We eat only organic food. Being more nutritious, it tastes better and fills you up faster. Thus you don't need to buy as much.

If you want to do something truly useful for the environment and your health, buy only grass fed beef. That will have a real positive impact on the planet, unlike getting neurotic over CO2.

Is this what climate scientists are like?
http://www.bahamaswxconference.com/video.php?path=pycmw6fe2hZHniypMIMU2N_M9LO7Hsj5
please let's have more of them in the public eye. This will finish AGW real quick.

Steak, Burgers, Ribs, Roast Beast, Prime Rib, Pork Chops, Ham, Corned Beef....aaahhhhh, nature's bounty. SERVE IT UP AND DON'T BE STINGY! I will make it a point to eat in front of my local Democratic Underground, PITA and Greenpeace offices, too.

Save the Planet from hot air! BEEF IS WHAT'S FOR DINNER!!!!

This summer expect to pay $4.00 bucks a gallon for gas as the demand for oil increases.If you would listen to me about the "TUNNELS" this would all change because they produce power 24/7/365. The KE in the Gulfstream far exceeds all the energy demands for the United States. This supply of KE energy would drive prices down because the supply is so great.It's simple economics and good for the environment too.Anyone listening?

OIXNUP:
If you eat enough of your favorite foods that should be two less carbon footprints to worry about. It's better than getting psychotic about Global Cooling.
KIPP

Hey Brett, any size garden is good. It's the effort that counts.

It's only been since the 1950's and 60's that people have given up on buying locally grown food to buying food from all over the world at a giant supermarket. It's only been 20 or so years since Wal-Mart took over the American retail landscape. We could save a tremendous amount of energy if we went back to a system of locally grown and produced products.

That doesn't mean we must give up our cars/trucks/suv's and all of our fancy technology. It means, somewhat going back to our roots. Think about the tremendous amount of energy used to transport food from one coast to the other, let alone from the other side of the world. Doesn't it make sense to buy locally grown products? It is a great feeling to be self sufficient. It's even better knowing that the food that my family eats is fresh and healthy and produced right at home.

On another note, here is a link about Greenland's ice from NPR. It's a good read.

Good Signs from Greenland's Ice Sheet

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89731348

brett, dont worry about your short growing season
by the time you reach my age(almost 60) you should be able to garden and grow vegetables all year round-just think about it youll be able to grow pineapples have your own coconut and avocado trees get vitamin c from your own orange groves have your own winery your own outdoor orchid collection and koi pond-isnt globull(thanks oiznop) a wonderful thing

My green diet consists of green beans, asparagus, English peas, broccoli, green jello (NOT with the little marshmellows!) and green beer (March 17 every year).
My yellow diet includes corn and squash.
My red diet includes hamburgers and a good steak every once in a while.
Favorites from my ocean blue diet are shrimp and scallops
Whiskey is a staple of my brown diet.

Americans definitely needs a greener diet. By greener, I mean more fruits and vegetables. The girth of the American waistline is astounding. Go anywhere else in the world and you'll see that virtually everyone looks trim and fit. The last time I was in Europe, there was a rather obese man walking on the sidewalk...now the reason I noticed this was because it was the first fat guy I had seen in the few days I had been there. He stuck out like a sore thumb. I inched closer and, lo and behold, he was wearing a NY Yankees baseball cap. Yep, he was an American tourist. How surprising.

Mr. t-rex,

nice video...see if you can do more of the same for the hawaiin hot-air convention...a video of all conventioners exiting their co2 expelling jets would be perfect...your exactly correct...open the debate to the public...these looney tune characters wont last a minute against the real scientists...did you notice how that AGW'r smirked and refused to answer the question...i particularly enjoyed his lame "computer model" defense...as far as combatting global warming by eating greener foods, if you want to be an organic vegetarian ok by me...but who seriously is going to go by a magic co2 destroying peach for $2, when u can get the plain melting-down-the-world-variety for 50 cents...as brett points out, time, budget & growing season will bring home the fact, that AGW is all about pilfering money...AGW get rich quick schemes wont last long, as the economic pain of their ridiculous infomercial computer generated hoax is realized... the rising cost of everything today is also courtesy of the same type of groupees who insist we must do something now...they are the same people who justify lining their pockets thru ethanol-mandated, not-in-my-back-yard, save-the-polar-bears, save-the-world-from-imminent-doom crusades...how anyone buys off on their junk science is beyond me...then again, the boston globe, the national enquirer and people magazine have large subscriberships....have a nice day bros...

Patrick Henry, you closet progressive!! What's next, clothes made from hemp? You give me hope - you and Obama!! Hey, I saw last week you were going to move back to California because of the weather? DON'T DO IT!! You might be warmer, but you won't be happier! Good luck.

Is organic food really green? If all our food were grown organically, our farms could not produce enough food to feed everyone!

If I only buy food grown locally here in Pennsylvania, how am I going to get oranges, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, mangoes, pineapples, cereal, oatmeal, strawberries, raisins, salmon, swordfish, and a bunch of other stuff during the winter? Plus, there's quite a bit of stuff that can't be grown here at all, like oranges and bananas, unless I turn my house into a hothouse, which requires energy. What am I going to eat during the winter, beef jerky? But I'm a vegetarian, maybe broccoli jerky?

My mother, who is 81 and grew up on the East Coast, told me during the winter, vegetables and fruit were a luxury since they didn't do a lot of flying of fruit in from Calif during the 30's and 40's. She mainly had canned food and preserved food. She moved to California in the early 1950's and went crazy eating oranges and fruit, etc. She never looked back.

I buy organic food but I haven't noticed any difference in taste. The lettuce is usually dirtier and I have to run the water a lot to clean it so I stopped buying organic lettuce.

Anyway, I think we should continue to ship food from all different areas because it is the smart thing to do and a lot more tasty. I'm not going to go back in time to live in a village eating "local" food. Hey, another good reason for global warming, Pennsylvania a tropical paradise!!!!

Hi kevinag,

I'd love to move back to California, but the kids are settled here now. The Bay Area is awesome. What's not to like?

Last Saturday my U12 soccer team played in a steady 40 MPH wind which blew directly from one goal to the other, and the air temperature was around 45 degrees. It was completely miserable.

Reply: Patrick, at least you weren't that unfortunate kid stuck in the goal facing the wind. LOL

Thanks for that Bahamas conference video, Rex. Did that "climate scientist" get owned or what? Shudder.

Americans definitely needs a greener diet. By greener, I mean more fruits and vegetables. The girth of the American waistline is astounding. Go anywhere else in the world and you'll see that virtually everyone looks trim and fit. The last time I was in Europe, there was a rather obese man walking on the sidewalk...now the reason I noticed this was because it was the first fat guy I had seen in the few days I had been there. He stuck out like a sore thumb. I inched closer and, lo and behold, he was wearing a NY Yankees baseball cap. Yep, he was an American tourist. How surprising.

REPLY: Since you hate America and Americans so much, Mark, why don't you move to Europe? (Reply: C'mon Oiznop! You don't know that.) And see what it's like to live under multiple (PC) mandates and controls from the EU. That way you can live on your twigs and berries and tofu. Something tells me you will be squaking back to the USA. Oh, and I am curious. Just how much do you weigh? Hmmm????

As for you, Son of Herb. Don't you wish? I wouldn't give you or any other of you lefty enviro-geeks the pleasure!

DENY DENY DENY THE GL0-BULL WARMING LIE!!!!!

As a footnote, just went to see the Ben Stein "Expelled" movie this weekend. I highly recommend it to our "progressive" friends. Maybe they will learn something!

Hey, another good reason for global warming, Pennsylvania a tropical paradise!!!!

REPLY: Don't I wish, Mary! don't I wish!

Oiznop:
Herb isn't my dad. But the whole thing about being an American is that you have the right to criticize it when it's wrong. And you are not a geek if you believe in AGW. It is this reality you can't face.
KIPP

But the whole thing about being an American is that you have the right to criticize it when it's wrong. And you are not a geek if you believe in AGW. It is this reality you can't face.

REPLY: And the reality that you cant' face, paly, is that we Americans are being taken for a ride with the "go-green" "Glo-BULL Warming" BS! Right to the cleaners by supressing your freedoms through more taxation, regulation and mandates, all disguised as touchee feele trip through junk science. When there are just as many out there if not more stating what I am stating. THAT IT'S A FRAUD! And you are correct, Mr. Alpert. I do have the right to criticize when it's wrong. And what these elitests are doing is wrong. Looks to me like you are the one who needs to open their eyes.

Reply: C'mon Oiznop! You don't know that.

REPLY REPLY: C'mon Brett. All he does is criticize anyone who doesn't follow in goose step with the Glo-BULL Warming crowd. Most American don't, which was proven a poll mentioned on this blog with regard to issues for the election. Just because he ran into one fat guy while in EU who happened to be an American, he has to make a comment assuming that all Americans are overweight lard butts. That is pretty ignorant, if you ask me. Mark and his ilk need to live in a some of these other countries and see what it's like. See what it's like to be told what to eat, or where to smoke, or what fuel source to use, or what car to drive, or what kind of health insurance to uses. Maybe then they will have a better respect for the taken for granted freedoms that they have here.

Oiznup:
Since you have not been to Europe you have it all backwards. Here is where they tell you where to smoke, what car you should buy, what HMO health care you must purchase, and where diabetes is the highest. What you need to do is read a couple of biographies of our founding fathers so you can gain perspctive. This was a free country once, but because of de-regulation, and corporate greed the people will suffer. They say today, is like the day of the robber barons, who built all those mantions in Newport and Long Island. Those are the people that have taken your money. The sub prime mortgage fiasco is just another way of saying Bushed.
KIPP

LOL....the typical right-wing tactic of describing anyone that doesn't believe America is perfect is "anti-American."

The truth hurts, right Oiz? I simply made an observation. An observation that virtually everyone, including "pro-Americans," would agree with: America is fat. Anyone who travels and is an astute observer will notice how much trimmer and fitter people look compared to people in this country. Someone who truly is "pro-American" would be ashamed and embarrassed at this fact, instead of trying to support the indefensible, all in the hopes of appearing to be American nationalists.

Stating facts isn't anti-American.

Mark and his ilk need to live in a some of these other countries and see what it's like. See what it's like to be told what to eat, or where to smoke, or what fuel source to use, or what car to drive, or what kind of health insurance to uses. Maybe then they will have a better respect for the taken for granted freedoms that they have here.

I see no indication from Oiznop's comments that he's been as far away from Pittsburgh as Aliquippa in the last two or three decades. Anyone who thinks that the average European is "told what to eat, or where to smoke, or what fuel source to use, or what car to drive" just hasn't been there. The Europeans I know, and there are many, are aghast at the horrific expense of health insurance in the US, at how few US citizens (especially the working poor) have access to it, and how ignorant the American public is about these abuses.

By the way, Oiz, I haven't seen your reply to my question about "Shiloh". Remember, the "patriot" who wants to do away with elections and keep Bush in office?

I keep waiting for one of your characteristically outspoken rants about the threat Shiloh presents. Surely you agree that the right to elect our president is one of those "taken for granted freedoms" that we have here, right?

You're so quick to pull the trigger against folks like Mark and me -- why so slow with Shiloh?

Are salmon and swordfish vegetables? I didn't know that.

Do a little bit of research and you would find that you could grow tomatoes, lettuce, broccoli, green beans, peas, sweet corn, potatoes, asparagus, beets, carrots and many other veggies right here in PA. Or, if you can't have a garden, buy them at a farmers market and freeze them for winter use. It's not the same as buying them in a plastic bag from Wal-Mart, but they taste just as good, if not better.

Where I live, local farmers grow strawberries, raspberries, grapes, plums, cherries, pears and varieties of apples. Same thing with these. Buy them in the fall and can or freeze them. They taste the same as fresh.

Let's not forget the chocolate products made right here in PA also. But if you have to have chocolate shipped in from Switzerland, hey, more power to you.

Pennsylvania farmers also grow soybeans, cereal grains such as corn, wheat, oats and barley.

I won't even get into all of the meat/dairy products made right here in PA.

Before the age of Wal-Mart, the automobile and MADE IN CHINA, EVERYTHING was made locally. Except of course, oranges, bananas and other tropical foods.

I never said that having a garden or buying local produce was a requirement for everyone. If you do it, great. If not, I really don't care. I'm not saying that we have to live like the Amish. Nobody said we have to go back to living in a "village". Can we be realistic?

I'm not asking to take away anyone's right to have stuff shipped to them from Timbuktu. I'm not restricting anyone's freedom of choice. Make the choice to buy local products before someone in some government office somewhere makes the choice for us.

It's a way to help save fuel, by not shipping everything from China, India or Mexico.

In the simplest of terms - Saving fuel means lower prices, less pollution and no need to shove a carbon tax down our throats.

Well well well, I see our "Progressive Thinkers" are ganging up on old Oiz here. Hmmm. Good! cauz I am soooooo hungry (speaking of diet)! (Sorry Brett. I hate to put you through this. But I have to respond. And defend my country to boot.

This was a free country once, but because of de-regulation, and corporate greed the people will suffer.

REPLY: No No No, Kippy baby. It's because of big government and infringement on your freedoms that will cause the people to suffer. Take a look at you pals in Europe throughout history. Tactics like these (socialism) never worked. They only lead to misery and death among the masses. I fear for this country, especially with what we have running for president. I am very afraid. Afraid that our Consitution is headed for meaningless status.

The truth hurts, right Oiz? I simply made an observation. An observation that virtually everyone, including "pro-Americans," would agree with: America is fat.

REPLY: You didn't answer my question. How much do you weigh? Hmmm? Give it up. We are waiting. And do you have a problem with fat people? Are they a burden on your precious state? Do they not meat your phyical standards? Someone else back in the 1940s had a problem with people who didn't live up to the master race's standards to. By not only ruling with an iron fist through government controls, but by also using force through extermination. But I am sorry, they were just the wrong poeple implementing the ideology. An observation indeed. If you had your way, Marko, you would have everyone eating curds, twigs, and acorns every day.

The Europeans I know, and there are many, are aghast at the horrific expense of health insurance in the US, at how few US citizens (especially the working poor) have access to it, and how ignorant the American public is about these abuses.

REPLY: So naturally, your solution to the problem is more government. Yeah, that's it! Hillary Care. At the expense of the American economy. At the expense of the (evil) American business owner. To spread the wealth. For the common good. Please, spare me the socialist pap.

haven't seen your reply to my question about "Shiloh". Remember, the "patriot" who wants to do away with elections and keep Bush in office?

REPLY: Just what in the bloody heck are you talking about and who is this person? This is America, paly. Where we have presidential term limits. I only stop to wish the same for these p