Category: Environment

  • Screw the Children

    (walking out of the gym, waiting for light at corner of  Diversey and Clark, monsoon-esque downpour) Operative holding clipboard: ‘Scuse we sir do you have 40 seconds for Save the Children? Andy: I can’t save the children today. I’m saving the environment today, impeachment tomorrow so I can’t save the children until Friday. Operative: (laughs) […]

  • Scalia on Global Warming: 'Whatever”

    Twelve states, led by Massachusetts and joined by the District of Columbia, are objecting to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to decline to issue emissions standards for new cars and trucks. and now the SCOTUS is deciding if the states have any legal ground to challenge the EPA: "Respectfully, Your Honor, it is not the […]

  • Pandas: The Paris Hiltons of the Animal Kingdom

    From August J. Pollack: They exist because we lavish them with wealth, fawn over their appearance, and stare at them endlessly via night-vision cameras. and The bamboo. Let’s talk about the damn bamboo. You want a perfect example of how Intelligent Design is bupkus? This is a gigantic animal “designed” to favor as a food […]

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    We’re completely fucked. There’s no bones about it. This planet, this country is completely screwed in so many ways and unless Americans wake up and smell the glaciers melting. Al Gore helped spearhead the first Congressional hearings on global warming in the 70s and made it a centerpiece of his bid for president in the […]

  • Rippin' The Gub'mint A New One (again)

    Frostpaw here, reaching out a chilly, razor-clawed mitt to rip the shriveled testicles off the current Administration and its attendant Political Machine. But in a way that doesn’t get her pawsies mussed, and one in which you all can participate, that helps the entire planet. If you don’t yet know about BioGems, get yourself over […]

  • NASA Climate Scientist Muzzled by White House

    James E. Hansen, director of the NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (and soon to probably lose his job, funding or both): The Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. He fell […]