June 14th, 2007: Intel and Google Kick Off Initiative to Save Climate
Sept. 12, 2007: NASA gives Google founders a coveted parking place for their private jet

And updated again BBC Backtracks On Correction
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And bumped.
The blogosphere gets results!– “The BBC has taken down the original quoted page that implied 911 was America’s fault.”
Original post continues below:
From the BBC;

The way America has got involved in conflicts in regions like the Middle East has made some people very angry, including a group called al-Qaeda – who are widely thought to have been behind the attacks.
In the past, al-Qaeda leaders have declared a holy war – called a jihad – against the US. As part of this jihad, al-Qaeda members believe attacking US targets is something they should do.
When the attacks happened in 2001, there were a number of US troops in a country called Saudi Arabia, and the leader of al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, said he wanted them to leave.

And who is Al-Qaeda?

Al-Qaeda has been accused of being behind a series of attacks and bombings since its formation in the late 1980s.
Because of this, it is classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government.
Members are followers of Islam but they have very extreme beliefs that are different from those of many Muslims.
They believe they are fighting a holy war (jihad) against enemies of their religion.
Al-Qaeda hopes its attacks will make Western countries treat Muslims differently in areas like the Middle East, the Balkans and Chechnya .
People have joined the group from many countries including Britain.
They operate internationally but are thought to be strongest in Arab countries.

Unbelievable.
It’s as if the CBC wrote this stuff.
h/t
(Upon further reflection – there’s something that does ring appropriate when leftist crap like this is written in a 5 year old’s voice.)

Drowning the polar bears, one promotional video at a time.

Don’t be too hard on Jack – they were due for a cull anyway.

(h/t “muttsrus” in the comments)

At the 2007 Organic Expo (Australia)

In a nod to the world’s greenhouse woes, the [“The Al Gore”] dish is a concoction dreamed up by expo caterers Scott Kinnear and Gary Thomas. It’s an organic mix of chunked mutton and aromatic root vegetables to be sold at the expo’s humble kiosk near a life-sized cutout of climate change crusader, Al Gore, mouthing the words “conveniently good for you and the environment”.
As an additional enticement for more serious greenies, Kinnear and Thomas say no ingredient will have travelled more than 100 kilometres from production to plate. The idea is to highlight carbon-emission damage to the environment from food that travels far from its source.

Mutton ???

Methane emissions from ruminant livestock are responsible for 45 % of New Zealand’s combined CO₂-equivalent greenhouse gas inventory, and arise principally from sheep. Using a flock of 6-month old sheep (20 ha¹) grazing abundant pasture, we compare micrometeorological measurements of net methane emission rates with measurements from individual sheep based on a sulphur-hexafluoride tracer technique. Individual sheep emission rates were highly variable and averaged 19.5 ± 4.8 (SD) g CH₄ sheep¹ d¹, or 39 ± 9.6 mg CH₄ m² d¹ on an areal basis. Emission rates were poorly correlated with animal live weight or dry matter intake but represented an average dietary energy loss of 3.6%.

It gets worse…

Kinnear owns Organic Wholefoods, a specialist organic retailer; he is also a spokesman for the Biological Farmers of Australia. In 2001, he organised a political dinner for 1000 Greens at Parliament House in Canberra. A later event – held in honour of environmentalist David Suzuki in Bendigo – meant feeding 700.
“It’s a lot of work because you have to source every ingredient,” Kinnear says.

The “David Suzuki” ingredient travelled over 12,500.
h/t.

Another nugget from the people who bring us “global warming”…

“One of the main findings of the report, Consuming Australia*, is that the more people earn, the more they spend…”

One assumes they’ve already volunteered for planet-saving salary rollbacks.
h/t

NY Post;

TO thunderous acclaim from the liberal intelligentsia, a team of feminist icons – including Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda – last year launched a women-run radio network. The mainstream media dutifully parroted press releases describing the launch as a “breakthrough” for women in the male-dominated world of talk radio.
The Boston Globe, for example, proclaimed that “GreenStone gives women an outlet.” Business Week described the venture as “Talk Radio Minus The Testosterone.”

Or, to put it another way – talk radio minus the audience.

Last Friday, GreenStone Media signed off for good.

Related: Because rock throwing is the highest form of patriotism.

Via reader “andycanuck”, someone has been adding a negative spin to the Wikipedia entry for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Not so hard!
65.210.123.70
fw-wdc.greenpeace.org
Wired Wikiwatch: Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs

That the late afternoon sun has melted steel;

[Melissa Hortman of the Minnesota House of Representatives] speculated that 90-plus-degree heat Wednesday and the above-normal temperatures of the past two summers may have been a contributing factor.
“Did the heat put extra strain on the steel?” Hortman said. “You wonder if this bridge was built to withstand the massive heat we have had this summer.”

Wait! There’s more from a “Senior Fellow at the virtual Clinton think tank the Center for American Progress“.

My brother also wonders if the low level of the Mississippi played a role. He writes that most of “Minnesota is currently under Moderate to Severe Drought conditions. The water level has been lower but the less-than-optimal conditions” could have been a stressor.

And here’s a sobering question. With our bridges now failing under the dual assaults of sunlight and too much air beneath them – how will they perform when faced with the global warming rivers of lava?
h/t Newsbusters

… you don’t piss into the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the Lone Ranger and you don’t go to Daily Kos for your public policy advice;

A backlash quickly emerged after the Telluride Town Council adopted a resolution last week calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
“It’s huge, unbelievable,” said Telluride Mayor John Pryor. “Ski groups are canceling for the winter. Hundreds of people are bailing. The (town) Web site is flooded with people saying they’re canceling their vacations here.”

Just because they share your hill, dude – doesn’t mean they share your politics.

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UNWatch

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was rebuked by Islamic states in the Human Rights Council today for having criticized its decision to institutionalize the censure of Israel, singled out under the council’s new procedures as the only country permanently indicted by a standing agenda item.
“We’re witnessing a dangerous attempt to censor the highest official of the United Nations, an effort to silence anyone who exposes the council’s repeated breaches of its own principles of equality, universality, and non-selectivity,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, a human rights monitoring group based in Geneva.
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In addition to its recent adoption of an Islamic-sponsored agenda item that singles out Israel for permanent scrutiny, the [Human Rights Council], since being established in June 2006, has directed all of its country censures, now numbering eleven, against the Jewish state. The only other country addressed has been Sudan, though instead of issuing condemnations, the council has praised Khartoum’s “cooperation” and repeatedly called for further reports.

QOTW:

“Thank the gods… I was afraid I was the only one to notice this need for domination thing with feminists. I’d have said something before, but I have had a haunting fear that if I did, Andrea Dworkin would show up on my doorstep demanding entrance to berate me, only to beg a caning when the door closed on the world.”

(Please keep any discussion work-friendly.)

From a reader who writes – “What next? Make your own condoms from used children’s birthday party balloons?”
WTH is a participant in Female Moonbats Livin’ Off The Taxpayer.

It’s alternate headline day at SDA.
A Wild West taxpayer is touched;

Albertans thank you for the unsolicited advice dispensed from your self elevated perch of intellectual and moral superiority in Ottawa. We will put it on the pile with the rest.

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.’”

“With the benefit of hindsight, it should have been obvious that the first female imam would be an Episcopalian…“

For the disadvantaged.
Related: “Did you know the world’s tallest tower is in Canada?”

“These morally stunted individuals call themselves a “Coalition of Peace.” Nice name, but they haven’t really got the chops to back it up – I mean, what concrete and personal actions have they taken to bring peace to Afghanistan? Carrying a placard with a profane slogan down the centre-line of a downtown street in rush hour while chanting “NO BLOOD FOR OIL!” doesn’t count in my book. How many guns does that little exercise in moral masturbation take out of the hands of the misogynistic thugs who kill little girls for the crime of becoming literate?”