Jane Lubchenko is Barack Obama’s pick for administrator of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. National Review Online found out that Ms. Lubchenko will be dumping carbon into the atmosphere so she can balance her work/family life. How nice for her.
In the e-mail, Menge is enthusiastic about the appointment, but he also mentions the “the hardships it will impose on us and our academic family.” Their solution? “The plan is for her to be in WDC and me to remain in Oregon at OSU, with frequent weekend trips back and forth,” Menge writes. For the record: A single roundtrip between Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C., emits just under a ton of carbon, and a bit more than a ton if there is a layover in between. The roundtrip from the university to the airport is another 185 miles by car.
One could end there by acknowledging how understandable this is – after all, conservatives are not the only ones who place greater stock in familial bliss and human comfort than in fears of climate change and the alleged havoc it will wreak. Even a liberal marine biologist who has written extensively on the effect of global warming on marine life is not willing to let such truths inconvenience or harm her family. Read full article.
This is just another example of liberals “do as I say, not as I do” BS the media can ignore. We should get used to it because it isn’t going to change any time soon.
[...] In the e-mail, Menge is enthusiastic about the appointment, but he also mentions the “the hardships it will impose on us and our academic family.” Their solution? “The plan is for her to be in WDC and me to remain in Oregon at OSU, with frequent weekend trips back and forth,” Menge writes. For the record: A single roundtrip between Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C., emits just under a ton of carbon, and a bit more than a ton if there is a layover in between. The roundtrip from the university to the airport is another 185 miles by car. Read the full post here… [...]
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