"Huge Climate Change Protest"

Heh.

Meanwhile, Miles has a message that I totally agree with:

Comments

[Houdon]

I'd prefer he burn some locally sourced coal.

[Tribbett = Très Bête]

Maybe you are like your ignorant Hollywood friends who think you do not need coal-fired power plants because you can just get power from the plug!

So tell us about your college degree again?

[Petroboy]

Ever heard of the petrodollar? It's not as simple as just not buying foreign oil. We stop buying oil from OPEC and our dollar is instantly crippled and the country crumbles along with it.

[Miles will never hold elected office]

"Pendragon X, great comparison. One man fiddled while a major American city drowned, leaving more than a thousand people dead. The other pointed out Bush had advance knowledge 9/11 was coming, which he did. Virtually the same thing."

Miles Grant.

http://www.bluevirginia.us/2009/09/thoughts-on-van-jones-resignation.html?showComment=1252264790710#c458781181357849226

[Phil Chroniger]

Well, he could have a nice natural gas heating system. Or he could have an electric heating system supplied by nuclear energy.

Ohh, wait, silly me...he wants to limit our sources of energy! Gotcha...

[dr_cathy]

aren't those christmas tree lights in the back left hand corner? couldn't be running on coal fired electricity, could it? hhhmmm. i bet he's enjoying those lights, eh.

and, is it a "live" tree that he'll plant in the spring? or fake? or one of those hauled from some farm in Appalachia that will be thrown to the curb when he's done with it. oh wait, Fairfax has recycling of trees, right?

the audacity!

[Just liking these fireside chats]

I have noticed that your facts seem to be a bit off. Not that you are trying to scare or scam us from your fireside chat. The last 20 years have seen more snow as a volume than the last 50. Furthermore, most of the warmest records are from more than 50 years ago which does seem to melt your statement.
Here are the area records for the last year and the records respectfully. My data is from Weather.com where is your data from?

Jan 42°F 27°F 35°F 3.21 in. 79°F (1950) -14°F (1881)

Feb 47°F 30°F 38°F 2.63 in. 84°F (1930) -15°F (1899)

Mar 56°F 37°F 46°F 3.60 in. 93°F (1907) 4°F (1873)

Apr 66°F 46°F 56°F 2.77 in. 95°F (2002) 15°F (1923)

May 75°F 56°F 66°F 3.82 in. 99°F (1991) 33°F (1906)

Jun 84°F 65°F 75°F 3.13 in. 102°F (1874) 43°F (1897)

Jul 88°F 70°F 79°F 3.66 in. 106°F (1930) 52°F (1933)

Aug 86°F 69°F 77°F 3.44 in. 106°F (1918) 49°F (1986)

Sep 79°F 62°F 71°F 3.79 in. 104°F (1881) 36°F (1904)

Oct 68°F 50°F 59°F 3.22 in. 96°F (1941) 26°F (1917)

Nov 57°F 40°F 49°F 3.03 in. 86°F (1974) 11°F (1929)

Dec 47°F 32°F 39°F 3.05 in. 79°F (1998) -13°F (1880)

I look forward to your reply with facts that are not as soft and fungible as marshmallow statements

[The Green Miles]

You know in I Am Legend, when Will Smith's character has to go into the vampire house to save his dog? It's dark, it's scary, there's a dead animal in the corner, and you want to get out as soon as possible?

That's what the comments section of NLS is like.

[Houdon]

Green Miles, I wish your sentiment extended to all of Virginia, not just this comments section. I have a long list of enviro-obsessed folk you could take with you. That list currently begins with the silly plaid-clad fellow in the video above.

[HisRoc]

Miles,

Don't get all huffy just because reasonable people don't share your irrational fanaticism which prompts your "creative" use of facts.

"Arlington has only reached its average winter snowfall in three of the past 20 winters."

Oh really? Well, then maybe you can explain why three of the six largest snowfalls in the greater Washington area over the past 130+ years of weather record-keeping have occurred in the past 14 years (1996, 2003, 2009)?

You see, Miles, snowfall amounts are about as good an indicator of climate change as the number of acorns on an oak tree. There might be some vague correlation, but that is about it. Rather, the point of your little video seems to be to refute those who point to last weekend's winter storm as a rebuttal of "global warming." Nice try, smart guy. You are as ham-handed and clumsy as the climate change deniers.

By the way, you are not a "environmental activist." An environmental activist would have finished higher than fourth out of five candidates in an Arlington Democratic primary. You are a self-appointed, unelected, environment huckster.

[Larry Sabato's Hairpiece]

Does Miles have a scrubber on his chimney? After all, his fireplace fun is polluting the rest of Arlington. As it turns out, burning wood is not such an environmentally-friendly concept. Evidently the folks in California are concerned about it. From the New York Times recently:

"Such restrictions could extend to periodic bans on burning wood or manufactured logs in fireplaces, too, as the San Francisco Bay Area has done. The agency that monitors air quality there said it would ban wood fires on Christmas because of predictions for cold, still weather. Residents who want to watch a burning Yule log will have to resort to television."

"In Northern California, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has relied on neighbors to report violators, as well as the so-called fireplace police — teams of inspectors who fan across the region on ban days looking for chimney smoke. People caught burning wood get a warning for the first violation and a $400 fine for the second. Last winter, the district got more than 1,400 complaints from the nine counties it monitors."

After all, burning wood creates fine-particle pollution.

You see, the reality is, that if you want energy and heat, you are going to damage the environment. Those wind turbines? They need rare-earth metals for their turbines that come from environmentally devastating mines in China. Every action has consequences and creating energy--releasing energy from energy sources--all comes with some risk and some pollution.

[Phil Chroniger]

Miles, I know you would love nothing more than to go to a comments section and see nothing but people agreeing with you, but alas, that is not how the world works.

And yes, you'll find that many parts of the world are like that scene in I Am Legend for you if you step outside and stop living in your box. "Why?", you may ask? Simple...there are a LOT of people who disagree with you for a LOT of valid reasons.

[Phil Chroniger]

Oh, and why do we have a Kaine Alert going on?