tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68393962657592730412023-06-20T05:37:26.538-07:00Put the Carbon BackIt's time for us to make a stand for our children and our planet. It has become clear to many people that global warming is here and accelerating. We have to take action and accept no excuses. It's time to put the carbon back into the ground.Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-78429237865958174522011-08-10T15:55:00.000-07:002011-08-10T15:55:26.256-07:00Watch Capitalism Implode!!I really don't agree with much of what he's saying but I LOVE watching them panic.
Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-60538269021192450012010-08-24T10:04:00.000-07:002010-09-06T15:04:51.303-07:00The Maze and the MinotaurThe role of false choices and the state in the age of unreason.I witnessed a dispute between my nephew and his mother about the amount of time he spent playing video games and watching television. The nephew, upset at the television in the living room being broken disrupted his habitual video gaming and/or endless channel surfing. His mother, unsuccessfully, tried to explain to him that these "Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-83310867079698032512010-04-23T01:09:00.000-07:002010-04-23T01:16:06.725-07:00Learning the Abundance of Just EnoughRead this and turn away from your screens for a piece and look about you. Look at your stuff; really look at it. Chances are that you have way more of it than you know what to do with. I think I have twenty coffee mugs. I'm a single man. I only have two hands and four chairs and the chairs are in storage. I have a car that I haven't driven on an actual errand since August 2009. I have boxes of Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-2340173329389263572009-12-10T13:31:00.000-08:002009-12-10T13:35:35.107-08:00Technical DifficultiesMy venerable and ancient Mac laptop has given up the ghost and is no longer with us. If you have wandered over here looking for me that's what happened.I will be checking in at libraries and relatives houses as such access is available.Thank you for your attention.PangolinPangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-42920197598874653652009-10-11T22:51:00.001-07:002009-10-11T23:09:23.286-07:00Canceling Saint Victim's Day......... and demanding more.I am hereby unilaterally and on behalf of the entire world canceling St. Victims Day. For those of you who are looking at your calendar and wondering when Saint Victims Day is the answer is pretty much every day. Any day, week or month that is announced to be XYZ "awareness" day counts. Cut it out. Just cut that shit out right now.So what do I expect the people who have Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-36403305989524026862009-09-13T22:08:00.000-07:002009-09-13T23:11:54.149-07:00Failure Is SuddenAll the kings horsesand all the kings mencouldn't put Humptytogether againFailure is suddenit comes from long rotyou think to foresee itI'm thinking notIt ends in confusionThis rot in the coreThere many long yearsAnd now it's no morePangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-44230360206398699222009-09-02T23:27:00.000-07:002009-09-02T23:29:08.794-07:00Solution: Piss on it...Something completely different:"Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest" "Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine mixed with wood ash as a fertilizer for food crops has found that the combination can be substituted for costly synthetic fertilizers to produce bumper crops of tomatoes without introducing any risk of disease for consumers. The study Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-59743141786390330042009-09-02T08:54:00.000-07:002009-09-02T09:38:46.899-07:00Reply to the Strong ManThere's a lot of strong men out there, good men, thinking men, who are sold a lie so that the powers that be can play god unhindered. The lie is this: You got to your place of comfort by your efforts alone. We'll protect your place; for a fee. Then they say: The fees kind of high right now because we have to support all these slacker's. Cheat's. Lazy people. Gypsies. If you don't mind we'll just Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-84350330301003983282009-08-24T18:51:00.000-07:002009-08-24T19:00:11.794-07:00Crashing in the Fog, Smelling the SmokeI was always crazy. Bad things happened to me before I could spell my name; Gitmo-style bad things. The first escape I had was nature. I found that under a bush or up a tree was a fair place to hide from the lash. The second escape was reading.For some reason the original Whole Earth Catalog was left in my families living room; and all subsequent editions. Imagine a second grader learning to readPangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-4567990656518757742009-08-19T11:45:00.000-07:002009-08-19T11:51:57.305-07:00Get Off the Internet, It doesn't Matteror 'keeping our corporate masters happy'I repeatedly read people's blogs, posts, rants and implications that blogging doesn't matter. You don't matter unless you are standing on a street corner protesting or preferably rounding up a militia to gun it out with ZOG.What utter crap.It would be real nice if you quit voting too and we could all wake up every morning to the words 'President Palin' on Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-46611880803495833822009-08-18T15:26:00.000-07:002009-08-18T15:36:21.250-07:00Reality Check: Global Food CrisisThese charts over at Global Research make clear that there are going to be many, many people in the world looking at empty porridge bowls in the next year. Far too much of the grain growing regions of the world are experiencing drought in a time when grain production is falling behind consumption a little bit each year.Some years ago the world had surplus grain. Now, each year every silo is Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-46705015832315610142009-08-07T03:10:00.000-07:002009-08-13T22:50:11.041-07:00Bring On the Suicide BoothsI know a secret. It's an ugly secret. The US is engaged in the practice of Eugenics. Specifically we are killing, through exposure and neglect, our excess population. The Greeks and Romans would "expose" babies born with defects on cold nights. They would put visibly deformed children out in the weather where cold and/or scavengers would kill them. This practice continues to this day in some Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-84689622550930792262009-07-13T13:25:00.000-07:002009-07-13T15:38:52.823-07:00Kunstler Weighs in As Optimist.James Howard Kunstler is still holding out for a last minute conversion of the PTB to his train-centric view of the world. He starts with this: The cat coming out of the bag this week -- a frazzled, flaming, rabid, death-dealing cat -- is the news that Goldman Sachs will announce impressive second-quarter profits, and set aside $18 billion or so for employee bonuses averaging $600,000 per head (Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-83916140107436971552009-06-25T16:02:00.000-07:002009-06-25T16:33:46.618-07:00GoDaddy.com commits Fraud.Hey there,For anybody who's reading this just on general principles or who might have tagged this when they googled GoDaddy.com I would just like to point out that Godaddy's fraudulent practices have really pissed me off.I registered the domain names PUTCARBONBACK.US, PUTCARBONBACK.NET, PUTCARBONBACK.ORG, PUTCARBONBACK.COM thinking that I might set up a web site. Time, energy and health Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-39005803559663377912009-01-27T19:27:00.000-08:002009-01-27T19:40:04.827-08:00Briar Patch EconomicsDavid Roberts, editor at Gristmill, thinks we shouldn't use a Carbon Tax and rebate system because nobody in Washington thinks it's a good idea except most progressives and a few conservative columnists playing B'rer Rabbit and the Briar Patch. (see "Carbon tax is a poison pill")""I guess I'm going to be barbecue this day." Brer Rabbit sighed. "But getting barbecued is a whole lot better than Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-37107652017279119912009-01-21T21:04:00.000-08:002009-01-21T21:09:08.812-08:00Reality Challenged Congresscrossposted from a Gristmill thread on the lack of transit funding. Face it; this congress isn't that different than the last congress and reality seems to be a bit of a challenge for congressional delegates. Climate change is real, very dangerous and accelerating. Congressional proposals at best will merely slow the rate of acceleration and do absolutely nothing to mitigate. There are no viable Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-47274498699900811322008-04-29T14:22:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:47:37.717-08:00Ok, that's weird.....While I was nosing around Gristmill and reading a sermon on global warming I was loading todays arctic sea ice pic from Cryosphere today. If those guys are doing this on purpose it's NOT funny. Click on the picture and look closely.Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-38832221283298210712008-04-26T22:36:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:47:37.919-08:00Santa's Pissed.I think Santa's had enough and has pulled the death rays from the weapons locker. If this picture doesn't scare you then a look over at the Cryosphere Today website where it came from should do it.In particular the tale of the tape should get you thinking that things are changing a little faster than the evening news lets on. It could even be said to happening "faster than expected."Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-24357705786194678562008-04-26T22:14:00.000-07:002008-04-26T22:36:08.216-07:00Naked child needs what?This was originally posted over on Gristmill blog in response to a investigation into the "more technology needed" argument. Rather than looking at what we have or want why shouldn't we look at what we need?Take a naked child, what does that child need?It needs it's parents to care for it.Therefore we must support the parents (community services)It needs clean airIt needs clean waterIt needs to Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-12409079571149246732008-04-18T01:03:00.000-07:002008-04-18T12:40:45.824-07:00I get spanked.David Roberts, blogmaster over at Gristmill has spanked me for being a bad boy on his blog. No surprise it comes quickly after I've jumped all over WalMart's pet environmentalist Adam Werbach. Read over my shoulder now......Pangolin,Let me be crystal clear. The current path the human race is on amounts to mass suicide of about 5 billion people.(quoting me-pangolin)The fact that you believe this Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-835679419946698802008-04-17T09:47:00.000-07:002008-04-17T10:12:14.362-07:00Suppressing the Solution SetLet's be absolutely clear; a solution set to environmental problems exists.They consist of deploying: Wind PowerPV solar distributedConcentrated Solar Power built in optimal sitesGeo-exchange thermal management replacing HVAC systemsHot rock geothermal energyUltra-light rail or personal rapid transitInter-urban heavy rail for freight High-speed rail replacing air travelOrganic farming, including Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-24626225902882424872008-04-16T11:26:00.000-07:002008-04-16T11:56:07.263-07:00Economics vs Thermodynamics"Economics" keeps telling us that wind or solar power is a bad investment. It just isn't true. The economy uses a form of monopoly money called US dollars that is essentially fictional and allocated preferentially to the oligarchs that control the banking system. They do whatever they feel will increase their own status and power with it. Right now, status and power is not perceived to be Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-80910409157453935212008-04-12T14:53:00.000-07:002008-04-12T15:32:07.432-07:00Adam Werbach, the face of the Dark Side.This is a cross-post is in response to Adam Werbach's post over on Gristmill where he attempts to promote his new greenwash campaign BLUE as some sort of grass-roots environmentalism. Let's be absolutely clear; the people who advocate for pollution and cover it with greenwashing are more evil than blatant polluters. Their goal is to confuse and corrupt people into thinking they are helping the Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-47088186867464695392007-12-17T00:03:00.000-08:002007-12-17T00:45:58.260-08:00Mr. Steenblik You Are False.This is a response to a debate on Gristmill "On science vs. economics" My post here got a response from some economist type trying to smack down the poor plebian who thinks we can deal with climate change by well, dealing with it. My follow up includes his post...... Pangolin, I'm not going to attempt to once again explain the difference between the application of economic principles in policy Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839396265759273041.post-26617663415544770472007-10-31T12:01:00.000-07:002007-10-31T12:35:36.984-07:00Peak Oil and System Failure.Recently I have worked in the property management business. I have become very familiar with how termites work. They are a great example of multiple system points failures. When a termite eats a single two by four your house doesn't fall down. This is obvious. It has to eat a significant percentage of the wood in one section of the house. There has to be a water supply for them like a roof leak Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.com0