ibejim's Blog

Al is at it again. He has given us another "ten year window" warning  in his recent speech in Washington. The "tipping point" is fast approaching, or, is it? Apparently, Noel Brown, formerly of the United Nations environment program was giving us the same warning.......Back in 1989!!...

From, the US senate comitte on environment & public works:

“The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis,” Gore stated. But the former Vice President, who has been warning of a 10-year “tipping point” for several years now, appears to be unaware that the United Nations already started the 10 year countdown in 1989!

According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.” 

"While Gore repeats his standard stump speech promoting man-made climate fears, much of the international science community is now openly dissenting from human caused global warming fears."

Looks like the list of dissenters, deniers and, of course, the rest of the "fringe element is growing. Hopefully, to become a horde one day.

Full article here.....

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Mino
rity.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=37ae6e96-802a-23ad-4c8a-edf
6d8150789

Thanks  to http://icecap.us/ for the link.

Thats Right!!

Prince Charles has converted his beloved Aston Martin DB6  ( a 21st birthday present from the queen, nice eh?)  to run on surplus Btitish wine....

From:  Dailymail.com...

Converting the Aston Martin played a small but symbolic role. The Prince's chief aide Sir Michael Peat said: 'Charles only travelled two or three hundred miles a year in the Aston but he wanted it to be environmentally friendly. It just happened that our bioethanol supplier makes the fuel from surplus English wine.'

The car - which is kept at Highgrove and clocks up just 300 miles a year - averages ten miles a gallon, the equivalent of 4.5 bottles of wine for every mile.

At £1.10 a litre, the bioethanol is only slightly cheaper than conventional petrol, but is estimated to produce 85 per cent less carbon dioxide.

The grapes used for Charles's fuel have already been fermented into wine on an English vineyard near Swindon, Wiltshire.

Its owners bottle all they can, but cannot produce more than their EU quota. Rather than destroy the excess, the vineyard now sells it to the Gloucestershire biofuels supplier Green Fuels, where it is distilled.

The green prince has also introduced a raft of environmentally-friendly measures at his homes, such as reed bed sewage systems and wood-chip boilers at Highgrove and Birkhall, his Scottish residence.

He even tries to have his cows fed on grass rather than grain - to cut their flatulence and minimise their emission of the greenhouse gas methane...

Maybe Chollie is starting to do what so many green "hippycrites"  fail to do, Which is walking  the walk, not just talking the talk.

Heck, he's even got his cows burping and fartting less!

Sadly, like many "hippycrites" he has a long way to go.

" Do as I say, Not as I do!!...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-564215
/You-hippy-crites-When-comes-saving-planet-celebrities-
practise-preach.html

Scotland' s version of our PTA , is now blaming web sites such as Wikipedia for falling exam pass rates.....

http://news.scotsman.com/education/Falling-exam--pa
sses-blamed.4209408.jp

It is common knowledge that anyone can log onto Wikipedia and log and entry, or,  update an existing one, without any sort of verification from so-called experts or reasearchers.

Personally, i love Wikipekia, but,  just as any other news/info source, you must investigate further before deciding , I guess.

Seems that , in this day and age, you  really must seek the truth!

What do you think about Wikipedia ?

Think so?

Barack Obama is different from the politicians we have have suffered from for years?

He doesn't take money from lobbyist, from the evil oil companies and other big business?

He is totally against totally against the Iraq war?

He is our knight in shinning armor?

Now, I'm not a fan of Chis Hedges, but,  I found this article interesting....

Same old political nonsense, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

Looks like the ethenol based biofuel screwup is getting worse and worse..

Now, it looks as if we are going to have trouble meeting government mandates  on ethenol  based fuel production...

From: Reuters....

Thats right, the best web-browser in the world (in my opinion) is about to go to version 3 shortly.

What browser is that? Mozilla's firefox browser. Firefox 3 is currently in the final  beta (or testing)  stage in it's development process, what Mozilla like to call the final release  candidate. The actual final version should be available for public download shortly.

While Firefox is known to be much faster , and, more secure than Internet explorer, It's going to be even faster and more secure with version 3.

There are also many  add-ons such as themes, download managers and  a ton of other cool stuff available for download here...https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/p>

The full low-down of Firefox version 3 is avilable here...http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/rel
easenotes/

Oh, I forgot to mention....It's all FREE!!