Live Earth Concert – Crazy Democrats
"Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son, who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors."
A similar line of thinking is one from Luigi Galleani, who perpetrated the
RFK Jr. went on to say at Live Earth that when someone sees “John Stossel, or Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity – these flat earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public and telling you that global warming doesn't exist – you send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them you're not going to buy their products anymore,”
Are you now or have you ever been an anti-global warmest?
(McCarthyism)
I have yet to see one proof[s] that man is causing global warming. All I see are rich people flying around in Gulf Streams telling me how to live. Keep in mind that one-hour in a
It's an inconvenient truth, but mixing rock with recycling is awkward. In a TV interview earlier this week, Matt Bellamy of the band Muse mocked the event as "private jets for climate change."
John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, said Saturday that Live Earth will produce about 74,500 tons of the gas.
"We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth," he said, speaking by telephone. But, he added, "if you can reach 2 billion people and raise awareness, that's pretty fantastic."
Certainly, on the way into the show, some of the 65,000 people who'd spent $110 on a ticket appeared unaware of the seven-point pledge that Al Gore, the event's chief impresario, had asked all spectators to make. Asked about it, they offered blank looks and said they were there for Madonna (whose annual carbon footprint, according to Buckley, is 1,018 tons -- about 92 times the 11 tons an average person uses per year).
The problem with planting trees to offset carbon footprints is that trees are now a target of environmentalists as one of the causes of global warming.
Global warming? Cut down forests
Monday, April 9, 2007
It might seem a mad idea – but cutting down forests might actually help fight global warming, according to research.
Thousands of pine trees in
They found that trees in snowy parts of the world actually warm the Earth, because their dark canopy absorbs sunlight that would otherwise be reflected by snow back into space.
They also discovered this effect outweighed the benefit of the trees removing carbon dioxide from the air….
Dr Ken Caldeira, one of the authors of the report published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, said: 'Tropical forests are like Earth's air conditioner.
'When it comes to rehabilitating forests to fight global warming, carbon dioxide might be only half of the story; we also have to account for whether they help to reflect sunlight by producing clouds, or help to absorb it by shading snowy tundra.'
However, the authors were quick to point out they do not advocate felling the northern pine forests.
Dr Caldeira, of the Carnegie Institution in
'It just makes no sense to destroy natural ecosystems in the name of saving natural ecosystems.'
Brit Hume commenting on the “cutting down tree” story… bad sound quality.
