Comments on: Grief: It’s what’s for dinner

By: Myth Buster

Myth Buster — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:27:27 +0000

The book is not vegetarian and it is ALL about pleasure and great tasting food. Check it out – You might actually like it.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:11:09 +0000

It could be GW is good for culinary arts. Over at Overcomingbias there is a post up, Toilet Aren't About Dying of Disease. Aparently childrens' health is sufficient to get people to use toilets in poor countries, instead they must make them fashionable. Fashion continues to trump rationality.

Mothers, who didn't have a latrine, could see that their kids were getting sick every week with diarrhea. They were spending money on medicine, and their kids weren't going to school, but they still wouldn't buy a latrine. An academic named Mimi Jenkins discovered that the biggest incentive for someone to buy a latrine in Benin was to feel royal, because the royal family had one. It was a question of pride and status, it wasn't about health. Health messages never work, because nobody wants to be nagged, even when they've got the evidence in front of them. So telling people, "This is where the cholera is coming from," doesn't have as much impact as appealing to their pride? Exactly. It's what I call the "doctors who smoke" understanding of people. Doctors who smoke know it's bad for them, yet they still do it. What a lot of sanitation activists are saying is that we have to make people want toilets. It has to be something they aspire to and desire.

By: Steve M.

Steve M. — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:38:47 +0000

Cattle produce methane, eat more beef, and save the world.

By: ared

ared — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:21:55 +0000

I’m sorry that this is off-topic, but this is the most related recent posting and I couldn’t find a contact form or link-tip form or something. As this site has been interested in the unlikely effects of global warming on different animals, I thought this story would interest you. The headline reads “Climate change is driving increase in tiger attacks,” but reading the story it becomes obvious that poaching, habitat destruction and human stupidity (entering a tiger reserve) are more likely suspects. Increased salinity in the mangrove swamps due to sea water level rise are at best subsidiary (not sure how much the sea level has risen in this area, though)
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn15000-climate-change-is-driving-increase-in-tiger-attacks.html

feel free to remove this post after reading.

By: mr.artday

mr.artday — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:51:53 +0000

I nominate the name “Chicken Little Warm” for the late unlamented positive PDO. The plot for the TZ episode was in a science fiction story I read well before TZ started. I hope they credited and paid the author. In his book; ‘Sex in History’, G. Rattray Taylor described Europe in the Middle Ages as a vast open-air madhouse, based on the religious fanaticism of the times. Everything old is new again.

By: Bill P

Bill P — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:12:58 +0000

Soylent Green is people!!!!!

I wish you wouldn’t do that. ;-)

So, then you’re probably old enough to recall an episode of the Twilight Zone, so, for your perusal, I invite you to consider the following scenario…

Friendly alien visitors taking shiploads of earthlings off to their own world for “tours”, a copy of an alien book is discovered, its title soon decoded, is “To Serve Man”; as the spaceship doors close on our hero, now boarding for the last shipment, his friend and lover yells at him from beyond the railing: “Don’t get aboard. We translated the rest – it’s a cookbook!”

… O.k. forget the aliens with heads the size of shepherd’s loaves. The CONCEPT (Damon Knight’s classic SF story) was good.

With this sense of good taste firmly in mind, I would like to nominate the title of this thread for “BEST TITLE OF ANY THREAD”

It fully covers whatever is in store for the economy, climate and MANKINE. May we be so well served.

REPLY: Bill I remember that TZ episode well, one of the best. And thanks for recognizing the title. It was my third choice. – Anthony

By: Roger Carr

Roger Carr — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:53:37 +0000

Umbongo (08:18:26) writes: “is there anything that is safe from being tied to global warming these days?”
“Science?”
Brilliant (albeit sad), Umbo!

By: Pamela Gray

Pamela Gray — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:44:49 +0000

It took 5 beers to make it. Three in the stew and 2 in the tummy. Which explains the slurred “isss” for “it”.

Or was that 2 beers in the stew and 3….

By: Pamela Gray

Pamela Gray — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:40:27 +0000

Fishing is an activity that is cooling. Especially in Wallowa County. This fall I got quite cool crossing the river so that I could fish the other side. In fact my hoohah got VERY cool cuz I’m short. But is was a squeal well worth the effort. I just made a killer fish stew with beer as the soup base. All it needs is crusty hot bread from the oven and more BEER!

By: Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:03:51 +0000

Pickup trucks, barbecues, rodeos and rattlesnake roundups. A greenie ain’t got no hope at all here in Texas.
If you live here in Texas you just might wanna thank your lucky stars.

By: Jeff Alberts

Jeff Alberts — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:58:07 +0000

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
- Wallace Irwin (1875-1959),
US journalist, humorist.

Birth is the leading cause of death.

By: David Walton

David Walton — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:06:25 +0000

Re: “Hat tip and a carbon free lunch to …”

I prefer my endangered Patagonian toothfish blackened, so carbon free is out.

By: Les Johnson

Les Johnson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:12:14 +0000

Soylent Green is people!!!!!

By: George E. Smith

George E. Smith — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:10:33 +0000

Well any species; intelligent or not, that converts food production resources and energy to something else that we are just going to burn up, doesn’t even deserve to survive.
so I think we should make food the way Mother Nature makes food; out out of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water; in that order.
Haven’t you heard an apple tree scream, when you rip one of her children from her grasp, and kill it with a single toxic bite.

The first recipe in the green cookbook should be how to hold your breath, for three score years and ten.

Second recipe for greenies should be a home recipe for Hara Kiri !

By: Jeff Id

Jeff Id — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:07:03 +0000

What to eat
What to drive
What to believe
What to say

We all know watts up with that.

By: Bobby Lane

Bobby Lane — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:21:28 +0000

Now it’s voluntary, packaged up real nicely in a cookbook. Fun stuff! How long will it be before they make it mandatory, and ban Earth-unfriendly foods from the grocery stores. You may think that is a jest, but from the AGW point of view, there is nothing to extreme to save us from the impending doom of our own making. Nothing.

By: David S

David S — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:37:38 +0000

Well this article certainly has inspired me. All this talk of food has made me very hungry. I think I’ll go out for a steak tonight.

By: Ellie In Belfast

Ellie In Belfast — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:26:55 +0000

Another bible for the fanatics!

I read an interesting article in New Scientist (10 Oct issue) today at lunchtime.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg20026774.400-our-psychology-helps-politicians-bend-the-truth.html

This was not related to climate change, but I read it with AGW in mind and couldn’t help thinking that the same mental processes mean that it is harder to turn the tide of entrenched public thinking.

By: Pierre Gosselin

Pierre Gosselin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:19:22 +0000

HA Reynolds
What about: The Inconvenient Minimum”?

By: M White

M White — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:10:57 +0000

“There are dog cookbook, cat cookbook”

http://www.ooze.com/ooze13/cats.html

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRNzuf7Ttc

Taking it literally