There are some excellent articles and videos around at the moment which, between them, provide some thought provoking visions of where the world may be headed and, more importantly, why we are in this mess in the first place. The first one is a post by the Robert Denner writing over at ZeroHedge [...]  Now I am not usually one for the “cute” animal pictures but this one … well … Given the BBC’s newly exposed lack of impartiality on green matters it doesn’t really surprise me that they would put a positive spin on a poll about nuclear and renewable power. The impartiality bit comes out in one of the newly released Climategate emails : date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004 from: Phil Jones [...] Hey, it’s an idea … Having heard a lot of hot air from our very own Huhne about the vast numbers of new jobs that will be created by taxing the buggery out of energy consumers to fund a green employment utopia, I hope the end result will be somewhat better than the US experience where each new job [...] How long before we see this kind of idiocy on these shores as the greens fight against anything that will prevent us living in mud huts? A liberal democratic politician in Pennsylvania claimed in an email that fracking causes venereal disease in women. Penn Live reported: A state lawmaker is explaining his remark that [...] Whilst the MSM has long forgotten Fukushima, the following video and commentary from Hawaii News Daily shows just how little Tepco has achieved in bringing the damaged plant under control. The timeline commentary below the video gives you a few pointers as to what you are seeing – most of the events up to [...] December 8th 2010 – no snow here – move along now Remember the Independent article from 2000 predicting that UK winter snowfalls would be a thing of the past within ten years? Well, here is a quote from another warmist regarding the possible arrival of a mini Ice Age caused by a [...] A rather interesting photo from a Pravda photoset showcasing the latest in Summer wear for ladies – a bikini covered in tiny solar panels to charge iPods, phones and any other electronic gadgets you just have to use on the beach : A little background from ecouterre : Brooklyn-based designer Andrew Schneider is [...] Your host’s brother is currently on an extended cycling tour from Thailand (where he has worked for the last 4 years) into rural China and probably beyond knowing him. Having read his cycling blog many times, I wanted to highlight some of the many wonderful phtographs he has captured on his tour. If you [...] The New Yorks Times has an amazing interactive page featuring before and after panoramic images from Joplin, Missouri which show the unbelievable devastation caused by the tornado that ripped through there last week. The two images below are a grab from the interactive selection and it is hard to believe that the death toll [...] Via small dead animals, the following video has very little in the way of visuals but that makes the audio track all the more powerful in my opinion as the Joplin tornado makes a direct hit on a shop where prople are taking shelter : _ _ I am just thankful we don’t get [...] Below are my two favourites from a collection of stunning images of the somewhat more pronouncable Icelandic volcano currently dusting our shores : (© Gunnar [...] If you happen to see a nice shiny blue Epomis beetle then run like hell … _ _ That is one seriously brutal beetle and it’s a damned messy eater as well.  |
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