This tree is 150 years old in Aleppo, Syria and a lot people go there thinking it is blessed. So the tree was removed by radical Islamist terrorists because, according to them people are worshiping idols and only god should be worshiped.
The Norwegian military said Tuesday it plans to put its troops on a vegetarian diet once a week in a bid to fight a new kind of enemy — climate change.
The army said its new meatless Mondays are meant to cut its consumption of ecologically unfriendly foods whose production contributes heavily to global warming.
“It’s a step to protect our climate. The idea is to serve food that’s respectful of the environment,” spokesman Eystein Kvarving told France24 News.
Hmmm . . . which one should I eat?
The diet has already been introduced at one of Norway’s main bases and will soon be rolled out to all units, including those serving overseas, said the army, estimating it would cut its meat consumption by 150 tonnes per year.
“It’s not about saving money,” said Kvarving. “It’s about being more concerned for our climate, more ecologically friendly and also healthier.”
A Norwegian environmental group that campaigns for meatless Mondays nationwide, The Future in Our Hands, welcomed the army announcement.
"The defence ministry deserves a lot of praise because it's taking climate and environmental issues seriously," said the group's director, Arild Hermstad.
According to the organisation, the average Norwegian eats more than 1,200 animals over the course of their life, including 1,147 chickens, 22 sheep, six cattle and 2.6 deer.
"We had to cancel this and all future car washes.”
The People's Republic of California - Don't expect to see teens standing on corners waving signs at motorists encouraging them to participate in a school car wash any time soon in San Jose.
While car washes have become a favorite tool for school clubs, teams, cheerleaders and classes to raise funds for trips, uniforms or supplies, the liberal Democrat run city of San Jose is now saying stop.
This is what happened to Lincoln High School cheerleaders trying to raise money to attend a national competition in April. The San Jose Mercury News reports that local environmental officials warned the high school cheerleaders that their car wash violated the city’s water discharge laws.
“We had a visit from the city of San Jose Environmental Services Department who said that the car washes at Hoover [Middle School] are in violation of water discharge laws, therefore we had to cancel this and all future car washes,” said an email that was sent out to neighborhood email lists on Oct. 18.
“Anything that is not storm water or rain water is considered a pollutant,” said Jennie Loft, acting communications manager for San Jose’s Environmental Services Department.
“If it goes into a storm drain, that pollutant will harm wildlife and habitats in the creeks. Water goes directly from the storm drains into our creeks.”
The city intervened in response to two complaints received about the car wash events Lincoln High Schoolers had been holding at Hoover Middle School. City officials reached out to school and district staff to give them information on how to prevent pollutants from getting into storm drains.
You must obey your Green Masters.
Asked if the city came out in response to complaints, Loft wrote in a follow-up email, "The City of San Jose responded to two complaints, one about a month ago and one last week, re: the Lincoln High School Car wash events held at Hoover Middle School.
"Our staff responds to complaints to ensure that pollutants do not go directly into our storm sewer system since it flows into local creeks, and the SF Bay and Delta.
"As part of our protocol when we received these complaints, our staff reached out to staff at Lincoln High School and San Jose Unified last month to provide information about preventing pollutants into storm drains.
"Our staff also met directly with Lincoln High School Staff last week."
Greens Ban Harmless Fun
The Enviro-Nazis are now preventing community car washes that raise money for charity and other causes. The hand-wringing Leftists were up all night worried that water with soap in it might get on the ground. Oh the humanity!
Weeping, hand-wringing sheeple liberal offers up his manhood in the cause of Global Warming.
The mouth-breathing idiot Sheeple of America are the gift that just keeps giving.
A meteorologist who has covered weather for the Wall Street Journal tweeted that he has decided not to have children in order to leave a lighter carbon footprint, and is considering having a vasectomy.
He also vowed to stop flying after the world’s recent climate-change report made him cry.
Eric Holthaus was reacting to the findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which released a report on Friday that found it was ‘extremely likely’ that humans are causing warming trends seen in the last several decades.
On Friday afternoon the weatherman tweeted: 'No children, happy to go extinct, which in and of itself, carries a certain sadness. #IPCC' reports the UK Daily Mail.
His next tweet said: 'Its a very emotional decision. Mixed feelings. adios babies?'
According to another tweet from Holthaus, the Dutch artist known as Tinkebell, who calls attention to animal rights issues through works that use the remains of dead animals, had herself sterilised last week for a similar reason.
Holthaus, who now writes for Quartz, has decided he will also reduce his carbon footprint by giving up on air travel.
‘I just broke down in tears in boarding area at SFO while on phone with my wife. I've never cried because of a science report before. #IPCC,’ was his first tweet on around 2pm on Friday.
‘I realised just now: This has to be the last flight I ever take. I’m committing right now to stop flying. It’s not worth the climate,’ he tweeted a few minutes later.
"Happy to go extinct"
'Flying makes me cry.' Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist who has covered weather for the Wall Street Journal, cried over the phone to his wife before getting on a plane, vowing it will be the last time he flies.
Some believe with low sunspot activity the planet could be on the brink of another period of global cooling.
One the flip side, man in furiously pumping millions of tons of warming gasses from under the ground into the atmosphere.
Will these two activities simply cancel each other out? And what happens to temperatures when the sunspots start up again?
Let's get this part out of the way.
Socialists want to use global warming to advance their power. On the other hand, Conservatives want to pretend that it is "magic gas" that man is releasing into the air. That the gasses will simply go away and industry and autos can keep on pumping.
But I am a Conservative who believes in Global Warming. I believe in science. For ever every action there is a reaction. If you pump warming gasses into the air they will do what they do. But climate is a complex mix of gasses, sunspots and volcanism.
Now we are seeing predictions that 2013 would see an upsurge in solar activity and geomagnetic storms disrupting power grids and communications systems have proved to be a false alarm. Instead, the current peak in the solar cycle is the weakest for a century.
Subdued solar activity has prompted controversial comparisons with the Maunder Minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, when a prolonged absence of sunspots and other indicators of solar activity coincided with the coldest period in the last millennium.
The comparisons have sparked a furious exchange of views between observers who believe the planet could be on the brink of another period of cooling, and scientists who insist there is no evidence that temperatures are about to fall reports the Times of India.
Sunspot activity is low.
New Scientist magazine blasted those who predicted a mini ice age, opening a recent article on the surprising lack of sunspots this year with the bold declaration: "Those hoping that the sun could save us from climate change look set for disappointment".
"The recent lapse in solar activity is not the beginning of a decades-long absence of sunspots, a dip that might have cooled the climate. Instead it represents a shorter, less pronounced downturn that happens every century or so," ("Sun's quiet spell not the start of a mini ice age" July 12).
The unusually low number of sunspots in recent years "is not an indication that we are going into a Maunder Minimum" according to Giuliana DeToma, a solar scientist at the High Altitude Observatory in Colorado.
But DeToma admitted "we will do not know how or why the Maunder Minimum started, so we cannot predict the next one."
Many solar experts think the downturn is linked a different phenomenon, the Gleissberg cycle, which predicts a period of weaker solar activity every century or so. If that turns out to be true, the sun could remain unusually quiet through the middle of the 2020s.
But since the scientists still do not understand why the Gleissberg cycle takes place, the evidence is inconclusive. The bottom line is that the sun has gone unusually quiet and no one really knows why or how it will last.
The Devastating Effects of Pollution in China We went to the single most polluted place on earth, the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, where kids play in dirty rivers and the sun sets early behind a thick curtain of smog.
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Man is pumping millions of tons of warming gasses into the atmosphere.
It is not Magic Gas.
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Socialists want to use man made warming gasses to advance Marxism and centralized control of the economy. Conservatives want to pretend that the warming gasses man is pumping into the air do not exist. That it is "magic" gas that has no impact. Both are wrong.
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Climate is a complex mix of gasses, volcanism and sunspots. Some people have speculated that the Little Ice Age (1350 to about 1850) ended because of the warming gasses released by the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.
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The Little Ice Age brought colder winters to parts of Europe and North America. Farms and villages in the Swiss Alps were destroyed by encroaching glaciers during the mid-seventeenth century. Canals and rivers in Great Britain and the Netherlands were frequently frozen deeply enough to support ice skating and winter festivals. The first River Thames frost fair was in 1607 and the last in 1814.
"Giggles" the deer was not even safe from Big Brother Government at a no kill shelter.
Stand Back! We've come for the baby deer.
Armed SWAT Team shows up at a no-kill animal
shelter to butcher a baby deer.
Police State - As a John Muir Conservative Conservationist I am royally pissed off at this latest story about the growing and militarized American Police State. An animal shelter owner describes for a news reporter, how he was raided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, with gun-toutin' SWAT Agents kicking down his doors, all because of the presence of a baby deer who they were nursing back to health..The SWAT Agents killed the deer, saying it's policy to protect against possible contagion.
WISN 12 News investigated an operation raising questions about the use of government resources and the state policy that meant a death sentence for a fawn reports WISN News. .
"It was like a SWAT team," shelter employee Ray Schulze said.
Shelter employee Ray Schulze
Two weeks ago, Schulze was working in the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border when a swarm of squad cars arrived and officers unloaded with a search warrant.
"(There were) nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth," Schulze said.
The focus of their search was a baby fawn brought there by an Illinois family worried she had been abandoned by her mother.
"When it made a little noise, it sounded like it was laughing," Schulze said. .
Schulze videotaped the fawn they named Giggles during the two weeks she was there. The Department of Natural Resources began investigating after two anonymous calls reporting a baby deer at the no-kill shelter.
The warden drafted an affidavit for the search warrant, complete with aerial photos in which he described getting himself into a position where he was able to see the fawn going in and out of the barn.
Agents told staff they came to seize the deer because Wisconsin law forbids the possession of wildlife.
A Dozen Armed Agents Raid Animal Shelter to Execute Captive Baby Deer
The Society of St. Francis no-kill shelter. Oh a deer, a female deer. . Giggles the Deer Sentenced to Death in GOP run Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker, what the Hell is going on?
The Growing American Police State From baby deers to your Facebook page to your phone calls, the growing bi-partisan 1984 Big Brother Surveillance State is trying to control, watch and record your every move.
