OK, for the most part, the distilling process is pretty much environmentally unfriendly. The spirits industry comes in for a serious beating with Gin, tequila, and rum being the worst for the environment. The problem is that the distillation process requires loads of energy. American bourbons are aged in virgin-oak barrels that are used only [...]

Solyndra has become known as a boondoggle in the US. If you haven’t heard, it’s the solar power company that got $500 million in Recovery Act loans from the Department of Energy and then went belly up a couple of weeks ago. Conservatives have been trying to paint this as a big scandal of some [...]

Greenpeace is trying to get 20,000 views of this youtube video in the next couple of hours before the President’s speech. Please pass it on:

Climate Change Denial Ends 14 September 2011 See also: http://climaterealityproject.org/

From: http://www.skepticalscience.com

Tired of the astroturf, corporatocracy apologists? Do you believe in peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment?  Then clear your calendar for the 6th, the 7th, the 8th…however long it takes for the Obama Administration to yield to key progressive demands, including immediate withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the other wars. [...]

I was at a family do this past weekend when the topic of climate change deniers came up with a relative who works in the field of climate change and food security. My question was “so, are you going to beat up on the likes of “Lord” Monckton and Sammy Wilson?” Her response surprised me, [...]

Two LUV News readers calling themselves The Class Warriors and wishing to remain anonymous, have made a video that should be seen widely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKW771tG_Q

This little factoid really bothers me: There is a major paradigm shift in the climate story, in the climate problem. What changed, sometime around the turn of the century, was that global warming triggered outright climate change, and it did so a hundred years sooner than scientists expected. And so that huge shift in the [...]

We’re coming to get you! From The Armstrong & Miller Show: I really want to find their origins of Charity sketch and post it: annoying buggers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientist-climate-20110105,0,6481221.story Kerry Emanuel is a highly regarded professor of atmospheric science at MIT. Based on his work on hurricanes and the research of his peers, Emanuel has concluded that the scientific data show a powerful link between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. He also sees himself as a conservative. He believes marriage is between [...]

That goofy Conwell Alliance vid with all the talk of “the Green Dragon” is making me thirsty–especially since my fav pub when I was young was called “the Green Dragon”. The place had super music! Anyway, I decided to google up the old haunt, but it has changed owners and names. Anyway, there’s the Green [...]

Since I realised I am a “green” prior to Christmas, I can say the views presented by the “Christian” conservative groups is total rubbish. Environmentalism is in no way a religion. For that matter, they aren’t Christians either, but that’s a lot of other posts. The above video was put out by the Cornwall Alliance. [...]

OK, Europe is having an incredibly cold and snowy “winter” (even though it hasn’t passed the Solstice–meaning it’s still autumn).  That has the climate change deniers saying things such as “how can there be global warming when it’s this cold?” The problem is that this is a misunderstanding of the topic since it isn’t as [...]

One of the issues in the green community is how to impress the people who doubt the reality of climate change: that is the “well, the other day it was colder in southern Florida than northern Maine” type of person. Countries covering one fifth of the planet’s land saw record high heat. Drought altered the [...]