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Time to throw out 'myth' of recyclingThrow away the green and blue bags and forget those trips to return bottles -- recycling household waste is a load of, well, rubbish, say leading environmentalists and waste campaigners. In a reversal of decades-old wisdom, they argue that burning cardboard, plastics and food leftovers is better for the environment and the economy than recycling. They dismiss household trash separation -- a practice encouraged by the green lobby -- as a waste of time and money... The Swedes' views are shared by many British local authorities, who have drawn up plans to build up to 50 incinerators in an attempt to tackle a growing waste mountain and cut the amount of garbage going to landfills... The use of incineration to burn household waste -- including packaging and food -- "is best for the environment, the economy and the management of natural resources," they wrote in an article for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Technological improvements have made incineration cleaner, the article said, and the process could be used to generate electricity, cutting dependency on oil... Recycled bottles cost glass companies twice as much as the raw materials, and recycling plastics was uneconomical, they said. "Plastics are made from oil and can quite simply be incinerated."
by David Harrison
London Daily Telegraph
March 4, 2003
The Tree SolutionAs Greenpeace expanded to become the world's largest international environmental organization, Moore's star steadily rose and he eventually became vice president of research. Then he did something even more unexpected than joining the organization in the first place. He packed up and quit... In the months before his departure, Moore had begun talking heresy. "The environmental movement had gone astray and lost its perspective on forests," Moore says. "Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, we should be growing more trees and using more wood." Greenpeace branded him an eco-Judas. Now comes the biggest surprise of all. Recently published research suggests that Moore is right. Cutting down old trees could be the best way to thwart global warming.
by Jim Wilson
It’s all happened before, and nary an SUV in sight.
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More proof that the insane Algore and his EnviroBuddies are overreacting again. Somebody needs to get the boy some Prozac.
Racism and lies!
Memo to Gore and Barry...
No climate change, no justice. :)
Those cavemen had an awful carbon footprint you know.
They need to look at the bigger picture before making rash statements about the Greenland and Antarctic sheets, however. We know they haven't melted in 400,000 years - we've got the ice core data. Meanwhile, the North American sheets advanced and retreated several times. I've seen no data suggesting the interior ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting.
Up until now I had been a skeptic, however, after reading this there is no way that I can go on denying the robust nature of the evidence..
I went to the scientific study itself and got this unique dating device’s specifications and threw one together in my garage an hour ago — at least the part I couldn’t scrape off the door— it told me that the concrete on my garage floor was poured on April 1967 beteen 9:00 am and 2:00 pm.
Other than my disappointment that it couldn’t tell me how long it took to cure, I think this new tool will revolutionize domestic relationships for years to come, just smear a thin film on a new calendar every year and all of those important dates we used to forget will be etched in perpetutity.
We are all gonna Die! !
Well - how about “We are all gonna drown!”
We have a national park including the Exit Glacier. It is on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. As you approach the toe of the glacier and the visitor center there are dated road signs beginning in 1896. I can't cite the distance but from the first sign it is a few miles to the glacier.
The US Government has been plotting the retreat of this glacier since 1896 and it has shrunk in a geologic semi instant very dramatically.
The media, nevertheless, love reporting unsupported scare scenarios. Last April (2007), the cover of Time magazine declared, "Be worried, be very worried." Amid lots of scary pictures of deserts, floods, and hurricanes, it said, "Global warming is already disrupting the biological world, pushing many species to the brink of extinction and turning others into runaway pests. But the worst is yet to come." On July 24, 1974, Time published an article titled "Another Ice Age?" that read, "... the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." It's not just Time magazine that's unreliable on global warming. The popular press features possible crises on their front pages all the time, because bad news sells and they are in the business of selling copies of their publications and generating ad revenue, not reporting the truth about complicated subjects. As they say in the business, "if it bleeds, it leads." These are the same guys who told us Alar, saccharin, Red Dye #2, dioxin, a hole in the ozone layer, electric power lines, and cell phones were all causing cancer epidemics, and that Y2K would shut down the nation's electric grid and banks. They were wrong on every one of these issues. Cancer rates in the United States for the non-elderly population have been falling since 1970, and more recently for the total population including the elderly, and more recently still, even the absolute number of cancer deaths is now falling. Somehow, the false predictions always appear in banner headlines on page 1, but the retractions appear on page 37, next to ads for septic tank pumps. The major media will wake up eventually, and in 2010 or 2020 they will once again be trying to sell newspapers and magazines by predicting global cooling. The point is, nobody should trust the mainstream media to tell us what's going on in the global warming debate.   |
By the time I end up in the great landfill on Boot Hill I will be setting out 17 different curbside bins at a cost of $22.57 per bin per month just to appease the recycle Goons of Gaia...
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thank you for posting it
bump!
