The World According to Greg » Climate Change

Now I Know Why I Am An Environmentalist

ghile — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:05:28 +0000

Actually I’ve been one all my life. But after suffering through five or six major bouts of kidney stones over the last twelve years (I forget how many times I’ve had them), all of which required at least one hospitalization and one which resulted in my giving birth to a stent (for the gory details ask me offline), the news that global warming may cause an increase in the incidents of kidney stones just seals the deal.

Trust me, I feel your pain …

Still My Favorite

ghile — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:08:36 +0000

Since I lost all of my prior blog postings over the weekend I have been thinking about some of my personal favorites over the years. Here is still my all time favorite video: Will Farrell’s George W. Bush on Global Warming, courtesy of our friends at Stop Global Warming and TBS’ Earth to America series.

Enjoy …

Al Gore Gets a “Frosty” Reception in Federal Way

ghile — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:28:30 +0000

The school board in the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way (home, it should noted, of logging giant Weyerhaeuser) has restricted showings of An Inconvenient Truth, imposing requirements that it be balanced with an adequate opposing viewpoint and be shown only with the school principal and district superintendent’s approval.

The decision was apparently sparked by complaints from parents who said their child was taking the film as fact after viewing it at school. “Condoms don’t belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He’s not a schoolteacher,” said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who believes the earth is 14,000 years old and doesn’t want the film shown at all. “The information that’s being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn’t in the DVD.”

Kind of hard to argue with that.