May 2007

Not All Energy CEOs Are Selling Out and Going Green for Corporate and Personal Profit

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 31, 2007 @ 12:13 pm Business

Many environmental activists are no doubt trumpeting the fact that more and more energy companies are jumping on the CO2 emissions reduction bandwagon. What they don’t know or just won’t tell you is that these companies are doing it for rent-seeking, not principled, reasons. Not all energy CEOs are selling out though. At least one, [...]

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Even More Environmental Hypocrisy: How the Watermelons Simultaneously Obstruct Solutions to AGW and Harm Human Life

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 31, 2007 @ 8:51 am Environment

Perhaps not all environmentalists put nature and other animals ahead of human life in importance, but far too many do. I’ve even encountered one on myspace who thought bacteria are more important than humans. And now apparently some of the watermelons want to tear down some dams, that produce electricity without producing methane or CO2, [...]

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Really Cool, Out of this World Guns

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 30, 2007 @ 8:34 pm Guns and Other Weapons

Click here. Absolute must-see for both sci-fi and gun buffs.

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Surprisingly Wise Words from NASA Administrator

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 30, 2007 @ 7:31 pm Environment

Hat tip to Kevin Vranes of Prometheus for bringing this to my attention, although I strenuously disagree with his leftist-statist reaction to it. (I must say I find it rather ironic that a climate blog in which members advocate statist policies calls itself Prometheus.) NPR apparently just sent out a press release previewing a Steve [...]

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More Hypocrisy: RealClimate and Funding Issues

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 30, 2007 @ 3:59 pm Environment

Apparently, the criticism that has discredited Mann’s “hockey stick” graph – a favorite reference of CAGW activists – is a concerted campaign by the fossil fuel industry and interests, not genuine scientific criticism of its serious scientific and statistical flaws. Who’s the conspiracy theorist now? And apparently they also do IP address searches at RealClimate [...]

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From The Onion: "God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule"

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 30, 2007 @ 11:36 am Religion

“Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,” said the Lord, His divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. “Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their [...]

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CO2 & Temperature: Do They Go Together? Yes, But…

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 30, 2007 @ 10:24 am Environment

Anyone who has seen Al Gore’s propaganda film will likely recall this rhetorical question by self-proclaimed “former next president.” He, of course, proceeds to claim that they do. And, indeed, they do to a certain extent. As the graph below (from Gore’s movie) shows, they are indeed correlated fairly well. (Click to enlarge.) But correlation [...]

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I must have this knife!!!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 29, 2007 @ 2:12 pm Guns and Other Weapons

I’ve known about this knife for a while, ever since I saw a movie called The Hunted (with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro), and I have wanted one ever since. Below is the best picture I have ever seen of Tom Brown’s Tracker Knife. Isn’t it awesome? Features: * 1/4 inch 1095 high [...]

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My First Rifle?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 26, 2007 @ 7:43 pm Guns and Other Weapons

Here’s what’s currently at the top of my wishlist: the Kel-Tec SU-16C. It has an integrated bipod and can actually be fired with the stock folded. Cool, huh? Of course, I’ll have to get a nice scope for it, some bigger mags, and maybe a muzzle flash suppressor. This thing fires the same rounds as [...]

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