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The Green Bible is Edward Abbey’s 1975 novel “The Monkey Wrench Gang.”

It is a fictional novel about an environmental terrorist group which destroys coal trains, bulldozers, power plants, and their crowning accomplishment is blowing up Glen Canyon Dam.

http://books.google.com

Of course, the MSM loves it. In 1976, the New York Times thought terrorism was fun.

• From the National Observer, “A sad, hilarious, exuberant, vulgar fairy tale… It’ll make you want to go out and blow up a dam.”
• From the New York Times, “Since the publication of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Mr. Abbey has become an underground cult hero.”
• From the Washington Post, “One of the best writers to deal with the American West.”
• From the Houston Chronicle, “What a thing of beauty is Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang

Nature refuses to cooperate. Water levels are the highest in a decade.

09/24/1997 Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON – The Sierra Club told Congress on Tuesday that it ought to drain Lake Powell, the second-largest man-made lake in America.

The proposal was met with protests that loomed like the 710-foot Glen Canyon Dam that holds the lake in northwest Arizona.

The Sierra environmentalists want to drain the 250-square-mile lake and dismantle the dam just upstream on the Colorado River from the Grand Canyon. Their goal is to help restore the area’s environment.

But representatives of state governments, electric power providers, the Navajo Nation, and the tourist industry lined up at a congressional subcommittee meeting to denounce the plan and argue that the Sierra Club’s goals were unachievable.

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Romm featured this cartoon on his website this weekend. Look at the tornado.

Here is an epic flood from 1927 in Vermont.

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Here is an epic flood from 1927 on the Mississippi River

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Australians have sloppily allowed themselves to fall victim to a corrupt and stupid government. This didn’t happen overnight, but is the result of mushy-headed submission to dishonest people posing as greens.

Gillard makes tentative steps towards a greener, cleaner future
Adam Morton
July 11, 2011

ONCE you can get past the extraordinary compensation packages – some justifiable, others less so – the real test of the carbon price package is pretty basic: will it cut Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions?

http://www.smh.com.au/

Every living creature on Earth either generates or consumes CO2, as do the oceans and the soils – which produce 97% of the Earth’s CO2 emissions. To call CO2 pollution is an affront to nature.

Actually, any Republican will do.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grasping for a deal on the nation’s debt, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders remained divided Sunday over the size and the components of a plan to reduce long term deficits. Noting the need to work out an agreement over the next 10 days, the president and lawmakers agreed to meet again Monday.

Obama also sought to use the power of his office to sway public opinion, scheduling a news conference for Monday morning

http://my.news.yahoo.com/

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

– Adolf Hitler, on creating the Gestapo

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/quotes.html

Simple minded fools in the Australian Labour Party imagine that they can create a hostile and expensive environment for business, and that the businesses will simply pass the extra cost on to consumers in a predictable fashion.

A more likely reaction will be for many businesses to pack up and move to a place where they enjoy doing business. And the ones who do stay will reduce staff, wages and benefits. They have to compete in a global market, and raising prices is often not an option.

If you elect people who hate business, you will end up losing business. It is time for Australians to free themselves from the chains of guilt placed on them by charlatans who take advantage of those who care.

Even if you believe the climate models, they tell you that Julia’s plan does essentially nothing to affect the climate. In order to support this idea, you have to have your head so far up your nether regions that there is no hope of ever extracting it.

Editorial: Small change to save the planet

JULIA Gillard’s taxation solution to climate change is a classic Labor document. It makes the biggest of big business pay and it lavishes concessions on those who would be hardest hit when those businesses pass that tax on carbon back down the line, all the way to the shopping trolley.

The minority Labor Government, with the assistance of the Greens through their greater power in the Senate, has taken the opportunity to make significant changes to the tax system that it hopes will blunt the relentless war Tony Abbott’s Coalition has waged on Labor’s climate change solutions.

It should at least help Labor regain some lost ground and show that it is up for the big economic reforms. It should also turn the debate away from the scientific detail about global warming and what to do about it, to a much more simple and easily understood debate for most Australians: what it means for the household budget.

Labor has built in enough concessions to calm the fears of many Australians. It is calculated that your spare change each week will be enough to pay for saving the planet and for many there will be significant tax benefits.

http://www.themercury.com.au

http://www.wunderground.com/

The area around Los Alamos is starting to get a lot of rain, and will likely continue to do so for the next six to eight weeks. The burned out areas don’t hold water very well, so flash flooding is their next problem.

After the 1977 La Mesa Fire I had lunch one day on a foot bridge in Bandelier National Monument, made of 30″ pine logs. It was a well known landmark which had been there for decades. I went back in the evening and the bridge was gone without a trace.