A bit early to be declaring the end of environmentalism. As long as there are people who feel that they have a right to pollute, there will be push back. I don't see how this ad helps Audi.

obvious troll…is concerned…

Soon people will be forced to fart into a test tube for a methane audit and be taxed accordingly.

Robin Zander rocks!

I've got two new endings to that commercial.

First, Dennis Leary in a '67 Camero busts through the checkpoint, a big gorgeous cheeseburger in one hand, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, and flips off the enviro-fascists as he laughs and barrels down the highway.

Second, the smug Audi driver gets a rocket launcher right into the side of his Nazi-approved vehicle. Charlie Sheen stands up from the hillside and yells: "Wolverines!"

Neither ending sells an Audi, but then again, neither did the original.

First they came for the smokers . . .

I thought it was the best Superbowl ad.
Big brother out of control. It should be a wake up call to the fight against tyranny.

Rick Nelson of Cheap Trick has also done work for Michael Moore.

Maybe sophomoric comedy is the way to start ridding our society of this destructive Greening of America onslaught.

But I'm sorry, I must admit that I find it somewhat uneasy the legitimization of the Letterman / SNL / Ron Stewart, etc. having so much influence in shaping contemporary society.

the irony of a green police must be, we are supposed to be a free society, and should be able to make our own decisions for our own reasons. and while it is not a bad idea to conserve if you can, but sometimes conservation does not work. for example, a huge ford pickup truck does not get the fuel economy of a toyota prius, but a prius would have a hard time pulling a trailer full of feed for cattle, or moving horses around to another location (i think the horse would easier pull the prius, than the other way around). i travel in the local area alot, and for me to bring water bottles is better plan, than to try and remember to bring back a reusable bottle, since i may not go back to the same place twice, or it may get ruined by paint or oil. but a green police does not take my plans into consideration.

also a green police assumes you don't pay more for bad decisions. take a hummer, the big ones. one of my busybody neighbors was complaining about another one. they purchased a hummer, and the busybody proclaimed they should pay a gas guzzler tax. i asked her how many miles to a gallon she thought the hummer was compared to her car. she told my car gets real good milage. i then asked her if she knew how much taxes were on gas, she didn't know. when i told her, she was amazed, then i put two and two together for her. if the hummer uses more gas, then they pay more taxes, don't they? then i asked her if it was her business what others choose to drive? then i realized, green zealots never consider other people's plans, or needs.

Too bad Audi isn't worthy of such a fine commercial…

Instilling a guilt trip in our children is the goal of this whole green movement (love the word movement for this). It's all a buncha hoooey. Why is it that Liberals are more concerned with a can tossed into a land fill that has a 200 year lifespan to break down but doesn't give a rip about the debt that will not break down and keeps growing for probably the same time span?

I think we all know the answer to that…

DTOM!
http://RightWingStuff.com

Guess I better start stockpiling incandescent light bulbs, because I HATE the fluorescent ones! The Audi commercial really bothered me, because I already know liberals who have appointed themselves the "Green Police" and who truly believe that we SHOULD have a sort of police force out there to force people to make "environmentally sound" choices. They look at this ad and see the future and applaud. I look at this ad, see the future and am appalled.

The legitimacy of your observation is to be judged by the eye of the beholder. And besides, you're not worth a intelligible response. I'm just playing your game pal…Did I strike a nerve? Thanks for playing…

If there is a will, there is always a way.

If "smart meters" are the rule of the day, I suspect we will see some "smart inventors" rigging a fan blowing over a tub of ice toward the thermostat to fake out the real temperature. Necessity is the mother of invention!

Mickey,….did not the first cave man who started the first fire start to "pollute"

"Push back" like "pollute", are the things the evolution of man is made of .

As far as all the grief you get every time you post,…

You did kinda bring it upon yourself, don't ya think?

i was almost on that frame of mind. i was wondering since methane is a real greenhouse gas, are they going to make people with gastrointestinal issues wear personal methane destruction units? so everytime there is a release, it is ignited so the methane never gets into the atmoshere. then we can tell all the pull my finger jokes, and not worry about poor children suffering from global warming.

Lots of liberals were…their deepest desires were exposed…if we know about them, we can stop them.

Yeah, I'm not sure how Steve Martin could have gotten an incandescent bulb after Congress outlawed them already.

Almost all environmental laws have the end purpose of further future laws. More and more laws until you have a Totalitarian Government. Kind of like Obama and Pelosi want to bring on America.

The commercial was funny and it does show how Liberals don't know when to quit on these types of things. Figures don't lie but liars do figure, (see Al Whore). There will always be the Global Warming scams to tax America, the problem is our own President is complicit in the scam

More right than you know the original Nazi green police were the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police in English) that wore green uniforms and was a under the command of the SS. Count on a German company to bring this back up.

I saw this ad just once the day after the Super Bowl. It was funny, but more scary since there really are folks out here determined to do all that and worse…basically an open-ended push to control anything and everything they don't like.

Nanny Newsom is just a bit player pushed to the forefront by rabid backers who live, and interfere among us.

Interesting that they mention Vietnam's environmental police. In fact, Vietnam is probably one of the least environmentally engaged nations in the region, and the government sponsored bauxite mines are causing serious damage to the region they are located. I'm just back from 2 weeks there, and found it to be less involved in "green" than the United States.

Great ad. Audi buys a spot, and gets tons of free publicity. Brilliant. The other ad I liked was 50-yr-old Brett Favre pondering retirement!

I can feel it coming…

Who's we? You got an Obama in your pocket?

Hope you put fresh batteries in it…!

That had better be an environmentally acceptable, reusable diaper! LOL

"Instilling a guilt trip in our children is the goal of this whole green movement."

So true. We can all have a good laugh at the Green Police in the Audi Spot, but the way the green movement targets kids is despicable. I have a friend whose 12 year old daughter nearly broke down in tears in the grocery store aisle because Mom was buying water in plastic bottles. I've been told by a 6 year old to never let the water run while I'm brushing my teeth because "we have to share water with lots of the earth's creatures." Then her 5 year old friend told me that she hopes that there are still polar bears on earth when she grows up, because right now "they're being killed by global warming."

At this rate, it will be our kids riding those segways, wearing those green uniforms and turning us in for using 60 watt incandescent light bulbs.

sorry, but why does the government need to do this. if you think there is a better way, or better uses, that is what capitalism does. you figure this out, go get some venture capital, and become the next billionaire. why must you assume the government has the ideas. reagan used to say if government is the answer, it must be a dumb question. just like the sham on stem cells. if stem cells were so big, why must the government figure it out, when the private sector has more proven abilities in innovation. trains, cars, and airplanes were not invented by the government, niether was the ipod, or the pet rock. but the idea for the pet rock might have come from the movement of government workers, just sitting there like rocks.

There’s no doubt the ad is funny, but one is left to wonder what Audi’s purpose was?

Audi's purpose was to get people to remember the ad. It seems that they've succeeded very successfully.

The "green police" should focus on Chicago's southside where Obama was the community organizer and other ghettos in those Lib states like Michigan. The commercial wanted to make a point that if you buy an Audi, you are helping to protect the environment but it I didn't even see the Audi because I was too engrossed in the reality of a POLICE STATE coming to your local neighborhood.

Audi missed the mark for sales, but sure brought home the Fascist point and will help us come November.

Anyone else notice that all the perps are white?

Hey, lighten up everyone! This is a chance to laugh at wackos. I notice all the analysis about this and the other Super Bowl ads is deadly serious. Have we lost our sense of (wicked) humor, or what? By the way, isn't that an aardvark sniffing the truck for environmental sins?

First, we had the thought police. Now we have the green police. I see this as another weapon to use against political correctness run rampant.

Occasionally I'll find someone that wants to have a real conversation. As for the verbal abuse, everyone who debates the right has to put up with it. If it were going to intimidate me I would have left long ago. It amuses me when it is really creative.

I've used that name since the mid 90s when I got my first AOL e-mail account and was looking for a name that didn't include numbers. It has just kind of stuck.

The key to reducing atmospheric CO2 is going to involve getting away from burning fossil fuels in our vehicles and for power production. The technology exists, we just need to find the will.

We… you know, this blog. By the way, you know that the things you type today never go away… never. In fact, I suspect that 72 years from now this will all be entered into the public domain and made available for researchers who may have an interest in what kind of people we were… you know, grand kids and great grand kids.

I try and keep that in mind when I post.

He's a rocket man …

So what…We don't need to go 72 years into the future to surmise you're nothing but a bitter troll…Do we?

You never offer anything constructive to any discussion, so please spare me the semantical post judgment of my words.

Maybe we should just outlaw volcanoes while we're at it eh? Tool…

I had a friend who used to call his fantasy baseball team the Dixie Hezbollah, and changed it after 911. No judgment here. Just an interesting name. Certainly memorable.

As for your CO2 point and the fact that the technology exists, we'll just have to disagree. Switching to carbon-free (or even carbon-friendly) technology on the scale and speed that the greens want to do is simply impossible without massive damage to our economy and productivity. No matter the "will." And who's "we"? China and India are not going to walk this plank, making a 100 percent "green" economy in the United States all-but irrelevant to global emissions.

Volcanoes produce less than one percent of the CO2 that humans add by burning fossil fuels.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15...

Good observation there Billy.

Political ideology certainly got in the way of the peace movement of the 60's.

I was on my to Canada but than I saw someone burn our flag.

Being anti war I suppose, was a good thing, but being anti American well now that's not what I had in mind

Went to Ft. Knox instead.

Ooop, sorry folks got off the subject there a tad.

I sold subarus, and also own one (10 yrs so far) and yes, there are alot of lefties that own them. But, you also have the STI's and WRX's that when tuned for more performance, get all of 10-15MPG. The lefties who buy subaru coveniently ignore that fact.

Not surprisingly you fail to mention science.
By the way as you will recall in past blogs i predicted the severity of this winter, the animals told me…
So much for your ridicules global warming the temperatures have been coolling for the past eleven years. Do the research Mik you look foolish.

hell, we used to have reusable diapers. they were called cotton diapers. Once all the hippies started popping out babies, they cried for disposable ones. Now those same people complain about the environment. what rubbish.

That is a good point and a valid political debate. The problem we have is wading through all the misinformation and deciding what actions are we going to take.

The science tells us it is real, it's caused by humans and can only be reversed by finding alternative sources of energy.

Man created CO2 is a few percentage points of what evaporates from the oceans and other natural phenomena Mik.

Because our lovely (not) green Governor Chris! I think its time we recall her. I read and article last night and found out that Washington state is one of the states that can do this. I say we recall her when the she increases our taxes…..

Thanks for the info Deb. I will forward it to my husband as he interfaces with DOE and other agencies in the state often in the construction of windfarms. The Eco Nazi's can be really ugly here even when there is an effort to go over and above state requirements.

The science falls in the dishonest part

As a builder I say green homes are for suckers.
It's all the same stuff with green labels, and tax rebates.
If you build with energy savings in mind you will have a GREEN home and
that hasn't changed in many years probably the 70's.

I'm not sure the lefties are buying the rice rockets. There are a lot of wagons with hopenchange stickers on them though.

Bill, it is tempting to feel the weather change and discount the threat of warming. The unpredictable nature of weather is not going to change. But weather is a regional phenomena that moves around. Global temps are measured at thousands of data collection sites both on land and in the oceans. It is the cumulative affect of all that weather over time that produces global temps…. and they tell us the planet is warming.

I know that much of the green building stuff is junk. More than anything we would like an underground cooled heat pump, southern exposure and some kind of back up system for electricity. We are also looking at a company called Auscrete Homes, they manufacture off site with a light weight concrete. I would like your opinion as a builder of this style. Another reason we like this company is they will work our building plans. I want an Eichler style home which is not practical in the pacific northwest with traditional stick building because of the pitch of the roof. Concrete would handle the rain with the pitch of the roof and also address some of the issues Eichler had as his homes aged.

http://www.auscretehomes.com/index.html

http://www.eichlersocal.com/

Having the potential to produce cars that don't burn fossil fuels is fine, but my point is, having the gov't FORCE us to buy them is a different thing entirely. Manufacturers were forced to produce a certain % of their vehicles to be green by the gov't, or else they pay dearly for it. Do you see no problem with the fact that our Gov't FORCING anybody to do anything in the free-market economy is downright dangerous?

AGW doesn't give us the luxury of waiting until your mood changes. Just like our landfills are filling up and need to be dealt with, our atmosphere requires us to make changes in our lifestyle.

We heard the same complaints when we wanted to take lead out of gasoline or clean up our rivers and streams… and always from the right. None of the terrible things ever happen that you predict, and we are all better off not having to breath in lead and drink contaminated water.

"Global temps are measured at thousands of data collection sites both on land and in the oceans. It is the cumulative affect of all that weather over time that produces global temps…. and they tell us the planet is warming."

Actually, temperatures have been dropping since 1998, one of the many facts the East Anglia climate "scientists" were at a loss to explain…but never mind that now.

You are correct on one thing; climate conditions are not static. 12,000 years ago, the spot where I am sitting now was covered by a sheet of ice a mile thick. Then that ice melted.

When you can explain how the climate warmed that dramatically on its own, since the GOP in particular and modern industry in general had not yet been invented and hence could not be blamed for global warming, I may take your charges that we are somehow making the climate warmer seriously. Until then, there is no reason to believe the "global warming" scare is anything else than an excuse to curb individual freedom.

The "government" is us… We are going to have to make choices as a society if we want our society to survive. We need to marshal the forces of our free market economy to make it work for our survival.

We give up little pieces of our liberty in order to live in a free society. After 911 none of us liked the additional scrutiny we got at airports and other public places, but we accepted it out of a need for public safety. This is exactly the same problem.

Auscrete looks interesting. What about R values? or insulation?
Have you looked at insulated concrete or ICF's.
Definitely the kind of thing I'm into.
Bomb proof and easy to heat.
You're on the right track.
I always say a bad insulation job will cost you everyday, forever.

I bought 3 florescent bulbs.. 2 caught fire.. when i turned them on.. after a couple of months.. the 3rd lasted all of 6 more weeks.. at that time i could have bought 20 packs of regular bulbs for the money I spent. I wonder what the anteater is hitting on when he sniffs the 18 wheeler? anyone know.. I'm sure it was researched and they probably really do have anteaters checking for something in real life.

really, though, you do a disservice to history and the horrifying difference to what we're experiencing and the brute force and military overthrow of Europe in the 30's and 40's. We are largely untouched except in small ways and a lot of this stuff is way in the margins. It's coming, no doubt, but it's not the same.

sorry to be a realist or a downer, but for clarity of what really happened in Germany and Europe, we must keep it clear, as not to get too depressed… In Iran, the protesters are fighting and dying for real. There is a real government crackdown on dissent. Not here really. Keep it in perspective and be ready.

We've still got great opportunities to turn back this progressive tide and smash it on the rocks ( to bits) this fall and thoroughly in 2012. We ARE living in historic times. I'll give you that… just not quite 1939…. just sayin,,

That does it Im buying a scrap tire dump so I can burn it! When the green police come………Im taking all them bastards out with the tires! SCREW THE ENVIRONMENT.

When I was looking on their website I didn't see a number for R value, just a claim that it cuts down on heating costs, next time I talk with them it will be on my list though. My husband and I are only in the stage of looking and discussing different methods and this is the one that stands out to us. We also like the sip building systems, but not sure it will work with they style of home we want. I will be looking into insulated concrete and ICF's, thanks for the suggestions.

Glad to see you didn't pan it. I have a son in law that is in the building trade and he talks down the green products for finishing materials. That is usually what drives the cost of green building through the proverbial roof. I am not interested in anything green for the sake of saving the planet. Just r value, efficiency, and lasting forever. Thanks for your input!

All of the top ten warmest years have occurred since 1997. The warmest being recorded in 2005. This decade that ended in 2009 was the warmest in recorded history.

No one on either side of the debate has ever suggested that climate conditions are static. Most of us have accepted that the climate is warming, and we debate about what is causing it and what can be done about it.

The science tells us that man is causing it and we do it by burning fossil fuels. Deniers tell us that it can't possibly be caused by humans because, well, I guess because they don't want to deal with the implications…. which are, if we are causing it, we need to stop it.

I'm not familiar with the "GOP" acronym. But CO2 is not the only climate driver and previous warm periods have been caused by a variety of natural phenomena.

The IPCC does not believe that the Medieval Warm Period was a global event and may have been limited to Northern Europe and North America. From proxy tree ring data they believe global temps were significantly lower than in the 20th century.

the technology doesn't exist in the fashion that solar and wind would be able to supply what we need without it being prohibitively expensive. If it was fiscally possible, a private company would have made more strides into the field. As of now, only with govt subsidies can solar or wind give us even a small fraction of our energy supply. Now, if you want a proven method to supply energy – we must look at nuclear.

I heard that in Connecticut they already have wack jobs looking through your garbage as it sits curbside to make sure that you disposed correctly.

The IPCC you are joking? You even mention the IPCC when talking to me, I just lost all intellectual respect for you Mik and will no longer wast my time in this discussion.
Have a nice day.

Forget it Vivi

Mickey has his marching orders… USA CO2 is the death knell of humanity.

"The IPCC does not believe that the Medieval Warm Period was a global event and may have been limited to Northern Europe and North America. From proxy tree ring data they believe global temps were significantly lower than in the 20th century."

In citing the now thoroughly discredited IPCC of "climategate" infamy to support your position, you just surrendered whatever credibility you had.

That's a shame Bill. But thanks for playing.

The science is what it is, whether you choose to believe it or not. We can show you the way but there is no convincing a denier.

Volcanoes contribute one percent of the amount of CO2 to the atmosphere that man does by burning fossils. http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15...

The trees were doing just fine before we began burning fossil fuels. In fact, the biggest threat to tress is us cutting them down. And that just makes the CO2 problem worse.

from an advertising point it is brilliant. you all missed the point. advertising is to get attention to a product. NO other super bowl ad has been discussed like this ad. Rush played it to his audience of millions. I linked it to http://www.campaignforliberty.com Audi got millions of dollars of bonus advertising. free. and for a great product that really is the right answer. the answer to the problem of importing oil. Frugal high mileage economy to boot. I plan to buy one.

My 10 year old Subaru Forester (non-turbo) gets all of 18-19 mpg. My 10 year old Chev Monte-Carlo gets 23-25.
The leftist types are misled if they think AWD is a gas saver.

The freakin' Ocean puts off over 97% of all CO2 emissions. Should we drain the Oceans? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo

Let us accept at face value the notion that we are destroying our world and we here in the USA are the #1 cause as a result of our LIFESTYLE.

I make no claims to be scientifically astute, however, I do believe that it was 20th century technology that solved, for the most part, 19th century problems.

Thus, I make the wild assertion that it will be 21st century technology that will solve 20th century problems.

Correct me if I am wrong here folks, but does it not take research and development to create technology.

The last time I saw, research and development is an expensive exercise.

Can someone deny that it has been the USA who has footed the lions share of this expenditure.

So this is the quagmire we find ourselves in…,

Our economy is dependent, in large measure, on maintaining our LIFESTYLE…

We need tax dollars to fund research and development…

We need a strong economy to generate the amount of tax dollars needed for this research and development.

Hence we must maintain our…….LIFESTYLE

I have complete faith that long before the Himalayas are melted, long before the last polar bear has devoured his last seal, long before the Atlantic ocean makes up the shores of Cleveland…

We will come up with the solutions and we will live to evolve another day with the only thing to do is…

Provide the 22st century with 21st century problems.

Liberals!… Tear down this repressive wall.

You're so full of crap. The Oceans have been emitting CO2 long before the Industrial Age. How someone of even a slight modicum of intelligence can follow this warped train of thought, which has discredited itself, is beyond belief. Get back on Google, and don't cherry pick, use the latest data. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo

Give up little pieces of our liberty to live in a free society? That dosen't even make sense! If you give up 'little pieces of liberty' there is no longer a free society, wow, just wow.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo

Environmentalism is not science, it is religion — it is the worship of the earth and non-human animals as being supreme to humans and our needs. Forcing citizens to embrace Environmentalism is no different than forcing them to embrace a particular mainstream religion. My point is that it is not the role of the govt to legislate morality by forcing one group's religious beliefs on another group that does not share said beliefs.

Environmentalists, if you want to go live in a cave and walk everywhere you go and only eat and wear leaves, have at it. I'm a libertarian and have no intention of stopping you, but don't dare try to force your belief system on me through coercion and taxation.

(Btw, I feel the same about any religion trying to force its beliefs on me via govt coercion. Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.)

You may wish to check out Philip V Brennan's article on climate change as one of the studies that suggest we would be crazy to destroy modern civilization over the debunked lies of the IPCC.

A very good article exposing the lies of the Global Warming Mafia: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/the_end_of...

July, mika, July. You can't site the NASA evidence as credible evidence anymore, they really also on faulty stats. How can you ignore all of the evidence exposing the faulty 'science' of 'Global Warming'? The false belief of the Himalayan glaciers was based on 1 persons paper written as a thesis paper for college, for crying out loud!! The retractions are coming on a weekly basis from the 'Warmers". I gotta' go out for a while, I'll be back later and cite some links for you, k? Don't worry, I'll drive fast and keep the windows down, even though we have temps 15-20 degrees below average right now for Ohio, just so I can burn more fossil fuels. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo

The subject was in the news just a couple of months ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/0911...

You give up a little piece of your liberty every time you agree to be scanned at the airport or abide by the posted speed limits. It's just a price we pay to live together in civil society.

Of course it's meant to be a little over the top but given the state of the world these days just about anything could happen.

While it is not Poland 1939 just yet we are a stone's throw away and all it would take is just one bad move on either side to set if off.

I usually am a bit over the top but are we ever not on the brink of absolute failure, I never put anything past the "one world progressives and yes they are in BOTH parties now.

Just look at Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, John McCain and Lyndsay Graham never a better definition of RINOs and incrementalism…

We have let this happen by being lulled to sleep over the past 100 years and it's time that every one opened their eyes to ALL possibilities, not you in particular but the nation as a whole.

Just sayin'…

Green police coming after my light bulbs huh? Maybe I'll let em have a few copper coated lead balls while their at it. I hear they're bad for your health. Besides, I don't much like their uniforms, they could use a splash of red to gussy em up a bit.

Didn't I read some where that the compact fluorescent are ten times as toxic as incandescent bulbs?

A very narrow range of CO2 conditions? Let me educate you a little about earth's history with regard to CO2…

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS...

As the graph at this site shows, taking into account the time period starting in the Cambrian (that's over 500 Million years ago) to the present, we are presently in a CO2 *deficient* environment. There has only been one other time in earth's history where CO2 levels have been this low (back in the Carboniferous to Permian era). This "narrow range of carbon" that you're concerned about goes up to 7000 ppm. That's right, 7000, not 700, and definately well above our current 380 ppm. Also, there was plenty of life in the Cambrian, when the CO2 levels were up at 7000, both animal and plant, and temperatures didn't soar to levels where the earth got fried. They were warmer (22 degrees C rather than the current 14-15 degrees C), but life on earth flourished.

We have to leave them up so our grand kids and great grand kids 72 years will know how to identify a classic moonbat.

As they're paying off Dr. Utopia's debt they'll be interested to know that they have fools like Mikatrollah to thank for it all.

Yes Mika, they are so concerned they are telling us while they are flying around in their private jets and burning more juice in a month in their mansions than the average family does in a year.

What a tool.

Gee Whiz, sounds like the IPCC!

They didn't "sell out" it is called making money… you know capitalism!

And as long as there are people who think it should be a crime to throw an orange rind into a garbage disposal there will be dissent from folks like me who were minding our own business. That's not just an Audi joke, SanFran made it a crime to throw away "compostable" (and they made fun of Bush's words?) material. Kiss my biodegradable butt. Plastic I can see, but I am not a threat to the environment, I'm part of it. I'm a member of the animal kingdom right along with the snow geese, spotted owls, and timber wolves. The fact that I got a leg up in natural selection over my competition is PART of the natural order, and hubris inspired attempts to handicap myself and my species out of some artificial sense of superiority and/or self loathing is unnatural and wrong.

for a crowd big on evolution and hard on bible-thumping, y'all sure talk like you're more than hairless apes with a gift for tool use.

What a bunch of nonsense. Make a point.

Yeah, I tried the CFL's, and had to switch back to incandescent bulbs for the lamps I actually USE.

Fluorescent light cycles at 60 hertz, the frequency of the outlet. Reading by that light causes eyestrain. Incandescent light is a constant glow.

What is the name of this new petition? I have a masters degree and 25 years experience dodging thunderstorms… probably qualifies me to be a "concerned scientist" by their standards. Maybe I'll sign it.

BTW if you find it insulting I assure you sir, you only insult yourself. You've always made it clear enough that you're a shill for the left. Rather than articulate it I cut straight to the chase: tool.

Anyway, what about your boy Olbermann, is he a conservative? Sharpton? Matthews? Gibbs? Obama? You progressives always think your shit smells so damned pretty.

Lot of anger there for an "arbitrary alias". But you answered my question. You are indeed incapable of a civil conversation.

Your hate is going to consume you if you let it.

"Hate hate HATE!" Another classic leftist tactic, anyone who disagrees is a hater. I only hate one thing in this world, and that's terrorists. Well, two things, the second being pedophiles.

With you guys it's more like shadenfreude tinged with pity. You have so much sand in your vag it's impossible for me to resist the urge to poke a bit of fun at you.

You're on BIG GOVERNMENT advocating BIG GOVERNMENT, what do you expect? You cry about it now but it gives you a sense of validation. How do I know you like it? You couldn't go five minutes without responding to my last post.

Fair enough alias… I enjoy poking fun too.

But everybody hates terrorists and pedophiles. There must be more to your unhappiness. What about liberals? homosexuals? How about Nancy Pelosi? You gotta hate Nancy Pelosi… I think that is in the teapartiers oath of office.

Some environmentalists treat environmentalism like a religion, but there is such a thing as environmental science that like other sciences observes natural phenomena, records and analyzes data, tests hypotheses, and publishes findings. If people ignore those findings, they will live with the consequences. The job of those in power should be to educate, not to police.

Drama queen much? I'm wondering just how your dissent has been stifled and when the stifling of dissent started and by whom? I think people who live under real oppression by real tyrants would read a post like this and not know whether to laugh or cry.

Now that's what I like to hear. I have to give you credit, didn't think you'd respond.

Now, with the homosexuality, there you go again: "hate hate HATE!" I don't care how someone gets their jollies as long as it doesn't involve children or rape.

I've always thought you guys are strangely preoccupied with race, gender, and sexual orientation. Seems like the progressives believe if a person isn't middle class and white, they aren't really a person at all, they are defined by their race, gender, sexual orientation.

All the feakin Modern Druids… you know you secretly love the idea of "Green Police", your just pissed because you were all called on it! lol… I might just have to go out and buy an Audi

Come on Randy, you didn't like the Kia Toys (How You Like Me Now?) ad? That was awesome. It had a giant sock monkey riding a mechanical bull, getting a tattoo and doing barrel rolls on sea-doo. How can you not love that? Watch it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJqs3D2vv4I

You love it, don't you?

How is a governmental agency which has a vested interest in promoting GW in order to maintain funding the gold standard for climate data? Only in your mind.
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They would probably cry because they didn't have the guts to speak the truth when it absolutely mattered and as far as being oppressed, "the one" is doing it every day.

He's scum!

"But I live in a state, California, which recently:
* proposed fining and jailing people for the crime of driving with under-inflated tires;"
Uhmmm….. a little late on this post. As a truck driver i know that their are truck scales that use infrared to check tire heat and detect low tire pressure. Pull to to the right and bring in your paperwork!

When the commercial was over, all of us in the room just sort of looked at each other in silence.
Even the liberals were put at unease with a possible glimpse into a future no one wants.
Then someone in the room yelled, "Vote Conservative" and we were all good again…

"GOLD standard"??? Mika, baby, you seem to be unaware of any of the climate-gate stories that have surfaced in the past few weeks…or you're just in complete denial of them. Don't get me wrong…I'm a big fan of NASA's great accomplishments in space exploration (and there are many), but I'm also aware of some of it's bureaucratic bungles, one of which, I think, is it's promotion of AGW.

Mik many of us want to be good stewards of the environment, I for one am an indigenous American it's in my blood. Unfortunately political ideology seems to get in the way of things like logic and science.

Missed it game day. First time I saw it. Cute.

'Landfill problems'…recycling helps the environment. More eco-mythology. We're not running out of landfill space, and modern landfills are built and maintained to strict standards, with a large amount of the waste methane used for power production. Recycling itself is a huge waste of resources: energy, water, time, manpower & money. Plastic products are less costly & more efficiently made from the source. Trees for paper production are mostly grown on farms, and, therefore, renewable. Only metals are worth recycling, as mining the ore is very resource intensive.

"The IPCC has more important things to do than debunk deniers."

Given that the entire reason for the IPCC's existence is "proving" the existence of global warming, I would expect answering the evidence of large-scale fraud that occurred there would be pretty high on the IPCC's to-do list.

When I lived in NYC, until June '09, we were forced to recycle, under penelty of law. Sanit police would sometimes look through sidewalk trash, set out for pickup, and give fines for 'mixed/contaminated garbage/recycling'. For that reason, I complied with the law…and I did it properly, by making sure that cans, jars & bottles were clean (I didn't want any odors or vermin attracted). The city had separate crews dispatched to pick up the trash & recycling. I thought it was a waste of resources & taxpayer $$, but I contributed to it anyway…mostly for the aformentioned fines.
Now, we live in Northern VA, where we drop off trash & recycling at the county dump, which is 5 minutes away & right near I-81. Being that it's fairly convenient, I feel that I'm not wasting too much of my own resources (i.e. time & gas). But I'd still rather just do the metals.

I was in college when Time Magazine announced the coming of the next ice age. Like most Americans I didn't pay much attention because it was not backed up by any science. A recent survey of the scientific literature from the time showed that 44 papers predicted warming, 7 predicted cooling and 20 made no predictions about the future of the climate. So even in the middle 70s when cooling news made it into popular culture, the guys who study this for a living were warning of warming.

The predictions about the severity of hurricanes doesn't change the scientific fact that our climate is warming. It carries with it the possibility that severe weather events like hurricanes could be more frequent and more severe, but since they are weather events there are never any guarantees.

At a minimum we should all be doing the metals. Where I live in Texas we have to pay for the privilege of recycling. It is all done by a private company because our citizens don't want to be bothered.

1939 Poland? How are we situated the same Adrienne1001? What country is our U.S.S.R. to our east and what country is our is our Nazi Germany to our west? Which two countries will agree to divide the United States? I trust you will provide the correct answer.

There you go again…equating anti-'Green Policers' with polluters. I'm all for a clean environment. I just have issues with those riding on their high horses (and in their own fleets of SUVs & private jets), trying to convince (and FORCE) the rest of us that we have to live our lives a certain way, in the guise of "saving the planet". CFLs are, I think, a good example of forcing an agenda on the populace that won't help the environment. They're loaded with mercury and will eventually number in the billions in households around the world (through legislative banning of incandescents). Will everyone follow the rules and dispose of them properly, and clean them up correctly when (not if, mind you) they break? I'm guessing not, with the result being an incredible increase in levels of contamination worldwide. I seem to recall that was a big issue not too long ago, with steps taken to reduce it. Now, perhaps all for nought.
I'm stocking up on the incandescents, and hope that the price of LED lights (a more viable alternative) will come down soon

We need to take action now and make it economical for power companies to clean up their effluent and car companies to build cleaner cars. They are not going to volunteer.

Climategate was a handful of stolen e-mails taken out of context by the right and in no way change the science or the data of climate change.

"Look at the example of WWII. When we have to, we can stuff a lot of development into a short period of time. "

Which is why that long-awaited cure for cancer was invented as soon as the need for it was recognized?

The fact is, just because we, or rather you, want something to be invented does not mean it can be invented. There are major technological bottlenecks preventing the invention of many so-called "green technologies", and all the will power in the world does not change that.

Go back and read some more Nietzche while you dream about making all us peasants conform to your dictates.

Doesn't matter how many times you repeat a lie, it's still a lie.

genius! don't give them any ideas, LOL!

Hey, FinderFlynn,

And BTW what do you mean by "if he had the choice"? If he's so powerful, what's preventing him from oppressing his opponents? What choice does he not have?

Sorry. This is my thing. I'm not an Obama supporter, but I want people to have cogent arguments.

Greetings. When I saw this ad during the game, I thought for sure it would turn out to be sponsored by some freedom loving group issuing us a warning for what is on the way. I hate the ending. The envirofanatics are as bad as the Catholic church hierarchy who closed their eyes rather than look through Gallileo's telescope to see the earth is not the center of the universe. I for one will not give up my freedom. I sincerely believe we are in a fight for our lives.

I knew it. It's about time the sock monkey started getting some play. I had one when I was a little girl about 35 years ago. Now I have one named Walter sitting on my toy shelf.

Oh hell yeah. Actually it's an entire bookshelf. One shelf is filled with wind-up toys. One shelf is filled with antique tin toys (drum playing panda, rocket ship, top, music box, ray gun, etc.). One shelf is filled with nostalgia toys (sock monkey, marbles, jacks, slinky, pick up sticks etc.) One shelf is filled with hockey stuff. And the last shelf is still open. Plus my hall closet has toys. I have matchbox cars and action figures and stuff like that. And I have wind up toys that go in my bathtub. Those are awesome.

Yeah, I might have issues. But at least I'm a hell of lot more fun than Mikatollah or that bigot who's always whining about Israel.

You're right…LOL

"I don't believe there are 8000 scientists who dispute AGW theory."

Two flaws with this line of reasoning by mikatollah:

First, he is making an argument on faith, i.e. "I don't believe…"

Second, even if his numbers are correct, he is making the popularity=correct fallacy. Most scientists said Galileo was wrong about the earth orbiting the sun. Majority opinion does not automatically mean "the debate is over", as our Dear Leader loves to put it.

Perhaps a tad extreme….but any form of "Green Police" who try to pull any of that crap around this old buzzard's "personal space" will discover the wonderful attributes of a well placed 00 buckshot astringent facial. I am too old to give a damn, and still young enough to rack rounds. I have had it with being told how to live by people who have no idea what it's like to just be happy to be alive. I have been to countries where people did what they were told just to stay off the radar, and then watch as their neighbors were taken away for thinking something against the prevailing attitudes of the day. Screw the Green Police. They pull that crap at my place and they will have to figure out a way to get incandescent light bulbs out of their arses, and help carry off the ones who didnt appreciate a warning shot. I simply dont care. What can I get, life? LOL…four years at most…in the prison hospital. Oh well, free health care at last…..assholes.

i wanna play

Actually, I'm kind of psycho about it. The shelf toys are only for grown-ups and the hall-closet toys are for kids. I've spent years collecting and filling the shelf. I've traveled all over the world gathering those treasures. They are my most prized possessions.

The holy grail, however, is the sock monkey I grew up with. He's almost 40 years old. My grandmother is still looking for him. But I'm afraid he's probably gone.

Not to worry there 'strawguy'

Long before the last anything happens….

Somebody at an M.I.T. research lab will come up with the solution…

Thanks to the huge gov. grant as a result of the taxes collected as a result of the robust American economy.

"We chose to go to moon. not because it is easy, but because…."

A successful ad is not based on how much audience response it generates. Its based on if it helps sell the product and enhance the company (audi's) image. I think it failed miserably there as it offended both the tree huggers and the tree cutters.

So now Audi is on the don't buy list, along with GM. But its actually a pretty darn good car with that turbo diesel-especially compared to the GM volt POS. But based on principals of it being the Green Car of the year and this ad, it is off my list.

Environmentalism with a capital E is not the same as environmental science. If it's actual science, it should be completely divorced from anyone with any power to make policies or coerce citizens or businesses into doing anything. As soon as science marries politics it stops being science. Environmentalism is an excellent argument for why the govt should have absolutely no roll in sponsoring scientific research. We need a separation of State and Science just like we do State and Church and State and Economy.

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People don't obey the speed limit just because you post it. You have to enforce it.

Your agenda is clear from your choice of talking points. Do you think this is the first time I've heard right wingers complain about mercury in light bulbs? Hardly. It's always about resisting the change to more efficient energy sources. You are no different.

We are not forced to recycle, so the vast majority of us do not.

"Your agenda is clear from your choice of talking points." OK, so you won't specify what I've said…just keep being completely vague about it to make your own. Let me try another question that you'll probably avoid: Do you think that there WON"T be a mercury problem as a result of CFL propagation?
I'm all for changes to increasing efficiency in new products and energy production…so long as they really work (at a reasonable price) and don't end up causing more problems that must be fixed at a later date and at a higher cost. I support conservation of all resources. That includes reducing electrical consumption to lessen the load on the grid, thus reducing the chances of brownouts & blackouts.

OK, but that's dependant on people actually bringing them in to be recycled. Radio Shack collects batteries, Home Depot/Lowes collects CFLs…that's all fine & well. But what about all of the broken bulbs (and there will be many)? I think most people won't be bothered with proper clean up.
My point is that this isn't all that necessary. Argon bulbs do not pose a toxic threat. They can be used with a dimmer, which admittedly doesn't save electricity (but could extend the life of the bulb), while 3-way bulbs can (while giving the consumer a choice of wattages for their need).
CFLs can't meet any of that criteria, while still containing one of the most toxic natural elements known. I still think that their usage will undo years of clean-up efforts.
If you think that cutting down on one's electrical demand will help 'save the planet', fine. Just TURN OFF the lights, TVs, PCs, etc that you don't need at the moment.

Lol, so much hyperbole! So clean a clean diesel ad ……. <magical number of unrealistic steps>….. = Fascist Eco State? Bottom line is as resources go scarce, you either will pay more for things like garbage service or see programs like composting designed to reduce landfill waste.

As for SF, what you are complaining about is one extra green bin to put out on trash day. The bin will contain compost materials, and residents are not required to actually compost, just throw compostables into a green bin. No fines until June 2011, and only for egregious cases. In terms of a Fascist "slippery slope", i would direct you to things like the Patriot Act and FISA. I guess we are all free to fantasize about an Eco Fascist State, but there is actually other real stuff to be concerned about.

hopefully people can make smart decisions without the benefit of education and thoughtful reflection. if they can't green police are a good move to protect our ecological resources.