ABC News’s John Stossel, most famous for his “give me a break” tag line, is mad at Al Gore for saying the debate on global warming is over. To prove the former VP wrong, he interviewed several scientists who have a contrary view, including John Christy and Roy Spencer who won NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Achievement for figuring out how to get temperature data from satellites.

“We all agree that it’s warmed,” Spencer told Stossel. “The big question is, and the thing we dispute is, is it because of mankind?” Read more…

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Manufacturing company Moller International has finally made your Jetsons-based fantasies a reality, announcing the production of its new M200G Volantor, a real-life flying saucer, which will set you back around $90,000.

The device can fly no higher than ten feet and can only fit two at a time, but who cares? It’s a frickin’ flying saucer, man!

Still, we can already predict that Al Gore is not going to be pleased. The ship is a bonafide gas-guzzler, consuming 40 gallons of fuel if it travels at a top speed of about 50 mph for one hour. The craft also emits an ear-splitting 85 decibels — with mufflers, this problem can be reduced to a more moderate 65 decibels, according to the company. So cover your ears, kids, the future is loud.

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Despite his image as a bastion of all things liberal, filmmaker Michael Moore was seen by Big Head DC pulling up to the big premiere of “Sicko,” his homage to the pitfalls of the American health care system, in a gas guzzler of a vehicle on Wednesday night.

His not-so-sweet ride, “a crew van, used to make movies,” he told us, caught some of the many progressives in attendance by surprise.

“Maybe he can’t fit in a hybrid,” one onlooker quipped.

“You’d think he’d know better,” said another. “Especially considering he wants Al Gore to run for president.”

Well, here’s a solution: Nobody tell Gore that Moore’s a gas whore! And maybe forget, too, to remind Gore that Moore supported Ralph Nader in 2000.

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Bill Clinton, while discussing his carbon footprint on Brian William’s program tonight, shared that his house in New York “leaks like a sieve.” Guess all the money’s going for Hillary’s campaign nowadays. But housing experts tell BHDC that it would only cost a few thousand bucks to slap a new roof on the ex-President’s residence, which cost $1.7 mil in the ealry 2000s.

“He could probably even get a great deal,” an architecture specialist told us this evening, “if he’s willing to endorse some of the newer brands of energy-efficient shingles.” 

The power couple could even spring for a few solar panels that would further reduce their electricity use after all of Bill’s bulb changing, which we’ve detailed in the past.

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And by the way guys, the toilet paper thing…it was a JOKE!!

So says Sheryl Crow today on her blog.

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Yesterday’s news:

Via Matt Nisbet, I see that Gallup has asked a pretty careful polling question to determine what the public thinks about the hurricane-climate relationship. As I detail in Storm World, some past polls on this question were so poorly worded that few conclusions could be drawn from them.

Now Gallup has done a better job (although hardly a perfect one, as we’ll see) and the results are very interesting

Chris Mooney is Washington correspondent for Seed magazine and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and the forthcoming Storm World. He will contribute to Big Head DC periodically through election 2008.

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Black voters are now finding Barack Obama blacker than Hillary.

John Kerry has revenge on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign financier.

Nancy Pelosi calls President Bush’s thinking “impaired.”

Latest NASA setback: hail.

Fidel Castro is calling into radio shows; says he’s “become a student again.”

“Fuel-gulping jets” remain hot political issue.

Perfect hair plagues Mitt Romney.

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Al Gore elected President of global warming! His first act: goading Oscar from gold to green.

Iraq war still unpopular.

150 years ago Al Sharpton might have been Strom Thurmond’s slave. 

Dick Cheney wants Pakistan to be acting more like Australia in this here war on terror.

Governors have opinions on Election ‘08.

Congress is card checking unions.

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Dick Cheney looks down under for support. He says that “Australia and America share an affinity that reaches to our souls.” Australian war protesters beg to differ.

Prince Harry to do battle in Iraq, despite worries that he’ll put more troops at risk. 

Al Qaeda takes affinity for vlogging to new heights.

Tony Blair’s ditch project receives mixes reviews.

People paid $40 million to hear Bill Clinton talk over the past 6 years. I was paid nothing! 

“Is John McCain a creationist?”

Redemption? Senate turning back the clock to 2002 re: Iraq war resolution.

President Bush may be warming to global warming.

Dirty bomb suspect labeled incompetent.

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Nancy Pelosi has some strict rules (and some craaaaaazy eyes).

Ex-Congressman took gifts, now questions loom about his presence.

New guy focusing on higher ed in the House.

Michelle Malkin is almost as divisive among regular folks as I am among wacky local bloggers.

Al Gore + music = funny.

Happy Birthday, Kim Jong Il!

The Senate’s in session this weekend. (Fuck, does that mean I have to do Big Head Briefs tomorrow?!)

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