Captain America, He's Our Hero!

Did You Know?

• We sent $2.6 billion dollars in oil money to Hugo Chavez in July 2007 alone!
• Global Warming also results in more intense hurricanes, malaria at higher altitudes, more frequent wildfires and droughts.
• The oil demands of China are funding the genocide in Darfur
• Even oil producing countries like Abu Dhabi are developing green technology because of its profitability.
• The average American emits five times as much greenhouse gas as the world average.
• China is constructing the equivalent of one large coal-fueled power station per week. Some estimates put it closer to three.
• If the U.S. constructed enough wind farms to fully tap the resources of the Great Plains, the turbines could generate nearly three times the total amount produced from ALL energy sources in the nation last year.
• A simple CFL (compact fluorescent bulb) lasts 10x longer and uses 1/4 the energy of a conventional incandescent bulb.
• If everyone in the US recycled the Sunday paper, we could save over half a million trees every week!

Learn more!! Read the Dems Energy Policy Paper, written by the Legislative Committee!

http://www.harvarddems.com/files/energy-policy.pdf

It's about incentivization, see?

Below, Karen makes an argument using such devices as "facts", "science", "good public stewardship" and "common sense" to illustrate the great danger that the world faces in the form of global climate change.

What she forgot was that such devices pale in comparison to the argumentative device known as "$10,000".

Al Gore: an agent of Satan or Satan himself?

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

More anti-science hand-wringing from the crowd that thinks Bill Nye is a gateway habit on the way to hardcore porn and snorting crystal meth off gay hookers.

How long of a marshmallow-roasting stick do you need to get a nice perfect toast over the smoldering coals of post-Apocalypse Boston?

Budgeting 101

A fine example of logic from Bizarro Land is on display in yesterday's Crimson. I do hope that, following in the footsteps of this genius reasoning, we will soon see an editorial condemning Harvard's flu shot program for students in consideration of the many good researchers working on flu cures who will be so unfairly hit by our greed.