WASHINGTON – Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an expansive new policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska

What the hell? I HOPE this isn’t the type of CHANGE we’re going to get from Obama. Maybe I was wrong to expect anything more from a black guy.

If any of my readers know a way I can get in touch with him directly I would appreciate you letting me know. I know I can get my drilling evidence in front of him personally (instead of filtered through the corporate whores that separate government from the public) he couldn’t ignore it.

Thanks.

Vail Daily letter: Strong feelings about SUVs

Are you aware that millions and millions of innocent men, women and children are dying on this planet every single day, just so you can live in million dollar condos and drive around in luxury vehicles?

How can anyone argue with that?

The first in this series is a guy from Texas who runs a site called marmay.net. He has done an excellent job of documenting his progress installing a hydrogen fuel cell in his personal automobile. The difference is he’s doing a “homemade” system that doesn’t cost thousands of dollars. He is very thorough and seems very smart. He isn’t deterred by the fact that “mainstream science” says what he is doing is impossible, he’s showing “mainstream science” that he knows better.

Thank you, guy from Texas. The world is a better place because of you.

As we all know, most global warming is caused by rednecks driving giant gas-hogging SUVs. You and I can drive as many sensible vehicles as we want, but it will barely make a dent in the damage these guys cause. I live in Louisiana, so I know a thing or two about rednecks. I know the one thing rednecks like more than giant trucks. Answer: Going fast.

So how do we convince these Neanderthals to give up their Hummers and drive something reasonable and green? We let them go fast. We should make it a law that SUVs have a universal speed limit of 50MPH while hybrids, scooters, Segways, and other eco-friendly vehicles are allowed to go as fast as they want on the Interstate.

I don’t want any money for my idea (although I should patent it) I just want recognition as the guy that saved billons of lives by fixing global warming.

Like I said, I’m not an “official” climate scientist (just a serious amateur) so I don’t have millions of dollars in lab equipment and balloons, but I am smart enough and I do have enough resources to notice that it has definitely been hotter lately.

Another idea I’ve been mulling around is the possibility that the mere act of drilling for oil is warming the planet. I know it seems silly at first, but when you really think about it starts to make sense:

1. We’re drilling holes hundreds of miles deep into the Earth’s crust. The crust is the part of the planet that shields us from the heat of the core and mantel. We’re basically putting holes in the insulation that prevents our planet from turning into a star.

2. We’re extracting the carbon-based oil that the dinosaurs put there billions of years ago. Carbon is toxic to humans and to our planet so what do we do with it? We put it in our cars and burn it so that it goes up into the atmosphere and back down into our lungs. GOOD PLAN, GENIUSES!

3. What is the number one indicator of global warming? Rising ocean temperatures. Where is the crust the thinnest? Under the oceans. Where do we drill most of our oil wells? Take a guess…

I guarantee you won’t ever hear a thing about this from the mainstream media. They’re all multinational corporations that care more about stock price than the environment. Luckily I’m not beholden to any special interests other than my cats.

Whose bright idea was it to have 2,000 of them all burning at the same time?

“Nobody planned it, those fires were all started by lightning.” you’ll tell me. Puh-leaze. Lightning started 2,000 separate fires that all just happened to be on Federal land managed by the Bush Administration?

Exactly how stupid do you think I am?

Destruction of Indonesia’s peatlands to make way for the production of palm oil is leading to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a problem that will get worse as demand for biofuel grows, Greenpeace reported Thursday.

Great, so now that they’ve discovered a way to get oil from palm trees, the same old bad guys we’re used to (corporations) have decided to tear down peatlands in Indonesia (Indonesia is a part of China) so they can plant Oil Palms.

How many starving people are in the world? And these companies are tearing down peat to plant oil trees? Newsflash, people: you can’t eat a tree. Unless, maybe, it’s a fruit tree.

Greenpeace said large food and consumer product companies including Unilever, Nestle, and Procter & Gamble are driving the peatland destruction because the companies account for a significant volume of global palm oil use.

Now we know who to boycott. Does anybody know where I can get a list of what they make so I can be sure not to buy anything from them (unless it’s something I really want or it’s really cheap)?

The group said that if Riau’s peatlands are destroyed, the resulting greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to the amount emitted by the rest of the world in a year.

I’m no scientist (just a sophisticated amateur) but I’m pretty sure that would basically melt our planet. Thanks a lot, Unilever. Why does a Mexican television station need oil, anyway?

 Climate change could end globalization by 2040 as nations look inward to conserve scarce resources and conflicts flare when refugees flee rising seas and drought, national security experts warned on Monday.

Now that climate change is obvious and “all up in your business” you won’t ignore it, will you, guys? When all it did was kill poor non-white people it wasn’t a big deal, but now that it threatens profit? SOUND THE ALARM!

“Some of the consequences could essentially involve the end of globalization as we have known it … as different parts of the Earth contract upon themselves in order to try to conserve what they need to survive,” said Fuerth, who was national security adviser to former Vice President Al Gore.

This may actually be one of the positive side-effects of all this madness: the end of globalization. No longer will America be able to rape foreign cultures in pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. I can’t wait for the day when money is worthless and we can all finally concentrate on what’s really important in life: love.

 Gore, whose documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award earlier this year, was awarded the prize earlier in the day along with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international network of scientists, for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.

Looks like the Nobel people could no longer take the pressure to award the prize to someone who can actually make a positive difference in the world.

WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED!

President Gore (yes, I used that title on purpose!) and the UN are unstoppable, they know how to get results (their record is undeniable) and this is exactly what their movement needed to shock the public into realizing what exactly is going on.  It’s all downhill for the corporate fat-cats and their money machines. The world is waking up and realizing they’re selling poison. Al Gore is no friend of George Bush and the oil industry, he’s kicking ass and taking names.

I eagerly await their next move.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday told delegates to a global climate change conference that countries around the world must work together to combat climate change, much as they cooperate against terror and the spread of disease.

Was that filed under “O” for obvious or “D” for Duuuhhhhh?

Climate change is the single most important crisis this planet has ever faced. Never before have we ever known anything like it, and these critical years have suffered incompetent and evil leadership. At least it looks now like at least one of them might kinda/sorta be “getting it.” Of course it’s Condie Rice, the one person in the administration who (I bet) actually had to work to get where she is in life instead of having everything handed to her on a silver platter. You go, girl! Of course, your boss is still pig-headed:

Bush said he believes every nation should set its own goals. The president expressed concern that setting strict targets would damage the U.S. economy. Instead, he said, industries should enact voluntary measures.

The US economy always has been and always will be fine. If we had universal health care and a decent welfare/social security system (like the rest of the civilized world) we wouldn’t even have reason to worry about the economy, anyway, the government would be shouldering their share of the burden.

Voluntary measures will not and cannot ever work. “Industry” is run by the same bunch of evil, greedy, straight, fat, white men that government is. They’ll never sacrifice a nickel to save the planet, they can never have enough. We need regulation by responsible parties: The government or the environmental protection organizations (Greenpeace, ELF, PETA, etc.) You don’t ask a fox to watch the henhouse, do you? No, you get the police to do it.

She listed three points that she hopes delegates will focus on during the conference:

 

An agreement on a long-term goal for greenhouse gas reduction.

The establishment of midterm national targets and programs tailored to each country’s economic and energy needs to reach the broader goal.

The encouragement of work with private industry to develop new energy technology that doesn’t risk but accelerates economic growth.

That’s a good start, but it’s not nearly enough. We’re in crisis and we need to act accordingly. My plan:

• The United States will cease production of all carbon dioxide by the end of the year. Anyone or anything found to be producing CO2 will face huge fines and/or prison terms
• Half of the land that is currently being wasted on suburban sprawl (strip malls, Wal-Marts, NASCAR tracks, etc.) must be torn down and replanted as permanently protected National Forest by 2010.
• The US must dedicate 25% of it’s annual Federal budget to remediating the damage it has done to the planet. The UN will supervise the spending of the money so Bush and his cronies don’t steal all of it.
• Corporate profits will be capped at $1,000,000 and any excess will be added to the environmental remediation fund.
• No new corporations are allowed to be created, except non-profits.
• Any new car sold from now on must be a hybrid or an electric

These simple, relatively painless steps are not only what is necessary to save our planet, but it’s what the US owes the rest of the world. Our children (well, not mine!) will thank us.