And because I love you, dear readers:
"Behind this uniquely British drama is a serious global environmental issue.... climate-change."
Well, the climate is always changing; however, never mind about Climategate, forget all about hide the decline, forget about the brutal winter two years ago, forget about the summer we never had in 2009. The spewing fart mist never stops. It's really reached the point where the endless hammering of the agenda by $elf-$erving intere$t$ has become sickening.
Then there is this beauty you will only see if you purchased a printed paper (blog editor sheepishly blushes):
"OCTOBER SURPRISE -- A pedestrian in West Fargo, N.D., tried to protect her face from the wind and snow, as an early autumn snowstorm swept across eastern North Dakota's Red River valley early Thursday, where traffic snarled and farmers feared for their unharvested crops (Boston Globe October 2012)."
Just what we needed for the supply and price of food after a drought-ravaged summer.
Yes, and then I heard on the radio as I was going to get my edition of the Sunday Globe that temps were below freezing across the Midwest Plains last night. Nothing in print, although I was warned about the upcoming winter weather.
"Tortoises Manhandled for Solar Splits Environmentalists" by Ken Wells -
Sep 20, 2012
Just wondering why the story is showing up in my October 7th Boston Sunday Globe, but nowhere in my google search (sigh. I'm sick of the f***ing games!).
Construction of such large-scale green-energy projects has splintered
environmental groups. When concern over global warming was at a peak,
national organizations such as the Sierra Club
and the Natural Resources Defense Council threw their support behind
industrial-scale wind and solar installations on public land. Now some
smaller conservationist groups object to what they consider an
environmentally destructive gold rush....
The Mojave solar project embodies the clash of environmental
priorities. The $2.2 billion installation being built by closely held BrightSource Energy (BRSE) Inc. of Oakland, California, is designed to power 140,000 homes without emitting greenhouse gases. But it threatens the tortoises. That’s why the Western Watersheds Project conservationist group of Hailey, Idaho, sued to stop it.
The 120-year-old Sierra Club,
which calls itself “America’s largest and most influential”
environmental group, also lobbied for changes to the project’s design to
protect the tortoises. Yet the 1.4 million-member organization chose
not to try to block the plant, says Barbara Boyle, a Sierra green energy
specialist.
“Ultimately, we need to jump-start renewables to combat climate change,
and large-scale solar has to play a big part in that,” Boyle says.
However, as it became clear the project was rooting out many more
tortoises than projected and as some California chapters urged action,
the organization joined a coalition that sued the Department of the Interior in March to block another long-planned Mojave solar project that it says threatens wildlife.
Similar
disputes are playing out elsewhere and show a growing concern among
green groups and willingness to block large-scale solar and wind
projects when the cost to wildlife and habitat seem to outweigh the
benefits of fighting climate change....
Oh, for the LOVE of.... !!!!!!!!
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Well, I have my own love to attend to this morning, readers: the church of pick-up basketball. I promise I will be back later today with other Sunday Globe Specials.
