Oppose the Virginia Hybrid Car Tax

So ridiculous! If you live in Virginia contact your state legislator and tell them to oppose the hybrid tax and keep or raise the gas tax, or check the Chesapeake Climate Action Network website for more details. Grr!!!

A Good Rant on the Mainstream Media's Failure to Cover Climate Change

This was posted by a user named wndrdog on HuffPost: CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY IN HUMAN HISTORY. Period! It is unconscionable, bordering on criminally negligent, that YOU THE MEDIA, catalyst of opinions worldwide, aren't ambitiously covering this topic every day. This is a challenge HUMANS HAVE NEVER FACED BEFORE, TIME IS CRITICAL, and we are NOT AT ALL PREPARED TO FACE IT. So how do we save ourselves from ourselves? One critical tool is YOU, the MAIN STREAM MEDIA!. You MUST pro-actively illustrate the seriousness, urgency, and precariousness of our current state. You MUST IMMEDIATELY RAISE AWARENESS of the impending tipping points of Global Warming. And if the click-thru ratings from your web viewers seem to indicate that they're more interested in J Lo's dress at the Grammy's, then IT IS YOUR JOB TO INFORM THEM that there is something a little more pressing to pay attention to. A fully informed public will demand change from their leaders, and in turn fully-supported politicians will rise to their mandate by strategizing an ambitious path to sustainability. On the other hand, if the MSM continues to feed the public a diet of empty-calorie infotainment, your FAILURE TO INFORM is unforgivable complicity in what is unfolding as the gravest crime in history — humanity marching naively past tipping points that will end civilization as we know it. Here is a link to a petition where you can rant too.

Alito As Indicator for State of the Union Speech

Alito shook his head like a partisan at a previous Obama State of the Union speech. For tonight's speech, Obama is expected to mention climate change. If, at the end of that section, Alito is clawing his eyes out and running screaming from the room, then Obama will have likely made a few good points, and there will be reason for ecological optimism for the first time since before Copenhagen. If all we get is an eye roll from Alito, then that's probably bad news for the global climate. It means the speech was something like blah blah blah solar is great blah blah blah all of the above blah let's drill and frack blah oh and we may still approve the Keystone pipeline blah I'm a moderate gimme a break enviros Romney was worse so here's a few million for R&D blah I wish I could do more but Congress is blocking me blah there now let's get back to drone striking.