(David P.) wrote:

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman weighs in with an argument to DO
SOMETHING!!!! about global warming:

It's true that scientists don't know exactly how much
world temperatures will rise if we persist with business
as usual. But that uncertainty is actually what makes
action so urgent. While there's a chance that we'll act
against global warming only to find that the danger was
overstated, there's also a chance that we'll fail to act
only to find that the results of inaction were catastrophic.
Which risk would you rather run?

It wasn't so long ago that global warmists were acting as if their alarming
forecasts had already come true, even likening skeptics to Holocaust
deniers. Now they are reduced to saying we really don't know if global
warmism is true or not, but since the consequences are so dire if it is,
we'd better just assume that it is and act accordingly.

If this sounds familiar, perhaps you've heard of Pascal's Wager. Blaise
Pascal, a 17th-century French theologian and mathematician, wanted a reason
to believe in God but believed that God's existence could not be proved by
reason. So he argued instead that faith was a good bet.

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - Viewers who tune in the new Planet Green network expecting a sober
documentary on the plight of the yellow-breasted whooping finch will be in for
a surprise.

Instead, they'll see celebrities such as Tommy Lee, Ludacris, Tom Bergeron and
Adrian Grenier — and absolutely no lectures, promises Eileen O'Neill, the
network's president.

Planet Green switches on Wednesday at 6 p.m. EDT and runs counter to type. The
environmentally conscious network will soft-sell its mission, making
entertainment a bigger priority than education. O'Neill calls it
"eco-tainment."

The network will immediately be available in 50 million homes, nearly half the
nation's cable or satellite customers, because it replaces Discovery Home.
Parent Discovery Communications is the latest corporation to realize that a
"green" message sells, and guesses that a network devoted to the idea might do
better than one lost in the glut of home renovation programming.

The immediate assumption is that Planet Green's programming would be largely
educational, or similar to the sister Discovery Network's highly regarded
"Planet Earth" series. But Planet Green executives saw that as a dead end.

[life imitates really bad art for a change]

CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/05/16/bc-bear-mauls-man.html...

A 53-year-old man in Saanich, B.C., managed to drive to safety after a grizzly bear mauled his head
and tossed him to the ground in the woods near Bella Coola, about 700 kilometres north of
Vancouver.

The attack took place on May 3 when Brent Case was on a surveying job along the rugged Central
Coast area.

"He came up from behind me and started gnawing at the back of my head. It just started ripping the
scalp off the head," Case told CBC News on Friday.

"The pain was so excruciating that I don't know why I didn't yell or scream, but I just said, 'I
have to play dead.'"

Case dropped down in the fetal position and tried to hang on, but the adult grizzly ripped into his
left arm, leaving ugly wounds.

Brent Case says the grizzly attacked his arms before attacking the back of his head. (CBC)
The bear then went for his right arm and bit through the muscle, just missing a major artery, Case
said.

"He's eating my gristle and he's gnawing on my head. I was saying, 'He's eating my brains. I can
feel it.' I know it's happening and I said, 'God! I hope it gets over soon'" he said.

"I said, 'I'm too young to die. I don't want to die,' and then he stopped."

Even with the human tragedy of Cyclone Nargis still unfolding in Burma,
environmentalists aren't wasting any time linking the disaster to global
warming. Or at least one isn't: Al Gore. Citing the deadly Burmese storm and
recent storms in China and Bangladesh, he declared on National Public Radio:
"We're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be
associated with continued global warming."

There's just one problem -- it's not clear there's any link between climate
change and hurricane numbers or intensity. The number of big storms has been
falling, not rising. As for intensity, researchers led by Christopher Landsea
of the National Hurricane Center have found that earlier generations of
hurricane-watchers using inferior satellite imagery incorrectly classified
many storms as weaker than they actually were. After correcting for this
mismeasurement, the "increase" in storm intensity since the 1970s nearly
disappears.

Iraq 911

It Makes No Sense!

www.iraq911.com

Was Jesus ritually sacrificed by a primitive cannibal cult and who after
having killed off his original movement, then went on to form Roman
Christianity from which today's churches are spiritual extensions off?

There is compelling evidence that the man who was thought to be Jesus did
not die on a cross but died like a lamb to slaughter in an horrific death by
human sacrifice at the hands of a fanatical religious fundamentalist blood
cult, who not only drank his blood and ate his vital body parts, but went on
to become the foundations of Christianity.

The foundations and dogma of Christianity was manufactured by this same
group led by the first anti-Christ, St. Paul. St. Paul played a dominant
hand in this abhorrent original act of ritual cannibalism, not only in Jesus'
betrayal and death, but in the violent genocide of the first groups who had
been loyal to Jesus and given him shelter. The teachings of Jesus were
plagiarised by this violent fanatical blood cult, who went on to overlay
their own primitive pagan religious traditions over his teachings, out of
which Christianity was eventually officially nationalised around the period
that the tyrant Roman Emperor Constantine officiated the Council of Nicea
325AD.

BY BRIAN M. CARNEY
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 12:01 a.m. EST

Just like that--like flipping a switch--Congress and the president banned
incandescent light bulbs last month. OK, they did not exactly ban them. But
the energy bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush sets
energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs that traditional incandescent
bulbs cannot meet.

The new rules phase in starting in 2012, but don't be lulled by that five-year
delay. Whether it's next week or next decade, you will one day walk into a
hardware store looking for a 100-watt bulb--and there won't be any. By 2014,
the new efficiency standards will apply to 75-watt, 60-watt and 40-watt bulbs
too.

Representatives of Philips and General Electric, two of the biggest lightbulb
makers, say there's nothing to be concerned about. And Larry Lauck of the
American Lighting Association says, "I think everyone's pretty happy" with the
new law. But then, the lighting industry has no reason not to be: People will
need light, whatever the law says--according to Randy Moorehead of Philips,
there are four billion standard-size (or "medium base") light sockets in
America alone.

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BY JONATHAN H. ADLER

The secretary-general of the United Nations, upon issuing yet another
global-warming report a couple of weeks ago, announced that "we are on the
verge of a catastrophe." Kevin Rudd, Australia's just-elected prime minister,
has said that fighting global warming will be his "number one" priority. And
Al Gore, propelled by his Nobel Prize, still travels the world to warn of
doom. His latest stop was the Caribbean, where earlier this month he told a
gathering of the region's environmental officials that rising seas, the result
of melting polar icecaps, would threaten their island paradise.

And yet the public does not seem to feel all that heatedly about the warming
of the planet. In survey after survey, American voters say that they care
about global warming, but the subject ranks quite...