New Perspective on Global Warming Available for Kids
June 18, 2008
I have not been paying much attention to my blogging efforts the past month or so. But I have written a couple of posts recently so I went to check out my Google Analytics reports. Local conservative radio host - Jim Vicevich in the Hartford market - provided a highlighted link to conservative247.org. Thanks Jim!
Anyway, on Monday Jim linked us over to the Deb and Selby Web site which features a new book for kids 11 and older who are in need of some reassurance concerning the entire “climate change” freak show that has populated Saturday morning cartoons, the Disney Channel and Nickleodeon the past few years.
It certainly doesn’t help that AlGore’s farce of a movie is required viewing for kids in elementary school.
The book, Deb & Seby’s Real Deal on Global Warming - available at Amazon for $15.84 and eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping - came out on April 22 (Earth Day, perfect).
Here is a description from the Amazon site. There are only three reviews, but all are 5 stars.
In and out of the classroom children are bombarded with graphic images of earth’s destruction and drowning polar bears due to global warming. They worry that we must all fix the problem FAST! Or they worry that it’s already too late and we’re all DOOMED!
But is man-made global warming really settled science, or the last environmental scare? Deb and Seby’s Real Deal on Global Warming is a contemporary, fun and entertaining book for children (ages 11 and up) and adults who want to learn more about the other side of global warming without big scientific words! SO.CHECK IT OUT!
Many respected scientists, researchers and professors worldwide disagree with what we hear about global warming! CHILL-AX! You’ll totally chill when you find out who’s telling us this scary stuff and why!
AND BE ENCOURAGED! Because planet earth is miraculous and resilient and can sustain us for a very long time. And that includes polar bears, too!
Might be worth a look as there is certainly little material out there for kids when it comes to the religion of the left.
Recycling Gone Mad - Part 2
April 3, 2008
FoxNews.com has the AP story from Seattle where the mayor and city council president want to charge residents 20 cents for each plastic bag they used to take home their stuff. The stores and the government would share in the revenue generated by the bag sales. They also want to place a ban on foam take-home containers.
Why is this happening? Since the past couple of generations have not had to worry about stuff like this, this or this, they gotta find something to stress out about right? I guess suggesting recycling these bags and foam containers is not enough. Read more
Remember that Little Bit of Mercury in those Bulbs?
February 26, 2008
These bulbs are being mandated on people left and right and they are not cheap. A regular bulb will cost you $1.50 and these new compact fluorescents are upwards of $8 or $9 each.
On top of that, let’s look at the hazards related to these new bulbs. I think it’s all hogwash, but the government is now providing people with instructions on how to dispose of these things and deal with them when they break! From boston.com:
“We found some very high levels [of mercury] even after we tried a number of cleanup techniques,” said Mark Hyland, director of Maine’s Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management. He said levels were the lowest if the room was well ventilated after breakage.
The study recommended that if a compact fluorescent breaks, get children and pets out of the room. Ventilate the room. Never use a vacuum, even on a rug, to clean up a broken compact fluorescent lamps. Instead, use stiff paper such as index cards and tape to pick up pieces, and then wipe the area with a wet wipe or damp paper towel. If there are young children or pregnant woman in the house, consider cutting out the piece of carpet where the lamp broke as a precaution. Place the shards and cleanup debris in a glass jar with a screw top and remove the jar from the house.
Disposal regulations vary from state to state, with some requiring broken compact fluorescent light bulbs, to be disposed of as household hazardous waste. Most states allow intact compact fluorescents to be thrown away, but some - such as Vermont, Minnesota, and California - ban disposal in trash, according to Bender.
Let the lawsuits begin! But if it makes you feel better, go buy some.
[UPDATE] I just did a Google search on ‘mercury leak school‘ to see what comes up. I had remembered a few instances where schools were shut down for a day or two while the haz-mat teams cleaned up the place. It happens almost every week!
So Much for Airport Security
February 25, 2008
We’ve read the reports about “testers” from the TSA getting certain items through security with no problems. As a matter of fact, TSA has failed numerous tests for a variety of reasons. Look, if somebody wants to get something on a plane, their going to be able to do it with time and money.
Today’s story from Heathrow just continues to prove that we’re not any safer. These nuts just walked out there and climbed out onto a BA jet? What is going on?
Temperature Control in California - DOA
January 18, 2008
An initiative to control the thermostats of private homes and businesses has bit the dust.
Investor’s Business Daily had a good review of the proposal on Jan. 15 - only three days ago - and to say that people freaked out about the Big Brother concept is an understatement.
The California Energy Commission has proposed requiring the use of what is called a Programmable Communicating Thermostat (PCT) that would allow government to control the temperature of homes and businesses in the event of high energy prices or shortages.
Nice.
As one outraged consumer said in an e-mail to the commissioner: “We need to build new facilities to handle the growth in the state, not become Big Brothers to the citizens of California.”
Nuclear power, for example, could provide California — and the nation, for that matter — with all the clean electricity needed if the same bureaucrats who propose controlling our thermostats would get out of the way.
But California has banned construction of new nuclear power plants since 1976. Four reactors under construction at that time were allowed to be completed, and Californians should be glad they were.
I bet they are glad those four plants were finished; but they certainly will not admit it.
In less than 72 hours, the plan seems to be DOA. Michelle Malkin provides us with information from SFGate.com.
After a public outcry, commission officials last week said the regulation would be revised so that the devices would still be required, but configured so that customers could override outside control by utilities.
But the agency backed off even more this week by announcing that the proposed remote-controlled thermostats would be dropped entirely from the 2008 edition of the building-efficiency standards.
It does seem that even in California, environmental whackos can go too far.
