The Seattle Mariner’s show respect to their legions of LOLCAT fans with Cheezburger Night.
It’s a Cheezburger Night wif the Seattle Mariners!!!1! (Safeco Field on Thursday, July 9) Bring awl of ur frends and familee 2 dis fun event. We will haz sum awesum pre-game festivitiez and u can meet sum noo Cheez Frends! And if u buy ur tickets thru dis speshul offer, u git a FREE Cheezburger Nite t-shirt! Woo hoo!!1!! C u awl der!
The WSJ has an opinion peice by Bjorn Lomborg, warning against the “Climate-Industrial Complex”. He notes that over the past few years, a number of energy corporations have begun heavy lobbying to form environmental policy that results in questionable environmental gains but are very lucrative to the companies involved. Part of that is engendering a hysteria around global warming such that the populaces will encourage their politicians to do anything, so long as it’s something. He notes that a company called Vestas, the world’s largest wind-turbine manufacturer, funds a CNN segment called “Climate in Peril”. One wonders what would be said of a segment called “The Earth’s Amazing Resilience” funded by Exxon-Mobil.
There is a lot of money in the ironically named Green movement, but very little actual environmentalism at the policy level. I have a nasty feeling that if the environmentalists like Al Gore actually have their way, the environment will actually get worse, and there won’t be anyone independent of the policy makers left to agitate for sound environmental policies.
