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Mac lovers, eat this!

Microsoft has partnered with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and built into the latest version of Microsoft Windows (Vista), innovative energy-saving solutions, that can save customers about $50 each year for every desktop computer equipped with the new software.

On the contrary, the Board of Directors for Apple Inc “unanimously� opposed proposals calling for an elimination of toxic chemicals in Apple’s products, and a comprehensive take-back and recycling program.

Still think Apple is cool? Think again.

On the same note, here’s a poll question: What is important to you in a company/consumer product? Cost or environmental responsibility?

Comment or Poll.

 

Originally posted at D.C. Watch 

Associated Press reporter David Bauder interviewed the former NBC anchor, who said that after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Brokaw was impressed and wanted to pitch in his two cents. He said on talking about a new show on Discovery channel that premieres Sunday at 9 p.m., “It’s the same science that we are drawing upon and it’s irrefutable,” he said. “I thought there was too much of Gore, but that’s not my call. I thought it was very effectively done. To give credit to him, he’s been on this issue for a long period of time.”

Apparently, Brokaw’s wife, Meredith, is vice president of the environmental organization Conservation International. They’ve traveled to some of the places featured in the Discovery documentary, like Patagonia and Mongolia, and have seen firsthand the effects of global warming.

Patagonia? Mongolia? Do we need to go that far to figure out the effects of global warming, can’t he just tell by looking at his utility bills in summer!!!

Well anyway, another liberal media mogul joining the “global warming awarenessâ€? crusade only makes for good…news. Who’ll be next, Stephen Colbert?

Read the complete interview: Associated Press by David Bauder
 

 

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Here’s an interesting psycho analysis of humans and our reaction (or lack of) to Global Warming. The author is Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. The interesting part is the title, “If only gay sex caused global warming.” (with due apologies to our gay readers…)

 

Get the L.A. Times Op-ed here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t let the headline fool you, the rule applies only for small-engine machines like lawn mover! Not to say that it would not help, but EPA’s spin on it (as quoted by Margo Oge, director of EPA’s office of transportation and air quality) is “We believe harmonizing with California will be cost-effective, good for the environment, good for the industry, good for all the stakeholders.” She continued, “We are concerned that as other sources are being controlled, this source is going to continue to be a bigger source for air pollution, so we are pretty interested in finishing our work and putting forth cost-effective standards for the country,”

“as other sources are being controlled?� Oge, here is a short-list of sources you probably overlooked before you decided to go after lawn movers-

Coal fired power plants
Cars and SUVs
Container ships
Incinerators
Oil refineries

EPA, like our current administration, seems more interested in going after the small fishes while the large culprits go about doing as they please. Divergence tactics? Incompetent? Ignorance? Maybe, I don’t know, but definitely blog worthy.

Source: Associated Press by Erica Werner

 Originally posted at D.C. Watch

I can understand people fussing about the �Da Vinci Code�, that’s what religious zealots do. But “An Inconvenient Truth�?

In an unprecedented move, the nation’s top climate scientists gave 5 stars for Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, making it an historic first for scientific topping Ebert and Roeper who gave the movie a B-.
William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University said, “excellent, he got all the important material and got it right.” Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists read the book and saw a presentation said, “I sat there and I’m amazed at how thorough and accurate,” he continued, “After the presentation I said, `Al, I’m absolutely blown away. There’s a lot of details you could get wrong.’ … I could find no error.”

One exception amid the back patting was Brian Soden, a University of Miami professor of meteorology and oceanography, who said, “I thought the use of imagery from Hurricane Katrina was inappropriate and unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific consensus.”

Contrary to the academic praises, Dave White a columnist for movies.com said “OK, here’s my beef with Al Gore, and then I’ll talk about the film’s message: He’s a hypocrite. During the Clinton administration, the causes of global warming were chugging right along with help from the government. Global warming didn’t stop when the first Bush left the White House and start up again when the second Bush stole the place back for the Republicans. Gore himself gave the Tellico Dam project a waiver from the Endangered Species Act. George W. Bush might be a nightmare for the EPA, but the Democrats weren’t their wet dream by a long shot.â€?

Somehow, by the end of it all, I personally believe the debate should not be “whether the film was right or left wrong,� but rather “how to combat global warming,� after all the effects are felt by one and all, irrespective of how dramatized or underplayed it is in movies.

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