Clipmarks | ColoradoRight's 'environment' clips

9th Circus - Screw America, We Want Whales

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:34:27 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: and the most overturned appeals court (I believe the circuit court mention in the clip is incorrect), will again be overruled by the Supremes. But it will again take time and money.

It does prove their complete and utter contempt for anything other than their own power.

Clip Source: www.thedonovan.com

And our favorite 9th circuit court in San Francisco rules that the Navy is not exempt from the Environmental Act that prohibits the use of sonar in the area. Even after the president signed an executive order to exempt the Navy from the act. In other words, any enemy submarine like, you know, Iranian, North Korean, Chinese, Russian, etc, etc, etc could set in this 12 mile area (which is huge in terms of sea searches) waiting to bomb the crud out of the United States and the Navy is prohibited from using sonar to detect them in that space in order to protect the whales.

Tags: whales, environment, court, judges, idiots

More In Their Own Words

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:41:50 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: scienceandpublicpolicy.org

In Their Own Words

"Since the late 1960s, much of the North Atlantic Ocean has become less salty, in part due to increases in fresh water runoff induced by global warming, scientists say."

-Michael Schirber, LiveScience
June 29, 2005

"The surface waters of the North Atlantic are getting saltier, suggests a new study of records spanning over 50 years. They found that during this time, the layer of water that makes up the top 400 metres has gradually become saltier. The seawater is probably becoming saltier due to global warming, Boyer says."

-Catherine Brahic, New Scientist
August 23, 2007

Tags: environment, climate change, global warming

$40,000 Fine Or Six Month In Jail For Littering

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:15:14 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: The eco-freaks in the US are dreaming of the day when this practice comes over here.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A young mother-of-three is to be tried by a crown court jury after being accused of throwing an apple core from her car on to the pavement.

The council originally wanted simply to issue a £60 on-the-spot penalty for the alleged offence, said to have been committed on March 19 last year while Miss Badger's Volkswagen Golf was parked on a street in Wolverhampton town centre.

Miss Badger refused to pay and the local authority took her to the magistrates' court, where she chose to be tried by a jury in a crown court.

She faces a fine of up to £20,000 or six months in prison if she is found guilty of the charge, which states that she threw "controlled waste" from the car.

She is accused of "knowingly causing the deposit of controlled waste, namely an apple core, on land which did not have a waste management licence".

Tags: uk, environment, ecology, jail, fine, litter

Eco-Thought of the Day

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:58:03 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight

Clip Source: americandigest.org

"A nation that puts caribou bliss ahead of its own wallets
is a nation of almost infinite disposable income..."

Tags: environment, rich, wealth, oil, econazis

Compact Flourescents - Toxic?

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:41:12 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Better start buying incandescents in quantity before the light bulb police get to them.

Clip Source: www.spiked-online.com

In truth, CFL bulbs contain only 5mg of mercury (about the size of a pin head) compared with 500mg in an old thermometer. Yet the instructions for how to clean up a broken one do make them sound as environmentally friendly as an oil spill: open the windows and leave the room for 15 minutes; wear rubber gloves; don’t vacuum a hard surface (it will spread the fumes); pick the pieces up with duct tape; wipe everything with wet towels; double-bag the debris; and then take to a specialist recycling centre (5).

The only headache these bulbs are likely to give us - apart from one induced by eyestrain while reading under their dim light - is to make us worry unnecessarily about the minutiae of our daily lives.

Tags: energy, environment, ecology, light, lighting

Compact Flourescents - Light Quality?

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:39:00 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight

Clip Source: www.spiked-online.com

Whether the illumination from a CFL is good or not is an aesthetic judgement – but the light quality is certainly different. Light from CFLs may appear gloomy, flat and yellow – or soft, even and warm depending on your preference. Just don’t expect them to be the same as your existing bulbs.

Other problems with CFLs include: flickering; being slow to come on and warm up to full light level; light levels fading as the bulbs age; radio-frequency interference with electronic equipment and broadband signal and remote controls.

Tags: energy, light, lighting, ecology, environment

Grandma Is Keeping Me Warm

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:37:07 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Apparently - soon to be a literal truth, not a figurative one.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Mourners shivering in a chapel are to be kept warm using "body heat" generated from cremating their loved ones.

The idea will be tried at a crematorium near Manchester where grieving friends and relatives have complained of the cold during services.

Tameside council will use heat from cremating bodies to keep the mourners warm at Dukinfield Crematorium.

Town hall chiefs say the heat generated will be enough to power the boiler and light the chapel. But they admit it is a "sensitive" issue and have promised to consult clergy and the wider community.

Robin Monk, the environment chief of Tameside Council, said: "I'm not sure how people will react, but we don't want to upset anyone. We will carry out full consultation with priests, vicars and the public before a decision is taken."

Tags: cremation, death, chapel, funeral

Ancient Mass Media Report

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:10:29 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Judea Today
Another Consumer of Nature's Resources Born in Bethlehem

An international scientific consensus has been reached, and it's not in Mary and Joseph's favor. Had the parents of Jesus been more proactive in raising their awareness, they may have considered such important factors as Judea's fragile environment and air pollution that only increases with every newborn child. No matter how amusing a set of small carbon footprints around the house may seem initially, potential parents should always remember that the footprints will only become bigger as the child matures and turns into yet another indulgent consumer of nature's limited resources.

Clip Source: www.thepeoplescube.com

How did the ancient mass media report the alleged birth of Christ? The People's Cube prepared the following compilation of quotes from the Roman and Judean sources, which should help our readers to form an unbiased opinion of what really happened in the days surrounding the so-called Christmas

© 2007 Directorate of Historical Revisionism, Karl Marx Treatment Center.

Tags: media, christmas, religion, history, humor

Self-Sufficient Space Habitat Design Released

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:19:29 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: However, the 20-30 year timeframe to actually get a functioning model seems daunting.

Clip Source: www.cosmosmagazine.com

SYDNEY: Australian-led scientists have designed a new space habitat that might one day allow astronauts on the Moon or Mars to be 90 to 95 per cent self-sufficient.

The development of such as system could save billions of dollars in shuttle trips to re-supply lunar or space colonies and brings closer the vision of a human habitat on Mars.

Devised by an international team of 30 space scientists, Luna Gaia would be a 'closed-loop' environment, meaning that almost all material within the system is recycled with very little need for input from outside sources. The current design caters for a team of 12 astronauts under isolation for up to three years.

The proposed system, is unlikely to be up and running any time soon. Chartres estimates it will be another 20 to 30 years before the funding for the set-up and the practicality of providing the space for plant growth in a spacecraft is realised.

Tags: space, explore, hardware, transportation, ecology, recycle, habitat

China Readies Massive New Airport For Olympics

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:31:20 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: This thing is huge.

Clip Source: blog.scifi.com

China's pulling out all the stops to impress the international community for the Beijing Olympics next year. Just take a look at their new "multi-billion dollar" airport terminal that's currently under construction.

Set to open before the games kick off next year, the gigantic uber-airport will have a whopping 245 acres of floor space designed to handle the traffic of 53 million passengers a year. It's super efficient, using "south-east orientated skylights, which maximize heat gain from the early morning sun, and an integrated environment-control system that minimizes energy consumption and carbon emissions." Also, it happens to look like a gigantic crazy spaceship, which is pretty fun. The only problem is that you need to travel to China to visit it. Oh well! — Adam Frucci

Tags: china, airlines, airplane, terminal, transportation

Four Month Mars Simulation Mission in Artic Ends

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:18:16 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

What happens when you stick nine scientists and engineers in a remote simulated Martian habitat and leave them there for 100 days? That is what a group of space scientists were trying to find out. Their space habitat (the size and shape of an expected martian abode) is located near a crater on Devon Island above the Arctic Circle in Canada.

Crew Commander Melissa Battler, a Canadian geologist, commented in her blog that one of the biggest challenges of shifting to Martian time was not when to fall asleep (which they had no trouble with) but when to eat! "Several of us were hungry very frequently during our first 10 days of Mars Time, but our bodies seem to be adjusting now." Melissa adds that the extra 39 minutes does make a difference, "[you] feel like [you're] getting more work done."

Tags: space, explore, environment

Moose Burping Contributing to Global Warming

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:44:31 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: So the solution is to kill all the moose. Then the world will be SAVED!

Clip Source: www.aftenposten.no

Amidst all the talk about carbon dioxide emissions and global warming comes news that Norway's national mascot may be contributing to the destruction of the environment, through burping and other bodily functions.

But now some researchers linked to Norway's technical university (NTNU) in Trondheim contend that moose are responsible for tons of gas emissions a year through their frequent burping and, well, farting.

"Shoot a moose and save yourself a climate quota," joked moose researcher (and moose hunter) Reidar Andersen at NTNU to newspaper VG on Tuesday. He's published a book on the life of a moose.

A grown moose will burp and pass so much methane gas in the course of a year that it amounts to 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide emissions.

Tags: norway, global warming, ecology, idiots, stupid

Ban DiHydrodgen Monoxide

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:41:39 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: H2O - water

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: politics, environment, idiots

Carbon Debits

Mon, 14 May 2007 21:14:10 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Making the world a better place

Clip Source: www.carboncreditkillers.com

On a Mission - Taking Away Al Gore's Carbon Credits...
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Do We Really Kill Trees?
The short answer is "Yes". We run a burgeoning business of clearing trees from grasslands so the Antelope won’t be scared. As silly as that previous sentence sounds it is the truth. So, you can have a clear conscience that you removed a terror inducing tree in an effort to improve the antelope state of mind – which makes them better targets during hunting season. Although we don’t completely follow the logic of the game and fish department on this, we go along with it.

Tags: environment, ecology, global warming, carbon

Disaster Response

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:48:03 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: The trend goes back long before Katrina too. If you are going to wait for a response from the Feds, and especially if you want to whine about it, live in a Democrat governed state or city.

Clip Source: www.rightwingnews.com

Oh, it's a trend all right. When Republican governors like Jeb Bush in Florida or Haley Barbour from Mississippi have disasters in their state, they handle them fairly well. When Democrats like Kathleen Blanco in Louisiana and Kathleen Sebelius in Kansas screw them up because they're incompetent, they blame George Bush because they know the media will ignore the fact that disaster response is primarily a local responsibility.

On the one hand, you almost can't blame the Democrats for pulling this sort of ruse over and over again, because it works for them. But, on the other hand, at some point, you have to wonder when the people voting these liberals in will start to smarten up a little bit and figure out that they're maintaining the rotten environment in the place that they live by voting in the people who are largely responsible for it.

Tags: democrat, republican, disasters