Below is the most spot-on intro to a climate change article I have ever read. Lesson: It’s time to stop beating around the bushfire and get real. (There are many behinds the scenes climate villians not included here, including politicians and their legions of non-questioning accolytes.)
“The science of climate change is pretty basic: humans dig up fossilized carbon to fuel power plants and internal combustion machines, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Result: greenhouse effect global heating. Around 50% of all the species on the planet are predicted to become extinct by 2100 in the CO2-as-usual model. Our own species will face drought, famine, rising tides, soaring temperatures, calamity and chaos. Hundreds of millions will become climate refugees. Billions may die from starvation, genocide and war. We have precious little time to mitigate this looming global catastrophe.
Those of us still denying the depressing facts are either tragically stupid or profoundly corrupt or both. If there’s anyone alive to write the history of corporate funded climate science denial, the following list of 15 Heinous Climate Villains will, by the sheer magnitude of death their lies wrought, make the infamous dictatorial monsters of the 20th century seem like incompetent children. Enjoy!”
The following list is of the “worst climate villians” or those who are pushing the lie that global warming is a hoax and/or we have nothing to worry about and/or are the world’s biggest polluters. You know the type — people like Rep. Michele Bachmann who say that CO2 is good for us because it’s a natural part of nature. Like butterflies and lambs. I used “public” in the title because many villians work behinds the scenes, and much money changes hands. Bribes and increased pollution result. Anyway, here is the list, compiled by Michael Roddy and Ian Murphy (of the Buffalo Beast and reprinted at Alternet). These people are the enemy of every living thing on earth.
1)Don Blankenship, CEO Massey Energy
Misdeeds: According to the EPA, Massey’s mountaintop removal coal operation is filthier than a Tiger Woods text. When a West Virginia Circuit Court fined the energy giant $50 million, it wasn’t a problem for Blankenship, because he owns the West Virginia Supreme Court. Massey Energy is the fourth largest coal company in the US.
2) George Will, Columnist
Misdeeds: The errors Will has committed to print over the years are both more numerous and irresponsible than his bow tie collection, for which he also feels no remorse. He claimed in a February 2009 Washington Post column that “According to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.” The Center responded: “We do not know where George Will is getting his information…[out of his ass] . . . global sea ice levels are 1.34 million sq. km less in February 2009 than in February 1979.”
3) James Inhofe, Senator from Oklahoma
Stupider than all the world’s dumb blonde jokes put together, Inhofe struggles to understand [...]
Anyone who’s ever been to a beach has made designs in the sand with randomly collected pebbles. Now the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is encouraging beachgoers to put that artistic talent to work creating unique works of pebble art that will be displayed in an online world gallery of beach art.
Artist and weaver Sue Lawty, who often uses small stones in her work, devised the World Beach Project in association with the V&A. Lawty feels that the structure of rocks mirrors the structure of our planet:
“…whether stones are satisfyingly smooth… or like long thin fingers… or beautifully, almost purely round; whether they are knobbly, shiny, dull, crinkly, holey, patterned or plain, black or white – they reflect the language of their making i.e. how they look in this de-constructed state is as a direct result of their construction, probably millions of years ago. I find this exciting.”
World Beach Project, open to anybody, anywhere, of any age, was conceived as a global drawing project that speaks about time, place, geology and the instinct of touch. To participate, simply choose a beach where stones are readily available, make your pattern and record the work-in-progress and finished work of art with photographs. Later, upload the photographs to the V&A website to complete the project. Although drawings made on shorelines all over the world will inevitably be erased by the next tide or rain, the photographs will become a permanent record of the individual desire to make patterns. For more information, visit V&A’s World Beach Project website.
Rock art at Porth Ysgo Lleyn Peninsula Wales, UK July 2006
The above beach rock art was made by three families in between swimming, rock leaping, sand wrestling and catching the rays. Eventually, nearly everyone on the beach got involved. The evening tide just tickled the edges. Aside from a small creative streak and the energy to collect pebbles on the beach, the only requirements for submission are the name of the beach where the art was created and the year it was completed.
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We are travelling back to Bangkok today via Ho Chi Minh City we had a long stop over in Ho Chi Minh Airport for 6 hours which was not the best due to the fact we had to wait four and a half hours to checkin for our flight. The check in area consisted of a number of empty counters and a caf selling pre packaged processed cheese on white bread for 6 USD. Once we checked in we had a simple meal at
Day 1 Meet assist by Go Egypt Travel representative at Cairo International Airport Transfer via airconditioned modern van to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.Day 2 Breakfast at hotel Enjoy an excursion to visit Old Cairo Coptic Cairo it was a bastion of Christianity in Egypt until the Islamic period including visits to Hanging church Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic orthodox is one of the ol
Day 1 Meet assist by Go Egypt Travel representative at Cairo International Airport Transfer via airconditioned modern van to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.Day 2 Breakfast at hotel Enjoy an excursion to visit Giza Pyramids of Cheops Chephren Mykerinus the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple then transfer to visit Sakkara Country wide and an ancient cemetery in Egypt as the graveyard
Day 1 Meet assist by Go Egypt Travel representative at Cairo International Airport Transfer via airconditioned modern van to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.Day 2 Breakfast at hotel Enjoy an excursion to visit Giza Pyramids of Cheops Chephren Mykerinus the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple Transfer to visit the Egyptian Museum with the treasures of King Tutankhamen it was enclosed in
