Is
Global Warming a Sin? - Alexander Cockburn - In a couple of hundred
years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human
contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the
tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. (04/26/07)
Accusations
That Global Warming Is a Rip-Off - People who are spending big money
trying to cut their contributions to global warming may be getting ripped
off. The Financial Times reports corporations and individuals are coughing
up millions of dollars on carbon-offset projects that are in some cases
worthless, and in others make little if any difference to the environment.
(04/26/07)
Keep
a cool head in the global warming debate - By Scott Smith, for the
Capital - A recent episode of the popular TV drama "House"
centered on the psychological phenomenon of human hysteria. In the show,
people were led to believe certain physical symptoms indicated the presence
of a serious illness and, true to human nature, many people then began
to experience them exactly as described. While it was greatly exaggerated,
the show was entertaining and provocative in its portrayal of human
suggestibility. In that context, and with the celebration of Earth Day
just a few days ago, it would seem like a good time to consider what
appears to be a growing alarmism about climate change, or human-generated
global warming. Recently, some people have even attributed storms and
other normal weather phenomenon to global warming, and dire predictions
have been made about the future. However, even though pretty much everyone
agrees that we need to be good stewards of Earth and environmental awareness
may be at an all time high, there still appear to be many significant,
unanswered questions about the entire concept of climate change. (04/26/07)
Global
warming debate 'irrational': scientists - Stephanie Stein - The
current debate about global warming is "completely irrational,"
and people need to start taking a different approach, say two Ottawa
scientists. Carleton University science professor Tim Patterson said
global warming will not bring about the downfall of life on the planet.
(04/26/07)
Global
warming goes down the toilet - Mick Swasko - Don't peg me as a horrible
person, but I am not ultra passionate about global warming. I've been
yelled at for throwing plastics in the paper bin, and paper in the trashcan.
I leave lights on when I leave the room, and let the water run full
blast when I am shaving. I am not proud of this. In fact, I am probably
one of the people that the environmentally conscientious will shout
"I told you so" at when we are all becoming one with the Atlantic
and Pacific. I make no excuses for my wasteful behavior. However, I
believe myself, just like many others who revel in giving Mother Earth
a black eye, don't take the warnings as seriously because of the ludicrous
arguments for and against the phenomenon every day. (04/26/07)
Global
warming hits classrooms - By Saffron Howden - PRIMARY school students
will be compelled to learn about global warming as part of the curriculum
under plans being considered by the State Government. The NSW Board
of Studies is reviewing the kindergarten to Year 6 science and technology
syllabus and will look at introducing specific classes on climate change.
The move comes as Australia's leading scientific research body yesterday
called for the issue to be taught in primary schools. (04/26/07)
Now here's a "newsworthy"
item. It's so important they had to get a photographer to write it!
C-G
8th grader rides to fight global warming - GREENWOOD - "We
only have one planet, don't ruin it! Save the world today - get rid
of global warming." That was the message a Greenwood Elementary
Middle School eighth-grader spread during his nine-mile commute to school
Tuesday. Scott O'Dell, 14, wants to stop global warming and he's starting
by changing his own habits. (04/26/07)
New
Global Warming Film Confronts Al Gore - By Michelle Oddis - Tuesday
night was the last of three screenings across the country for the Pacific
Research Institute's (PRI) film An Inconvenient Truth, or a Convenient
Fiction. PRI teamed up with Steven Hayward, a resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institute to create this rebuttal to Gore's Academy
Award winning Powerpoint presentation An Inconvenient Truth. It should
be required viewing for those who claim they are "green" (and
even those who are only a little queasy). (04/26/07)
Turkey
: Global warming benefits sock producers - Global warming might
be a teaser for scientists across the world but cotton growers and exporters
are reaping good results from this environmental hazard. According to
the Kenan Koc, President, Socks Manufacturers Association, demand for
woolly and acrylic synthetic socks has decreased and there is a shout
for cotton socks in market. (04/26/07)
A
realistic look at global warming and the environment - Aaron Schumacher
- Before you read the crux of this viewpoint, I must point out that
it does not contain gaudy statistics to impress you or make speculative
claims about the state of the environment in years to come. This viewpoint
does not contain lofty ideas about how to fix the problem of increased
greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, nor does it take sides
in the public debate currently going on in this country about what to
do about global warming. This viewpoint strives solely to explain the
need for a new course of action on how to fix this issue from a practical
perspective. (04/26/07)
Cool
heads needed on global warming - Senator Cory Bernardi - Winston
Churchill is attributed to having said, "A lie gets halfway round
the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." This
statement could readily be applied to the current one-sided debate on
man's contribution to climate change. Climate change is the latest incarnation
in a 30-year-long claim that mankind is destroying the planet. What
began as the hole in the ozone layer, became global warming caused by
greenhouse gasses, and is now a war on carbon emissions, which has been
neatly repositioned under the "catchall" banner of climate
change. (04/26/07)
UK
vineyards helped by global warming - English wines, once the butt
of mocking jokes by connoisseurs, enjoyed their best harvest for a decade
as global warming created ideal conditions for grapes. Three million
bottles were produced last year, up 50 per cent on 2005, and with more
farmers diversifying into vineyards, the acreage has risen by a third.
(04/26/07)
Industry
caught in carbon "smokescreen" - By Fiona Harvey and Stephen
Fidler in London - Companies and individuals rushing to go green have
been spending millions on "carbon credit" projects that yield
few if any environmental benefits. (04/25/07)
Will Media
Report Global Warming 'Carbon Credit' Fraud? - By Noel Sheppard
- It's conceivable that years from now, America's media will be reporting
one of the biggest frauds in history: the idea that a wealthy person,
for instance, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, can purchase "carbon credits"
to offset his lavish lifestyle making him quote "carbon neutral."
Given the media's love affair with the former vice president as well
as advancing man-made global warming hysteria, few American press members
have dared to expose this hoax for what it is. (04/25/07)
Sheryl
Vs. Charmin - by Matthew Bastian - If the global warming alarmists
really want us to start listening to their gloomy projections, it would
behoove them to find better spokespeople. Quickly. (04/25/07)
Global
Warming Update - The Wicked Witch of Wherever melting because of
global warming, destroying us all! It's a pretty interesting stack of
global warming stuff today, and I actually had this story last week
because, as you know, I don't do the global warming stuff every day
because I don't want people to get worn out on it. So the stack just
gets bigger and bigger and bigger. (04/25/07)
Winners
in Global Warming - A host of businesses are poised to profit from
the drive to cut greenhouse gas emissions. - By Jim Ostroff and Laura
Steele - It's clear that greening the U.S. economy will cause pain for
some businesses - especially electric utilities and automakers. These
industries stand to bear the brunt of state and federal efforts to fight
global warming by placing regulatory caps on the amount of greenhouse
gases (GHGs) pumped into the atmosphere. Utilities and autos together
produce about 55% of these gases. (04/25/07)
At
Witz' End: I Don't Buy Global Warming - The Car Connection - We
must be the biggest global-warming doubters on the car planet, because
the commentary keeps rolling in from our senior opinionistes. This week,
Gary Witzenburg tells us, "In my opinion, global warming is nonsense,
hype, and overreach." (04/25/07)
Al Gore and the religious right
in agreement...
In
warming world, time to reconsider the clothesline - In an age of
global warming, this low-tech device may be poised to stage a modest
comeback. By Marilyn Gardner Christian Science Monitor - On the first
warm Saturday in April, our neighborhood hums with springtime activity.
Flowering trees are bursting into glorious pink bloom as families push
strollers and walk dogs. One man rakes while his wife plants pansies
around a lamppost. And at the end of the street, a woman hangs shirts
and blouses on a backyard clothesline. Could there be a surer sign of
good weather than that? Hers is one of the last clotheslines in the
neighborhood, a quaint reminder of an era before dryers reigned supreme.
But now the low-tech clothesline may be poised to stage a modest comeback.
In an age of global warming, lists of energy-saving tips routinely include
suggestions such as "Hang clothes outdoors to dry when possible."
(04/25/07)
Politics,
science best kept separate - Curt Parrott - Many thanks to guest
columnists Dan Nebert ("Global warming related to our Earth's natural
cycles," April 8) and Thomas Lowell ("Global warming no longer
a question," April 16) for addressing global warming in a gentlemanly
and non-political fasion. But it may be too late for that. It is already
a political issue. What was once a discussion of scientific differences
of opinion may now be inseparable from domestic and geopolitical agendas
and their respective ideologies. (04/25/07)
Al Gore's
Army Brings Global Warming Propaganda to a Town Near You - By Noel
Sheppard - Be afraid. Be very afraid. Soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore is training
people to give his global warming slide presentation at places like
"schools, Rotary clubs and nursing homes" around the country.
I kid you not. As reported by USA Today: Meet, no, not Al Gore, but
Gary Dunham, 71, a grandfather from Texas who was the first of 1,000
Americans Gore trained to deliver his Oscar-winning An Inconvenient
Truth slide show to schools, Rotary clubs and nursing homes around the
nation. Scared yet? Well, brace yourselves, for it's much worse than
you can imagine: Two weeks ago, the last 150 of this hand-picked crew
arrived here - paying their own way for everything but food - to go
through a two-day seminar starring Gore but effectively led by Dunham
and a few other graduates of the former vice president's global-warming
boot camp. To date, The Climate Project has drawn everyone from Wal-Mart
workers to Cameron Diaz. And though the 1,000 mark has been reached,
"we keep hearing whispers that (Gore) might do more," project
director Jenny Clad says. "I wouldn't call this final." Scary
stuff. Though seemingly a new revelation, Time magazine reported on
this in January... (04/25/07)
C4
film denying global warming under fire - IAN JOHNSTON - A CONTROVERSIAL
Channel 4 documentary that claimed global warming was not happening
has come under fresh attack with a point-by-point rebuttal of some of
its key claims being sent to Ofcom, the television regulator. The 90-minute
The Great Global Warming Swindle, described as persuasive even by its
detractors, claimed that any rise in temperatures was "mild, beneficial"
and not caused by humans. (04/25/07)
A
global warming script written by Big Oil? - WASHINGTON (Map, News)
- The recent explosion of celebrities offering the rest of us utterly
nonsensical direction on how we should change our behavior in the global
warming age can only have one explanation: "An Inconvenient Truth"
producer Laurie David, recording artist Sheryl Crow and third-generation
scion Robert Kennedy are secretly on Big Oil's payroll. How else to
make sense, for example, of the two women's view that toilet paper should
be rationed to one square per trip to the potty. In response, politicians,
environmental experts and media opinionators left and right spent Monday
poo-pooing such a goofy idea. Even far-left monster mouth Rosie O'Donnell
got into the scatological act as David and Crow became worldwide laughingstocks.
(04/25/07)
Sheryl
Crow's rider demands for her "Stop Global Warming College Tour"
reportedly included four buses, six cars and three tractor trailers
for her entourage. - The singer, who travelled on a bio-diesel bus for
two weeks during the tour, is said to have made the environmentally
unfriendly request to ensure her staff travelled in comfort. (04/25/07)
The
New Math on Global Warming - By Guest: Dennis Avery - The UN climate
change panel told us in 2001 that human-emitted CO2 might drive the
planet's average temperature upward by 5.8 degrees C -a bigger average
warming than the world has had in the past 100,000 years. The UN's 2007
report scales the possible overheating back a bit, to a maximum of 4.5
degrees - still a very large warming. But wait! The environmental movement
is now conceding that the earth has a natural, moderate climate cycle.
Jon Coifman of the Natural Resources Defense Council said recently on
the Hannity and Colmes TV show, "The earth has natural temperature
and climate cycles. Nobody has disputed that." (04/25/07)
Hello kettle, this is pot...
Greenwashing
Fears Raised by Berkeley-BP Initiative - By Michelle Chen - Fresh
ties are budding between public universities and a leading oil company,
seeding fears that industry is profiting from climate-change research
at the expense of scientific integrity. (04/24/07)
Inhofe
dares Hollywood to take warming pledge - By Eric Pfeiffer, THE WASHINGTON
TIMES - A leading skeptic of global-warming science is challenging celebrity
activists such as Al Gore and Sheryl Crow to lower their "carbon
footprint" to the same level as the average American by Earth Day
in April 2008.
"I simply believe that former Vice President Al Gore and his Hollywood
friends who demand we change the way we live to avert this over-hyped
'crisis' not only talk the talk, but walk the walk," said Sen.
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican. (04/24/07)
Backpedaling Bimbo Alert...
Global
Warming Bimbos: Sheryl Crow Now Says It Was All a Joke - By Gene
Byrd - Public humiliation slammed rocker Sheryl Crow fairly well on
Monday. One half of the 'Global Warming Bimbos used her forum to promote
her newest scatter brained idea, using only one square of toilet paper
per bathroom break. She was lampooned on every cable channel; every
radio program and pretty much anyone with a voice slammed the rocker.
It didn't go over well. Predictably - she went with the 'it was a joke'
excuse. I'll admit - I thought it was a joke when I first read it -
how could anyone be so foolish - but as I re-read her blog she had other
items that couldn't have been humor. (04/24/07) Nice
try.
Global
Warming Progress? Not For All the Coal in China - According to Faith
Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, the developed world's
anti-global warming efforts are essentially futile absent a strong Chinese
commitment. "Without having China on board," she told the
Journal, "without having them play a significant role, all these
efforts, none of it, will make any sense." (04/24/07)
INTERVIEW-Branson
challenges US to fight global warming - By Kyle Peterson - CHICAGO,
April 24 (Reuters) - British billionaire entrepreneur and environmentalist
Richard Branson is putting his giant green footprint on global aviation
and he wants the White House to follow his example. Branson said the
United States, the world's leading source of gases like carbon dioxide,
must do more to cut its emissions. (04/24/07) Yawn...Convert
your airline fleet to hydrogen first, then come talk to U.S. Until then,
go play on the runway.
'Today'
Highlights Commuter Tax As Solution To Global Warming - By Geoffrey
Dickens - NBC's environmental correspondent Anne Thompson cited global
warming as a primary reason to implement a new commuter tax or as she
euphemistically called it, "congestion pricing," on drivers.
As incoming traffic passed by her on the Holland Tunnel the Today show's
Thompson began her report this way: "Good morning, Meredith. Look
behind me and you'll see this is what congestion pricing seeks to reduce.
The 50,000 cars a day that rumble into Manhattan through the Holland
Tunnel contributing to global warming. Now global warming has long been
on the environmentalist radar but today its taking center stage in our
political debate." (04/24/07)
New
podcast news! Global Warming News - Regular 3-minute podcast briefings
on the 'global warming' news they don't want you to hear. Your host:
Professor Philip Stott. Thanks to the JunkMan
for finding this one. (04/24/07) Permanent
link added in right margin.
No
immediate threat to Himalayan glacier due to global warming: Expert
- From our ANI Correspondent - Jammu, Apr 24: An Indian glaciologist
has claimed that there is no imminent threat to the Himalayan glaciers
in the wake of global warming, unlike warning by international climate
scientists. Climate scientists said last week that global warming could
wipe out large areas of glaciers in the Himalayas and surrounding highlands,
threatening livelihoods across much of Asia. But R.K. Ganjoo, Director,
Regional Centre for Field and Research on Himalayan Glaciology of Jammu
University, dismissed it, saying there were not good enough evidences
to show that the glaciers were retreating because of global warming.
(04/24/07)
Backpedaling Bimbo Alert...
Global
Warming Bimbos: Sheryl Crow Now Says It Was All a Joke - By Gene
Byrd - Public humiliation slammed rocker Sheryl Crow fairly well on
Monday. One half of the 'Global Warming Bimbos used her forum to promote
her newest scatter brained idea, using only one square of toilet paper
per bathroom break. She was lampooned on every cable channel; every
radio program and pretty much anyone with a voice slammed the rocker.
It didn't go over well. Predictably - she went with the 'it was a joke'
excuse. I'll admit - I thought it was a joke when I first read it -
how could anyone be so foolish - but as I re-read her blog she had other
items that couldn't have been humor. (04/24/07) Nice
try.
Global
warming: Blame it on negative thoughts now - Express News Service
- SAS Nagar, April 23: Not pollution but man's negative thoughts are
causing global warming. This novel explanation for the major crisis
facing the world community on the environmental front was put forward
by a representative of Brahma Kumaris International Organization (Mohali
branch) at a seminar organised on "Global warming inside out"
on World Earth Day-2007 at Sukh Shanti Bhawan Phase-7. (04/24/07)
Warning
signs: One woman's crusade to bring global warming home to Detroit
- Margaret Hetherman got tired of explaining to 4-year-old Lilly that
there just wasn't enough snow this winter to go sledding and decided
to start a billboard campaign against global warming. (04/24/07) Why
not just tell the kid that Bush melted the snow and killed all the polar
bears?
Experts
discourage extreme global warming fixes - A mock volcano or artificial
'trees' would create risks, they say - By Seth Borenstein, Associated
Press - WASHINGTON - When climate scientist Andrew Weaver considers
the idea of tinkering with Earth's air, water or sunlight to fight global
warming, he remembers the lessons of a favorite children's book. In
the book, a cheese-loving king's castle is infested with mice. So the
king brings in cats to get rid of the mice. Then the castle's overrun
with cats, so he brings in dogs to get rid of them, then lions to get
rid of the dogs, elephants to get rid of the lions, and finally, mice
to get rid of the elephants. (04/24/07)
I
really don't have any answers on the global warming issue - Foster,
Jim - Editorial - I nearly had a catastrophe in the shower (try not
to picture me naked in the shower. Too many marriages out there are
in trouble already). I dropped the soap. Now dropping a bar of soap
isn't all that dangerous unless you are in a prison communal shower,
but what happened after almost caused my demise. My curly locks were
an inch-deep in shampoo at the time. Since I no longer use Johnson's
No-Tears Baby shampoo, my eyes were tightly closed. When I bent over
to grope for the Ivory, I backed into the pull out-push in valve and
shut the water off. (04/24/07)
UBS
Global Warming index - UBS to launch first Global Warming index
- The first Global Warming index is to be launched this week by UBS,
allowing businesses most affected by the uncertainty of climate change
- from ice-cream salesmen to makers of winter coats - to hedge their
profits against it in a simple and transparent fashion. (04/24/07)
Heckler:
Cool it! There's too much hot air over global warming - ALL this
talk of the environment is starting to get old. In saying this, I don't
mean to establish myself as indifferent to the troubled state of our
world. I don't consider myself morally challenged; I gladly participated
in Earth Hour, and even intend to switch off my television during the
next; my showers usually don't exceed two minutes; I almost always refuse
a plastic bag if I'm capable of cradling the items I purchased in my
arms; and I've not yet earned my learner's permit. But as much as I
am thrilled to continue in my environmentally conscious ways, the cynic
in me - which is also my voice of reason - cannot help but mistrust
an emerging cult of environmentalists who insist on giving human beings
all the blame for what they call "global warming". (04/24/07)
Not
a security threat - To say global warming is serious has become
a politically correct statement in this age. But some people have moved
the issue into the category of security. (04/24/07)
Turkey
: Bahar's White Umbrella, a protection from global warming - Bahar
Korcan, the famous designer, during the "Real Brand Anadolu"
conference in Hatay, said that fashion has to reflect the culture, history
and lifestyle of the country. For that, one needs to be original and
creative. (04/24/07)
Senator
Inhofe Opening Statement - Hearing on the Supreme Court’s Decision
in Massachusetts V. EPA - Thank you for having this hearing today Madame
Chairman, so that we may examine the recent Supreme Court decision that,
more than any other in recent years, usurps Congressional authority.
It represents judicial activism at its worst, where five justices chose
to place their own policy concerns above the rule of law. (04/24/07)
The
Orange Grove: Mars needs you, Mr. vice president
The red planet's climate appears to be warming. Cue a familiar scapegoat
- By TIBOR R. MACHAN - The R.C. Hoiles Professor of Business Ethics
and Free Enterprise at Chapman University is an adviser to Freedom Communications
Inc. Rumor has it that there is a script already making the rounds,
with the working title, "A Very Inconvenient Truth, One Only Mr.
Gore Could Prove." And it will demonstrate, supported by the wide
consensus of the universe's climate scientists – and with the soon-to-be-expanded
United Nation's bureaucratic community in tow – that, yes, the warming
of the climate on Mars is caused by, well, human beings. It turns out
that these sneaky folks have been secretly disgorging in the Martian
atmosphere carbon dioxide brought from Earth, in the hopes they could
disguise their role in Earth's global warming. (04/23/07)
Global
Warming Consensus Watch, Volume I - Welcome to the first edition
of the PowerBlog's new GLOBAL WARMING CONSENSUS WATCH, where we keep
you up-to-date on the latest news about the ever-strengthening, nearly
invincible consensus that climate change is 1) unnatural and 2) a massive
catastrophe waiting to happen. (04/23/07)
Petition
shows scientists reject global warming - Tim Miller's letter to
the editor in the Lodi News-Sentinel, April 10, 2007, arguing for human-caused
global warming, illustrates, at best, the blind faith and dogmatism
of environmentalists and, at worst, downright dishonesty. Miller writes,
"The number of scientists qualified to have an expert opinion is
in the thousands. Those who doubt human-caused global warming might
fill a walk-in closet." Either Miller is oblivious to the fact
that over 17,000 American scientists have signed a petition promulgated
by the Petition Project (http://www.oism.org) rejecting the notion that
global warming is human-caused and urging the U.S. government to reject
the Kyoto accord, or Miller has simply chosen to ignore it because it
is "an inconvenient truth" for his position. (04/23/07)
And
now, a final word to my global-warming critics - I am stupefied
by the certainty with which otherwise rational people cite forecasts
about global warming. Indeed, the irony seems completely lost on them
that their belief in predictions about the looming catastrophes of global
warming is no more sound than the faith Christians have in prophecies
about the looming Armageddon of Judgment Day, which incidentally has
been looming for over 2,000 years! (04/23/07)
So much for the bimbos' biodiesel
bus bamboozle...
Biodiesel
may worsen global warming relative to petroleum diesel - Biodiesel
and petroleum diesel have similar environmental impact - Biodiesel made
from rapeseed could increase rather than reduce greenhouse emissions
compared to conventional diesel fuels, reports a new study published
in the journal Chemistry & Industry. Overall the researchers found
that petroleum diesel and rapeseed biodiesel, presently the main biofuel
used across Europe, have a similar environmental impact. The results
suggest that efforts to mitigate climate change through the adoption
of rapeseed biodiesel may be of little use beyond energy security. (04/23/07)
You have to just laugh...
Kernen
outshines Laurie David and Sheryl Crow - Flash has pointed out this
interesting TV confrontation: a CNBC video clip is available on the
website under Sheryl's picture below. Or try YouTube including Patrick
Michaels' reaction. (04/23/07)
And you thought it was over...
Sheryl
Crow: Fight Global Warming By Saving Toilet Paper - Earth Day was
the perfect opportunity for American singer, Sheryl Crow, to remind
people about her solution of saving the planet, suggesting a restriction
of the toilet paper amount we use. She proposed a use of "only
one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions
where two to three could be required". (04/23/07) YouTube
Video Here
Global
Warming Bimbo Eruption: Sheryl Crow & Laurie David Comedy Gold
- Bill Clinton had his bimbo eruptions. Now global warming has its own.
Singer Sheryl Crow and "Inconvenient Truth" producer and Seinfeld
co-creator Larry David's wife Laurie David are busy on what has now
turned into a comedy tour by traveling the planet to help us all understand
that the earth is heating, and it is all our fault and if we don't act
now we are all doomed. Let's call them the global warming bimbo eruption.
(04/23/07)
Global
Warming And Other Cold Myths - MIGHT it be that global warming is
all a bit unproven, a bit of a political heat and light that makes the
speaker look good and caring. Is it a new take on kissing babies? (04/23/07)
lmao!
Buzz
hoses down the car to cool off the house - Now that world scientists
unanimously agree Mother Nature is in the wildest ride of her life,
I think we can all agree this sudden, but serious movement to improve
the world's environment in order to save ourselves from death by climate
change is a good thing. All except Buzz Hargrove, President of The Canadian
Auto Workers Union. Fearing the loss of jobs in the automotive sector
if tougher emission standards are slapped on new cars, Buzz recently
warned his members about "the insanity of the environmental movement."
(04/23/07)
Science
visits global warming discussion - Global warming alarmists say
we can accurately predict climatic catastrophe in the decades ahead
by using "computer climate models." But researchers from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of
Miami don't think the science is "settled" that higher global
temperatures would produce stronger hurricanes. (04/23/07)
Huh?
Gulf
of Thailand won't rise with global warming, expert claims - "The
climate change panel's projection was wrongly accepted to apply to the
Gulf of Thailand," Suphat told The Nation newspaper. "We are
too far from melting glaciers or ice sheets." (04/23/07)
Pies
in the Sky: A Solution to Global Warming? - By David Tenenbaum -
As the reality of global warming sinks in, the scramble for solutions
has begun. In the mainstream are ideas for energy conservation and non-carbon
energy sources such as wind and nuclear power. Further afield are proposals
to recover carbon dioxide spewed out by power plants. Much more speculative
are some ambitious plans for high-tech parasols to block sunlight before
it reaches this planet. (04/23/07)
Oh please...
Global
Warming To Provoke Polar Bear Attacks - MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti)
- Polar bears could start attacking humans more frequently due to global
warming, a Russian scientist said Friday. Polar bears are carnivores
that mainly live on seals, but can also feed on birds, shellfish, rodents
and walruses - anything they can catch and kill. They are more likely
to hunt humans than other bears and attacks could, for instance, happen
at hunting camps or weather stations. (04/23/07)
How
about a bonfire of the Vanity Fairs? - The green issue of the US
magazine - all Beautiful People photographed on glaciers - shows how
pompous environmentalism has become. The cover of this month's Vanity
Fair shows Leonardo DiCaprio standing on a glacier lagoon in Iceland
alongside Knut, that cute polar bear cub from Berlin Zoo. The two celebrities
(Knut has his own blog and TV show; the other one's an actor) did not
actually meet each other, much less travel together for their "photo
shoot" in Iceland. Rather they were brought together by the magic
of photoshop, with Knut superimposed on to a shot of Leo on a glacier.
Re-arranging imagery to create a certain impression might look stylish
on the front cover of a magazine. However, it doesn't bode well for
the magazine's contents. (04/23/07)
Credible
scientists question claims - In usual fashion, a recent global warming
alarmist in a letter to the editor using typical left-wing personal
attacks put forth no substantial information proving his stance on global
warming. There are numerous scientists, including Richard Lindzen of
MIT, William Gray of Colorado State University and Steven Milloy of
the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who question the science behind
most of the global warming hysteria. Here is what has been proven by
science: (04/23/07)
Climate
change just a fleeting theory - By PATRICK BARRETT - Speaking Out
- People who believe in global warming like to cite the scientific consensus
behind it. However, as Galileo and Einstein can tell you, science is
not a democracy. When people point to a majority opinion in matters
of science, it's because they don't have proof. In the case of predicting
climate change, they use the same kinds of models as they use to predict
tomorrow's weather - it's often based on speculation and past events
in order to predict trends. And how often is the weather report accurate?
(04/23/07)
The
Orange Grove: Mars needs you, Mr. vice president -
The red planet's climate appears to be warming. Cue a familiar scapegoat
- By TIBOR R. MACHAN - Yes, Virginia, the red planet is getting warmer.
As Science News magazine reports in its April 7, 2007, issue: "Modeling
conditions on Mars using albedo [the percentage of light reflected from
its surface]data from the Mars Global Surveyor, the team [Paul E. Geissler,
planetary geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz.,
and his colleagues]calculated an average air temperature at the planet's
surface about 0.65 degrees Celsius higher than in comparable simulations"
using data from the two Viking spacecraft landings on Mars in the 1970s.
(04/23/07)
Global
Warming: A Physicist's Contrarian View - Event Description: There
can be little doubt that the earth's temperature and the atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentration are both rising. But to conclude that humans
cause global warming by burning fossil fuels involves numerous logical
flaws, including confusion of cause and effect (headline: (Trailer Parks
Attract Tornadoes"), and mistakenly comparing data sets that are
inherently different (headline: Maple Leaves Getting Thinner! In Saguaro
Cactus They Are Mere Spines!). This talk will take a sober look at the
global-warming hysteria that pervades the media and politics. (04/23/07)
Global
warming is an "elitist ploy" - Apparently, The Clarion-Ledger
buys into the myth of "global warming." Hardly a day goes
by that another "doomsday" article is not published. (04/23/07)
Biodiesel
uptake won't affect global warming - EU legislation to promote the
uptake of biodiesel will not make any difference to global warming,
and could potentially result in greater emissions of greenhouse gases
than from conventional petroleum derived diesel. This is the conclusion
of a new study reported today in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine
of the SCI. (04/23/07)
Editor
promotes global warming article series - In an effort to promote
enlightened debate about one of the most salient issues of the day --
global warming -- magazine editor Guy Crittenden has posted an entry
on his Blog to steer readers towards a fascinating article series by
environmental policy analyst and writer Lawrence Solomon. (04/22/07)
Google
Is My Home Page - By Ken Hughes - You can imagine my surprise and
confusion seeing the GOOGLE logo as an Iceberg melting into what I perceived
to be the Artic Ocean. My first impression was this is a spoof on global
warming. I'm not a believer in the global warming hysteria therefore
my reaction was well within the scope of my beliefs. Google on the other
hand usually sides with the current trends and fears that circulate
through the Nanny World who's advocates make every attempt to control
mans and natures every function. What would we do without them? (04/22/07)
'Melting
icebergs' marks Earth Day - Search engine uses logo to jump on global
warming bandwagon - Google has jumped on the global warming bandwagon
today - Earth Day - with a holiday logo portraying melting icebergs.
It's the latest in a series of examples of what "Stop the Presses!"
author Joseph Farah calls the search engine's "blind streak of
one-sided political correctness run amok. In and of itself, the Earth
Day logo is neither surprising nor highly offensive," explains
Farah, who devotes a chapter in his new book to revealing the "evil"
done by the company whose corporate motto is "Don't Be Evil."
"But this kind of conditioning, this kind of corporate direction,
can only be understood by analyzing Google's history." (04/22/07)
Is Google's
Earth Day Logo Advancing Global Warming Alarmism? - By Noel Sheppard
- I noticed it earlier this morning, and was reminded by NewsBusters
member Conservative in the Arts that Internet search behemoth Google
was featuring an interesting logo to commemorate Earth Day: (04/22/07)
Ultimate
lunacy: Dell says plant "virtual trees" for Earth Day
- From the "you've GOT to be freaking kidding me" department:
Dell's Virtual Plant a Tree for Me program into the computer game Second
Life has many tech savvy people wondering if this represents a new low
in Earth Day marketing tie-ins. It looks like in the rush to pander
to green-ness, some Dell executives maybe didn't think beyond the boardroom
door. (04/22/07)
Global
warming needs fair debate - By Adrian Martinez - During the 17th
century, great thinkers like Galileo Galilei were persecuted and silenced
by religious entities such as the Catholic Church for their promotion
of then-unpopular ideas. Now, scientists are silencing other scientists
for going against the grain. (04/22/07)
Consume
Like There's No Tomorrow - Would someone please tell the Sierra
Club Exec Board that the idea of an "environmentally friendly car"
makes as much sense as a "non-violent death penalty?" While
the vast majority of those concerned with global warming consider reduction
of unneeded production to be at the core of a sane policy, the Sierra
Club has endorsed a plan that includes virtually no role for conservation.
(04/22/07)
White
House foresees vindication on warming - By Jon Ward - THE WASHINGTON
TIMES - A top White House adviser says Democratic plans to spotlight
global warming will vindicate the president's policies, which have relied
on skepticism that a warming trend will have dire consequences. (04/22/07)
Sheryl
Crow and Laurie David Argue With Karl Rove at Correspondents' Dinner
- By Noel Sheppard - Karl Rove found out Saturday evening that the annual
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner isn't just about comedians
and members of the press telling jokes at the Administration's expense.
Depending on whose account you believe, it is also about invited guests
having the opportunity to confront White House staff in order to give
them indigestion before their meal. (04/22/07)
Is
it really possible to stop global warming? - By Liu Chung-ming -
Can humans really change nature's mechanisms and cause the earth to
continue heating up? Right now, humans cannot break the laws of nature.
These laws dictate that in 80,000 years, global temperatures will drop
about 10oC, glaciers around the world will expand greatly and the climate
will enter another ice age. But that is another 80,000 years. For the
moment, the earth is in a warming period between these ice ages. This
is not even the hottest period in the last 80,000 years, although current
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are higher than they've been in more
than 600,000 years. The Earth would need to break away from the sun,
or its volcanoes would have to undergo massive simultaneous eruptions
in order to halt the temperature increase. The greenhouse effect caused
by greenhouse gas emissions can only be checked by a reduction of the
solar radiation. Atmospheric science says, the correct explanation for
rising temperatures over the past and the next 100 years, global warming,
cannot be explained if we ignore the impact of manmade factors. In other
words, the current record temperatures are the result of the combined
impact of natural weather and large quantities of greenhouse gases released
by humans, and not merely the result of human activity. (04/22/07)
Global
warming: Incovenient questions - The 'settled science' of climate change
... isn't settled. - By Mark Landsbaum - In March, NASA scientists
spotted a region on the sun they expected to be calm but instead was,
"a bubbling mass of swaying and arching spikes, some more than
5,000 miles long ... causing huge temperature flares," as reported
in Investor's Business Daily. (04/22/07)
No
climate study is untainted - In an April 15 letter to the editor,
we are told of the funding of a scientist who disputes global warming
("Author Paid To Discount Warming"). We repeatedly hear how
the oil and coal companies fund studies. It is funny we never hear how
the studies confirming global warming are funded by those who may profit
from carbon-offset programs. For instance, Al Gore is chairman and founding
partner of a company selling carbon offsets. His partner is Maurice
Strong who was the head of the U.N. Rio Earth summit. (04/22/07)
Fit
for Debate, Fit for Rebate - Honda's Canadian subsidiary is facing
an interesting choice: fuel economy at the expense of safety. New federal
regulations recently passed in Canada award a $1000 rebate for cars
that fall below a fuel consumption threshold, set at 6.5 liters per
100 kilometers in that wacky metric system. While the competing Toyota
Yaris tests at 6.3l/100km, Honda's smallest offering, the Fit, sits
just on the line at 6.5. (04/22/07)
No
global warming - Nature is just doing her thing - When will the
global-warming crowd quit insulting our intelligence? In the April 17
Register, there are 50 ways listed to help fight global warming ("50
Ways To Tread Lightly on Earth"). (04/22/07)
Commissioners
slam global warming - Underwood ties "unproven theory"
to a socialist plot - By Brian McGillivary - County commissioners Addison
"Sonny" Wheelock, Dick Thomas and Margaret Underwood all recently
opined on the state of the environment and the concept of global warming.
Among them, the commissioners tied global warming to socialism, suggested
sending an e-mail to the sun and pointed out that dinosaurs didn't drive
expensive foreign cars. "I believe the Sierra Club, along with
Al Gore, President Carter and the United Nations are socialistic organizations
that are trying to change the government of this country, and I am opposed
to everything they support or try to (foist) on us to do," Underwood
said at a March 14 public meeting. "I cannot support this unproven
theory of global warming." (04/22/07)
The
hype over global warming is a tool of the liberal agenda - By Allan
Hegland - Anybody sick of the hype yet? How did we ever let them get
this far? Global warming is not just a liberal icon. It is a big lie.
The big lie is always told by people who are pushing an agenda, and
the agenda is more power to government, less power to the citizens.
(04/22/07)
Letter:
Sun's irradiance is what's causing global warming - By Ron Baert,
Sauk Rapids - In the Feb. 28 National Geographic News online, the article
"Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist
Says" pointed out that the carbon dioxide "ice caps"
near Mars's South Pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
(04/22/07)
Is this what our future holds?
Student
on the Street: Are you worried about global warming? - CADILLAC
- With Earth Day coming up on Sunday the Cadillac News went to Cadillac
High School to ask some of its students if they were worried about global
warming. These were the responses some of the students gave: (04/21/07)
Relax,
the planet is fine - Money is partly to blame for the global warming
hysteria, Professor Richard Lindzen says - By Linda Frum, National
Post - This Earth Day, Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist
and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, wants you to
calm down. The Earth, he says, is in good shape. "Forests are returning
in Europe and the United States. Air quality has improved. Water quality
has improved. We grow more food on less land. We've done a reasonably
good job in much of the world in conquering hunger. And yet we're acting
as though: "How can we stand any more of this?" A leading
critic on the theory of man-made global warming, Professor Lindzen has
developed a reputation as America's anti-doom-andgloom scientist. And
he's not, he says, as lonely as you might think.(04/21/07)
Global-warming
alarmists go too far - There is a lot of humor in the Star-Gazette.
For example, a so-called environmental expert from Cornell asked the
question in an April 14 article: How would you like to have the weather
of Georgia in New York? As I looked at three inches of snow and more
in mid-April, I vote a definite yes. Give me global warming, and give
it to me now. (04/21/07)
Libs
declare climate war - By Paul Starick - A South Australian Liberal
senator has signalled a hardline policy on tackling climate change by
dismissing man-made pollution as a cause of global warming. - "I
have come to believe we're seeing a distortion of a whole area of science
that is being manipulated to present a certain point of view to the
global public, that is that the actions of man are the cause of climate
change. I have examined both sides of this debate and, when the alarmist
statements are discounted, the scientific evidence that remains does
not support the scenario that is being presented to us. The facts do
not fit the theory." (04/21/07)
Finding
the truth in global warming reports - The IPCC is a government organization
(as are many of the sources Mr. Teeple uses), which ignores completely,
the input and research from many of the scientists on the panel who
believe otherwise from what they are told to believe. Many of these
scientists end up leaving the panel as a result of their research and
their voices not being heard or printed. (04/21/07)
The
Global Warming Myth? - The End Is Not Near -- Instead of Panicking Over
Climate Change, Learn to Adjust to It - By JOHN STOSSEL - April
20, 2007 - The heavy breathing over global warming is enough to terrify
anyone. Last week the Washington Post interviewed a 9-year-old who said
the Earth is "just starting to fade away." In 20 years there
will be "no oxygen" he said, and he'll be dead. The Post went
on to say that "for many children and young adults, global warming
is...defining their generation." How sad. (04/20/07)
Study:
ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows Join Al Gore's Climate Crusade -
By Rich Noyes - Al Gore has complained that the media are biased against
the inconvenient truth of global warming. "I believe that is one
of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have
not yet taken action," Gore told a "Media Ethics Summit"
at Middle Tennessee State University back in February. Gore lectured
journalists that any coverage of views opposed to his own was irresponsible,
calling it "balance
as bias." (04/20/07)
'70s-Era
Time Capsule Reveals Media Warnings of Global Cooling - By Scott
Whitlock - Media theories certainly do change. In light of ABC's aggressive
promotion of the danger of global warming and the liberal solutions
the network has embraced, I thought it might be a good idea to consider
the '70s-era threat of global cooling. (04/20/07)
Media
Advisory - Discussion on politics of global warming to kick off Fraser
Institute cocktail series at OPUS hotel - VANCOUVER, April 20 /CNW/
- Dr. Ross McKitrick, well-known academic and author, will discuss the
troubled politics of global warming to kick off the first event of the
three-evening 2007 Spring cocktail series, Behind the Spin: Fraser @
OPUS on Tuesday, April 24. "We're excited to be engaging a young,
influential, and diverse Vancouver audience in ideas of interest to
us all," said Leah Costello, the Fraser Institute's director of
events. "That our first event sold out well in advance proves that
people in Vancouver are interested in current affairs and have an appetite
for stimulating discussions." (04/20/07)
"End
global warming - ban new cars!" - Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia's
environment minister has come up with a drastic solution for the country's
smog-filled cities - ban the sale of new cars! Minister Rachmat Witoelar
said: "We need to stop the sale of new cars, at least we need to
have a pause of new car production, unless the manufacturers produce
friendly new cars that use gas, biofuels or electricity." (04/20/07)
Climate-change
campaign misrepresents Inuit, says critic - "We're not all
dying. There have been some accidents, even before the global warming
ever came to be," he said. "This is a continuation of natural
hunting tragedies." (04/20/07)
You can't make this stuff up. Oh,
wait a minute...
Sudden
Sea Level Surges Threaten 1 Billion - Study - SAN FRANCISCO - More
than 1 billion people live in low-lying areas where a sudden surge in
sea level could prove as disastrous as the 2004 Asian tsunami, according
to new research presented on Thursday. (04/20/07)
Global Warming Skeptic
Rips Media Alarmists and "Malevolent" Scientists - By
Noel Sheppard - As a Canadian environmental consultant, Dr. Timothy
F. Ball isn't a household name in America...yet. However, his writings,
speeches, and television appearances concerning the science and lack
thereof surrounding anthropogenic global warming make him a distinguished
member of the growing list of skeptics around the world desperately
and passionately fighting to inject some facts into this contentious
debate. On Thursday, I received an e-mail message from Dr. Ball addressing
the dangers inherent in the current global warming alarmism being exhibited
by the media and folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, and how "incompetent"
and possibly "malevolent" scientists are unfortunately aiding
in the misinformation campaign. (04/20/07)
Kids
Fear Global Warming More Than Terrorism, Car Crashes, and Cancer, According
to National Earth Day Survey - National Survey of Middle School
Students Shows Kids Believe More Needs to be Done to Save the Planet
- NEW YORK, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- While recent polls show that American
adults are most concerned about the war in Iraq, terrorism, and healthcare,
a survey of more than 1,000 middle school students across the country
found that kids fear global warming more than any of these issues. The
survey was conducted by BrainPOP, a New York based educational provider.
(04/20/07)
More psychobabble...
Climate
change: Why we don't believe it - By Lois Rogers - What does Britain
really think about global warming? We reveal an unreported gulf between
the pronouncements of campaigners and politicians and British public
opinion. (04/20/07)
It's the end of the world!
Timeline:
The Frightening Future of Earth - By Andrea Thompson and Ker Than
- Our planet's prospects for environmental stability are bleaker than
ever with the approach of this year's Earth Day, April 22. Global warming
is widely accepted as a reality by scientists and even by previously
doubtful government and industrial leaders. And according to a recent
report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there
is a 90 percent likelihood that humans are contributing to the change.
The international panel of scientists predicts the global average temperature
could increase by 2 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 and that sea levels
could rise by up to 2 feet. Scientists have even speculated that a slight
increase in Earth's rotation rate could result, along with other changes.
Glaciers, already receding, will disappear. Epic floods will hit some
areas while intense drought will strike others. Humans will face widespread
water shortages. Famine and disease will increase. Earth's landscape
will transform radically, with a quarter of plants and animals at risk
of extinction. (04/19/07)
Study
: ABC, CBS and NBC Push Global Warming Alarmism, Purge Skeptics and
Hide Economic Costs : Morning TV's One-Sided Climate Crusade - Al
Gore has complained that the media are biased against the inconvenient
truth of global warming. "I believe that is one of the principal
reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action,"
Gore told a "Media Ethics Summit" at Middle Tennessee State
University back in February. Gore lectured journalists that any coverage
of views opposed to his own was irresponsible, calling it "balance
as bias." It's impossible to imagine the big TV networks actually
accepting an edict from a conservative politician to report only their
side of a major public policy issue, but a new Media Research Center
study of ABC, CBS and NBC's global warming coverage finds the networks
are giving Gore practically everything he demanded. Not only does nearly
every global warming story exclude any contrary voices, but the coverage
of Al Gore personally has been exceptionally positive as well. (04/19/07)
Huge
Profits From Carbon Offsets - By Adrian Ash - Not content with abolishing
the economic cycle, the world's central bankers and finance ministers
- led by Gordon Brown and ordained by Pope Al Gore the First - now plan
a "New World Order"to fight global warming. A wealth of tax-funded
humbug is certain to follow. So it comes as no surprise to find Wall
Street and the City of London urging us all to "go green"
as well. (04/19/07)
Scientist:
Warming not caused by humans - By Wendy Reeves - MADISON - Roy Spencer
says we don't know yet how changes are happening - Roy Spencer is speaking
up about his belief that Earth is not headed toward a global warming
disaster. Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University
of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA scientist, said he knows he's
in the minority with his opinions, but he doesn't believe manmade influences
are causing catastrophic climate changes. (04/19/07)
In
curbing global warming, the devil is in the offsets - By Jim Snyder
- As lawmakers craft global warming legislation, one question they will
have to settle is what should qualify as an offset to carbon dioxide
and other greenhouse gas emissions. The definition holds significant
financial consequences for both industries and agriculture - one estimate
puts the potential windfall of a vibrant offset market at $8 billion
a year for farmers - and the issue is likely to be lobbied on heavily
as the climate-change debate progresses on Capitol Hill (04/19/07)
A
Little Testy at RealClimate - By Pielke Jr., R. - Based on my most
recent interaction, the folks at RealClimate seem less interested than
ever on an open exchange of views on scientific topics. But I guess
that is what might be expected when one points out that the they are
spreading misinformation. (04/19/07)
Sing
in the shower to stop global warming, Greenpeace says - Santo Domingo.
- The latest message from Greenpeace to its subscribers features practical
ideas to "prevent dangerous climate change without having to freeze
in the dark, without stunting economic growth in developing countries,
and without building nuclear power plants." (04/19/07)
The
Politics of the Polar Bear - By Bennet Rawicki - Newsstand covers
proclaim "A Threat Graver than Terrorism is Upon Us." This
threat guzzles carbon dioxide, has it out for the polar bear, and has
told Al Gore that it plans to raise sea levels 20 feet. You guessed
it, the much discussed and little understood, global warming. The science
behind the issue is not "as certain as gravity" like Gore
claims. The prominent theses claiming human-caused climate change do
not account for Nature's temperature control: rain. If the Earth's temperature
rises, more evaporation occurs creating more clouds and precipitation,
which cools the Earth. Without this mitigating factor included in climate
change models, results are skewed to the extreme. This is merely one
of many disputes in the scientific community, and it seems as if every
study (including the U.N. study) has scientists lining up on the other
side to disprove the results. There is no consensus. (04/19/07)
Investigators
Warn Of Global Warming Costs: Taxpayer-Funded Insurance Programs May
Take Hit - By David Lightman and Joel Lang, The Hartford Courant,
Conn. WASHINGTON - Congressional investigators plan to warn a Senate
committee today that climate change could mean sharply increased costs
for taxpayer-funded insurance programs - costs that put the government
at "increased financial risk." But while private insurers
have factored the impact of global warming into their risk calculations,
public insurers have been reluctant to do so, according to testimony
by John B. Stephenson, director of natural resources and environment
for the Government Accountability Office. (04/19/07)
Global
warming blows hot and cold - By Gideon Rachman - HERE is another
inconvenient truth. Global warming is good news for parts of the world.
This is truly awkward. A "planetary emergency" that affected
everyone equally would be much easier to tackle. However, climate change
that hurts some places but helps others, opens the way for dangerous
political conflicts. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change confirms that global warming puts large parts of the
world at risk from famine, flood and disease. (04/19/07)
Climate
reporting "too balanced" say scientists - MELBOURNE: Airing
the views of climate change sceptics in the media may only be serving
to keep the global warming controversy boiling, argue scientists. (04/19/07)
Funerals
barking up wrong tree - By Chee Chee Leung - INSTEAD of the dead
pushing up daisies, a Victorian scientist wants them to help in the
fight against climate change by fertilising their favourite tree. The
University of Melbourne's Professor Roger Short has called for an end
to cremations, declaring the environmental cost of burning a body and
a wooden coffin is "enormous". The greener option, he said,
was to place bodies in a cardboard coffin or a hessian sack, and then
bury them upright next to a tree so the remains would help its growth.
(04/19/07)
Radical
Environmentalism - In the April 23, 2007 issue of Business Week,
a magazine one might reasonably hope to have a balanced perspective
on environmental issues, an article has appeared entitled "Climate
Wars: Episode Two," by John Carey. Beneath the title, the teaser
line reads as follows: "With the skeptics almost silenced, businesses
are fighting over how to cut carbon emissions." Silenced? Does
anyone in America remember the first amendment? Does anyone in America
still remember that skepticism is one of the foundations of science?
What if the skeptics are right? (04/18/07)
NY Mag:
Global Warming Cure Depends on "Fat, Spoiled 21st-Century Americans"
- By Noel Sheppard - A few weeks ago as the world awaited the release
of the most recent report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, some well-known scientists were quoted as saying
that the media's sensationalistic coverage of the issue was interfering
with a reasoned discussion on the topic. Their thinking was that the
more the press and Hollywoodans suggest that the problem is so dire
that the world is coming to an end, the more likely the public will
develop a sense of futility about the issue, and just begin to ignore
it. A fine example of exactly what these scientists were talking about
was published in the most recent issue of New York magazine (h/t radio
host Mike Church). In fact, Kurt Andersen's article sounded such hyperbolic
alarm that he had the gall to suggest that "fat, spoiled, 21st-century
Americans" only have a 50-50 chance of possessing the "requisite
gumption and discipline" to solve the problem (emphasis added throughout,
apologies in advance for Andersen's vulgarity): (04/18/07)
GMA's Weatherman
Scolds Viewers For Contributing to Global Warming - By Scott Whitlock
- On Wednesday's "Good Morning America," Sam Champion, ABC
weatherman and liberal environmentalist, escalated his campaign to encourage
Americans to fight global warming. In addition to lecturing viewers
about their contribution to climate change, he, once again, engaged
in identification bias. Champion's segment featured a representative
from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a liberal environmental
group. The organization's ideology, not surprisingly, went completely
unmentioned. However, the weatherman began the piece by standing in
front of a bank of televisions and scolding viewers for their energy
output: Sam Champion: "For example, did you know that even with
the flip of a switch, we all contribute to global warming? Well, I know
it sounds a little intense. But there are some small things you can
do to change that, like paying attention to your carbon footprint...If
you think you have nothing to do with global warming, think again. From
the car you drive, to the house you live in, it all contributes to the
problem." (04/18/07)
Republicans
see global warming alarmism - By John Heilprin - WASHINGTON - House
Republicans made it clear Wednesday they won't make things easy for
Democrats trying to lay the groundwork for legislation on greenhouse
gases and climate change. At the first hearing of a special committee
established by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make the case for a bill, Republicans
questioned efforts to paint global warming as a national security threat.
"Unfortunately, this debate hasn't been characterized by common
sense. It's been characterized by extremism," said Wisconsin Rep.
James Sensenbrenner, the senior Republican on the panel. "While
this extremism hasn't done anything to produce effective solutions,
it has created a lot of hot air, which hasn't been good for Congress'
carbon footprint." (04/18/07)
Maybe this should be on the science
page...
Daylight
Exacerbates Warning - The people at Phoresia might have less to
worry about than they think when it comes to global warming. All we
have to do is change the axis of the earth's rotation to re-adjust the
daylight savings time. Get Congress on it. (04/18/07)
Allergies
worsening with warm weather - But link to global warming remains unclear
- By Scott Shewfelt - WASHINGTON -- If you could stop rubbing your itchy,
watery eyes for one second, put down the tissue and look around, you'd
see an increasing number of sneezing, sniffling sad sacks just like
you. The recent warm weather sent more patients to Maryland allergists
than ever before, but whether the weather is influenced by global warming
is up in the air. (04/18/07)
Science
vs. Gore on Methane - In his 21 March 2007 testimony before the
United States Senate's Environment & Public Works Committee, former
U.S. Vice President Al Gore talked passionately about what he referred
to time and again as a "climate crisis," which he characterized
as "a planetary emergency - a crisis that threatens the survival
of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth." Using the
word "crisis" an amazing 10 times in his 14-paragraph testimony,
Gore mentioned several things designed to supposedly justify his prolific
use of the scary word; yet he truly outdid himself when he ominously
added that "new evidence shows that it [i.e., the climate crisis]
may be even worse [our italics] than we thought." And that's saying
a lot, particularly when the "thinker" is Al Gore! (04/18/07)
Global
warming brings taste of Med to gardens - North One Garden Centre
in Englefield Road, Islington, has sold approximately 105 of the £40
trees this year - a rate of seven a week. Louise Alhadeff said: "We
are constantly having to restock. Once you weren't able to keep olive
trees outside - but now they survive all year round. Is this global
warming? Who knows? "Another good thing about olive trees is they
don't need to be watered as much as British plants. We are all busy
people and we can't spend all day watering plants. The scientists are
predicting the hottest summer yet and people are having to change the
way they garden. People know olive trees won't be dying on them."
(04/18/07)
A
look at the bright side of global warming crisis - With all the
hot air being produced over global warming, it would have been nice
if they'd sent some our way around St. Patrick's Day. Come to think
of it, Easter, too, was cold enough to frost a bunny. Snowstorms dumped
on Texas and the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., despite
the heat produced by protesters outside the president's Crawford ranch
and the hot air rising from the Capitol dome. Still, the alarms keep
sounding about the polar ice caps melting and raising sea levels high
enough to drown places like New York, Los Angeles and Cape Cod. (04/18/07)
Global
warming debate heats up at high school - Pre-AP biology students
research, discuss topics related to hot issue - By Brooke Chambers -
Jason Walker's pre-AP biology classroom at Russellville High School
was transformed Monday into a forum for debating a world issue his 10th-grade
students have been exposed to most of their lives, but have only researched
within the past week. Dressed in their best business attire, students
in Walker's four biology classes argued whether global warming is a
real threat, or whether recent reports and documentaries are correct
in stating global warming is all a government hoax. (04/18/07)
Meat
eaters, not gas guzzlers, to blame for global warming, speaker claims
- Adopting a vegetarian diet is better at preventing global warming
than driving a fuel-efficient car, said San Jose State University sociology
professor Dan Brook in a lecture Monday. Speaking as a guest invited
by Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Brook stressed that
the practices of the international meat and dairy industry are the leading
cause of greenhouse gases, which consequently result in global warming.
He also cited a few sketchy statistics, the Emerald has found. To prevent
these greenhouse gases, Brook said that individual consumers can make
a huge difference where government and industry have not. "Every
time you buy something, you're saying 'I support this process; I vote
for it,'" he said. "Every time you purchase a hamburger, you're
saying 'I support the meat industry, I support global warming.'"
(04/18/07)
Group
Calls for Population Control to Stop Global Warming - By Monisha
Bansal - (CNSNews.com) - Ahead of Earth Day on Sunday, an advocacy group
warned that the United States is ignoring "the most crucial factor
in reducing global warming" - population control. "Human population
growth is the paramount environmental issue," Ric Oberlink, a spokesman
for Californians for Population Stabilization, told Cybercast News Service.
"Global warming is a very serious problem, but it is a subset of
the overpopulation problem," he said. Oberlink argued that an increase
in the emission of "greenhouse gases" -- carbon dioxide and
other gases blamed for climate change -- is a result of human activity,
"like most environmental problems." Although one part of the
equation is what people do, he said, the other part is how many there
are. "If we had half as many people, we wouldn't have much of a
climatic warming problem," argued Oberlink. (04/18/07)
It's hard to have any sympathy for
the Governator on this one...
Believing
in Global Warming Isn't a Solution - By Debra Saunders - Now Al
Gore, who hyper-consumes energy in his Tennessee home, and Schwarzenegger,
who is always jumping on a private jet after eco-friendly media events,
can burn energy like the most flagrant energy hogs. As long as they
say they believe in global warming, they personally don't have to do
much about global warming. (04/18/07)
Another
take on global warming - Re: Ted Duff's letter (Packet & Times,
April 9) - Duff states global warming is a theory largely fanned by
the media. He is then castigated in a letter from Jim Woodford for not
being in the 21st century and being unintelligent for calling it global
warming instead of climate change. Well, at the risk of being labeled
unintelligent or not being in the 21st century, global warming or climate
change and the hysteria around it, is probably one of the biggest frauds
perpetrated on us by the well-fed Kyoto fanatics. (04/18/07)
Global
warming not all bad - Is global warming the doom and gloom scenario
that is being described to us almost daily by the media and politicians?
The short answer is no. It would be better to describe global warming
as partly good and partly bad. So the level of carbon dioxide increases
in the atmosphere; plants are unlikely to complain. Sea levels have
risen, but only by millimetres, and there is good evidence to suggest
that the snow/ice balance of Antarctica and Greenland are more or less
in balance. Like any situation, there is enough evidence to suggest
that the good parts of global warming will offset the bad parts. In
the physical world at least the rate of change is slow, and slow enough
to allow companies and markets to adjust in the normal course of business.
That might be paraphrasing a bit much, but from my heretical viewpoint
there is as much good to come from global warming as there will be bad
- overall we end up more or less in the same place. Sadly though, the
world is largely run by politicians. And politicians have decided that
global warming is nothing short of a catastrophe about to happen. (04/18/07)
Play
ball! If there's no rain or snow, that is
- By Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY - They had nasty snowball fights
in Cleveland and cutthroat video game tournaments in Pittsburgh.
They stuffed their faces with cheesesteak sandwiches in Philadelphia
and had crab cake feasts in Baltimore. They sat 11 hours waiting
for a plane to take them back to Houston and four days in a city
without a game. They might be the Boys of Summer, but with the
necessary makeup games from this wintry April, they might be cranky
old men when the baseball season ends. "It's been crazy,
to say the least," Cleveland Indians outfielder David Dellucci
says. "I've had all kinds of people in Cleveland apologizing
to me for the weather. What are you going to do?" There have
been 18 dates and 22 games postponed the first two weeks of the
season, the highest April total since the 24 in 1997, according
to the Elias Sports Bureau. A year ago there were only six dates
and eight postponed games in all of April. (04/17/07)
Prep
baseball, softball feel sting of spring - By Kevin
Noonan - Bob Colburn doesn't dwell on it, but he can't help thinking
about it when he's on the phone with a coaching crony from Arizona
or Texas. Colburn, the St. Andrew's School baseball coach, will
be looking out his window at late-afternoon snow flurries while
he talks to a guy who's sitting around in shorts and a T-shirt
and dabbing on sunscreen before practice, and his reaction usually
is the same. "I hear that," Colburn said, "and
I just want to cry." Bad weather is a fact of life for coaches
and athletes who play spring sports in the Northeast. And every
spring has its dismal moments, although none has been as bad as
this one. At least, that's what Colburn said. He has been coaching
in Delaware for 47 years, so when he speaks, the weatherman should
listen. "I can remember springs when there was a lot of ice
and snow, and I can remember springs when it's rained a lot, and
I can remember springs when it was cold and windy," Colburn
said on another stormy Monday. "But for persistently bad
weather, I can't remember one like this." (04/17/07)
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Oh please!
An
Inconvenient Tooth: Food Is Major Contributor to Climate Change
- New "Low Carbon Diet" Aims to Take Bite Out of Global Warming
- PALO ALTO, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ - Global warming activists
have a new ally in their fight to save the planet - lunch. It turns
out that food (and all the energy it takes to make it) is one
of the largest human activities contributing to global warming. The
average American creates 2.8 tons of CO2 emissions each year by eating
- even more
than the 2.2 tons each person generates by driving, according to recent
research (Echel and Martin, 2006). (04/17/07)
British
Parents Look to Stop Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" from
Airing in Schools - By Noel Sheppard - Better put away those combustibles,
potables, and sharp objects again, sports fans, because a group of British
parents in New Forest, England, are threatening legal action if soon-to-be-Dr.
Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is aired
in their schools. I kid you not. (04/17/07)
Global
Warming may Ease Energy Crisis (satire) - Researchers at the Massachusetts
Institute of Reinvention (MIR) are claiming that the threat of Global
Warming also holds the promise of unlimited free electrical energy.
Their solution is found in the production of electricity directly from
the Earth's increasing heat, using a centuries-old principle called
the "Seebeck Effect." (04/17/07)
Global
warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes - MIAMI, April 17 (Reuters)
- By Jim Loney - Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon
known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially
positive result of climate change, according to new research released
on Tuesday. (04/17/07)
GMA Provides
Hyperbolic Report on "Moderate" Global Warming Estimate
- By Scott Whitlock - On Saturday's "Good Morning America,"
correspondent Christianne Klein hyped this past weekend's global warming
rallies by reporting hyperbolic and misleading information on the subject
of rising sea levels. Reporting from lower Manhattan, and standing in
front of a group an environmental activists, she said of the protesters,
"Now, where they will stand represents where the Manhattan coastline
could be if the sea level rises just 10 feet, actually, a moderate estimate
for global warming standards." A 10 feet increase is a moderate
estimate? Not quite. As the CATO Institute's Patrick Michaels noted,
the much hyped U.N. report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) suggested a rise of inches, not feet, is likely:
Under the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's medium-range
emission scenario for greenhouse gases, a rise in sea level of between
8 and 17 inches is predicted by 2100...Even 17 inches is likely to be
high, because it assumes that the concentration of methane, an important
greenhouse gas, is growing rapidly. (04/17/07)
A
final word on global warming - The global-warming movement is taking
on all of the features of a Christian crusade – complete with its
self-appointed pope, Al Gore. Alas, I remain a Doubting Thomas. In fact,
I have challenged, if not defied, the gospel of global warming in such
open and notorious fashion that, if Gore’s judgment day were tomorrow,
I would go straight to hell. (04/17/07)
What a bunch of psychobabble!
Climate
Change in Popular Culture - Science, Hollywood, and Sci-Fi's Alarm
Bell - Two documentaries, including one called Everything's Cool, will
deal with global warming this year. They join The Day After Tomorrow
and An Inconvenient Truth as movies concerned with climate change. KPBS
film critic Beth Accomando considers how popular entertainment affects
us. (04/17/07)
Global
warming Your Turn: Be skeptical and watch for a hand in your pocket
- By Ron Scarbro Sartell - Much has been written and said recently about
global warming. ... Like most of you, I am not an expert. I also am
not a scientist. What I am is a free citizen of the greatest country
on Earth with a right to an opinion. The word "expert" bears
some discussion. If you have observed any court proceedings, you will
see that you can find an expert for any position you may hold. Those
experts are usually available for a price. (04/17/07)
Global
warming and cool thinking - Believing that an informed public is
essential in a democracy, I herewith offer a few references that may
lend perspective to The Jakarta Post editorial of April 9 titled, Rise
to the challenge, concerning global warming. There is much that can
be said, but not being gifted with the ability to speak concisely, I
have lifted several quotes from recent columns found in other reading
that merit follow-up by concerned readers. (04/17/07)
Still
shoveling snow? It's all global warming - With an exquisite sense
of timing, the U.N. releases a report on human-induced global warming
just as large sections of the United States are experiencing yet another
week of record-breaking cold. Particularly amusing was the reference
to spring arriving earlier, while millions were shoveling snow on Sunday.
(04/17/07)
Are
humans responsible for global warming? - Human contribution to global
warming is negligible - By Aaron Burkhart - The fact is, temperature
fluctuations - both short term and long term - are a natural part of
the Earth's climate. In the '60s and '70s, many scientists were warning
of global cooling, as temperatures had dipped since the '40s. Later,
when temperatures started to rise, the impending disaster of global
warming became the new threat scientists would need millions of dollars
to fight. (04/17/07)
Excellent KPBS article...
The
Hype Factor - Global Warming Skeptics Cite Alarmism as Detractor
From Science - By Kenny Goldberg - One groundhog pops his head up, and
he says, I predict slightly warmer temperatures due to global warming.
And the second groundhog is alarmed. He says, "How are you going
to get government grants with that? You've got to predict catastrophic
storms, oceans swallowing up cities, the end of mankind, c'mon."
KPBS
Audio (04/17/07)
Say
it ain’t snow - By Steven Marcus
- We all are complaining about the weather, but it could be worse.
The temperature in upstate Watertown Monday was a balmy 38, according
to Jefferson Community College athletic director Jeff Wiley. "All
the way up,'' Wiley said. He'll take it--but the eight inches snow
on his athletic fields that he can do without. His school was closed
and all classes and events postponed. Baseball has been hit the
hardest, with only two home games thus far at Jefferson CC. There
have been proposals over the years to move the collegiate baseball
season to the fall when the weather is usually fine in the northeast.
"But the football schools will not hear of it,'' Suffolk CC-Selden
baseball coach Eric Brown. Football rules, so, forget that idea.
(04/16/07) |
The
Global Warming Argument: Win It, Don't Spin It (If You Can) - By
Amy Ridenour - A for-profit public relations agency sent me a link and
an excerpt to the story "Thanks for the Facts. Now Sell Them"
by Matthew C. Nisbet and Chris Mooney in Sunday's Washington Post, with
the suggestion that I might like to blog about it. (04/16/07)
Response
to global warming replies - Yep, we are polluting the planet. It
is good to clean up our act. Having lived in New Zealand, Hong Kong,
Hawaii and California in the bad, old, really smoggy 1950s, I can attest
to that. But the question is whether we have to limit carbon dioxide
to slow down global warming. Is it a huge threat, larger than car accidents,
overpopulation, starvation, asteroids (which only a very lonely voice
crying in the wilderness cared about until recently), etc. I don't care
which side is right. Show me the double-blind, verifiable, repeatable
science behind the assertions, and I'll willingly agree. What concerns
me is that this whole thing has assumed the mantle of religion. (04/16/07)
Two Post
Takes On Proselytizing In Schools: Global Warming Good, Jesus Bad
- By Tim Graham - The Washington Post produced two very different takes
on Monday in stories about motivating school children to pay attention
to threats looming in their future. First, there was an urgent front-page
story about the need to educate children about the cataclysmic vision
of a world destroyed by global warming - "the atomic bomb of today"
- with absolutely no one skeptical of the almost religious claims of
hellish destruction in the very near future. One campus activist asked:
"What's the use of a college degree when Wall Street is under water?"
Second, in stark contrast, came a story on the front-page of Metro about
selling the religious message of Jesus along with free pizza. But this
article was stuffed with skeptical students who were offended by the
evangelizing - even as they snagged the lunch. "The free food they
like...The praying they don't." (04/16/07)
Why
So Gloomy? - Judging from the media in recent months, the debate
over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the
earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions
are contributing at some level. Both of these statements are almost
certainly true. What of it? Recently many people have said that the
earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has
nothing to do with science. (04/16/07)
Forum:
Debating Climate Change Fears - Lindzen responds to critics of his
views on global warming. April 15, 2007 - Richard S. Lindzen's article
on why alarm over climate change is unwarranted ("Why So Gloomy?"
NEWSWEEK International, April 16-23 issue) drew comments from many readers.
Some letters were laudatory, others were critical. Some readers expressed
concern that Lindzen may have ties to energy companies and the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). These charges were made by
journalist Ross Gelbspan in Harper's magazine in December 1995: "Lindzen
... charges oil and coal interests $2500 a day for his consulting services;
his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western
Fuels, and a speech he wrote ... was underwritten by OPEC." (04/15/07)
It's
snow fun at all - By Travis Lazarczyk
- Snow is a pretty good all-purpose metaphor. It and its cousin,
winter, can stand in for old age, loneliness and depression, just
to name a few. You know where you never see snow as a metaphor?
Baseball. The scheduled spring sports season is upon us. Some lacrosse
and tennis games were supposed to be played late last week, while
baseball, softball and track are supposed to begin in the coming
days. Instead, we're left with fields covered in old age, loneliness
and depression. (04/15/07) |
Global
warming really about competing civilizations - By Robert Hallstrom
- "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" -
Charlton Heston, "The Planet Of The Apes," 1968. From time
to time, a question appears in my e-mail in-box, because I belong to
a ragtag group of varied and sundry people who have nothing more in
common than an inability to keep our mouths shut. We all have opinions,
and for the most part we shout said opinions at the top of our lungs
into the vacuum of space, because few really want to hear us. But we
shout anyway. (04/15/07)
Global
Warming Outlook Far from Alarming - Written By: Patrick J. Michaels
- Published In: Environment News - Publication Date: May 1, 2007 - Publisher:
The Heartland Institute - From Hollywood to Capitol Hill, Al Gore's
global warming horror movie An Inconvenient Truth is receiving a tremendous
amount of attention this spring. It is a riveting work of science fiction.
- Sea Levels Overstated - Under the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's (IPCC) medium-range emission scenario for greenhouse
gases, a rise in sea level of between 8 and 17 inches is predicted by
2100. Gore's film thus exaggerates the rise by about 2,000 percent.
(04/14/07)
Global
warming a hot topic 45 yearss ago - Global warming has a history
in Porter County that goes back to 1962, when Valparaiso resident Alfred
Looman wrote a column about it in The Cresset, the literary magazine
published by Valparaiso University. Looman wrote a column for 13 years
while holding a number of administrative positions at the university.
He retired from VU in 1982. Now 91, he recalled how he developed his
knowledge of the issue half a lifetime ago. "I don't know where
I got the idea," he said. "I was trying to meet a deadline.
What I knew about global warming wouldn't fill a paragraph." (04/14/07)
Kansans
Hoping Record Snowstorm Won't Cancel Global Warming Rally - By Noel
Sheppard - Don't remove combustibles, potables, and sharp objects from
safe stowage just yet, sports fans, for the news this morning continues
to provide chuckles that could prove dangerous to computer equipment
and other consumer electronics. (04/14/07)
Global
warming : New alarm by Chicken Little experts - By John Wetherholt
- Due TO global warming, the planet will cook beyond society's and nature's
ability to adapt, the headlines scream. I am a little skeptical; I laughed
out loud. It's because, for the past 40 years, I have watched a parade
of Chicken Little experts march across the front page of my newspaper.
Most received extraordinary media exposure while they held the public's
attention. (04/14/07)
To
Fight Global Warming, Some Hang a Clothesline - By EPW Blog - Excerpts
from article (full text below): I remember this as I'm studying energy-saving
tips from Al Gore, who says that when you have time, you should use
a clothesline to dry your clothes instead of the dryer. (04/14/07)
Shoveling
the global warming - By Kent Ward - "Al Gore needed to be in
my driveway on the fifth day of April so he could help me shovel the
16 inches of global warming from my yard," wrote one of them, a
weary Pike Bryant of Monroe, in a letter to the editor of this newspaper
earlier this week. "Don't look now," he wrote, with reference
to Gore's recent Hollywood recognition for a film about global warming,
"but I think there's a polar ice cap developing over Van Buren
and a glacier at Mt. Katahdin." (04/14/07)
Global
warming or a lot of hot air? - By Tony Phyrillas - I know it's the
politically correct thing to do, but I just can't bring myself to jump
on the global warming bandwagon. - Maybe it's the bitterly cold winter
(and spring) we just had in the Northeast. Maybe it's the United Nations,
the most corrupt and distrustful organization on the planet. I don't
care how many reports the globalists at the U.N. release about climactic
catastrophes. I don't trust anything the U.N. says or does. - Maybe
Al Gore is the problem. The man who claims he invented the Internet
has a serious credibility problem. Maybe it's the news that Al Gore's
Tennessee mansion uses 20 times the energy of a typical American home.
Maybe it's the fact that Al Gore travels to his lectures or to pick
up his Oscar in a private jet, polluting the environment for thousands
of miles. Maybe it's the fact that Al Gore didn't seem too concerned
about global warming when he served in the Clinton White House for eight
years. (04/14/07)
Uh-oh, it's the Global Warming Police...
Labor
Confronts Global Warming - "We, the undersigned, are Presidents
of 22 Local Unions representing over 10,000 United States Environmental
Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) environmental engineers, environmental
scientists, environmental protection specialists and support staff.
We are writing to protest the lack of progress in addressing global
warming." (04/14/07)
Not so fast!
Letter:
Go slow on global warming laws - Robert Bonawitz, president Willmar
Municipal Utilities Commission, West Central Tribune - The Willmar Municipal
Utilities Commission held a discussion at its April 9 meeting on the
subject of global warming mitigation. The issue is being addressed in
the Minnesota Legislature during the 2007 session. Bills have been introduced
in the Senate (SF192) and in the House (HF375) that would move Minnesota
far ahead of most states intent on enacting legislation addressing the
issue of global warming. Before moving ahead too quickly with this proposed
legislation, a closer review of the particulars contained in the bills
raises a number of concerns. First is the fact that, to whatever extent
it may be occurring, the nature of global warming is worldwide in scope;
therefore Minnesota should be encouraging national or international
solutions instead of forging ahead independently. (04/14/07)
Global
warming debatable - By Dave Fuller - The current hype being fueled
by a majority vote of scientists called a "consensus" does
not constitute scientific proof, especially when it is influenced by
private and governmental pressures and funding desires. That does not
mean that we should not strive for a clean environment, but such efforts
should be moderated and controlled by logic and facts, not questionable
conjecture and hysteria. (04/14/07)
Letters:
Global warming merely an alarmist tall tale - In the 1970s, we were
being warned about the dangers of global cooling. Now we're being warned
about the dangers of global warming. Well, which is it? (04/14/07)
Methane
Matters - We all know the story – humans are burning fossil fuels,
greenhouse gases are increasing in atmospheric concentration at an alarming
rate, the temperature of the earth is soaring upward, the ecosystems
are struggling to cope with all the related changes, and if we don’t
act now, we will soon push the entire system past the dreaded tipping
point. We at World Climate Report have presented evidence from a growing
number of scientific papers that challenge this simple but highly popularized
and publicized global warming story. Now another recent paper calls
into question one of the most basic assumption – the article questions
whether the second most important greenhouse gas, namely methane, is
continuing to increase in atmospheric concentration. (04/13/07)
The
bright side of global warming - By Nick Greenzian - In 2080 I will
likely be dead. If I am still around, I'll be 99 years old, likely spending
my days shuffling from the couch to the bathroom to the TV - and then
back to the bathroom. (Not much different than now, I guess). Either
way, I doubt I'll be able to enjoy the balmy weather outside my window.
(04/13/07)
Global
Warming: Dim Bulbs, Bright Lights - By Joel Bleifuss - People who
want to save the Earth from the ravages of global warming face a perennial
problem: How do they translate their concerns into actions that will
create real change? One barrier standing in the way of meaningful action
is fuzzy-headed thinking on the part of those truly concerned about
global warming. (04/13/07)
From
the Pew to the Pulpit: Inside the Church of Global Warming - By
Paul A. Ibbetson - Walk carefully, I say unto you, for thou art on holy
ground. This was the rude awakening that I received when I entered the
global warming debate. It would also be the warning that I would forward
to anyone wishing to enter the debate over the validity of man made
global warming. I stepped into this discussion after watching the similarities
between the scare tactics of the global warmers and what I had seen
of the scientific community's certainty of global cooling back in the
1970s. (04/13/07)
Global warming
hits poor countries the most...it's the policies stupid - By Nancy
Reyes - There is an old joke that X newspaper headline says: End of
the world tomorrow, will hit women and minorities the most. Scientists
say there is global warming. Fine. I used to live in Minnesota, which
was under 200 feet of ice 10,000 years ago. Obviously things are warmer.
And scientists say pollution is bad. Fine. I have asthma. I remember
the 1950's before the pollution controls on cars, when NYCity air was
a thick as Manila during the rush hour. But what I do have a problem
with is the "religion" of global warming, the insists that
American need to go back to living like the 1950's to stop global warming,
or to emulate those eco friendly people in the "third world".
(04/13/07)
Snow
won't dampen global-warming rallies - By Ken Kolker - The weather
forecast for Saturday's global warming rallies in Grand Rapids and Holland
calls for snow and cold rain and temperatures in the 40s -- about 10
degrees below normal. For some, this might make global warming a tough
sell. (04/13/07)
Global
warming is no crisis: It is a lie being told as science - My, my.
So the "Church of Global Warming" is coming to Port Huron.
Will any of the hypocrite priests (Al Gore, Robert Kennedy or John Edwards)
be at the opening service, Saturday's climate action rally at Port Huron's
Pine Grove Park? (04/13/07)
The
Global Warming Jihad - By Butler Shaffer - It is a common mistake
for people to assume that religious faith and fervor are qualities to
be found only within institutionally-structured churches with formal
doctrines and rituals. They are to be found, in varying degrees, within
all belief systems, be they secular or theistic in nature. The polar
opposite philosophies of Marxism and Ayn Rand's Objectivism - both of
which openly condemned traditional religion - are, themselves, grounded
in a faith in various central propositions. True-believers of these
doctrines who voiced doubt as to any of the underlying premises, have
been subjected to purges as enthusiastically conducted as medieval trials
for heresy. (04/12/07)
CNBC Anchor
Challenges Sheryl Crow and Laurie David Over Global Warming Alarmism
- By Noel Sheppard - Most people are probably not familiar with Joe
Kernen, a morning anchor for the financial network CNBC. On Tuesday,
he invited singer Sheryl Crow and "An Inconvenient Truth"
schlockumentary producer Laurie David on to discuss their "Stop
Global Warming College Tour." As Kernen tried to present the skeptics'side
of this debate, the ladies clearly got uncomfortable and, to say the
least, a bit defensive with their interviewer. (04/12/07)
Resist
global warming hysteria - By Kurt Williamsen - I've heard it said
that scientists who don't believe in anthropogenic (human-caused) global
warming are quacks and handmaidens of "big oil." These statements
are being made by followers of the leading voices of the global-warming
movement, such as Al Gore, whose mansion consumes 20 times more electricity
than the average home in America, and Stephen H. Schneider, who in 1971
was saying that anthropogenic dust particles were causing a new ice
age. (04/12/07)
More Snowballs
Snow
place to play for area teams
- Northwestern staff - All athletes with bat and ball in hand
expect some disappointment every now and again when it comes to
Mother Nature's cooperation. They look to the heavens, wondering
why the skies had to open up today and dump rain on their plans.
(04/12/07)
Brown-Dartmouth
Baseball Doubleheaders Moved to Providence - Providence,
RI - Due to snow up in Hanover, N.H., on Thursday, this weekend's
baseball doubleheaders between Brown and Dartmouth have been moved
to Providence. Both sets of games will start at 12 p.m., but Sunday's
double-dip is tentatively scheduled pending that day's forecast
on Saturday. The Big Green will still be the home team in all
four games. (04/12/07)
Snow
and Cold Puts a Stop to Baseball in South Bend - South Bend, IN
- Wednesday night's scheduled game between the Dayton Dragons
and South Bend Silver Hawks at Coveleski Stadium in South Bend,
Indiana has been canceled due to snow. The Dragons and Silver
Hawks awoke to a blanket of snow on the ground Wednesday morning
and the prediction of continued precipitation and cold temperatures.
(04/11/07)
Snow
Cancels Cubs-Astros Tilt - Fear not, Cleveland Indian
fans, you will not be the only ones snowed out of a baseball game
this season. The Cubs have canceled their home game against the
Astros today because Chicago is experiencing some snowy conditions.
(04/11/07)
BRRRR!
Snow Fall Halts Wednesday's Baseball Game - BOWLING
GREEN, Ohio - Wednesday evening's baseball at Notre Dame has been
cancelled due to snow fall in South Bend, Indiana. The contest
was originally scheduled to begin at 5:05 PM. (04/11/07)
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Scientist
Mocks Vanity Fair's "Green Issue" as "Thinly Disguised
Tabloid Propaganda" - By Noel Sheppard - If Dr. Roy Spencer
was an anthropogenic global warming believer, he'd probably be a household
name given his superior credentials as a former Senior Scientist for
Climate Studies at NASA. Sadly, due to his position on this controversial
issue, Spencer is part of a growing list of skeptical scientists across
the globe that the media ignore as they advance the existence of a consensus
concerning climate change that is anything but. (04/11/07)
Absurd Claims:
50 Million People to Lose Homes to Global Warming - Agence Presse
France has published a whopper about Global Warming, titled "Climate
refugees - the growing army without a name", in which we get the
claims of a UN Climate Committee that "50 million" will be
homeless because of Global Warming "by 2010?. But the report is
so filled with could be's, might be's and the ever popular "some
experts say" that it is hard to take the claims seriously. It is,
in fact, downright impossible to believe a word in the report unless
you suspend all faculties of disbelief and merely accept as a matter
of faith that they "could be" right. Of course, that is the
nub of the Globaloney debate in the first place; the willing suspension
of disbelief. (04/11/07)
This
is Just Embarassing - Author: Pielke Jr., R. - I am amazed that
this figure made it past review of any sort, but especially given what
the broader literature on this subject actually says. I have generally
been a supporter of the IPCC, but I do have to admit that if it is this
sloppy and irresponsible in an area of climate change where I have expertise,
why should I have confidence in the areas where I am not an expert?
(04/11/07)
Another
Skeptical Global Warming Documentary You'll Never See on American TV
- By Noel Sheppard - In 2004, Lars Mortensen TV-Produktion of Denmark
created a documentary about global warming myths entitled "Doomsday
Called Off." In it, scientists from around the world shared real
data and statistics refuting claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change concerning man's role in warming the planet. (04/10/07)
GLOBAL
WARMING: HOT AIR: HOT DEBATE? - NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Apr. 10 -/E-Wire/--
Global warming is a fact of life. Our Earth is getting hotter no question.
Why is our planet getting hotter? What causes the heat? Is it the burning
of fossil fuels? Is it the build up of CO2 in the atmosphere? Is it
solar heat; is it methane emissions from rice paddies in China, or methane
released by plants generally? Could it be one or all of these sources
or might it be something else? Each time scientists create a theory
the public accepts it. Why? Because we generally assume that scientists
are specialists in their particular area of study. We therefore, regard
their pronouncements as irrefutable. While that may be true it does
not make them infallible. History has proven this and nowhere is this
truer than in the Global Warming debate. (04/10/07)
An honorable mention for the Junkman...
Global-warming
skeptics take aim at trees - Scientific research simplified into
plea to cut down northern forests Forest study brings glee to global
warming skeptics. Global-warming skeptics are gleefully seizing on the
latest study of trees and climate to try out a new motto for living
in a warmer world: Cut trees, not SUVs! In a report published Monday
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution
at Stanford University conclude that tropical jungles dramatically cool
the planet.
(04/10/07)
Global
Warming: All Forests Are Not Equal - May Increase Warming - New
research in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, confirms the effectiveness of tropical forests
at reducing warming by absorbing carbon. However, it suggests that in
snowy latitudes, forests may actually increase local warming by absorbing
solar energy that would otherwise be reflected back out into space.
(04/10/07)
PlaySnowball
Will
global warming be good for baseball?
Photo - Tony Dejak/AP Source - MSNBC.COM
Angels-Indians
series moved to Milwaukee - Twin bill against Mariners
canceled; Tribe still hasn't played home opener - CLEVELAND -
After a frosty first week, baseball quickly made a move for warmth
and shifted the Los Angeles Angels' series against the Indians
from Cleveland to an enclosed field in Milwaukee. That didn't
do much good for Indians fans on Monday. For the fourth straight
day, games were wiped out by snow at Jacob Field, sending the
Seattle Mariners packing without playing an inning that counted.
(04/09/07)
Photo - Tony Dejak/AP Source - Yahoo
Cleveland
Indians ground crew's Rob Banaga clears Jacob Field
of snow, Monday, April 9, 2007, in Cleveland. - After snow wiped
out Cleveland's four-game series against Seattle for the fourth
day in a row Monday, the Indians will move their next series of
baseball games against the Los Angeles Angels to Milwaukee's Miller
Park.AP Photo/Tony Dejak (04/09/07)
Play
(snow)ball! Home runs drop with the temperature - Along
with balls, strikes and outs, baseball players are tracking different
statistics these days: snowfall amounts and wind chill factors.
Major League Baseball may be forced to tinker with its schedule
after a weekend series in Cleveland was wiped out by a snowstorm
and a cold snap forced the postponement of six games during the
first week of the season. (04/09/07)
Baseball's
Doubleheader at Indiana (Pa.) Postponed Because of Snow
- SHIPPENBURG, Pa. - The Shippensburg University baseball team's
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division doubleheader
scheduled for Mon. at Indiana (Pa.) has been postponed because
of snow. The games have been rescheduled for Tue., April 10. (04/09/07)
Four
more games postponed for Cougar baseball - For Immediate
Release: April 9, 2007 Morris, MN - Weather has once again forced
the University of Minnesota-Morris baseball team to postpone four
games. (04/09/07)
Snow
Forces Schedule Changes For Baseball and Tennis - Monday,
April 09, 2007 - SNHU Sports Information MANCHESTER, N.H. - The
following scheduled changes for Southern New Hampshire University
baseball and tennis teams were announced today. (04/09/07)
Indians
to play Angels in Milwaukee - Cleveland, OH (Sports
Network) - Major League Baseball, the Cleveland Indians and the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim jointly announced that the three-game
series between the Indians and Angels from April 10-12 will be
played at Miller Park in Milwaukee. The series was moved due to
poor playing conditions, player safety concerns, as well as fan
comfort issues in Cleveland. The Indians were forced to cancel
an entire four-game weekend series against Seattle thanks to inclement
weather. Snow forced Friday's opener to be postponed while the
contest was in the fifth inning. A day/night doubleheader Saturday
was then postponed because of snow and the teams were again snowed
out of twinbills on Sunday and Monday. (04/09/07)
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Sea
Otters Flee Frozen Bay In Search of Food - The weather has triggered
a sad situation on the Alaskan peninsula. An extra-cold winter has forced
sea otters to leave the sea at Resurrection Bay and go onto the frozen
tundra near Port Heiden in search of food. Some of the starving animals
have crawled or belly-slid several miles inland. Others have been attacked
by wolves, by dogs near houses, killed by villagers for their hides,
or have died on sea ice where eagles and foxes eat their bodies. (04/09/07)
WHY
SKEPTICISM IS SOUND - In the global warming debate the big issues
is whether what human beings do contributes significantly to global
warming. That global warming is occurring is not much in dispute, although
some scientists do make a good deal of the point that there have been
warming periods in the past, some of them far greater than those being
recorded in our time. There has of course been steady global warming,
on average, since as the earth evolved it was at certain early times,
following the initial cooling, covered with ice and quite uninhabitable
by anything alive. Warming was a precondition to the emergence of life.
But the warming never increased steadily and there have been periods
of both, warming and cooling all along. (04/09/07)
Global
Warming Bad? Not For Canada - By Jack Ryan - Global warming has
a lot of people worried. None of them seem to be from Canada. Canada
might actually gain Arctic shipping routes, a milder climate and a lot
of new agricultural land from global warming. (04/09/07)
Uh-oh...
Foundation
to Offer $100 Million to Deal With Global Warming - By STEVE LOHR
- The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is creating a $100 million program
to support research intended to encourage policies aimed at reducing
the threat of global warming. (04/09/07) DOH!
- If this was Exxon giving $100 million to Lindzen, do you think the
greens would be having a shit fit?
Global
Warming has no effect on Hurricanes - By Christopher Tidmore, Political
Columnist - Dr. William Gray of the National Hurricane Center at the
Colorado State University sees no connection between man-caused Global
Warming and more Hurricane Activity. More specifically, he is not sure
that humans have caused any global warming at all. (04/09/07)
Schwarzenegger
Heads For Washington To Support Global Warming Legislation - This
morning, Georgetown University announced that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
will come to Washington on Wednesday to deliver a keynote address at
its environmental leadership conference. Schwarzenegger angered the
White House during his reelection campaign by supporting the country's
most aggressive global warming legislation to date and circumventing
federal policy to discuss a carbon credits exchange deal with British
Prime Minister Tony Blair. Schwarzenegger Heads For Washington To Support
Global Warming Legislation. (04/09/07)
GMA's Champion
Joins Leftist Laurie David to Promote Global Warming Tour - By Scott
Whitlock - On Monday's "Good Morning America," weatherman
and left-wing environmental activist Sam Champion took his global warming
lobbying to the next step. Champion appeared at Southern Methodist University
in Texas with liberal celebrity activist Laurie David and noted anti-Bush
singer Sheryl Crow for the start of the "Stop Global Warming College
Tour." (04/09/07)
Lefty Blogs
Ignore MIT Prof on Global Warming - By Matthew Sheffield - If a
leading expert writes an op-ed in a national news magazine contradicting
the conventional wisdom of the "lapdog media", will a liberal
read it? - I'd say there's a 70 percent chance that won't happen, at
least as long as the subject is global warming. Richard S. Lindzen,
a well-respected and widely published professor of meteorology at MIT
just published a very clear-headed and sober editorial in this week's
Newsweek. It got picked up by Drudge and a number of right-leaning blogs
but as of this posting, has not been written about by any popular left-wing
blogs. (04/09/07)
Common Sense
Needed in Global Warming Debate - By John F. McManus - A United
Nations panel reports that the earth is warmer than it has been in recent
years. Competent scientists agree. But blaming the phenomenon on human
activity is an entirely different matter, one competently disputed by
a bevy of highly credentialed authorities. (04/09/07)
The
War of the Words - Debate: Whether it's climate 'chaos', 'change'
or 'crisis', language comes first in the environment fight. - By Jerry
Adler, Newsweek; April 16, 2007 issue - What is the most pressing environmental
issue we face today? "Global warming"? The "greenhouse
effect"? At the Oscar ceremonies, Al Gore referred to a "climate
crisis," but in his State of the Union address President Bush chose
the comparatively anodyne phrase "climate change." (04/08/07)
"World
News Tonight" Kicks off Global Warming Series After Report on Record
Cold Snap - By Noel Sheppard - This is really hysterical, and requires
all sharp objects, food and drinking vessels to be properly stowed before
proceeding. On Saturday evening, ABC's "World News Tonight"
kicked off its new series "Going Green" with "fresh ideas
for coping with the warming planet." Quite comically, this was
just minutes after anchor David Muir led the program with a report captioned
"Arctic Easter" detailing the "brutally cold temperatures
across much of the Eastern half of the country...where there could be
record lows overnight" (video available here). (04/08/07)
Russian
satellite KO'd - Latest Global Warming cover-up? - On the 7th of
March, a Russian research satellite called "Universitetsky-Tatiana"
stopped functioning, and some Russian experts believe it may have fallen
victim to a US anti-satellite weapon. (04/08/07)
Reflections
on Warming - The thing about hysteria is that it's just so darned,
well, hysterical. The facts, the science goes out the window in furtherance
of the hysteria. Figure most every global warming story you read is
written by an Al Gore voter or supporter. That may seem like an outrageous
statement, but it's likely more true than not. Their writing is tinged
by their politics. Ours is, so is theirs. (04/08/07)
Yeah right!
Agence France
Presse: 50 Million People to Lose Homes to Global Warming - By Warner
Todd Huston - Agence France Presse has published a whopper about Global
Warming, titled "Climate refugees -- the growing army without a
name", in which we get the claims of a UN Climate Committee that
"50 million" will be homeless because of Global Warming "by
2010". But the report is so filled with could be's, might be's
and the ever popular "some experts say" that it is hard to
take the claims seriously. It is, in fact, downright impossible to believe
a word in the report unless you suspend all faculties of disbelief and
merely accept as a matter of faith that they "could be" right.
Of course, that is the nub of the Globaloney debate in the first place;
the willing suspension of disbelief. (04/08/07)
Global
Warming Debate is Over: Extinction is the Only Answer - By Alan
Burkhart - Well, I suppose the Great Global Warming Debate is over.
That august scientific body known as the United States Supreme Court
has ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. That settles it, right?
The SCOTUS is after all the final arbiter of all human affairs. So,
since it's now obvious that we must immediately and at all costs reduce
or eliminate this deadly pollutant, what should be our next move? Eliminate
all coal-fired power plants? Cease the production of gasoline and diesel
fuel? (04/08/07)
A
global bench-warming? - By Steven Milloy - The Supreme Court attempted
to insert itself in the global warming debate last week with its decision
in Massachusetts v. EPA. "This is a landmark decision," Carol
Browner, Bill Clinton's former head of the Environmental Protection
Agency, said on PBS' "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."
Unfortunately for the court and Mrs. Browner -- but fortunately for
the rest of us -- its decision will have little, if any, practical impact
on the ever-intensifying climate controversy. (04/08/07)
Excellent! Bernie Goldberg
would be proud.
Media
Bias: How It Works - Sometimes media bias is blatant and grotesque;
it can extend to flat misrepresentations, use of fake documents, etc.
Much more often, it is relatively subtle, as reporters push their version
of a story in small ways, day after day. Here is a textbook example,
via Power Line News. (04/07/07)
Oh no! Perhaps I should
rethink my position...
Tom
Cruise Challenges Global Warming Report - By Chip Hil - Los Angeles
- Tom Cruise dismissed the global warming report issued by the United
Nations as "a load of pseudo-scientific hooey" that offers
"temporary bromides" instead of real solutions to the world's
temperature increases. Addressing a group of reporters at his son's
baseball game yesterday afternoon, Mr. Cruise demanded to know how many
actually had read the UN report. (04/07/07)
Global
Warming Rebuke: Hurricane Forecaster Blasts Al Gore - What would
Weather Channel alarmist Dr. Heidi Cullen say? Dr. William Gray has
ripped Al Gore for his extremism and alarmist methods of promoting global
warming with doomsday scenarios. The chief hurricane forecaster called
Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday for making an Oscar-winning
documentary about global warming. "He's one of these guys that
preaches the end of the world type of things." (04/07/07)
Supreme
Court's global warming ruling decried as "politically correct"
- A prominent climate-change expert says the Supreme Court's recent
ruling in favor of efforts to curb global warming was a classic example
of judicial activism. He feels the court's decision, which allows environmental
groups to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to regulate
carbon dioxide emissions from new vehicles, is not only a threat to
the auto industry but also to the future of the American economy. (04/07/07)
Climate
of Fear: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into
silence - By Prof. Richard Lindzen - There have been repeated claims
that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced
climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows
in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their
cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes.
Yet how can a barely discernible, one-degree increase in the recorded
global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public
acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes? And how can
it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes? The answer
has much to do with misunderstanding the science of climate, plus a
willingness to debase climate science into a triangle of alarmism. (04/07/07)
High
court hijacks climate policy - The U.S. Supreme Court made an Olympic
leap into new territory this week with a ruling that the Environmental
Protection Agency has the authority to regard carbon dioxide emissions
as a "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act. (04/07/07)
Play Ball!
The
global warming cult - When I
got my copy of the March 12 issue of Sport Illustrated, with Florida
Marlins pitcher Dontrelle Willis hip deep in a flooded Dolphin
Stadium to promote the magazine's "Sports and Global Warming"
issue, I just had to laugh. "As the Planet Changes, So Do
the Games We Play: Time to Pay Attention," warned the headline.
Now the hysteria is being spread to sports fans - many of whom,
I suspect, only read Sports Illustrated to take a break from this
kind of pervasive propaganda in news and entertainment outlets.
(04/07/07)
This would be funny if it
wasn't a little bit true
MLB
Presents: The Ultimate Snow Job
- The Great Managerial Snowball Fight By Chuck Murr, Indians Ink
- It was the ballgame that was never played - but everybody involved
won't ever forget it. Unfortunately, Major League Baseball's head-in-the-snow
executives won't learn from it, either. They are the morons directly
responsible for the daylong debacle at Jacobs Field that would
have been funny if it weren't so stupidly sad. They set the snowmobile
in motion on it long before Friday ever dawned. (04/07/07)
Umpire
Reed explains postponement - "Unplayable"
field forced decision to call Mariners-Indians game - CLEVELAND
- Associated Press reporter Tom Withers spoke with crew chief
Rick Reed on the decision to call Friday's game between the Mariners
and Indians. (04/07/07)
Saturday's
Baseball Game At Dayton Postponed To Sunday - Overnight
snow remains on field in Dayton DAYTON, OH - Snow squalls have
caused the postponment of Saturday's Atlantic 10 baseball game
between Dayton and Temple at Time Warner Cable Stadium. The Flyers
and Owls will play two nine-inning games on Sunday beginning at
noon. (04/07/07)
Saturday's
Baseball Game Between Air Force and #28 TCU Cancelled
- Falcons return to action April 13-15, hosting New Mexico. USAF
ACADEMY, Colo. - The Air Force-TCU baseball game scheduled for
Saturday, April 7, has been cancelled due unplayable field conditions
caused by snow and ice. (04/07/07)
Tech
Takes Game One of Baseball Series 7-6, Snow Forces Suspension
of Game Two - Heavy snow showers forced a suspension
of the game with Tech leading 4-3 in the top of the fifth inning.
That game, a scheduled seven-inning contest, will be resumed at
1 p.m. EDT on Saturday and will be followed immediately by the
third game of the series which will also be a seven-inning affair.
(04/07/07)
Baseball
Postponed - Saturday's game between Purdue and Michigan
State postponed due to cold, snow (04/07/07)
Dragons
game postponed by snow - Friday's game with the Whitecaps
will probably be rescheduled as part of a June doubleheader. By
Marc Katz - DAYTON - The Dayton Dragons played in the snow Friday
night, but not in a baseball game. (04/06/07)
Clemson
at Virginia Tech Baseball Game Friday Stopped Due to Snow
With Tigers Leading 5-1 in Fifth Inning -
Game-one will be completed at 1:00 PM on Saturday; game-two to
start 30 minutes after game-one. The Clemson at Virginia Tech
baseball game on Friday was suspended in the middle of the fifth
inning with the Tigers leading 5-1. Snow flurries and heavy winds
rolled onto and over English Field during the first inning. The
snowfall increased in intensity throughout the first five innings.
After several players had trouble seeing the ball in the air and
the accumulation of snow covered the field, the umpires decided
to suspend play. The game will be picked up at its stopping point
at 1:00 PM on Saturday. Game-two of the three-game series will
start approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the halted
game on Saturday. (04/06/07)
Snow
Cancels Tulsa Baseball Opener - TULSA, Ok. (AP) - The
Tulsa Drillers will try again Friday night to open the Texas League
season after a spring snowfall postponed Thursday night's game.
(04/06/07)
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Alarmists arguing over
the alarm...yawn
Scientists
in war of words over global warming report - By Stephen Castle -
Scientists and diplomats are haggling over the fine print of an alarming
report that will today warn how global warming will warm seas, melt
glaciers and change weather patterns. As delegates from more than 100
countries tried to finalise the document, campaigners called for the
strongest possible statement on the impact of climate change to galvanise
leaders to slash carbon emissions. (04/06/07)
It's
the Sun, stupid - The The United Nations's IPCC Report comes out
today so I thought I'd make a report too. James Carville used to remind
Clinton during the '92 campaign that "its the economy, stupid".
I (and many others far smarter than I am) say that on the subject of
Global Warming: "its the SUN, stupid" Our earth is warmed
by a gigantic nuclear fireball, millions of times the mass of earth
and a mere 8.5 light-minutes away. One hundred and nine Earths would
be required to fit across the Sun's disk, and its interior could hold
over 1.3 million Earths. (04/06/07)
'"Global
warming" hype reaches fever pitch - But critics doubting data
compare ideology behind movement to Communism, Nazism. As cold weather
sweeps across much of the U.S. and buries New England in several feet
of snow, global warming hyperbole reached new heights today as an apocalyptic
international report, "Meet the Climate Change," warned the
world is reaching a "point of no return" that will bring unprecedented
famine and drought catastrophes. The report was assembled by the Institute
for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Centre for American Progress
in the United States and the Australia Institute. (04/06/07)
Extinction
is the Only Answer - By Alan Burkhart - Well, I suppose the Great
Global Warming Debate is over. That august scientific body known as
the United States Supreme Court has ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
That settles it, right? The SCOTUS is after all the final arbiter of
all human affairs. (04/06/07)
Guilty
Until Proven Innocent - By Robert Tracinski - One of the most appalling
recent trends is the way in which certain media outlets, such as The
New York Times, have begun referring to carbon dioxide - one of the
basic constituents of the atmosphere and a substance we all constantly
exhale - as a "pollutant." By that standard, everything is
a pollutant. And that is, in fact, precisely the view that has now been
endorsed by a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court. In Monday's ruling
in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, the court held
that the EPA is obliged to treat every substance on earth as a pollutant
to be regulated, unless it can demonstrate why that substance is not
a pollutant. (04/06/07)
Latest
IPCC Global Warming report: alarmists running amok - By Aleksander
Boyd - And so it concludes the latest report released by the UN's IPCC:
Although science to provide policymakers with information about climate
change impacts and adaptation potential has improved since the Third
Assessment, it still leaves many important questions to be answered.
The chapters of the Working Group II report include a number of judgements
about priorities for further observation and research, and this advice
should be considered seriously... (04/06/07)
Nancy
Pelosi Solves the Middle East, Turns to Global Warming - Just think
of the fossil fuels she could have saved by not going to Syria. (04/06/07)
It's official. Chris Mathews has lost it.
First: - "The Washington
Post is not the liberal newspaper it used to be. It's a neocon paper
now." ~ Chris Mathews, MSNBC Hardball (03/23/07)
Then: - "This(the Washington
Post) used to be a liberal paper back in Nixon's day...now it's a hawkish
paper" ~ Chris Mathews, MSNBC Hardball (04/05/07)
This, after the WP's
editorial page correctly noted that San Fran Nan's trip to
Syria was "foolish".
UPDATE: Reuters revises the news
again. - See "Revised News"
for the latest. My 'closely divided' buttcheeks are really
'stinging' now.
Rant: The
left wing "Legislating Supremes" have done it again. 30 years
of John Paul Stevens is enough! If the man wants to be a legislator,
he should have to be elected like everyone else! Read
this ridiculous decision.
Associate Justice Lawmaker,
John Paul Stevens
Tired of activist judges? Here
is the solution.
Global
Warming and the Supremes - By Steven Milloy - The Supreme Court
attempted to insert itself in the global warming debate this week with
its decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which gives the Federal Environmental
Protection Agency authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from
motor vehicles. (04/05/07)
Gore
Has Turned Global Warming into a Religion - By Kevin Roeten - One
of the definitions of religion is defined by Webster as "anything
done or followed with reverence and devotion." But as Jonah Goldberg(TownHall)
exclaimed "Gore is on the side of the angels and therefore it's
mean-spirited to throw inconvenient truths back at the Oscar winner
for An Inconvenient Truth". But what has Gore to gain from all
his hype? Back on 1/2/07 Roger Hedgecock(KOGO radio) revealed what most
scientists(not bureaucrats) agreed on--the top 9 reasons for global
warming. Man was #9, volcanic eruptions #7, plankton #5, and the Sun
was #1. (04/05/07)
Global
warming on Mars: may not be unique to just Earth - By William Atkins
- More of the famous red dust that has resulted in Mars being called
the Red Planet may be the cause of why NASA scientists have seen increased
warming of the planet over three decades. NASA researchers led by Lori
Fenton, at the Ames Research Center (California) have used climate models
used here on the Earth for their modeling of the Martian climate. Their
results find that Mars has warmed by about 0.65 degrees Celsius in the
past thirty years. (04/05/07)
Climate
change report is wrong: academic - The global scientific report
blaming carbon emissions for climate change is based on misconceptions
about the Earth's behaviour, says an Australian academic who believes
global warming is not caused by mankind. (04/05/07)
Inhofe
heats global warming debate : Senator says "Truth" encourages
skepticism - By William Triplett - You'd think the popularity and
success of "An Inconvenient Truth" might have silenced global
warming skeptics. Well, think again. "When you have Hollywood and
Al Gore involved, it's actually in many ways made it easier" to
create more skeptics, says Marc Morano, communications chief for Sen.
James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has led the political charge against theories
of man-made climate change. (04/05/07)
Networks
Respect "America's Best-Known Forecaster," Except When He
Talks about Global Warming - By Dan Gainor, The Boone Pickens Free
Market Fellow, Business & Media Institute - Networks rush to cover
Dr. Bill Gray's hurricane predictions, but leave out the fact that he
thinks the world might cool again soon. Bill Gray is "America's
best-known forecaster," said CBS's Mark Strassman, and a "veteran
forecaster," according to ABC's Ned Potter. The networks treat
him like the expert he is, until they want to talk about global warming.
Then he gets ignored because he thinks global warming hype is a hoax.
"Every weather forecaster of any kind is wrong sometime, but I
wouldn't bet against Dr. Gray," said CBS "weather consultant"
Bryan Norcross in an April 3 report. (04/04/07)
The
Supreme Court's Bad Science - By Alan Caruba - Sometimes the Supreme
Court makes spectacularly bad decisions and this was manifest on April
2 when five of its nine members yielded to the specious argument by
twelve States and several environmental organizations that the science
of "global warming" was so conclusive that it could declare
that carbon dioxide (CO2) should be regulated by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency as "a pollutant." (04/04/07)
"Green
cities" all talk, no action on global-warming cuts - By Patrice
Hill - Global warming, Mark Twain might say, is like the weather: Everybody
talks about it but nobody ever does anything about it. (04/04/07)
Scare
the masses and make a profit - When you pick up a newspaper or turn
on the news you can be sure you will find something to scare you. It
sells papers and increases TV ratings. Examples are West Nile Virus,
Global Warming, Ice Caps melting, ocean levels rising and it goes on
and on. An example of scare the masses and profit was West Nile. How
many people went out and bought some kind of device to kill mosquitoes,
while somebody made millions by scaring the masses. Global warming seems
to be created to scare you. The media reports the hype and the fiction
that sells papers and television. One should be skeptical of those news
stories, as I believe most of the changes in the climate are of natural
pattern. (04/04/07)
This
Is Global Warming - By Alan Scholl - According to news reports,
the Arctic is melting. Dispatches from the Bering Sea suggest the news
is wrong. National Geographic News reported on March 30 that, based
on satellite imagery taken in September 2005, Arctic ice "was at
its lowest level in some 50 years of observation." That, supposedly,
serves as incontrovertible evidence that global warming is a real threat.
"The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice in recent years is the result
of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions," National Geographic
worriedly reported. (04/04/07)
Sound
off! Does global warming scare you? - Do reports like this make
you more worried about global warming? Are you prepared to make personal
sacrifices, such as driving less and turning down the heat on your home,
to help curb climate change? Or do you think concerns about global warming
are overblown? (04/04/07)
Global
warming argument has serious flaws - In this piece, I will commit
a number of heresies. The Inquisitors of the Church of Ecology know
where to find me. Let them come: I remain armed with the First Amendment
and a proud tradition of liberty. In order to more effectively commit
heresy, I will explicitly enumerate the doctrines of New Environmentalism,
which is the religion of the Church of Ecology. Please note - I do not
suggest that these are the views of everyone who believes global warming
is a concern. They are, however, common among activists, socialist politicians
and the news media. I explicitly reject all but the first. (04/04/07)
On
global warming, please, not so fast - John Richmond, Concord - My
only criticism is that the column starts from a baseline assumption
that the anthropogenic theory of global warming is correct. I don't
deny that the Earth has been in a period of atmospheric warming for
decades. But there is substantial disagreement in the scientific community
as to whether human activities have contributed in any meaningful way
to this warming, or if, instead, it represents fluctuation in a much
longer natural climate cycle. (04/04/07)
Global
warming happens: but is it "catastrophic?" - By Alister
Doyle, Environment Correspondent - OSLO (Reuters) - Likely headlines
predicting a global warming "catastrophe," "disaster"
or "cataclysm" after a U.N. report due on Friday risk sapping
public willingness to act by making the problem seem too big to tackle,
some experts say. (04/04/07)
Belgium
to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming - BRUSSELS -
The government of Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia, which
has a population of about 4 million, has approved a tax on barbequing,
local media reported. Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of
CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbequing. Beginning
June 2007, residents of Wallonia will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling
session. The local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new
tax legislation from helicopters, whose thermal sensors will detect
burning grills. Scientists believe CO2 emissions are a major cause of
global warming. (04/03/07)
Americans
least concerned about global warming - "More than two-thirds
of the world's people are worried by global warming with Americans (57
percent) among the least anxious even though their nation is the top
source of greenhouse gases, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday."
Brazilians topped the list, with 87 percent concerned about climate
change. (04/03/07)
Yawn
Herman
Munster and the Ketchup Queen join the Greenies - Too much hot air
on global warming - By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry - We have spent
the past decade debating a scientific consensus on global warming instead
of taking action to fix it. The time is now to move from talk to action.
For too long, we have allowed our national dialogue on this looming
crisis to be distorted by a small group of industry-funded naysayers.
They have stalled as evidence mounted along with worldwide temperatures
- which are up 1.4 degrees in this new millennium alone. (04/03/07)
Business
of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition - By William F. Buckley
- The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming
outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable
columnist (Thomas Friedman of The New York Times) opened his essay last
week by writing, "Sometimes you read something about this administration
that's just so shameful it takes your breath away." (04/03/07)
Researchers
To Use Drowning Bears As Global Warming Magnet? - By Mitch Marconi
- Sea ice is melting, according to some researchers, and this has reportedly
caused a serious increase in polar bear drownings. If you are one of
many who don't believe Global Warming is a real threat, or real to begin
with, British science writer Gabrielle Walker thinks this will get your
attention. (04/03/07)
Changing
emissions standards won't help global warming problem - The standard
argument deploring judicial activism is that all too often interested
parties who have failed to achieve their political objectives through
the legislative process or by petitioning administrative or regulatory
agencies turn to the courts to try to get what they have failed to get
through the political process. (04/03/07)
Capitalism at it's
best!
Global
Warming Footprint Tool Goes Online - The Center for Sustainable
Innovation (CSI) announced today the online implementation of its Global
Warming Footprint tool for public access and use. Known as the Global
Warming Footprint Calculator, CSI's tool is the only greenhouse gas
measurement and reporting system that actually compares an organization's
emissions with an allowable pattern of emissions required to stabilize
CO2 concentrations in the earth's atmosphere. (04/03/07)
Global
Warming Update - BEGIN TRANSCRIPT - RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut
dadelut dadelut! It's time for a global warming update. Al Gore once
again is portrayed vocally here by Paul Shanklin. (Playing of "What
a Horrible World" Global Warming Update parody song.) RUSH: The
EIB Network here, Rush Limbaugh. (Continued playing of song.) RUSH:
I wonder if we could convince the schools to play that song after they
screen that lying piece of propaganda, An Inconvenient Truth. All right,
we have big news in the global warming update today. First from Brussels,
Belgium: "The government of Belgium's French-speaking region of
Wallonia, which has a population of about 4 million, has approved a
tax on barbequing, local media reported. Experts said that between 50
and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during
barbequing. Beginning June 2007," that's this year, for those of
you in Rio Linda, "residents of Wallonia will have to pay 20 euros
for a grilling session. The local authorities plan to monitor compliance
with the new tax legislation from helicopters..." They are going
to have helicopters fly over people's backyards to see if they're barbecuing
and whether they played the 20 euro tax! Black helicopters are going
to be flying over people's backyards. They think a 20 euro tax is not
going to limit barbecuing? It is going to raise money! (04/03/07)
Five
Step Plan for Bush to Put End to Global Warming Issues - Jay Leno
hit it on the mark when he said, "Arnold Schwarzenegger is blaming
man for global warming. And today, Al Gore agreed with him. That's so
typical. Two cyborgs. 'Oh, let's blame the humans.'" This isn't
meant to demean either gentleman. Both "cyborgs" are in fact
probably right that greenhouse gases do play a role in climate change.
What is more, their very concern for the issue displays a sense of responsibility
that is somewhat uncommon these days. (04/03/07)
Jackie
Mason Skewers All 'Schmucks' - His (Al Gore's) global warming story
comes from such fraud, nonsense and baloney. Only the morons in Hollywood,
who jump on any issue that they feel they could prove to themselves
that they care about humanity, believe this. They create more pollution
and destruction of the atmosphere in one plane trip than you could if
you drive around for the next 40 years in your SUV. (04/03/07)
Middlebury
College, Felix Rohatyn, And the Green-Brown Cult of Al Gore - by
David Dixon, LaRouche Youth Movement - An ongoing investigation by the
LaRouche Youth Movement into the apparatus of international speculators,
radical environmentalists, and quackademic pseudo-scientists behind
the global warming swindle, has turned up a very nasty command center
at Vermont's Middlebury College. In effect, over the past five years,
Middlebury has been turned into an assembly-line for the manufacture
of "grassroots" environmental countergangs all tied to the
Academy Award-winning charlatan-in-chief of the present drive for carbon
swaps and other environmentally friendly financial scams, Al Gore. At
the same time, some of the major funding for the Middlebury green social-engineering
scheme comes from leading right-wing tax-exempt foundations, including
several associated with George Shultz and Richard Mellon Scaife, the
latter being the moneybags behind the entire 1990s "Get Bill Clinton"
assault on the U.S. Presidency. It should come as no surprise to the
former President and First Lady that Al Gore has teamed up with the
Richard Mellon Scaife gang in peddling yet another Academy Award-winning
political fiction. (04/03/07)
And
They Were All Eaten By Polar Bears, The End - Here are some possible
story arcs for this, the world's most unpleasant cruise: They thought
Global Warming was a myth, until the ship struck part of the arctic
ice shelf floating around Seattle. Nobody was really that surprised
to learn Victor Davis Hanson drunkenly wanders the decks each night,
dressed as Caligula. "What's that on the floor crawling under the
table? Oh Jesus Christ, it's Dick Morris sucking my toes again!"
K-Lo poolside nipple slip! When they noticed one of the waiters was
from Iran, they killed him wrote several posts on "The Corner"
about wanting to kill him. Jonah Goldberg didn't go because he's scared
of water. (04/03/07)
"Today"
Show Warns Your Car's Emissions Hurts Puppies, Helps Criminals -
by Geoffrey Dickens - NBC's Martin Savidge took the prize for unexpected
environmental advocacy on this morning's Today show. In a global warming
story, disguised as a health report, Savidge went over-the-top as he
blamed your car's exhaust for seemingly every problem under the Sun.
In what was initially teased as an allergy report Savidge blamed fossil
fuel emissions for an increase in the pollen count that is not only
leading to exacerbated allergic reactions in humans and their pets but
also getting in the way of police officers trying to collect fingerprints.
(04/03/07)
Global
warming is no longer the cause just for the traditional tofu-eating,
Birkenstock-wearing, hemp-advocating, green revolutionaries. Uh,
yes it is! (04/03/07)
Are you kidding?
Welcome
To The New Global Warming Order - Where the government will soon
be using helicopters to monitor the emissions of greenhouse gases from
your backyard grill. (04/03/07)
Weathermen
at war over storm - By Paul Gorman - Two of the country's best-known
weathermen have fallen out as the storm between MetService and the National
Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) intensifies. Former
MetService chief meteorologist and TV3 weather presenter, Dr Augie Auer,
is calling for Niwa to be disbanded. He says comments made by principal
Niwa climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger after last week's extreme rain
and flooding in Northland were "just plain silly" and reflected
the danger of an organisation won over by the global-warming lobby becoming
involved in weather forecasting. (04/03/07)
Global
warming clash builds up its own heat - By Tony Gee - The National
Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research is standing by its prediction
that global warming will cause more floods of the type that devastated
Northland. Niwa climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger rejects Climate Science
Coalition criticism describing Niwa's observations as simplistic and
unscientific, especially as summer had brought below-average temperatures.
Coalition spokesman Augie Auer claimed Dr Salinger's argument on global
warming was not credible. (04/03/07)
Global
Warming report - Keeping you guessing! - By Ian Brockwell - After
many long years of debate, most people have finally accepted that Global
Warming does indeed exist. However, the question of how serious the
problem will become and the cause of this climatic change, remains uncertain.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is supposed
to consist of the most brilliant scientific minds on the subject of
Global Warming, have stated that humans are to blame for climate change.
Unfortunately, they are not 100 percent certain of this, but say there
is more than a 90 percent chance that they are right. Another group
of scientists have challenged this idea and claim that it is a natural
shift in the Sun's heat that is responsible, and even go as far as to
say that the rising temperatures have slowed down over the last decade!
(04/03/07)
ABCNews.com's
Drive-By Approach to Court Ruling on CO2 Regulation - By Ken Shepherd
on April 2, 2007 - "Court trumps Bush on global warming,"
read the teaser headline on the front page of ABCNews.com, as accessed
by this reader at 12:15 p.m. EDT today. No, the Supreme Court is NOT
the high court of all things scientific, but ABC and other liberal media
outlets are essentially portraying the new ruling as such, although
it pertains merely to what the EPA may choose to regulate as an air
pollutant. When I clicked the link it took me to a two-paragraph Reuters
squib about a Supreme Court ruling on carbon dioxide regulation that
came down this morning: (04/02/07)
Weather
Channel Global Warming Alarmist Touts Supreme Court Ruling - Cable
television's resident Global Warming alarmist Dr. Heidi Cullen is touting
the Supreme Court ruling that was handed down on Monday on the website
of the Weather Channel. In a 5-4 decision, the court said the Clean
Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate
the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars.
(04/02/07)
How
to Fight Global Warming? Maybe Just Live With It - Some Scientists
Say It May Be Easier to Adapt Than Change Our Ways Some scientists have
suggested the radical idea that instead of trying to figure out how
to stop global warming, we should devote more time and resources towards
learning how to deal with its inevitability. Global warming has moved
to center stage, backed by widespread consensus that we are in for big
changes in the years ahead, but the scale of the problem is so huge
that many are left feeling there's nothing they can do to stop it. And
they're probably right. (04/02/07)
NY
Times and ABC: Global Warming Inevitable, So Pay Up - "World
News" offers "frightening" global warming story; Times
calls for rich countries to pay more for future damage. - Global warming
catastrophe is coming, according to "World News Sunday" on
ABC, and The New York Times wants rich nations to spring for the costs.
"Scientists say the world's temperature will rise about two degrees
in the next 50 years no matter what we do, but if we act now it might
level off after that," said ABC's Bill Blakemore on April 1. Blakemore
has spoken out publicly about his views on global warming, accepting
the claim that "civilization as we know it is over." (04/02/07)
Statement
on Supreme Court Ruling on Global Warming in Massachusetts v. Environmental
Protection Agency - Washington, D.C. - Amy Ridenour,
president of The National Center for Public Policy Research, released
this statement today following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency: "The
Supreme Court's decision is a victory for the bad guys in the battle
over whether the American people will be governed by accountable elected
officials or unaccountable judges. Unable to convince the Senate to
vote upon, let alone ratify, the Kyoto global warming treaty, the left
has adopted the Kyoto-by-stealth strategy of asking judges to force
its version of science into the pocketbooks of the American people.
(04/02/07)
Judge's
Ruling Demonstrates Danger of Al Gore's Global Warming Campaign
- By Noel Sheppard - For those skeptical about man's role in climate
change who haven't grown concerned about the media's fascination with
this issue, and the propaganda being spread by soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore
and his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth," this report
by the Associated Press Saturday should open your eyes: Citing Al Gore's
movie on global warming, a federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against
the government for its financing of overseas projects that may contribute
to climate change. (04/02/07)
U.S.
Supreme Court tells Bush administration it has authority to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions from cars - WASHINGTON: The U.S Supreme
Court ordered the federal government Monday to take a fresh look at
regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration
policy on global warming. (04/02/07)
An
Inconvenient Truth: There Is No Consensus On Global Warming! - By
Doug Edelman - When it comes to the debate on Global Climate Change
(I find it interesting to note that after some of the coldest and nastiest
winters in years - they're no longer calling it "global warming")
it is intellectually dishonest to deny that there exist LEGITIMATE differences
of opinion. There is NOT any unanimity in the scientific community on
ANY of the significant Climate Change questions. (04/02/07)
REVISED
NEWS
According to Reuters, the Supremes' 5-4 decision went from "closely
divided" to "stinging defeat" in a matter of a few hours.
What changed? Look at how Reuters revises the language in the first
paragraph of the following two posts:
UPDATE
3-US court rules against Bush in global warming case
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a stinging defeat for the Bush administration,
the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that U.S. environmental officials
have the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global
warming. (04/02/07)
Court
rules against Bush in global warming case - WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- In a defeat for the Bush administration, a closely divided Supreme
Court ruled on Monday that a U.S. government agency incorrectly determined
it lacks the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global
warming. (04/02/07)
UPDATE: (04/03/07) It appears that
the original
link (above) has now been revised to read the same as the newer
(editirialized) link. Fortunately, Google's cache of the original was
still available: This
is how the page originaly appeared, when it was more closely divided
and less stinging. Curiously, only one day after we noted this
revision here, the editorialized version now completely replaces the
original. Notice the date remains the same, April 2.
END REVISED NEWS
Retired
Arctic Research Director Slams Global Warming Alarmism - Despite
the constant drumbeat coming from the media and their global warming
prophet soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, we have lately seen more and more noted
scientists around the world speaking out against the supposed consensus
that man causes climate change.The most recent entry on the side of
the skeptics was Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, the former director of the University
of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center. (04/02/07)
Global
Warming Merges With El Niño - People still do not believe
in Global warming, but that is about to change, according to everyone's
favorite news source of doom. Global Warming has just announced a merger
with El Niño, in an effort to "have an actual effect on
the climate that it can claim as its own," said spokesperson, La
Niña. (04/02/07)
Gore
Has Turned "Global Warming" into a Religion - By Kevin Roeten
- One of the definitions of religion is defined by Webster as "anything
done or followed with reverence and devotion." But as Jonah Goldberg(TownHall)
exclaimed "Gore is on the side of the angels and therefore it's
mean-spirited to throw inconvenient truths back at the Oscar winner
for "An Inconvenient Truth". But what has Gore to gain from
all his hype? (04/02/07)
April Fools:
IPCC:
Global Warming Highway To Extinction - Climate change is paving
a "highway to extinction" which could see billions of people
perish from hunger, malnutrition, disease, extreme weather events, heat-induced
stress and lack of drinkable water by the year 2050, according to the
latest report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
due to be released in Belgium next Friday. (04/01/07)
Judge
advances suit claiming projects promote to climate change - SAN
FRANCISCO --A federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government
over its funding of overseas projects that environmental groups claim
contribute to climate change. (04/01/07)
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