This Is Getting Serious!

Via friend and neighbor Dick F.:

Look what happens when we cut down too many trees.

Global warming is one thing, but see below and look at what might happen if we continue to clear our forests!

We have to stop cutting down trees! This is getting serious!

Your Grace...

The Right Reverend Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter, is not very happy about the adverse public reaction to his idea for raising money for his churches.  He wanted to profit from the erection of a couple of those huge wind turbines.  He expressed his surprise and unhappiness recently in a letter to his congregations.  James Delingpole has responded to him in an open letter.  A sample:

What surprised me about your letter was that a man intelligent enough to have gained two degrees (one from Cambridge) and canny enough to have risen to the not totally immodest heights of the Bishopric of Exeter should yet be puzzled as to why his flock might object to having a hideous pair of bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes plonked next to their tranquil North Devon villages.

You will definitely want to go read the whole thing. But put down your morning beverage first...

EPA Fraud...

You've probably seen those claims about all-electric vehicles getting 75, 90, or more “miles per gallon”.  Where do those numbers come from?  Are they actually meaningful?

Short answer: No.

Oh, My...

This is what Rush Limbaugh is talking about when he rails about “environmentalist wackos”.




There certainly are many people who are both concerned about the environment and are simultaneously more familiar with the issues and the underlying science. I like to think of myself as one of them. But we're not in the majority...