Keith On The BBC
Keith has once again made the BBC, I see this leading to a job for him spreading rational thought to the masses. Good job Keith. This is a 14 minute clip of Keith’s input to the show. Download it here
Keith On The BBC
It seems Keith is taking over the UK, you can hear him giving a rather well thought out opinion on climate change, and how the BBC should handle its coverage of it.
Keith on the BBC click to download a low res mp3 of Keith in action. You can hear him around 1:10 and 9:00. Way to go Keith!
Quote Of The Day - Fred Thompson On Global Warming
For all you people who think Fredy is the savior of the republican party, perhaps you should think again.
He had this to say on a recent Paul Harvey show (full audio here)
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.
NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto.
This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.
Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.
Ask Galileo.
Simply amazing, this guy mentions Galileo, but perhaps he forgot that Galileo almost got killed over his commitment to science. If we continue to elect leaders who refuse to listen to science we might be the ones who end up in dire situations for IGNORING science.
Glacier And Ice Cap Melting Could Make Sea-Level Rise Worse Than Expected
Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
The researchers found that glaciers and ice caps are currently contributing about 60 percent of the world’s ice to the oceans and the rate has been markedly accelerating in the past decade. The contribution is presently about 100 cubic miles of ice annually — a volume nearly equal to the water in Lake Erie — and is rising by about three cubic miles per year.
In contrast, the CU-Boulder team estimated Greenland is now contributing about 28 percent of the total global sea rise from ice loss and Antarctica is contributing about 12 percent. Greenland is not expected to catch up to glaciers and ice caps in terms of sea-level rise contributions until the end of the century.
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Wave Power On Science Friday
Last Friday the very cool NPR program Science Friday, had an interesting story on wave power. You can download it here, and find other programs here.
Renewable Energy Roundup
Observant readers might have noticed that I missed last weeks renewable energy roundup. I confess I was weak and needed the sleep. Excuses are for people who can’t lie, enough excuses! This weeks roundup will be super-sized to make up for my lack of goodness last week. Here we go!
Want to bring the Internet to people who live very very far away from any sort of Internet infrastructure. You my friend need one of these.
Speaking of solar, it seems something as simple as solar flashlights can have an amazingly positive effect on peoples lives.
At 10 p.m. in a sweltering refugee camp here in western Ethiopia, a group of foreigners was making its way past thatch-roofed huts when a tall, rail-thin man approached a silver-haired American and took hold of his hands.
The man, a Sudanese refugee, announced that his wife had just given birth, and the boy would be honored with the visitor’s name. After several awkward translation attempts of “Mark Bent,” it was settled. “Mar,” he said, will grow up hearing stories of his namesake, the man who handed out flashlights powered by the sun.
Since August 2005, when visits to an Eritrean village prompted him to research global access to artificial light, Mr. Bent, 49, a former foreign service officer and Houston oilman, has spent $250,000 to develop and manufacture a solar-powered flashlight.
His invention gives up to seven hours of light on a daily solar recharge and can last nearly three years between replacements of three AA batteries costing 80 cents.
Over the last year, he said, he and corporate benefactors like Exxon Mobil have donated 10,500 flashlights to United Nations refugee camps and African aid charities.
Another 10,000 have been provided through a sales program, and 10,000 more have just arrived in Houston awaiting distribution by his company, SunNight Solar. (via)
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Environmental Rap The Next Big Thing?
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Arabian Night
Since returning from Palestine in December, I have talked with quite a range of friends and acquaintances about my travels. However, I recently met a wonderful woman that is here at Clark from Egypt, whom I was able to share tea and conversation with the other night about the status of Palestine and the Arab world. Showing her the footage of my first few days in Ramallah, the children’s concert filled with wonderful Arabic tunes had her dancing from her seated position on the couch, reminded of music she has heard in her own home of Cairo. Just as she was able to savor the warm-fuzzies of such memorable tunes, I recall how I had overheard quite a few Christmas carols or other grade school choir songs being played by the students at Kamandjati as they were waiting for lessons. Just after a few notes were played, the unease at being surrounded by so many cultures and languages different from my own would melt away; at times longing for the white Christmas that never came.
Her accent and occasional Arabic made me recall the wonderful people I was able to work with and share laughs at late-night dinners with while in Ramallah. Most memorable was Kamal and his pronunciation of the word “flirty” or joking nature with Doug. In particular, my heart was won by this hired driver when he asked if I knew of Tracy Chapman, proceeding to play her first album as we drove through narrow residential streets to our flat after a late night of chatting. He easily would be the best ambassador for Palestine with his radiant smile and warm manner.
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George Bush Dont Care About Black People (lyrics)
So I have had some people ask me about the lyrics, and I think they make their point without the music, so here they are. I have not edited them at all, but I was unable to understand two parts of one line. If anyone knows what they are please tell me.
George bush doesn’t care about black people
I aint saying he a gold digger
But he aint messing with no broke niggers (x2)
George don’t like black people (x 4)
Hurricane came through
Fucked us up round here
Government actin like its bad luck down here
All I know is that you better bring some trucks round here
Wonder why I got my middle finger up round here
Peoples lives on the line
You declining to help
Since you taking so much time
We surviving our self
Just me and my (something) and my kids and my (something)
In my own house looking for a way out
Five days in this motherfucking attic
I can’t use the cell phone I keep getting static
Dying ’cause they lying instead of telling us the truth
Other day they helicopters got my neighbors off the roof
Screwed ’cause they say they’re coming back for us, too
but that was three days ago and I don’t see no rescue
See a mans got to do, what a mans got to do
Since Gods made the path and I’m trying to walk through
Swam to the store, tryin’ to look for food
Corner store’s kinda flooded so I broke my way through
Got what I could but before I got through
News say the police shot a black man trying to loot
George don’t like black people (x 4)
I aint saying he a gold digger
But he aint lookin for no broke niggers (x2)
George don’t like black people (x 4)
Five damn days, five long days
And at the end of the fifth he walkin like “hey!”
Chillin on his vacation sitting patiently
Them black folks got to hope got to wait and see
To see if FEMA really comes through in an emergency
But nobody seems to have a sense of urgency
Now the mayors been reduced to crime
I guess bush said niggers been used to dieing
He said “I know it looks bad, just have to wait”
Forgetin folks to broke to evacuate
Niggers starving and they dieing of thirst
Bet he had to go and check on the refineries first
Making a killing off the price of gas
He would have been up in Connecticut twice as fast
After all that we been through nuttin changed!
You can call red cross but the fact remains that…
George Bush aint a gold digger
But he aint fucking with no broke niggers (X2)
Come down Bush, come on, come down. (X4)
George bush aint a gold digger
George Bush Don’t like black people (X3)
Come down Bush, come on, come down. (X4)
you can still download it here.
Rap Music, It’s Not Just About Bling Anymore.
“Gorge bush dont like black people” this protest song is amazing. it features the clip from Kanye West saying “george bush doesnt care about black people” and lyrics such as
Five days in this motherfucking attic
I can’t use the cellphone I keep getting static
Dying ’cause they lying instead of telling us the truth (…)
Screwed ’cause they say they’re coming back for us, too
but that was three days ago and I don’t see no rescue(…)
Swam to the store, tryin’ to look for food
Corner store’s kinda flooded so I broke my way through
Got what I could but before I got through
News say the police shot a black man trying to loot
Reminds me of Public Enemy, and Rage against the machine. We need more of this sort of thing.
Download it here
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