we can solve the climate crisis in time to avoid catastrophe. Individuals must be a part of the solution. In the words of Buckminster Fuller, “If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?”
In the words of the Inimitable Mr. On....
Huh?????
If you're confused, take a number:
Live Earth will offer an answer to this question by asking everyone who attends or listens to the concerts to sign a personal pledge to take specific steps to combat climate change.
Great idea, Al. How 'bout you just shuffle on home and take that up with the Mrs?
This e-mail comparison between the homes of President George W. Bush and former vice-president Al Gore began circulating on the Internet in March 2007 (shortly after the latter's film on the global warming issue, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award as Best Documentary). Short and sweet, there's a fair bit of truth to the email: Al Gore's Nashville mansion is something of the energy-gobbler the e-mail depicts, while President Bush's Crawford ranch is more the model of responsible resource use the juxtaposition portrays it to be.According to the Associated Press, the Gore's 10,000 square foot Belle Meade residence consumes electricity at a rate of about
12 times the average for a typical house in Nashville(191,000 kwh versus15,600 kwh). While there are mitigating factors (further discussed in our article about the Gore household'senergy use ), this is still a surprising number, given that the residence is approximately four times the size of the average new American home.The ranch home owned by George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas, (dubbed "the Texas White House") was designed by Austin architect David Heymann, an associate dean for undergraduate programs at the University of Texas School of Architecture. While its precise size isn't known, scuttlebutt has it that it's about 4,000 square feet, all on one floor.
The ranch utilizes an efficient geothermal heating and cooling system that pumps ground water through a heat exchanger to warm the house in the winter and cool it in the summer, a system that expends roughly one-quarter the energy of a conventional heater/air-conditioner. Water used by the house is reclaimed, treated, and reused, and rainwater funnels from the home's gutters into a large cistern, which holds the water for garden irrigation.
We'll leave the light on for ya.
Oh, and don't worry. It's one of them sustainable, eco-friendly, low wattage recyclable free range long lasting florescent jobbers.
CWCID for Gore image: Stix blog.
Posted by Cassandra at July 2, 2007 12:10 PM
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Oh my, I must say of all the rss feeds I get in a day (now over 320+) I love your entries the most. This one was just fantastic!
Posted by: sir jorge at July 2, 2007 05:40 PM
That was awfully nice of you. I wasn't expecting that.
I don't know why, but I have been feeling very discouraged about the quality of my writing lately. So thank you.
Posted by: Cassandra at July 2, 2007 05:46 PM
Cass You ROCK and have since I've been reading you!
That being said, iffen all these Glowball warming/climate change Alarmist's would commit Hari-Kari, IMO that would stop the non-existant problem in it's tracks.
Posted by: unkawill at July 2, 2007 07:52 PM
"I Am Gorezilla and the Assault On Reason! Be afraid...be very afraid."
Al Gore needs a breath mint.
Algore launches a suicide attack on Tokyo...but realizes that it won't matter because his carbon footprint will be just as big. He attacks anyway.
Posted by: Cricket at July 3, 2007 07:52 AM
Yeah, and and these other stupid science theories...earth revolving around the sun....evolution....gravity...Silly people. If it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch I don't know what I'd do. Thanks be to Jebus!!!!
Posted by: Roland at July 3, 2007 08:08 AM
'I don't care if it howls or blows
Long as I got my plastic Gore
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car...'
Posted by: Naughty Cricket at July 3, 2007 09:22 AM
Earth has a very large (by mass) satellite, too, while Venus has none. Apparently our moon played a vital part in preventing Earth from developing an atmosphere like that of Venus.
Don't get discouraged, Cassandra. Your blog is one I can't do without.
Posted by: hiraethin at July 4, 2007 06:48 PM
Algore's reaction on his son's DUI.
Posted by: Cricket at July 4, 2007 09:54 PM