Yes, I AM ANGRY at the SHIT SERVED UP in my morning paper!!!!
I SO WANT TO CURSE and UTTER EXPLETIVES right now!!!!!!!!!!!
"On a warming planet, oyster 'seeds' in jeopardy" by Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times | July 21, 2008
QUILCENE, Wash. - With selective breeding and genetic fingerprinting, they were on their way to developing a super oyster resistant to summer mortality, keeping one step ahead of a warmer, more polluted planet. Or so they thought.
The Vibrio blooms appear to be linked to warmer waters in estuaries and the oxygen-starved dead zones that have showed up this decade off the coast of Oregon and Washington, researchers said. These low-oxygen waters correlate with stronger winds coming from a warming planet.
How many times must I go to the blogs and find out we are cooling, and yet still see this shit in the paper?
Talk about LYING and AGENDA-PUSHING!!!!!
The Department of Agriculture is exploring microbial warfare. Gary Richards, a USDA researcher at the University of Delaware, has been screening seawater samples to find a virus that would seek out and destroy Vibrio tubiashii.I certainly don't like the sound of THAT!
It sounds to me like BIOLOGICAL WARFARE!!!!
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Meanwhile, here is the fuel of the future!
"Coal's popularity concerns environmentalists; Shipments from Colombia to rise to 80m tons" by Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times | July 21, 2008
ALBANIA, Colombia - A fleet of electric shovels runs 24 hours a day scooping up 50 tons of coal at a swipe. The rock is then loaded onto 100-car trains that roll nine times a day to a private Caribbean port, where it is placed on cargo ships that deliver it to power plants in Chile, the Netherlands, Japan, the US Eastern Seaboard, and elsewhere.
As the global price of oil and natural gas soar, some customers are taking a new look at other fuels, including coal. And countries including China and India, whose demand is helping push the price of petroleum, need even more energy. Besides petroleum products, they are buying vast amounts of coal, as well.
The worldwide demand for oil has its own set of environmental consequences - drilling in pristine areas where it previously was uneconomical and continued emission of greenhouse gases. But environmentalists warn that renewed reliance on coal takes the threat to another level.
"Growing coal use threatens nothing less than the end of civilization as we know it," said Henry Henderson, the Chicago-based Midwest director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The WOLF-CRYING is REALLY, REALLY GETTING OLD and a bit tough to take, liars!!!!
Low in acid-rain-causing sulfur and inexpensive to produce, Colombia's coal has always been coveted. These days, El Cerrejon and half a dozen other major mines in the region are booming. Energy and Mines Minister Hernan Martinez says Colombia's shipments will rise to 80 million tons this year, 10 percent more than last year and double the amount just five years ago.
The value of Colombia's coal exports in 2008 will surpass $5 billion, up 40 percent from last year and 10 times what it was six years ago, a reflection of the increased price. Coal has more than doubled in price to $100 a ton in a year.
China added more coal-burning power plants in 2007 than Britain has built in its history, said Gerard McCloskey, a coal market specialist with
Similarly, Russia and Poland are keeping much of the coal they once exported. Prices also have been driven up by flooded mines in Australia and a hike in global shipping rates. Still, generating energy from coal costs one-third as much as from natural gas in Japan, and half to two-thirds as much in Britain, McClosky said.
According to John Dean, coal energy consultant with research firm Global Insight in Frederick, Md., those favorable economics have persuaded several US utilities to build new or expanded coal-fired power plants. Probably the largest project is
By 2030, about 54 percent of all US electric power will be coal-fired, up from the current 48 percent, according to the National Mining Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group. Environmentalists and consumer advocates warn of the consequences.
Customers are beginning to see higher electric bills. Much more pain is on the way, according to US Department of Energy economist Michael Mellish. "Coal prices have taken off with a vengeance and electricity prices will spike up if they stick," Mellish said.
Of longer-term concern are the effects on climate change. Coal-fired power generation and manufacturing are the leading source of carbon dioxide and methane emissions, which scientists agree are the leading contributors to the so-called "greenhouse effect" and global warming.
They manage to work global-warming into so many stories each day, don't they?!
It HAS TO BE a CONSCIOUS EFFORT to PUSH an AGENDA, folks!
There is no other explanation, considering what they ignore day after day.
Two environmental advocacy groups have called for a moratorium on new coal-fired plants until a feasible means of mitigating coal's carbon dioxide emissions can be put in place.
Kate Smolski, legislative coordinator with Greenpeace in Washington, D.C., said that although all fossil fuels contribute to global warming, coal is the "dirtiest, emitting double the carbon dioxide per energy unit produced, compared with natural gas."--MORE--"
And just to PAT their fart-misting asses on the back, we get this crock of crap!
"Delegates lighting their way to Denver; Bulb donations to offset trip's carbon footprint" by John C. Drake, Globe Staff | July 21, 2008
When Democratic delegates from Massachusetts set off for Denver next month to crown Senator Barack Obama as the party's presidential nominee, they will be leaving a big trail of greenhouse gases from all that airline travel, rental cars, and convention lighting.
Hauling 121 delegates and their baggage from Logan to Denver, and back, would burn about 6,619 gallons of jet fuel and spew 64 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
That's not such a great statistic for the party of Al Gore, the crusader against global warming, who last week made a call for the nation to produce all its electricity through environmentally friendly sources by 2018.
So Massachusetts Democrats, following a national Democratic Party directive, are working to offset their convention-related carbon footprints. And their method goes one step beyond the national party's entreaty to go to a website that allows people to buy so-called carbon offsets for $12.
While the national party's plan helps support renewable energy projects across the country, the Massachusetts party's plan has a direct, local impact.
Under the state party's plan, all 121 Massachusetts delegates are asked to pay $15 to LiveCooler, a local nonprofit. Each donation buys about six compact fluorescent light bulbs, which will be installed in a low-income community specified by each delegate. By replacing six standard light bulbs with the energy-efficient ones, it is estimated that each delegate will prevent the emission of nearly 1 ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more than offsetting the effect of their convention trip.
"Our goal is to make Massachusetts the greenest delegation at the convention," said Michael P. Ross, a Boston city councilor who conceived of the light-bulb exchange. "It's so easy and it so quickly affects the bottom line in terms of carbon production."
LiveCooler, the local nonprofit that created the program for Massachusetts delegates, estimates that the energy-efficient bulbs will save Mission Main families $300 each on their energy bills over five years, while preventing the emission of 1,998 pounds of carbon dioxide per household.
"Even if it saves them only a few dollars, the energy savings coupled with the environmental savings are great," said Detra McGovern, office manager for Mission Main.
Every delegate who flies round trip from Boston to Denver is responsible for emitting about 1,068 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to carbon footprint calculators on the Internet. So far, the LiveCooler site has received donations equaling more than 23 tons of carbon dioxide, still far less than half of what the delegates will be responsible for in jet travel alone.
If the problem is so serious, ho about NOT GOING AT ALL, you bunch of self-serving looters!!!!!!!!
While each delegate is asked to make a personal contribution, the livecooler.org website allows other individuals to purchase light bulbs on a specific delegate's behalf. Massachusetts has a reputation to uphold when it comes to trying to put an ecofriendly face on a political convention.
Oh, we got a "reputation" to maintain!!!!
So how would you feel about your child BIKING to school everyday?
That's the way it's gonna be if some enviro-fascists have their way.
"As self-proclaimed conservationists, the Andersens take satisfaction in limiting their carbon dioxide emissions by using bikes for transportation in lieu of motor vehicles whenever possible. For health and environmental reasons, the Andersens would like to see an increase in the use of bicycles among children to get to and from school.
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All so the rich and wealthy can have even more!
Well, I'm tired of that gig, man!
