Living Green (Environmental Honesty)

(Links to verify this information through both Snopes and TruthOrFiction.com are at the end of the post)

House #1

A 20-room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated bynatural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

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House #2

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000-gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas; is the residence of the President of the United States ,George W. Bush.

An "inconvenient truth."I sure hope this gets passed to everyone! And, yes ... I DID check Snopes AND TruthOrFiction.com prior to posting it.

You can verify it at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp and http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/gore-bush-houses.htm

Al Gore's movie "Inconvenient Truth" is Full of Crap

In case you haven't been able to catch the news lately, let me give you the connection that this has to real time politics. As I'm writing this 3 of the 4 "major party" contenders for presidential nomination are ready to SPEND YOUR MONEY to "fight global warming". In this particular argument, sanity only has one Hope (hint, hint).

Not trying to offend anybody, but the title of the post comes from the title of the YouTube video.

There is plenty of evidence on the net (via YouTube, Google, etc) regarding what is actually happening to the climate. By the way, as late as 1976 the main stream media were telling us that we were headed for another "ice age". Whatever sells newspapers.



You also might enjoy this one. The transcript of the video is available on the video's YouTube page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrGnZpZs9rg&feature=related

Blog Action Day (BAD)

Just in case you haven't heard yet, let me tell you what's going to happen on October 15.

Its the First, Annual, International, BLOG ACTION DAY. What is Blog Action Day (BAD) you say? I'm so glad you asked. This is when everybody who participates in the whole ever lovin' blogosphere is supposed to get our collective knickers in a knot about the [insert favorite adjective] environment. Right now they claim to have 6,475 blogs with a "readership" on this issue of over 4.4 million people. Using their exact numbers I crunched it and got just a hair over 690 readers per blog. Interesting...

When you go to pretty much any place on the blogosphere, what do you see but links and links to other blogs. And what are many blog posts about? Reading other blogs! So how many "unique" readers do you think we're actually talking about? More on that later.

On the Blog Action Day (BAD) websites ( http://blogactionday.com/ and http://blogactionday.org/ ) they give you an opportunity to participate. They encourage you to "Register your Blog". Ostensibly this would be so that you (as a "concerned blogger" or some such rot) could be kept "in the loop" with new and exciting "blog action items" on the environment, right? Nah, it says right on the page where you register that

The readership figure is purely for the purpose of generating an exciting statistic!

In other words pay no attention to these statistics - they're meaningless! WHAT???? Environmentalists with meaningless statistics???? Frankly, I'm shocked.

[If you haven't picked up on my sarcasm yet then I'm just not trying hard enough]

But even a cynic like myself has to admit that these Blog Action Day (BAD) people are thoughtful. Why they've even included a way for me to prove my "personhood". Right on the form to register it says

Are you human? Please type '210'

And let's not forget the importance of "warm fuzzies". These Blog Action Day (BAD) people know how important the environment is to me - the button at the bottom of the registration page doesn't say "register" or "submit" - no no - it says "Make a Difference". So, in some inexplicable way, just by giving my email address to the Blog Action Day (BAD) people, I have "Made a Difference" [i think i feel a tear welling up]

And, gosh those Blog Action Day (BAD) people are tech-saavy. They even have a Blog Action Day (BAD) video posted on youtube. click for BAD video

Al Gore, living proof that the Oscars are motivated by art, not politics (HAHAHAHA - well I tried to say that with a straight face) must be very proud of his Blog Action Day (BAD) friends. They are working so hard to make everybody get really "conscious" about the environment.
Now those of us who were too young to "make a difference" at the original (1970) Earth Day can be on the ground floor of a "movement".

This will really give me a chance to stretch my satirical muscles, so to speak. There is so much raw comedic material to work with - I think I'm going to enjoy this ;-)

Great Global Warming Swindle

This BBC documentary is an hour and 15 minutes long but it does a good job of explaining a few things. For instance, carbon dioxide and rising temperatures are connected. BUT, unfortunately for the doom-sayers, CO2 levels are NOT "driving" temperature change. They are following it. By about 800 years.

And, during WW II and the post war boom (1941-1975), when humans were cranking out record amounts of CO2, the temperatures were actually dropping.

Just a few thousand years ago, the planet was much hotter than it is today, and obviously the polar bears survived.

Don't believe the "Humans cause Global Warming" hype.