First up is NBC's green campaign that sent Matt to the snow, Al Roker to the Equator and turned off all the studio lights during the news.

NBC Goes to 'Ends of the Earth' to Explore Climate Change

In what the Today show billed as a "first," anchor Matt Lauer -- shivering in the bitter cold -- reported live from the Arctic Circle, correspondent Ann Curry reported live from Antarctica and weatherman Al Roker was live at the equator.

"An incredible broadcast from three extreme locations," Matt Lauer said at the top of the show. He also admitted he was "freezing my you-know-what off," as he reported live from a boat off Greenland.

Lauer said the Today show would bring viewers "stunning images" as well as information "that's going to make you stop and think about the state of our planet -- how we're treating it and how it's going to treat us."

Hot Air posted some video and a couple of intriguing observations:

At halftime, Bob Costas tossed to Matt Lauer, who was standing in a bleak vista in front of what appeared to be a pack of sled dogs somewhere in the Arctic Circle. The crew bathed Lauer’s set with what looks like several hundred square yards of dazzling light. Judging by the scale of the Huskies compared to Lauer, the light zone must go 50 or 60 yards straight back and probably at least a similar distance across. So that lit space alone probably offset the studio lights that some pinhead decided to turn off in the studio as a show of green power, dude. Then there were the heaters to warm up the on-camera divas, the power to run the cameras and comm gear, and floating soot in the air by burning the candles.

Then there’s all the jet fuel that got burned up flying NBC’s vapid anchors, Lauer, Al Roker and Ann Curry plus crews and gear to remote locations. Yeah, turning those studio lights off really saved one heck of a lot of energy, NBC.

One of my all time favorite TV shows is the 80's and 90's sitcom Roseanne.

Roseanne when it came out could have been a portrait of my life.  At the time I was not well off financially, and was dealing with a lot of stress and unhappiness with laughter and sarcasm.

It was one of the first sitcoms to portray what life for most working class people was like:  A struggle with highs and lows. It also, as Roseanne Barr notes in her DVD commentary, clearly showcases the disconnect in class in America.

But.  One of the things I do struggle with is Roseanne herself, the actress, the comedienne and the activist.

I perused her blog and was shocked at how she can flip from crazy to wacky in no time at all.

Here are some examples from Roseanne World.   WARNING:  EXTREME LANGUAGE AHEAD

On Anne Coulter:

Ann Coulter

She serves a purpose, and a part of that is disturbing. When any woman with opinions speaks up - including Anne (the mouthpiece for Aryan womanhood) - she is the victim of verbal sexual assault. Her genitals and sexuality are gleefully insulted: she has an Adam's apple, she likes getting fucked in the ass... This is wrong in any case, even hers. It demeans all women to do it. She can be debated intelligently, and if she would allow me that, I would be honored to do it, as I think she makes some valid points about the failures of the left in this country.

http://www.roseanneworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5192

A clear thinking, fair rational piece.  Now flip to:

Ann Coulter's Anti-Semitism

The ultimate state of the perfection of Jews: they are all dead.

This is what is actually in the minds of Bush/Cheney and all Christians of the right who run this country, and ironically, are the major supporters of the state of Israel's ride to ruin which is coming very quickly.

I admit it means nothing, but it is a cute bit of irony.  My Environmental, Al Gore nearly flunked Natural Sciences at Harvard. 

Al Gore Got a D in Natural Sciences at Harvard

Want to know why Nobel Laureate Al Gore likely doesn't want to debate any of the myriad of scientists and politicians that have challenged him to such a tête-à-tête regarding his manmade global warming theories?

Could it possibly be because Gore was a terrible science student, and clearly never excelled at anything relating to what folks in Norway and in the media consider him to be so expert at?

The following was reported by the Washington Post on March 18, 2000 -- and conveniently ignored by media ever since Gore began lecturing the world about subjects he practically flunked as a student! -- in an article marvelously titled "Gore's Grades Belie Image of Studiousness" (h/t NBer dscott, and tangentially Greenie Watch):

For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year.

Yet, this is the man liberals and dolts in the media are willing to bet their very lives on when it comes to complex scientific issues surrounding meteorology and climatology. On a regular basis, such folk have the nerve to suggest that Gore is more knowledgeable when it comes to these matters than scientists who have spent their entire lives studying and educating others at the finest colleges and universities around the world.

Interesting hypocrisy, wouldn't you agree?

In fact, when it comes to the more complicated sciences specifically involved in matters relating to the atmosphere and climate, Gore was practically a dunce:

When John C. Davis, a retired teacher and assistant headmaster at St. Albans, was recently shown his illustrious former pupil's college board achievement test scores, he inspected them closely with a magnifier and shook his head, chuckling quietly at the science results.

She was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, a courageous woman who was responsible for saving the lives of 2500 children in the brutality of Hitler's regime.

During the early 1940's was a Catholic social worker who had gone into the Warsaw ghetto to rescue Jewish kids who were destined either to starve there, or die in death camps. She would sneak the kids past Nazi guards, sometimes hiding them in body bags, or would provide them with false documents - inevitably getting them to Polish families for adoption, or hiding them in convents or orphanages. She also made a list of the children's real names, put them in a jar and buried them, so that some day she could dig them up and find the kids to tell them their true names. 

Arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, she was severely tortured and sentenced to death. She was saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. Officially, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed.

Even in hiding, she continued her work for the Jewish children 

She's now 97, living in a nursing home in Poland.

She has been honored by international Jewish organizations - in 1965 she accorded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem and in 1991 she was made an honorary citizen of Israel.

She was awarded Poland's highest distinction, the Order of White Eagle, in Warsaw Monday Nov. 10, 2003, and she was announced as the 2003 winner of the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage.

She has officially been designated a national hero in Poland and schools are named in her honor. Annual Irena Sendler days are celebrated throughout Europe, and in a few places here.

She was also a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

She is the woman Al Gore and the officials in Oslo screwed out of deserved recognition for saving lives at risk of her own, so they could further the Alarmist Machine led by Al Gore in some political dance. 

As predicted by me since earlier this year, Al won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in scaring the hell out of people about Global Warming while lining his pockets selling useless carbon credits.

That's the reality of what happened, like it or not.  Al who has his fingers in Apple, Google and the investment firm that makes huge profits on Carbon Credits, used a lie and inaccuracy filled mockumentary as a launch pad to instill groundless fear in people over something we cannot control.

I'm disgusted, but no more then I was in 2000 when he went on his robotic mission to count all democrat votes in Florida.  Apparently the Nobel Peace Prize is not what it used to be.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6316.html

Vice President Al Gore was named joint winner of Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his dogged – now celebrated – work to bring attention to the environment.

Gore shared the $1.5 million prize with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The victory is likely to increase calls from a fragmented but vocal group of backers for him to make a late entry into the 2008 presidential race.

Just this week, an unofficial draft movement bought a full-page ad in The New York Times — a move that succeeded in  amping up the buzz among pundits and operatives.

More here:

Al Gore wins the Nobel

Al Gore is now a Nobel laureate. But will he be a presidential candidate, too?

Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today for his efforts in highlighting the global warming issue and put himself back into the presidential picture if he is so inclined.

The announcement was made in Oslo. He shared the award with the International Panel on Climate Change. They were cited for their efforts in warning the world of the dangers of climate change.

The former vice president has dedicated much of his time since his narrow 2000 loss to President Bush to warn the nation—indeed the world—that the planet is headed toward a potentially catastrophic warming.

For a long time now I have been watching Al Gore and waiting for him to make his move on the presidency.

He is the perfect choice for an October surprise candidacy.  He has more name recognition then practically any other candidate on both sides.

First, he is a former Vice President, and frankly the only one still living with any real electability.  He is the world's more recognized (self proclaimed) expert on Global warming, and continues his campaign despite the fact that more and more elements of his movie are shown to be misstatements, distortions or outright fiction.  Let's not forget that his movie is an Oscar winner, and even if the Oscar was not awarded to him, he is still the one most people remember as being the Oscar winner because of his prominence.

Add to this the Honorary Emmy he will be awarded in a few months for his contributions to broadcasting, and the fact he is the leading candidate to win a Nobel Peace Prize and you have a man with all the credentials, recognition and popularity, despite having no intellectually honesty, ethics or scruples regarding his environmental mission.

He would be running on a platform of activism and cause.  Where Bush beat him in 2000 was in personality and credibility on the leadership front, but with the war so unpopular, strength has to be carefully played.  Instead of hard line stances against terrorists, he will take a hard line stance against disaster, making him the human hero of the world.

People complain about Bush's perceived globalism and imperialism, but where Bush may have seen Democracy as something to be shared, spread and encouraged, Al see green.  He sees his message in the spreading of a global movement to stem climate change, despite the fact the evidence does not support man made causes, and no evidence exists that man can impact if for the better either.

I look at the two side by side and frankly I prefer a man who would seek to spread freedom, not a man who seeks to imprison us in a cage of Ivy, tied with a yoke of principle.

I couldn't believe it when I heard the news this morning.  Al Gore III, the son of Eco-Alarmist Al Gore was busted in Southern California.  His Hybrid car was a bit TOO green:

Al Gore’s son arrested on drug charges

Al Gore’s son was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs after deputies pulled him over for speeding, authorities said.

Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius about 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway when he was pulled over at about 2:15 a.m., Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.

I pause to admit I was impressed that he managed to take that little eggbeater car up to triple digits.

The deputies said they smelled marijuana and searched the car, Amormino said. They found less than an ounce of marijuana along with Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall, which is used for attention deficit disorder, he said.

“He does not have a prescription for any of those drugs,” Amormino said.

Apparently marijuana green is too green.  PETA would be happy, it is completely animal product free.

The son of the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee also was pulled over and arrested for pot possession in December 2003, in Bethesda, Md., while he was a student at Harvard University.

He completed substance abuse counseling as part of a pretrial diversion program to settle those charges.

The youngest of Al and Tipper Gore’s four children and their only son, Gore lives in Los Angeles and is an associate publisher of GOOD, a magazine about philanthropy aimed at young people.

Apparently one of those philosophies is "better living through Chemistry"...

Now.  Quiz time.  Here we have a famous liberal busted on drugs.  Where will he go?

Rehab.

The fools at Democratic Underground  are claiming that it’s just a plot by Bush an to make Al Gore look bad. (HT Texas Fred)

Now we know where Al Gore III got his stash.  Smoke another bowl gang....

We're Number 2! We're Number 2!  We're Number 2!

China overtakes U.S. as top polluter 

China has overtaken the United States as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, because of surging energy use amid an economic boom, a Dutch government-funded agency said on Wednesday.

Other experts have estimated that China will only surpass the United States in coming years. The rise to number one emitter may put pressure on Beijing to do more to help a UN-led fight against global warming.

“China's 2006 carbon dioxide emissions surpassed those of the United States by 8 per cent,” the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said in a statement. In 2005, it said China's emissions were 2 per cent below those of the United States.

This comes as yet another blow to Al Gore's lie-fest movie, where he was heard to gravely pronounce that China is "on the cutting edge of environmentalism"...yea, they figure out how to pollute way better then us.  Now that's cutting edge.

But don't worry alarmists...it is still not only our fault as a nation, but our responsibility to fox it.  Why?

The environmentalists still blame us more, because while China may dump more total emissions into the atmosphere, but apparently we do more pollution per person.

Developing nations say countries with the highest per capita emissions should show the way. U.S. President George W. Bush has said China and other developing nation must do more.

With a population of 1.3 billion, China's per capita emissions are a quarter of those in the United States, with 300 million people.

The Group of Eight leading industrial nations agreed at a summit in early June to make “substantial cuts” in emissions and to try to work out a global treaty by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Kyoto binds 35 rich nations to cut emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

In her most recent book, Ann Coulter makes the case for Liberalism as a religion to Liberals.  While I admit the notion is inflammatory, her argument is interesting in that she equates the practices and elements of a religion to the practices of liberals and the elements of liberalism, and she makes a good parallel.

As she says:

"Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'"

Now in fairness, a lot of that could be equally directed at any ideology, but in the case of liberals she is correct that liberalism contains several elements common to religion, particularly in the environmental arena.

• Dogma, or a system of principles or tenets.  It is prescribed, and authoritative and violation of that dogma can cause you be labeled a Heretic.  This is particularly true in Global Warming and Environmentalism, where questioning the holy tenets is unthinkable.
  
• Fanaticism, an excessive, irrational zeal, and intolerance of opposing views.  This is again very common in Global Warming and Environmentalism.
  
• Holy Scripture, the reference for all things holy and dogmatic.  In this case, there are many, but none comes to mind more clearly than the Goracle's An Inconvenient Truth.
  
• And speaking of the Mighty Goracle, who better to be the profit..err prophet of the Church of Liberalism, Modern Day Environmentalists.

None of this is new.  Many besides Ann have made these observations,  but until now it was speculative.

Until now.

Now, the Goracle and his Scripture have finally found equality with Christianity, as it has replaced the ubiquitous Gideon bible in a California hotel.

"Green" Hotel

Statistics are notoriously fickle and unreliable.  Some comedian once quipped that 97.3% of all statistics are meaningless.  Indeed.

So of course Global Warming is filled with statistics that both sides make their cases with.

Consider this one brought to us by the LA Times:

LAST YEAR, the National Journal asked a group of Republican senators and House members: "Do you think it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made problems?" Of the respondents, 23% said yes, 77% said no.

Note that the breakdown by party is not mentioned.  Remember that for later.

In the year since that poll, of course, global warming has seized a massive amount of public attention. The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a study, with input from 2,000 scientists worldwide, finding that the certainty on man-made global warming had risen to 90%.

Of course that is untrue.  The panel said it is very likely that Global Warming is man made, the 90 percent figure is interpretive of what "very likely" means. 

So, the magazine asked the question again last month. The results? Only 13% of Republicans agreed that global warming has been proved.

Note the percent of Democrats is not listed, which makes using this as a comparative issue meaningless.  What if the percent in the initial study was also 13%?  What then?

The article goes on to point out that a few high placed Republicans, one of which it accuses of being an industry tool are making all the decisions and the average person is just a sheep following the flock.

It point out that non-conservatives "tend to defer to mainstream scientific wisdom" and further labels any non believing scientists as "a tiny handful of renegade scientists who reject the overwhelming professional consensus" even though said consensus does not exist.  Indeed, as recent months have shown, non-concurring scientist are on the rise, tired of being quashed for political consensus.

Of course the article dismisses this: