Global Warming to bring World Peace

Ricardo

Many Americans are concerned that Red China's burgeoning economic power, it's growing appetite for energy and it's increasing militarism present a bigger threat to world peace than a resurgent, saber-rattling Russia. If the PRC were to feel more secure in their ability to face the near future, there would be less to worry about.

That is why this is such good news concerning the future of Chinese agriculture. Global warming, or climate change, is likely to benefit the Chinese Communists more than it will benefit the rest of the world, on average. In other words, the natural benefits of a warming climate will be felt more in China than anywhere else.

The conclusion of the linked article by Hui Liu, Xiubin Li, Guenther Fischer and Laixiang Sun is summed up in the abstract: "all of China would benefit from climate change in most scenarios". A happy, well-fed Red China is more conducive to world peace than a hungry, envious Red China.

Millions of Chinese people can't all be wrong about everything. They love global warming!

Earth Hour

Lights Out at the Feedlot

Earth Hour was a big success here at the home of the greenest man in America. Lets see if 40 Watts turned off for an hour will turn back the Al-Gorian tide of impending climatological doom. Otherwise, the beach keeps getting closer to Omaha.

Incandescent Underground

Poisonous Light Bulbs: Bad Idea

On a trip to the city to buy supplies this week, I stopped at the Sam's Club in Omaha, Nebraska. Its one place where I can buy big sacks of rice, flour and other bulk staples for really reasonable prices. One of the items on my list was 40 Watt light bulbs. To my surprise, Sam's Club had only the new over-priced compact fluorescent devices for sale. No incandescent bulbs at all. Why? Because global warming fascists have managed to sneak through a law effectively banning incandescent light bulbs starting in 2012. This makes me sick.

To begin with, I don't like fluorescent lighting. The color temperature is insipid. The electronics emit a buzz you can hear. As a tightwad, however, I can sacrifice comfort or pleasure if to do so will offset these negatives with significant overall savings. Compact fluorescent bulbs don't fill the bill. I can buy incandescent 40 W bulbs for less than a quarter apiece; the fluorescents are invariably many times more expensive.

Now it is being reported that the initial high price of the fluorescent bulb isn't the only cost involved in switching from incandescents. The damned things are made with mercury. Enough mercury that you need to take special precautions not to poison your household if you break one. Costly precautions. Its enough to make me decide to put up a supply of incandescent bulbs in a clandestine cache. I'll get blackout curtains for my windows to foil the light bulb police and such neighbors as might rat me out to them. My mother wouldn't have dreamed that light bulbs would lead me to a life of crime. Sorry, Mom.
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In keeping with my status as the greenest man in America, I have always used light bulbs of the lowest wattage I can stand. I got the idea from one of my more intelligent uncles, a dentist in Washington, DC, nick-named 10 Watt Robbins. He is gone now, but his tightwad lighting policies live on in me.

Most bulbs in my home are 40 Watt incandescents. The kitchen and bathroom each rate a 60 W light, so I don't poison myself cooking or taking medicine. Area lights, such as I have, are all 25 W. I have big fluorescent fixtures in my shop, but I never use them unless I lose something on the floor. I turn all my lights off when not in use. I save money and, quite incidentally, pollute the earth very little. Leave me alone.

I shall not yield to eco-fascism. Long live the incandescent underground!

Tata Nano - world's cheapest car no use to rural folks

Tata Nano - If it came with a lawnmower attachment...

Headline: Tata Nano - world's cheapest new car is unveiled in India. This car wouldn't save me a nickel. I'd have to go to town twice a day for supplies and hire big stuff delivered. Delivered by great carbon-belching delivery trucks. I pity the family that has to take their summer vacation in one of these. Maybe in India. One of the cats at the unveiling summed it up pretty well, saying that the Tata Nano "doesn’t look too safe but it’s better than an autorickshaw". Marginally better.

The ceremony was picketed by Greenpeace because the Tata Nano gives off carbon. 50 MPG isn't good enough?
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Reminds me of the Spanish Biscuter.

Greenest man in America

Old Miser's Winter Bed

I'm guessing that I have the smallest carbon footprint and the greenest lifestyle in America. It isn't because I'm worried about Global Warming or anything like that. I'm too cheap to do anything that harms the environment. The illustration is of my winter bed.

It gets cold here in Nebraska, and I'm too tight to turn up the propane furnace past 56-57 degrees F. At night, it goes down even farther. I've spent many years sleeping in cold bedrooms to save a buck, but my latest addition, a $15 tent, is going to save me even more money while increasing my relative comfort.

Now I can turn the thermostat down at night to where the houseplants die, the mice move out and the water pipes nearly freeze. I'm sleeping in comfort because this cheap tent keeps the heat I give off from burning food concentrated close by. I'm glad now that I didn't contract for my usual amount of propane this winter.
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Another part of my winter regimen: No paid-for heat goes out of the house if I can help it. One of the ways I do this is to use discharge hoses for non-septic waste water. I don't put it down the drain because that could cause me to need costly septic-tank pumping. If it is hot water from my shower, washing dishes, or laundry, I keep the water in the house until it has relinquished its heat to the air.
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I should have gotten the Nobel Peace prize instead of that spendthrift wastrel Al Gore.

Thanksgiving

Blogging from near Omaha, Nebraska, USA, I'm thankful that the beach is getting closer to my house every day. Global warming won't catch me unprepared. I have acquired a boat and am only waiting for the final results from Al Gore to decide exactly where to build my dock.

Here's hoping you have much for which to be thankful.

Congress: No Global Warming Bill or anything else

Congress: paid to shit but only farted

"Congress has still not passed a global warming bill", whine the commie stooges at the Environmental Defense Action Fund (aka fightglobalwarming.com - the poisonous light bulb people). Thats a laugh. The new and improved Democrat-controlled Congress couldn't pass gas if all it ate was popcorn and sardines.