Yep. And we are opening Earth Day presents, and singing Earth Day carols, and dancing around the Earth Day tree (which I hugged earlier this morning). And for our Earth Day dinner, we are having curd, bark and crispy crunchy pine cones!

WHAT A CROCK!!!!!

In addition to helping the environment, growing some of your own food will save you money, especially with the recent, steady increase of our food costs from the supermarket.

Amusing how ALL logical/responsible actions/solutions are now directly related to climate change ! ! Something that was always true and will probably always will be, has now been claimed by alarmists to find real solutions for their cause.

Ahhhh yesssss ..........and that's climate change rather than AGW.

Anyone can prove that the climate is changing .....duhhh ......always has, always will ! AGW seems to be getting more and more difficult to sell !

It is becoming more and more apparent that alarmists are beginning to rely on REAL environmental issues, such as fighting pollution and promoting responsible resource management, instead of concentrating on a symptom (CO2/regional warming) instead of the cause (pollution).

Of course, it's hard to blame anyone else than the polluter for pollution. CO2 on the other hand is everyone's fault ! ! Which one do you think governments/corporations prefer?

A victory garden is a great idea..reminds me of the decade of the 1940`s when we were all encouraged to do the same...and if you inject some carbon dioxide among your plants now and then your yield will improve considerably.

After the first Earth Day the New York Times predicted "intolerable deterioration and possible extinction" for the human race as the result of pollution. Harvard biologist George Wald predicted that unless we took immediate action "civilization will end within 15 to 30 years," and environmental doomsayer Paul Ehrlich predicted that four billion people--including 65 million American--would perish from famine in the 1980s.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110008416

The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, amidst hysteria about the dangers of a new ice age. The media had been spreading warnings of a cooling period since the 1950s, but those alarms grew louder in the 1970s.

Three months before, on January 11, The Washington Post told readers to "get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters - the worst may be yet to come," in an article titled "Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age." The article quoted climatologist Reid Bryson, who said "there's no relief in sight" about the cooling trend.

Journalists took the threat of another ice age seriously. Fortune magazine actually won a "Science Writing Award" from the American Institute of Physics for its own analysis of the danger. "As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed," Fortune announced in February 1974.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice.asp

I thought the article had some good points. I was trying to say the same thing in a previous thread.

Coming from a family that farms, I understand the importance of energy conservation and self-sufficiency. Granted, growing a garden is not for everyone, but as the article states, even a small garden can help. Not only would you be saving the fuel used to drive to Wal-Mart/Costco/Safeway, you would have the satisfaction of eating food that you grew yourself.

It's my opinion, that in a world where so many people are telling us what we can and can't do, a little independence and self-sufficiency would be a good thing.

Which Earth Day are we supposed to observe? There's the one promoted through earthday.gov, which has a photo of George and Laura Bush and suggests we celebrate all that's good about the earth and how we can continue protecting the environment. Something tells me the environmental extremists don't care for this version.
Then there's earthday.net. It's all pretty and everything, but it basically spells out the doom and gloom we've caused and what rotten stewards we've been. It suggests we contact our government leaders to "do something" about climate change (i.e. create new taxes and regulations).
Another Earth Day will soon pass, and I'm still confused on how to celebrate.

"Vendors and presenters from various eco-friendly groups crammed into a lone tent in Hawrelak Park after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations."

"We especially want to encourage young people in school to join us. It's the youth that have the power to make real change."

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/04/21/5343616-sun.html

"The flakes that fell across the Vancouver region Friday night and Saturday represent the latest snowfall ever on record."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=be4b2831-e1ca-4d91-a8d0-426ce36fe059

Brett,

Good idea. Grow a bigger garden. You will need it to help offset the rising costs and shortage of food in the near future. Put up a greenhouse, if you can, to extend the season and learn to can and preserve.

Also, find a source of fresh water that does not come from the city's infrastructure. You don't want to depend on something that may shut down more than periodically, due to cost restraints.

Save money by not going crazy with all the new fangled gardening power tools, accessories and pretty things that gardening magazines say you need to have so it looks like their perfect pictures. Our grandparents did very well without them.

My parents always had a half acre grocery store in the back yard, with a row of McIntosh apple trees to boot. They comfortably fed a family of 9 and had enough left over for the neighbours.

Your garden may become your family's biggest asset, soon.

Hmmmm. Earth Day celebration in Edmonton was a complete and utter failure.
In the Blizzard and -15 weather conditions.

Here is another take on the phenonemon.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/31823.html

Excerpt
Earth Day is a Holiday for Liars
April 21, 2008 10:00 AM EST

by Alan Caruba

Earth Day is a holiday for liars. I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the Green agenda.

Great..
Just Great...
Now Wikipedia is controlled by AGW zealots.

So much for free unbiased information.
And on Earth day no less.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=440268&p=1

Happy Earth Day to everyone, even to the anti-environment crowd who frequent this blog.

Gary, theconservativevoice.com? Ha. Thanks for confirming what it's really about for you, which is promoting your political agenda and preserving the status quo.

I am old enough to remember the first Earth Day. I it was and is a great idea. I like clean air, water and land. Since 1970 a lot of good work has been done and the earth is definitely cleaner (at least in the US northeast) than it was 40 years ago.
I have also seen those rules and regulations proliferate ad nauseum into confusing nonsense by those with political agendas and no science background.
I still want and believe in clean air and water laws but the laws have to be based on science, not what looks good in a 30 second news story or what sounds nice to the uneducated masses without looking at the consequences of their actions.
How about we concentrate on cleaning up the major metropolitan cities, treating their raw sewage discharges, have safe and potable water for all and get accurate land temperatures instead of demanding I go along with the unproven dogma of AGW?
Read, learn, ask questions and think for your self.

Gary,

I'm not surprised. Here's the main reason. This fellow owns MySpace and most of the communications on the planet and his good buddy Al Gore is a board member of Google. A lot of seemingly intelligent AGWers are caught up, hook, line and sinker in this.

Free speach is now a thing of the past.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/14/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_murdoch.fortune/index.htm

Mark,
The truth is the truth no matter what side it is from. If somebody in Wikipedia is falsifying information you should be screaming at Wikipedia instead of blaming others for pointing out the dishonesty of their editors.
Is seems as if you believe that your political and social agenda is far more important than the truth.
Hint:
Sleeping at night is a whole lot easier especially as you grow older and realize that honor and honesty is something you have complete personal control over and can be proud of.

the anti-environment crowd

Hi Mark,

By your definition, a "pro-environment" individual is someone who supports nuclear proliferation and biofuels - i.e. an hysterical and irrational belief system which assumes that anyone who doesn't think the same way is evil.

BTW - The words conservative and conservation come from the same root.

Mark:

We are not "anti-environment" - we are anti-semireligious stupidity. Nobody is for pollution, wanton destruction of eco-systems, etc. Get that? We are for legitimate science and against damaging regulations and taxes that won't control Mother Earth but will bring hardship to vast numbers of people. Please put down your glass of cool-aid and take a long, hard look at reality.

I bet the earth day crowd isnt that happy that it fell this year on the same day as the Pennsylvania primary. They wont be getting the media attention they normally would.

I feel we have made enormous progress on cleaning the environment. Anyone else recall the ad many years ago with the crying Indian when he saw people throwing trash from cars on the highways? I havent seen anyone throw litter from their cars in many years....Now the question is, is CO2 really a pollutant? The supreme court thinks so. I'm not so sure.

"Happy Earth Day to everyone, even to the anti-environment crowd who frequent this blog."

Anybody that is commenting on this site is most certainly NOT anit-evironment because frankly MARK most folks have a lot more to do with their time than research information concerning global warming. I assure that the youth generation is NOT concerned with global warming at all except to join the commercialization of the word "green".

Back in the 70s when the experts were calling for climate change that would result in freezing us to death, I took it all very, very seriously. When it all started I would have been about 19 and I made a commitment to only have one child for fear of over-populating the world. Does anybody remember the push for zero population growth? At that time I also joined Greenpeace to support any and all efforts to protect our planet the humans and animals that lived on this planet.

I came from a small town in NJ where everybody I knew had a garden. It was always fun to see different gardens and what was working and not. I have always planted a garden. When I lived in the Carolinas, I had a neighbor that was 93 and even she came over frequently to help me weed and pick veggies.

I was very active for a few years to help rid heavy pollutants in the streams that came from textile plants and furniture manufacturers. It was a crusade. It was at that time I learned a lot about waste treatment plants and the use of chlorine which is touted still today as being safe and just wonderful.

Now if Mark wants to point fingers and call folks anit-environmental he should have been following me around trying to convince corporations that throwing dye and lacquer into rivers was not such a hot idea. All those bigwigs proclaimed to be environmentalists because they liked to fish and canoe. NOT.

I can't tell you how many bags of garbage I have picked up over the years for various organizations only to see the trash pile up the next week. I am still weekly picking up huge amounts of garbage that litters our town because the YOUTH is not the least bit interested in housekeeping. However they will be the first people to attend Earth Day celebrations because it is now the thing to do. True, maybe something will rub off on them, but I won't hold my breath.

There is an old saying...fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. The Green movement is just another commercial scam to start another industry. I no longer belong to Greenpeace. I see I was about the only one that supported Zero Population Growth. I see no signs of housekeeping in the US improving and even the Green movement is not out in force demanding people treat the environment with respect.

Instead of addressing basic problems with easy solutions as a first step, we have instead picked on CO2 as the lone culprit and painted all of us as guilty humans with the same paintbrush.

When you have the loony left and the loony right joining forces to combat global change, any sane person knows in their heart that greed is involved. Activists that really care and are true to their effort DO NOT become instant millionaires by exploiting a potential problem. The moment that money changes hands and somebody benefits from a potential global disaster all credibility flies out the window.

The term anti enviroment crowd is funny because so many fail to realize what makes the world turn, you complain about loggers but yet you write/wipe on paper, build a house and most loggers take care of what makes them money and do replant and normally the process of natural reforestation does it on its own, call hunters/fisherman evil and they are the one who put back, protect, and preserve for the sake of what they do, because they love it and then you'll have a liberal city man come in buy groung and build a million dollar house he lives in for 2 days a year and yells protect the forest, stop hunting, no cutting down trees. He fails to realize he just did most of those things. Point is the without us you people could see how much your life would be different and not for the better. You would not have a house, electric, clean rivers, healthy wildlife. THINK!

On a lighter note it is great to plant a garden and gather you own fresh produce and a few years ago I started all our plants in a cheap makeshift greenhouse that consist of 2 10' 6x6's and some con do it, just drill holes in the 6x6's the size of the con do it and arch it to the other side, do this every couple of feet, cover with clear plastic and put in a little wood stove and "wa la" a greenhouse just remember to vent it on sunny days or you will cook your plants.

looks like the main australian newspaper has decided to commit to skepticism before its too late... this is a major change in its AGW position http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html

Looks like our fellow anti-environment bloggers object to the term which describes them perfectly.

Sorry, kids, but the vast majority of deniers on this blog are cut from the same cloth as those who have objected to all the environmental regulations enacted over the past thirty years -- regulations which, I might add, have done a great deal to improve our environment.

"We are for legitimate science and against damaging regulations and taxes that won't control Mother Earth but will bring hardship to vast numbers of people."

Those "damaging" regulations and taxes have been quite successful at improving our environment. So Aviator, give us an example of where the free market -- and the free market ALONE -- has fixed an environmental issue. The closest thing I can think of is the cap-and-trade program to reduce acid rain, but even that action was led by the government. Let's hear it, Aviator. I'm waiting.

"BTW - The words conservative and conservation come from the same root."

Really? You might want to tell your idol, Dick Cheney, about that fact then. He once said conservation was a matter of public virtue, but wasn't good energy policy. So much for being a conservative, eh?

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule".

H.L. Mencken

In 1970 environmentalists thought zero population growth was essential. What happened? It is a better solution for pollution control than what they are pushing today.

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