Quote of the Day - Carbon

The most affordable and politically possible way to deal with coal may be to buy the mines and turn them into parks because anything else that comes close to making coal uneconomical will result in massive, protracted litigation about compensation for a "regulatory taking." The whole legislative conversation about markets, offsets (preserving rain forests, etc.), and carbon capture and sequestration ("CCS") grows out of the fantasy that we can achieve adequate CO2 emissions reductions without shutting down all coal mines and closing many refineries. We can't. Deal with it.

-  Roger Chittum

Roger's reality-based views are always worth a read.  Check it out.

Oil and Water Do Mix . . .

. . .  at the parts per million level.

To put this in perspective, New York city has a population of a bit over 8 million.   So, if 8 illegal immigrants from, say Iceland, scattered in New York City, their concentration would be about 1 ppm.

Not a lot, unless each of them is toxic.  Then who knows what might happen?

Maybe they'd all go to the beach.


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Via HuffPo.

H/T to the Lovely Wife.
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A Terrible Moment of High Irony

Check this out.

Read it and weep.

What the Hell Friday - Trained Dolphins, Monkey Submarines, and the Hot Chick from MythBusters

The Big Polluter formerly known as British Petroleum, then BP-Amoco, now just BP, will always be BRITISH PETROLEUM in our minds and hearts.  This Colbert clip is a few days old, but since the crude spew will probably go on for weeks and months, its not likely to get stale any time soon.

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And if you didn't actually know there was a hot chick on MythBusters: