Cop a Laugh

Then why am I laughing?

Here is a good one. Trying to sell their mercury light bulbs and windmills in the face of an increasing body of facts putting the lie to their basic premise, the Global Warming wackos are turning to linguistic sophistry. Fisking from Stop the ACLU: Gee, If Only We Could Rename Global Warming, People Would Care. Snicker.
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Link: New York Times, Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus.

Lighten up, I need to

Oh, no, don't let the rain come down

Recent storms damaged my roof. Night before last the feedlot received over 4" of rain. Much of that rain found its way into my library/office/bench/studio room. Think buckets, fans, visqueen*.

This made me feel better: America Must Not Allow Me to Fail. The iowahawk is a tonic. Check out these old trains in the Depot of the Macabre.
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* the plastic film, not the band

M4GW

Argentine researchers collect methane from cows

I found a link to this excellent video: Imagine There's No Global Warming in my e-mail today. The video is from Minnesotans For Global Warming (M4GW), a fine outfit of straight-shooting squareheads from the land of 1,000 lakes. These cats make GW denial fun. Check them out. They have a blog as part of their larger web presence.

I've lived in NW Iowa, which is as close to Minnesota as one can get without having to learn the language. The winters there were cold enough to make Al Gore wish for a long, global heat wave.
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Also playing at Love Global Warming

That cinches it. Everything bad is caused by Global Warming.

Dr. Chalko in his Chakra Shirt

According to the AP and published by CBS, earthquakes are five times worse than they were 20 years ago because of Global Warming. What next? Global Warming will cause the Earth to explode? Salmonella? The study they cite to support this spurious thesis was done by none other than Dr. Tom Chalko the bioresonance fruit, pictured above.

The Associated Press calls this nut case a scientist. I guess if you can accept Al Gore as a GW science expert, almost anyone qualifies. I want to laugh, but...
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A few blog reactions from both sides of the GW divide:

• Secondhand Smoke - The Politicization of Science or the Stupidity of Media?
• A True Progressive - Quake Quackery
• Know the Lies - Deadlier Quakes - Blamed On 'Global Warming
• Tranceformers (?) - Today's EarthQuakes 5 Times More Deadlier Than In Past!
• Productivity Shock - Is Global Warming Causing More Earthquakes
• Climate Audit - Earthquakes and global warming [Excellent comments!]
• Climate Donkey - Shaky Science: AP hoaxed...
• The Blackboard - I’m leaning toward the drama of Tom Chalko’s theory
• The Frogs Believe It - Les tremblements de terre sont devenus cinq fois plus puissants, selon les découvertes du scientifique australien, le Dr. Tom Chalko

Not many of these cats are believers once they see that Dr. Chalko is a Wacko. I don't expect the French to come around and admit that they have been had. They still think they are a World Power.

Earth Hour at the Feedlot

Lights Out at the Feedlot

Earth Hour was a big success here at the home of the greenest man in America. Lets see if 40 Watts turned off for an hour will turn back the Al-Gorian tide of impending climatological doom. It would be something if the old feeder could actually make a difference. Instead of just writing my thoughts in a bucket of water as usual, I'll use italics. Demo! Demo!

Otherwise, the beach keeps getting closer to Omaha.

The Incandescent Underground

Poisonous Light Bulbs: Bad Idea

On a trip to the city to buy supplies this week, I stopped at the Sam's Club in Omaha, Nebraska. Its one place where I can buy big sacks of rice, flour and other bulk staples for really reasonable prices. One of the items on my list was 40 Watt light bulbs. To my surprise, Sam's Club had only the new over-priced compact fluorescent devices for sale. No incandescent bulbs at all. Why? Because global warming fascists have managed to sneak through a law effectively banning incandescent light bulbs starting in 2012. This makes me sick.

To begin with, I don't like fluorescent lighting. The color temperature is insipid. The electronics emit a buzz you can hear. As a tightwad, however, I can sacrifice comfort or pleasure if to do so will offset these negatives with significant overall savings. Compact fluorescent bulbs don't fill the bill. I can buy incandescent 40 W bulbs for less than a quarter apiece; the fluorescents are invariably many times more expensive.

Now it is being reported that the initial high price of the fluorescent bulb isn't the only cost involved in switching from incandescents. The damned things are made with mercury. Enough mercury that you need to take special precautions not to poison your household if you break one. Costly precautions. Its enough to make me decide to put up a supply of incandescent bulbs in a clandestine cache. I'll get blackout curtains for my windows to foil the light bulb police and such neighbors as might rat me out to them. My mother wouldn't have dreamed that light bulbs would lead me to a life of crime. Sorry, Mom.
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In keeping with my status as the greenest man in America, I have always used light bulbs of the lowest wattage I can stand. I got the idea from one of my more intelligent uncles, a dentist in Washington, DC, nick-named 10 Watt Robbins. He is gone now, but his tightwad lighting policies live on in me.

Most bulbs in my home are 40 Watt incandescents. The kitchen and bathroom each rate a 60 W light, so I don't poison myself cooking or taking medicine. Area lights, such as I have, are all 25 W. I have big fluorescent fixtures in my shop, but I never use them unless I lose something on the floor. I turn all my lights off when not in use. I save money and, quite incidentally, pollute the earth very little. Leave me alone.

I shall not yield to eco-fascism. Long live the incandescent underground!

Good News for the Planet Earth

The only green human is a dead human

This is the best news to come out of the Ecological Disaster movement since Al Gore invented the Carbon Credit: concerned believers are having themselves sterilized to save the world. For once these science is consensus prophets of gloom and doom have got it right. By ceasing to procreate, the planet could be spared a second generation of these idiotic true believers.

The old feeder already has noted at least one instance of this burgeoning trend among the eco-vanguard. Here are a few historical examples.

Remember Heaven's Gate? Before that happy band 'moved to another plane' to catch a ride on a comet, the sex-free group's leader, Marshall Applewhite, had himself castrated. Several of his followers followed suit, giggling like enchanted fools. You won't see them any more.

An earlier American group of true believers that died out because they were doctrinally opposed to the Biblical exhortation to "be fruitful and multiply" was the Shakers. The Shakers of today are mostly old women; few join up and no new ones are born.

Even stranger examples of dead-end, despair prompted, self destructive, non-procreative movements can be found in the unsuccessful Breatharian movement. Believe it AND die. Another outfit that forbade normal sexual practices was Paul Schaefer's Colonia Dignidad in Chile. Sex, even between married members, was verboten in this ex-Nazi child molester's utopia.

No listing of self-limiting cults would be complete without mention of Jim Jones and the horrific mass suicide by the People's Temple in the jungle of Guyana. The Rev. Jones didn't forbid sex among the faithful, but he was in charge of all gonadal goings on in Jonestown. Ultimately, despair won out over Jones' goof-ball plans for the future. The legendary vat of poison Kool-Aid was mixed up, ending the commie cult for good.

It isn't just sterilization, Michelle Malkin points out that abortion and infanticide are part of the penance we must pay for our estrangement from nature. This suggests that the next logical step for the self-loathing, humans are ruining the Earth crowd is self-destruction. The Japanese are already into it, with groups formed on the internets to facilitate mass suicides.

What could we, as compassionate conservatives, do to encourage this hopeful development?

The Vegetarian Agenda

Meat is On The Table

On the table for demonization by the Marxist stooge eco-crazies, that is. The global warming scamsters walk shoulder to shoulder with the lunatics of PETA and other vegetarian stooges on the path to their Moonbat One-World Utopia. I wouldn't care, but they want the rest of us in lockstep with them. We are supposed to go along whether we like muscle cars and muscle meats or not.

I've never cared for lockstep.

Cow Farts Got You Worried?

Add Beano to their Feed

Scientists at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in the UK have a notion to change the diets of our meat animals to something less gassy. In spite of the fact that the man-made global warming scare has been mostly de-bunked, anyone that thinks they can get some sort of giver-mint grant to solve the non-existent problem are still hard at work. Never mind that volcanoes and rock concerts create more greenhouse gas than our herds of succulent meat animals, nor that farmers have a limited menu to offer in their pastures and feedlots.

I've got a better, more practical idea that doesn't involve changing the entire agricultural system. Just add Beano to the feed we already use. The stuff works, and the total cost to the ag economy would be small compared with trying to get farmers to change the way they have been feeding their livestock for so long. Once my Beano plan is implemented, all we'd have to do is make all those mountains of manure stop giving off methane.
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Perhaps switching to smaller cattle would help. Those little steaks would be cute.

Al 'Dark Heart' Gore: the hypocrisy, the hypocrisy

Al Gore titillates the hypocrites in Fruitifornia

Trying to get caught up on blog reading in between doing chores this morning, the old feeder found this great photo coverage by the Zombie of an Al Gore and Barack Obama rally in Marin County, California. The turnout consisted of old 60's libs with Che accessories who arrived in giant SUVs. Such hypocrisy! See all the pictures, scroll all the way down.

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for pointing out that Zombie Time is inviting readers to photoshop one of his Gore pics. I can't resist a photoshop opportunity. The picture above is my effort to help expose these effete commie dupes.
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BTW: What gives with Al's "man in black' duds?

Carbon Credits: Sell! Sell! Sell!

Carbon Credits: time to sell short

Every blogger that spotted the Carbon Credit scheme as a scam is blogging about the Financial Times story pointing out the obvious. Words like bogus, fake, fraud, and worthless are being applied to the Kyotoish plan Al Gore and his friends use to gloss over their environmental hypocrisies. There are so many blogs jumping on this that my list o' links got too long to publish.

The Plains Feeder again sets itself apart from the crowd by actually offering our readers something they can do to profit from the collapse of the Carbon Credit market. Sell these bad puppies short!
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Feeling good about this setback for Global Warming fruitcakes? Read this.

Official George Bush Earth Day

Google Earth Day Logo

I wonder if all the hippies, Goreheads, GW pop-sci doomsayers and one-world Marxist dupes who are observing Earth Day today know that there are two of them? One is the real commie one-worlder Earth Day, and it is held on the Vernal Equinox. Today's Earth Day is a government program. It was started by and is run by the US government. It is said that Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson got the idea after seeing an oil spill, went back to Nixon's Washington and made Earth Day a law.

As an official US Government event, Earth Day is run by the President, currently George Bush. So get outside and thank the Creator for everything you see. Its not just the law, its what George Bush wants you to do.
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Addendum: It is also Lenin's birthday. No connection to Earth Day, of course. It is also the birth date of Jack Nicholson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vladimir Nabokov, Eddie Albert, Immanuel Kant and Queen Isabella, among other notables.

Green Meat fights Global Warming

Fight Global Warming- Eat Green Meat

Fatwa Vinnie's is where I first saw the story. Read his Vince aut Morire post about the USDA warning. A beef (and other meat) 'shortage' looms as a result of the diversion of corn from animal feed to the production of ethanol. Really it is a non-story, as I commented at Vinnie's: the economics are right out of Econ101, but everyone likes to plead ignorance of the law of supply and demand. Vinnie wants no knee-jerk reaction to an Al Gore driven global warming scare to stand between him and his frequent meals of flesh.

Nebraska is the Beef State. It may be one of the few places where the Porterhouse is still popular. The diversion of corn to ethanol production should be more of an economic wash here. Much of the 'extra cost' of higher meat prices will stay right here since we grow corn, feed cattle and produce ethanol. That just means Al Gore won't be able to price us out of our steak dinners; another, more insidious result still lurks. Green meat.

Since many feeders are going to to feed less corn, they will be substituting feedstuffs either normally too costly or of less quality. Beef won't taste the same. I like corn fed beef. It ain't the same as fish meal fed beef. Maybe this is how the PETA wingnuts are finally going to get Al Gore & His Followers on the vegetarian bandwagon. Green meat will taste so bad, nobody will want to eat it, not even big Al.

Thats all we need. More alliances in the axis of wacky.

Cross-posted at Love Global Warming

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Addendum: I looked all over to find pictures or videos of Al Gore eating meat. There wasn't anything I thought was suitable, so I made the green porterhouse above. But Terry_Jim at the Lazy Half S Ranch found this old CNN story about Al Gore helping to grill "thick burgers, bulging sausages, chicken breasts and pork chops." Along with this great picture:

Climate porn causes global warming despair

Causing Despair?

The Institute for Public Policy Research, a British think-tank that fronts for the leftist Labour Party, issued a report concluding that alarmists in the news media, environmentalist pressure groups and the government are offering what amounts to "climate porn" . The result, they say, is widespread despair, evidenced by the marked increase in public displays of weeping and hand-wringing. I don't see how this despair does anything but help the British Labour Party's use of Global Warming fears to justify a "New World Order". That is probably why they are the ones publicizing this dreary IPPR report.

I did a little research and found that global warming porn is nothing new. Starting from this trademark application photo sent to me by Love Global Warming blogger dm60462, I have discovered the trove of evidence that gave the IPPR's the idea to call it Climate Porn. Those naughty researchers.
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See what Planck Time has to say about The Fear.
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The ecoEquirer confesses: "I Was A Global Warming Porn Addict"
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Cross posted at LGW.

One-Worlders Love Global Warming

One World, Under Global Warming Laws...

If there is any one group that has embraced global warming with open arms it is the "One World Government" crowd. I like to call them Bolsheviks, but they prefer names like "United Nations". What better excuse to pass 'one-size-fits-all' laws and impose 'share the wealth/pain' taxes globally?

These power grabbers need a big threat to justify their existence. First it was the threat of world war, then the threat of world overpopulation and hunger, followed closely by world poverty. Since none of these threats have come to pass, and almost everyone on earth has a TV set and worries about getting too fat, something new was needed.

As the on worlders see it, global warming fills the bill. Among their fellow travelers, they count the illustrious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and their newest report calls for global laws and taxes to be imposed by the UN to fight global warming. Here is part of what the alarmist communist stooge panel's leader, John Holdren of Harvard University has to say about it, via VOA:

"Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly,"
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"We don't think ultimately society will get it right in terms of the full range and scope of activities needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until there is an additional incentive in the form of a price on greenhouse gas emissions, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade approach,"

The panel's report actually calls for passing a global law setting an "acceptable ceiling for temperature rise". I don't know how the UN or any other outfit can enforce a law that regulates the weather. As for the tax on emissions and the cap on your CO2 output, the blue helmeted UN troops will be coming to your town soon. If the one-world gang gets its way.
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This story has is cross-posted at a new blog the old feeder has been working on, Love Global Warming - the blog. Check it out, if you have a minute.

Gratuitous Photoshop of Al Gore

Gore-ball Warming

Perhaps tomorrow I'll feel more like blogging. Happy Valentine's Day.

Real Winter

Before Global Warming

I confess. I am so old that I can clearly remember when the last ice age ended. I even have pictures. This one shows how the snow came up to the roof of the summer kitchen behind my two story farm house. I believe the year was 1975 or '76, and the temperatures regularly fell below -30F in N.W. Iowa that winter. We heated that house with wood, lump coal and corn cobs. Same-same cook. Water came from a hand pump in the front yard. Life was good.
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I see on the 10:00 News that the temperature is below zero and will get down to maybe 10 below tonight. The local weathermongers at KMTV's Action 3 News have put their Threat Level "all the way into the orange." Wussies.

Political Science?

Al Gore: America's Trofim Lysenko

Stalin era agricultural science was infected with political correctness, much like our sciences of meteorology and climatology are becoming infected today. The politically correct science in the Lysenko affair turned out to be junk science, concocted to fit the ideological dogma of Marxism. The price the Russkies paid because their government embraced PC science was appalling. Scads of them starved. Real scientists were scourged, even sent to the Gulag. Will you wait until they come for your weatherman?
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Even the junk science crowd is trying to co-opt the Lysenko disaster. These sinverguenzas will twist and re-write history to suit their needs. Now they want to re-write science to further their political ends. It is a sad day for real scientists and students of scientific methodology.

Italians killing themselves over global warming

Al "Heat Wave" Gore

Being an Italian man used to mean something. I'm not sure what, but it wasn't today's image of a fruity Communist mammoni who likes to eat pasta and cross-dresses now and then. Ba-da-bing.

Now it seems the once-proud sons of Garibaldi are committing suicide because the weather forecast is bad. The prospect of further global warming, combined with failure of the world's governments to make all of us ride bicycles, is more than these Euro-wussies can bear.
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We should get some of this deadly political despair started among the environmental crazies here in the 'States. The old feeder thinks that an Al Gore presidency could do the job. I mean, if we have to have a Democrat, why not Al? Gore proved he could win in 2000, but I fear he is too white and too male now.

Al Gore strikes fear into moviegoers

Nanu Nanu

Al Gore's eco-nut movie "Inconvenient Truth" is among the finalists for the best documentary Oscar in 2007. I used to think Hollywood was out of touch with reality, but since the last election, I'm not so sure. Nanu nanu. I feel warmer already.