May 2007 Archives
OFF TOPIC
New
Rules: Bill Maher has to stop telling conservatives when they can or
cannot roll their eyes. - By Dennis E. Keizer - Last Friday HBO's
Bill Maher gave us "his take" on why France is so good and
America is so bad. One only needs to examine the transcript to see how
much envy Mr. Bill has for France"
George
Soros backed Media Matters Launches "Global Warming Spin Machine"
in attempt to discredit skeptics! - In a further attempt to stifle
any opposing view on climate change, the liberal media watchdog group
Media Matters has launched "Global Warming: Misinformation Action
Center" your
comments...
Global
Warming Deception - Part I : A thesis becomes political ideology
- By Klaus Mueller, Epoch Times German Staff - Are carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions the cause of global warming? In Germany, a scientist may still
perform critical analysis to prove or disprove this assumption, though
time is probably running out. The desired results have already been
determined. (05/31/07)
Hurricane
Contest almost underway - By Scott Maxwell - We're going to use
this blog to keep tabs on Taking Names" 2007 Forecasting Face-off"
-- the contest where I'm pitting the hurricane predictions of famed
forecaster William Gray against a monkey, a preschooler and a columnist.
My basic contention is that this whole prediction thing is so hit-and-miss
that even a monkey ... or columnist ... could do as well. Just check
out last year's season where Gray's predictions were an Category 5 disaster.
Anyway, I have a link to the original column with all the predictions
-- from Gray, me, my monkey and my boy -- right here. And we'll keep
tabs on it throughout the season, which starts tomorrow. (05/31/07)
TOPIC
OF THE DAY: Global warming - Alarmist views are propaganda - Al
Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is more alarmist
misinformation than truth. The debate concerning global warming is not
over. Many of the world's leading scientists and climatologists say
the film is frightening but false propaganda. Most climatologists reject
the theory that higher carbon dioxide emissions cause heat buildup.
Temperature actually changes before CO2 emissions rise, the exact opposite.
(05/31/07)
ABC's Global
Warming Piece Ignores Decades of Hysteria from NASA's James Hansen
- By Noel Sheppard - ABC's Bill Blakemore wrote an article posted at
the network's website Tuesday citing global warming alarmist and NASA
scientist James Hansen as stating that the earth is at a tipping point
"with dangerous consequences to the planet" (05/31/07)
NASA
Chief Questions Urgency of Global Warming - NASA administrator Michael
Griffin defends the space agency's programs, including plans for a permanent
moon base and manned missions to Mars. He also says that while NASA
studies climate change, the agency has no authorization to "take
actions to affect climate change in either one way or another."
(05/31/07)
Look
closer at other side of global warming issue - You hear it everyday:
"Humans are destroying the Earth! We need to offset our carbon
emissions," etc., etc. I have a hard time believing humans are
the only cause of this so-called climate change disaster. I'm not alone
in my opinion, either. (05/31/07)
Global
Warming Hysteria is a National Security Issue - By Gerd Schroeder
- Recently in the news several retired US generals, came out in favor
of using defense resources for fighting the effects of global warming.
The news media only carried it for a day or so, but it raised some potent
strategic issues that should be discussed. (05/31/07)
Global-warming
debate needs dissenters - Times Colonist - Both points of view in
the global warming debate have legitimate arguments. Yes, mankind is
producing too much greenhouse gases and other pollutants and we have
to stop. Also undisputed is the fact that the climate is changing and
getting warmer. The argument is over the cause. (05/30/07)
Dam
the Salmon - By SHIKHA DALMIA - Al Gore has been hectoring Americans
to pare back their lifestyles to fight global warming. But if Mr. Gore
wants us to rethink our priorities in the face of this mother of all
environmental threats, surely he has convinced his fellow greens to
rethink theirs, right? Wrong. If their opposition to the Klamath hydroelectric
dams in the Pacific Northwest is any indication, the greens, it appears,
are just as unwilling to sacrifice their pet causes as a Texas rancher
is to sacrifice his pickup truck. If anything, the radicalization of
the environmental movement is the bigger obstacle to addressing global
warming than the allegedly gluttonous American way of life. (05/29/07)
A
Challenge To Al Gore - Older folks sometimes snip about the younger
generation and the litany of complaints is long and varied. But if all
students are like Kristen Byrnes of Portland, Maine, the nation has
nothing to worry about. Ms. Byrnes is a 15-year-old student at Portland
High School and, when she is not running track and field, takes all
honors classes, including Earth Science. Former Vice President Al Gore's
film "A Convenient Truth" is being shown in many high school
classes today. Apparently, Ms. Byrnes became upset at the sloppy science
in the movie. So as a project for her Earth Science class, she created
her own Web
site and, well, very politely and scientifically, ripped the global-warming-caused-by-man
theory to shreds. Her Web site looks at global warming "without
financial and political bias." That should cause concern to global
warming advocates right there. Plus, "It uses the most updated
information provided by scientists and researchers and interjects common
sense, an important component missing from the global warming debate."
Using common sense against hysteria. Wonder if that will work? (05/29/07)
A
global hysteria - By BEN-PETER TERPSTRA - TIME Magazine believes
that former US vice-president Al Gore and "global warming"
sermons are a great combination. That is why their environmental doctrines
are so very bizarre, I guess. How bizarre? Try reading the magazine's
"Global Warming Survival Guide" dated April 9, 2007, and the
"51 Things You Can Do to Make a Difference". Rule 26: "Plant
a bamboo fence", because it feels good? Unprecedented levels of
idiocy aside, there's plenty to laugh about. (05/29/07)
Alternative Headline: Dumbass turns
into human popsicle for the sake of warming
Adventurer
to swim at the North Pole to highlight global warming - By John
Joseph - LONDON (Reuters) - A British adventurer is planning to highlight
the effects of global warming by becoming the first person to swim at
the North Pole and break his own record for the coldest swim. "I
can't think of a better way to show that climate change is a reality
than by swimming in a place that should be totally frozen over. I hope
it will ... put pressure on the leaders of the G8 summit to cut carbon
emissions dramatically," he said in a statement. (05/29/07)
FIRST
GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT LAUNCHED AGAINST CANADA - 29/5/07 9:27AM
- Media Release - For Immediate Release Attention News/Political/Climate
Change Reporters and Assignment Editors: (Ottawa, Canada, May 29, 2007)
Friends of the Earth Canada has launched a landmark lawsuit today against
the Government of Canada for abandoning its international commitments
under the Kyoto Protocol. Filed in Federal Court in Ottawa by Canada's
foremost environmental law organization, Sierra Legal, the lawsuit alleges
that the federal government is violating Canadian law by failing to
meet its binding international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. (05/29/07)
India Rejects
Global Warming Hysteria, Says Kyoto Hurts Economy, Worsens Poverty
- By Noel Sheppard - As global warming alarmists in the media and on
tour buses enflame hysteria concerning a nonexistent climate crisis,
there is an inconvenient truth they routinely ignore: carbon dioxide
emission reductions will hurt economies across the globe while worsening
poverty. This seemingly immutable fact, which continually eludes the
deluded such as soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry
sycophants, is understood by India which has up to this point refused
to participate in any emissions requirements set forth by the United
Nations. (05/29/07)
See? We told you...
"Rich
countries should pay global warming bill": Oxfam - London:
Barely 10 days before a crucial Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany
which is expected to discuss climate change as the core issue, aid agency
Oxfam has said coping with the damages of global warming will cost $50
billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution
must pay most of the bill. (05/29/07)
The most annoying song you will
ever hear!
Portland
teens make a musical global warming plea - George et al. might be
cool with a warmer planet, but Katie and Una aren't having it. In a
musical plea tolerable because it comes from the mouths of babes (the
young-in kind, not the hottie variety, though they are cute little gals),
a Northwest band called Blübird urges U.S. leaders to address climate
change. In "What If We Don't Want to Be Warm?", the teenage
Blübirds sing:
Please don't melt our glaciers, please don't kill us
all. Please don't destroy our atmosphere, the sun will kill us all.
CHORUS: Global warming it's not just a prediction anymore. It's not
just a prediction anymore -- it's true. Help!
Download their polar
bear mask, or listen to the stripped-down rock-and-roll of "What
if..." here:
No word on whether folks with the Bush administration have heard Blübird's
song. Leaders here are continuing to fight language being proposed for
a global-warming declaration to be presented at next month's Group of
Eight summit. (05/28/07)
I Was On
the Global Warming Gravy Train - By David Evans - I devoted six
years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government
to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. When
I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused
global warming seemed pretty conclusive, but since then new evidence
has weakened that case. I am now skeptical. (05/28/07)
Pelosi
Holds Global Warming Talks as Late-May Snows Fall in U.S., Canada
and England - By Noel Sheppard
- Yes, folks, it's Memorial Day weekend, snow is still falling in
parts of America, England, and Canada, and our House Speaker is
traveling abroad to discuss the global warming crisis. You really
can't make this stuff up! What's potentially more comical is that
Nancy Pelosi probably doesn't get the joke, and the press will likely
hide the delicious irony so as not to allow the citizenry to get
distracted from all the climate change hysteria. Thankfully, the
folks at NewsBusters are more than happy to share a little vaudeville
with their readers to brighten up the holiday. (05/28/07) |
Carbon
offsets challenged as fix for global warming: Increasingly, people having
trees planted to neutralize greenhouse gas - Associated Press -
ALBANY, N.Y. // If you plant some trees, is it OK to drive an Escalade?
The question isn't as silly as it sounds. People worried about global
warming increasingly are trying to offset the carbon dioxide - the leading
greenhouse gas - they spew into the atmosphere when they drive, fly
or flick on a light. One idea popular with the eco-conscious is to have
trees planted for them. You get to keep driving and flying, but those
trees are supposed to suck in your trail of carbon. (05/28/07)
Reader
questions global warming - Once again, the government is keeping
us in a state of fear, the media is selling papers, lawyers are sharpening
pencils, thousands of scientists and pseudo-scientists are raking in
money, and Al Gore may win the biggest jackpot of all by becoming president,
all as a result of totally erroneous theory. Antarctic ice is calving
on one side, and getting thicker by 26 billion tonnes per year on the
other. Antarctica has experienced unusually cold weather. Greenland's
glaciers are recovering from the last warming period and have regained
half of what they lost in the last 400 years. We had fewer storms last
year than the year before, and I challenge anyone to prove that they
were more severe. Temperatures in many parts of the U.S. (the most reliable
source of historical temperatures) have risen slightly, and, in other
parts, have fallen or stayed the same over the last 100 years. CO2 rose
from 1940 to 1970 but global temperatures fell. (05/28/07)
From the JunkMan
Junk
Science: Hot Air Study Melts Global Warming Theory - By Steven Milloy
- Global warming alarmists may want to expedite their efforts to hamstring
the global economy with greenhouse gas regulation. A new study touted
as showing that we're not sufficiently panicky about manmade carbon
dioxide emissions actually supports the exact opposite conclusion. "Warnings
about global warming may not be dire enough, according to a climate
study that describes a runaway-train acceleration of industrial carbon
dioxide emissions," USA Today shrieked this week. (05/27/07)
The
Great Global Warming Swindle - By S. Fred Singer - Al Gore's
An Inconvenient Truth has met its match: a devastating documentary
recently shown on British television, which has now been viewed
by millions of people on the Internet. Despite its flamboyant title,
The Great Global Warming Swindle is based on sound science and interviews
with real climate scientists, including me. An Inconvenient Truth,
on the other hand, is mostly an emotional presentation from a single
politician.
(05/27/07) |
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Leadership
on Global Warming - In their May 21 op-ed, "Lead or Step Aside,
EPA," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Connecticut Gov.
Jodi Rell unfairly criticized the Environmental Protection Agency's
alleged inaction on addressing the challenge of global climate change.
Regrettably, their comments failed to recognize that the Bush administration
has led America's unparalleled financial, international and domestic
efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The administration has invested
more than $37 billion on climate change -- more than any other country's
government has spent. (05/27/07)
Open
your eyes to see who really is doing the swindling - Miranda Devine
- After months of dithering, the ABC has announced it will broadcast,
but not until July, the controversial British documentary The Great
Global Warming Swindle, a science-backed rebuttal of Al Gore's An Inconvenient
Truth. Dark conspiracy theories have ensued. Surely the national broadcaster
would never air such a dangerous, subversive heresy unless forced to
by a board stacked with execrable right wingers. "We're not into
censorship," ABC science journalist Robyn Williams said while doing
back-to-back interviews last week denouncing the program. But he advised
the TV division not to buy it anyway. ABC director of television Kim
Dalton wrote an article defending himself against charges that "our
decision to show such a documentary is dangerous and damaging"
because the debate on climate change "is over". He cited several
ABC shows which embrace the concept of human-caused climate change as
some sort of antidote to TGGWS. "And if it were available to us
we would love to show Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth". What's
the bet Williams wouldn't be advising against that one. In one interview
he likened TGGWS to "flaky stuff" such as Psychic Detectives.
(05/27/07)
Solar
plans at governor's mansion uneconomical - The plan of Silda Wall
Spitzer (Times Union, May 2) to install solar energy in the governor's
mansion illustrates why we are making little progress in achieving energy
independence and reducing global warming. The plan is grossly uneconomical
and does not provide an example likely to be followed by many others.
The plan calls for spending $575,000 to save $26,000 per year in energy
costs. If a homeowner were to take a home equity loan over 15 years
(the time frame of the plan), annual interest alone would be about $42,000
and total payment including principal would be about $53,000, double
the annual saving. (Amounts are based on rates quoted on the Citizens
Bank Web site.) The difference between savings and real costs will,
of course, be borne by the taxpayer. (05/27/07)
How
to profit from global warming - A new index lets you make money
from rising temperatures, but it's not the only way that you can climb
on the green bandwagon. INVESTORS are being offered the chance to profit
from climate change with the launch of an index that lets you bet on
rising global temperatures. (05/27/07)
How
to turn global warming into a tourist attraction - Celebrities are
flocking to a small town in Greenland - helping to accelerate the very
climate-change process they've come to witness. All of these visitors
will, of course, help to accelerate the very global-warming process
they have come to witness. But the residents of Ilulissat do not mind,
because warming is good for business. (05/27/07)
US
objects to G8 global warming declaration - WASHINGTON - The United
States has raised new serious objections to a proposed global warming
declaration prepared by Germany for next month's Group of Eight summit,
The Washington Post reported yesterday. (05/27/07)
Global
warming-hurricane link spurs controversy - Reuters - By Deborah
Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent - WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters)
- Climate scientists agree there have been a lot of strong hurricanes
lately. They agree that warmer seas have given these storms some extra
punch. But they disagree how much global warming is to blame. (05/27/07)
Man
has no control over global warming - Will someone explain to me
how anyone can believe that mankind can control the warmth or the coolness
of this planet we call earth? (05/27/07)
Biofuels
Force Food Prices Up as People Starve - [Opinion] Fidel Castro has
already sounded an alarm - Njei Moses Timah (njemotim) - In March 2007
(just as he was recovering from multiple intestinal surgery) Fidel Castro
started publishing a series of articles in Granma Newspaper under the
caption "Reflections of President Fidel Castro." The most
recurrent issue in most of those articles has been his vehement opposition
to the idea of using food to produce fuel for use in automobiles and
other machines. In what he referred to as "the internationalization
of genocide," Castro argues that more than 3 billion vulnerable
people in the developing countries will suffer from some sort of food
crisis as "biofuel" industries compete for grain with poor
hungry people. The Financial Times published an article on May 23 in
which it predicted that retail food prices were heading for their biggest
annual increase in 30 years. "Prices have soared as the expanding
biofuels industry, climate change and the growing prosperity of nations
such as India and China push up costs of farm commodities including
wheat, corn, milk and oils. Food companies have started passing on these
increases to consumers, but the prospect of sustained commodity price
rises means the industry's profits could be hit as it is forced to absorb
the higher costs itself," wrote the Financial Times. (05/27/07)
Al Gore
to Jon Stewart: "Facts Play Less of a Role in the Way we Make Decisions"
- By Noel Sheppard - The Global Warmingist-in-Chief was Jon Stewart's
guest on "The Daily Show" Thursday evening. And, right out
of the starting blocks, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore made a statement that
marvelously epitomized his career: (05/26/07)
I
Wonder How These Guys Plan to Stop "Global Warming Hysteria"
As the Climate Continues To Visibly and Rapidly Decay - By Bruce
Sterling - Stop the Al Gore and United Nations Climate of Fear Campaign!
- n the wake of Al Gore's cross-country, jet-fuel burning campaign to
scare the American people about the "grave danger" of man-made
global warming, some on Capitol Hill are taking advantage of the climate
of fear he and his buddies at the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change have created. California Rep. Henry Waxman is proposing
the "Safe Climate Act" which would enact an economically harmful
"cap and trade" system. Under his plan, the federal government
would place Draconian emissions restrictions on companies that emit
carbon. There are also three other draft bills in the House that have
similar economically harmful provisions. (05/26/07)
Earth
is warming, but are we to blame? - A recent CBC story said eating
red meat is a major contributor to global warming, because of the methane
gas emitted when cows pass gas. One contributor to the program equated
bovine flatulence with air pollution created by SUVs, and advocated
a vegetarian diet for all earthlings. Only at the end of the program
was it revealed the person was a vegan. I equate global-warming fanatics
with the more extreme members of the anti-tobacco lobby - people who
seem to enjoy bullying people who smoke. (05/26/07)
AFP
News brief : US objects to G8 global warming declaration - The United
States has raised new serious objections to a proposed global warming
declaration prepared by Germany for next month's Group of Eight summit,
a newspaper reported Saturday. Citing documents obtained by The Washington
Post, the report said officials representing the administration of President
George W. Bush rejected the idea of setting mandatory emissions targets
as well as language calling for G8 nations to raise overall energy efficiencies
by 20 percent by 2020. (05/26/07)
Anyone have a bridge for sale?
Filipino
invention stops global warming - A Filipino invention may yet be
the answer to stop global warming. Roberto V. Celis, 74, said it took
him 14 years to develop his invention called "Hydrogasifier"
using water as supplemental fuel for all kinds of internal combustion
engines that use gasoline, diesel, natural gas, hybrid or bio-fuel,
eliminating deadly pollutants from spreading into the atmosphere. "It
utilizes the hot exhaust gases from the engine to dissociate water into
hydrogen and oxygen gases that are immediately introduced into the combustion
chamber to completely burn the fuel," Celis said in an exclusive
interview with the Philippines News Agency in his shop in Marikina City.
(05/26/07)
Drunk
on ethanol - By Colin A. Carter/Henry I. Miller - From preschool
to planning funerals, green is in. Very in. But green policies and decisions
need to be based on more than a vague desire to save the planet. The
principles of the natural sciences and economics must play an essential
role -- a part of policymaking that often eludes politicians. (05/25/07)
Jessica
Simpson a Global Warming Groupie: After Leonardo DiCaprio? - By
Susan Hatch - Jessica Simpson like her men green. She is currently dating
(or not) "light green" global warming advocate John Mayer
and now she reportedly perused Leonardo DiCaprio, who debuted his advocacy
film '11th Hour' at Cannes. Does global warming heat up Jessica? At
an exclusive party on a private yacht in Cannes, Jessica Simpson reportedly
"spent the whole night following Leonardo DiCaprio around like
a lost puppy," a source tells Page Six. (05/25/07)
A
session to forget - By John McClaughry - A very liberal Legislature
balanced the budget, offered a desperate and embarrassing tax-grabbing
spectacle to combat the alleged menace of global warming, did little
to stem the rise in education costs and failed to do anything to improve
the economic prospects of Vermonters. (05/25/07)
JENNIFER
MAROHASY : Cooling heels on global warming - While some of the headlines
announcing the release of its first summary in February suggested the
end of the world was nigh, the report was actually fairly undramatic.
It concluded the world has warmed by 0.74C over the past 100 years and
that while temperatures at the Arctic have increased at almost twice
the global average there has been no warming at all at the Antarctic.
That's right. No global warming at the South Pole. Furthermore, while
Al Gore predicted a six-metre rise in sea level in his documentary,
An Inconvenient Truth , the inconvenient truth in the February summary
from the IPCC was that sea levels are unlikely to rise by more than
59cm by 2099. (05/25/07)
Good
news: Paramount talking with director about "An Inconvenient Truth
2" - By Allahpundit - At this rate, in a few years high-school
curricula will consist entirely of Al Gore movies. Yes folks, An Inconvenient
Truth Part 2 is on the way. It doesn't mention whether former presidential
candidate (and, many would argue, rightful winner) Al Gore will be involved
again, but I would imagine he'd have to be. According to the Truth's
director, Davis Guggenheim, "I'm meeting with Paramount next week
to talk about a sequel to Inconvenient Truth. Too early to talk about
details." Considering the extremely low-key nature of the original,
it was churned out in a mere five months, and that quick turnaround
could mean we'll see the sequel in time for the 2008 presidential election.
Wasn't the first one about the apocalyptic consequences if man continues
to pursue the folly of driving SUVs? What's left for the sequel, some
sort of Mad Max scenario where the Goracle battles mutants weaned on
genetically modified food? (05/254/07)
Satire
Mary
Cheney became pregnant by parthenogenesis; global warming to blame?
- Frostbite Falls (Spoof News) Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President
Dick Cheney, gave birth today to an 8 and a half pound baby boy. "This
has been an fascinating gestation period," said Dr. Bob Laub, head
of obstetrics and gynecology at Millhouse Nixon Hospital in Frostbite
Falls, Montana, where Mary and her partner Heather Poe live. (05/24/07)
Where's
Chicken Little now? - There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather
patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may
portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political
implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food
production could begin soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. While this
may seem like today's headlines, or a recent Al Gore speech, it's actually
from a 1975 article in Newsweek magazine. Thirty years ago, the same
scientific community, which is now going bonkers over global warming,
was hyping a possible ice age. Had they been able to generate as much
interest in the '70s as we see today, perhaps a younger and thinner
Al Gore would have won an Oscar sooner for his "An Inconvenient
Truth." Only it would have been about global cooling. Trying to
logically discuss this issue in our society today is next to impossible,
especially when so many view almost everything as a worst-case scenario.
What if a tidal wave hits California? What if an asteroid hits us, or
what if the terrorists get weapons of mass destruction? (05/24/07)
'Chicken
Littles' lack proof about global warming - According to the US Department
of Energy, the total worldwide carbon dioxide emissions in 2004 were
27 billion metric tons. (05/24/07)
Green
group questions tree planting as global warming fix - The Total
Environment Centre has criticised the practice of planting trees to
address global warming problems. In a new report, the group says planting
trees should be used as a last resort in carbon offset projects. (05/24/07)
Carbon
offsets just 'guilt-free pollution' - A report from a leading green
group says trees planted to cut greenhouse pollution will not start
to work for decades and carbon offset schemes are simply "guilt-free
pollution". The Total Environment Centre says planting trees should
only be used as a last resort in carbon offset projects. Director Jeff
Angel says a tree planted today will only begin to absorb carbon dioxide
in decades to come. (05/24/07)
Global
warming is misinformation - A letter from Bob Hendricks - I would
encourage Town Crier columnist Laura Hagler ("It's not easy being
green," May 12) to educate herself more on the so-called global
warming issue. A propaganda film put out by a failed presidential candidate
with no background in environmental issues might not be the best starting
point for an education. In the 1970s, the same crowd who is crowing
about global warming was shrieking about a pending ice age. It was covered
extensively in Newsweek magazine in April 1975. The purpose of this
commentary is not to disparage Hagler, but to uncover and discuss other
sources of information on the subject. (05/23/07)
Global
warming sparks political debate in Clarkstown - By AMISHA PADNANI
- CLARKSTOWN - Greenhouse gas emissions are at the root of a recent
political disagreement among town officials. The dissent centers on
a recent vote by the Town Board to become a member of the International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an association of local
governments that commit to preserving the environment. (05/23/07)
Letter:
Not all glaciers shrinking due to global warming - By Ernie Ley,
St. Cloud - We are told that glaciers all over the world are shrinking
due to global warming. Glaciers expand and contract all the time, and
while some glaciers are shrinking at present, others are growing. In
New Zealand, for instance, the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers are advancing.
According to a Jan. 21 report in The Press published in New Zealand,
"Franz Josef and the Fox had advanced hundreds of meters in the
past year." Meanwhile in India, the Hindustan Times reported on
Feb. 11 that glaciers in the Himalayas appear stable, contrary to earlier
reports that claimed that Himalayan glaciers were retreating more than
30 feet per year. Citing the work of scientist V.K. Raina, the Indian
paper noted "that out of 9,575 glaciers in India to date, research
has been conducted on only about 50." The Hindustan Times went
on to say, "Nearly 200 years of data has shown that nothing abnormal
has occurred in any of these glaciers." Why the discrepancy with
earlier reports about massive melting in the Himalayas? "Claims
of global warming causing glacial melt in the Himalayas are based on
wrong assumptions," Raina told the Hindustan Times, proving once
again that climate change is not as cut and dried as proponents of global
warming claim. (05/23/07)
Fred
Flintstone didn't drive a gas guzzler... - By Ruth Lea - Has the
old left discovered 'global warming' following the collapse of Communism
simply to further their objectives of controlling people's lives and
undermining capitalism? Controlling climate change is now one of the
major political issues of the day - and a profoundly misguided one at
that. We're being told individuals can make a difference, that we should
switch from ordinary light-bulbs to energy-savers. But face it, this
will make little if any difference - especially for developing countries.
(05/23/07)
This is what we deserve since we
elected Moonbeam for AG. How soon we forget...
Brown
asks EPA for global warming waiver - California Attorney General
Jerry Brown appealed Tuesday to the Environmental Protection Agency
for a waiver from the Clean Air Act so that it and 11 other states can
impose more stringent rules on motor vehicle emissions than permitted
by federal regulations in an effort to combat global warming. "This
is bigger than Iraq," Brown told the largely friendly panel, headed
by Sen. Barbara Boxer, a fellow California Democrat. "It is bigger
than immigration. It's not tomorrow but it's coming around. The stakes
have never been higher." (05/23/07)
One more reason not to nominate
him...
McCain
Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming - Nathan Burchfiel - (CNSNews.com)
- A panel discussion on global climate change Tuesday found Sen. John
McCain's (R-Ariz.) staff agreeing with representatives for the leading
Democratic presidential contenders. A cap-and-trade system for carbon
emissions, they agreed, is the most promising solution to "global
warming." (05/23/07)
Outside
View: Global warming hysteria - By Loren B. Thompson - ARLIINGTON,
VA, United States (UPI) -- Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham
described journalism as the 'first rough draft of history.' Perhaps
rough draft of hysteria would be a better phrase to use in describing
some of the overheated reporting about global warming that has appeared
recently. (05/22/07)
Another
hysterics reply - By Keith Ellis - The Al Gore film 'An Inconvenient
Truth' convinced me that global warming is an urgent problem. I'll be
delighted to find out I've been misled, but will keep planting trees
just in case. Well, there's no law
against being stupid. (05/22/07)
Global
Overheating - By Jay D. Homnick - I'm thinking this line comes from
Stephen Wright: "Why do people park on the driveway and drive on
the parkway?" A recent variation on this inversion occurred with
the state visits of Britain's dignitaries. The Queen came to Washington
and stayed at Blair House. Then Blair came to Washington and stayed
in the Queen's Room in the White House. (05/22/07)
Senator
Says Global Warming Pact Could Hurt Utah's Economy - (KSL News)
Governor Jon Huntsman has signed a green initiative to fight global
warming, but Utah's industry leaders say the pact could hurt the state's
economy. (05/22/07)
The
$8-billion global-warming swindle - Before rushing into a climate-change
panic, we need a real public debate - Paul MacRae, Times Colonist -
For a scientific (as opposed to political) perspective, here's what
University of California archeologist Brian Fagan has to say about global
warming: "About 15,000 years ago, the ice sheets began to melt
in earnest. The dramatic environmental changes associated with this
warm-up make the climactic changes predicted by doomsday-sayers for
the next millennium look puny in comparison." (05/22/07)
Carell's
"Almighty" Spin-Off Spins Green Marketing - The "Almighty
Forest," gives users an opportunity to take real action towards
slowing the effects of global warming. For $5, visitors can plant a
virtual tree, which will land their name in the credits of "Evan
Almighty" and help the conservation fund plant real trees and support
the good work they do to protect the environment. (05/22/07)
Cheng
Yen: Global warming effects "result from the mind" - The
global warming effects impacting all mankind are "actually the
effects of the human mind and its insatiable desires," a lecturer
quoted Master Cheng Yen, founder of the Buddhist Compassionate Relief
Tzu Chi Foundation, as saying yesterday. In a special report presented
at a monthly meeting of the Presidential Office, Ho Jih-sheng, spokesman
for the foundation, said that, as Master Cheng Yen has often preached
to her disciples, natural disasters are rooted in man-made misfortunes,
or the "collective karma" of mankind. (05/22/07)
People
numb to climate change alarm - By Simon Lauder - MARK COLVIN: When
it comes to climate change it seems that people may have become numb
to the language of alarm. Scientific reports and media stories have
convinced most people that global warming is a huge problem, but there's
evidence today that they don't do much about it. And separate research
suggests that a barrage of warnings about what's to come may have played
a role in scaring people into apathy. Simon Lauder reports. (05/21/07)
Global
Warming Update - Did you see the story out of Canada, this kid has
finally gone public. He's been forced to watch "An Inconvenient
Truth" four times at school. He's a high school student. "Why
am I having to watch this four times?" He had to watch the movie
four times. It's happening all over the northern hemisphere, propagandizing
kids. "Experts Predict Scorching Summer." (05/21/07)
Laurie
David Uses Greensburg Tornado Disaster to Further Global Warming Alarmism
- By Noel Sheppard - I'm not sure which is worse: using the Greensburg,
Kansas, tornado disaster from last month to bash President Bush and
the war in Iraq, or using it to further global warming alarmism. Regardless
of the answer, one of soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's primary sycophants, Laurie
David, actually wrote an article for the Huffington Post Sunday tying
the devastation to this small town to climate change and green principles.
(05/21/07)
Are Real
Costs of Dealing With Climate Change Being Hidden From the Public?
- By Noel Sheppard - As Al Gore and his band of not so merry global
warming alarmists in buses and in the press try to convince Americans
that they need to alter behaviors in order to save the planet, an inconvenient
truth is being cynically withheld: this is going to cost a lot of money.
Of course, one of the delicious hypocrisies is that these are the same
people who decry the current economic boom as only helping the rich,
and state regularly and fervently that the poor and middle-class are
being left behind. At the same time, such mid- to lower-level wage earners
should be saddled with exorbitant additional expenses to shelter them
from a wolf that might never come knocking at their doors. Makes sense,
right? (05/21/07)
Matt Dillon
Needs Your Help To Save Energy - "Instead of routinely showering
every day, I shower after each work-out, typically three to four per
week. The less hot water we use, the more energy we save." Hey,
whatever makes you feel green inside. (05/21/07)
Leonardo
DiCaprio Fumes at Hypocrisy Charge on Global Warming - By Brenda
Davis - The earth can be saved if we listen to Leonardo DiCaprio. He
has worshipped at the feet of Al Gore on the global warming issue and
presents a new film designed to 'scare' folks into believing that they
are at fault for global warming. But Leo is not at fault. Just ask him,
but be careful, he gets testy when quizzed on the way he lives his life.
(05/20/07)
Satire? When it comes to Hansen,
you never know...
Global
Warming Spawns New Crisis: Spatial Warming - Global warming experts
have discovered a new problem associated with the coming catastrophe.
Top NASA scientist James E. Hansen points to a growing concern over
spatial warming. Studies have shown recently that various parts of space
near earth appear to be heating up. Recent measurements show an increase
from an average of 0.01 Kelvins to 0.03 Kelvins, a 300% increase. Hansen
suggested that some of this may result from global warming, as an increased
amount of heat from the earth leaks into space. Others point to a surge
in solar activity, while another group of scientists think there has
been a growing concentration of carbon dioxide getting into outer space.
(05/20/07)
Leonardo
DiCaprio Film Claims Global Warming Could Cause Human Extinction
- By Noel Sheppard - Honestly, the arrogance of some Hollywood liberals
knows no bounds. As they live in their million dollar mansions, and
jet-set around the world in a manner that 99.99 percent of the population
can't fathom, these folks have the gall to tell others how they should
alter their lives for the benefit of the planet. The most recent example
is Leonardo DiCaprio, the 32-year-old actor that has absolutely no formal
training in geology, climatology, meteorology, or anything in any way
related to complex earth sciences. (05/20/07)
Robert
Who? Global Warming Skeptic CEO Virtually Ignored - By Tom Blumer
- Kimberley Strassel's OpinionJournal.com column about coal-mine operator
Robert E. Murray of Murray Energy is important on a number of levels.
You haven't heard of Robert E. Murray? That's not surprising. If there
were an open dialog instead of continual blather about "settled
science" when it comes to supposedly human-induced "climate
change" and "global warming" (two concepts I like to
collectively refer to as "globaloney"), Murray would have
visibility. But, as Strassel writes, a different "climate,"
the political one, appears to be keeping him largely out of the public
eye, despite his best efforts to break through. (05/20/07)
Australian
Magazine Editor Slams Al Gore's "Live Earth" Concerts
- By Noel Sheppard - Have you noticed that most of the articles you
see that are skeptical about man's role in climate change come from
foreign publications based in countries like Great Britain, Australia,
New Zealand, and Canada? Why do you think that is? Are the American
press too emotionally attached to the issue -- and, in particular, the
chief spokesman, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore -- to even consider the possibility
that the debate isn't over, and that their role as journalists is supposed
to be to further discussion rather than squelch it? (05/20/07)
DENNIS
SEID: It's time to turn up the heat on global warming - Full dislosure:
I am not a tree-hugging, hybrid-driving, solar-panel-using, one-wipe-toilet-paper,
tree-hugging environmentalist. But I am concerned about global warming.
For some, the debate is over. For others, far from it. I'm somewhere
in the middle. (05/20/07)
Al
Gore Blasted by Roger Daltrey for Global Warming Concert - By Lynda
Johnson - Roger Daltrey isn't buying Al Gore's whole global warming
concert Live Aid. The frontman for the legendary rock band 'The Who'
has spoken out in the British media ripping the idea that holding a
concert can 'save the planet. The rocker spoke with the UK Sun's Bizarre
column and, Roger said: "Bo***cks to that! The last thing the planet
needs is a rock concert. "I can't believe it. Let's burn even more
fuel." (05/19/07)
Coal
Man - By KIMBERLEY STRASSEL - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Every good party
has its wet blanket. In the case of the energy industry's merrymaking
for a global warming program, the guy in the dripping bedspread is a
67-year-old, straight-talking coal-mine owner by the name of Robert
E. Murray. (05/19/07)
19
per cent of India's global warming emissions from large dams, says study
- Gargi Parsai - Globally large dams contribute to 24 per cent of methane
emissions. In a year, emissions from India's large dams could be around
33.5 million tonnes. The study has come too late to be included in the
recent reports from the IPCC. NEW DELHI: Latest scientific estimates
show that large dams in India are responsible for about a fifth of the
countries' total global warming impact. (05/19/07)
Global
warming - it could boost Scottish farming - Rosemary Gallagher -
GLOBAL warming could actually be good for Scottish arable farmers as
other agricultural areas become increasingly susceptible to drought.
(05/19/07)
Global
warming debunked - By Andrew Swallow - Climate change will be considered
a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual
meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.
Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't
change the climate if we tried, he maintained. "We're all going
to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he
said. (05/19/07)
New Zealand
Weatherman on Global Warming: "It's All Going to be a Joke in 5
Years" - By Noel Sheppard - The air continues to seep out of
the global warming consensus balloon, ladies and gentlemen. Meet Augie
Auer, the former University of Wyoming professor of atmospheric science
turned New Zealand meteorologist who isn't buying what soon-to-be-Dr.
Al Gore and his band of not so merry global warming alarmists are selling.
(05/18/07)
Global
Warming the American Way - Art by Patriot-II - It's been a while
since I've submitted some of my art on Xenox so here is my latest
piece called 'Global Warming'. (05/18/07)
Al
Gore, Fallin' In And Out of Love - Here's a story from Reuters,
reporting on the breathless and goey Time magazine piece on Al Gore,
lamenting that he's "fallen out of love with politics." Gosh,
what will Tipper think? Of course, Time magazine has done its own falling
in and out of love with global warming -- jumping on the hype this year
but touting global cooling hysteria a few short decades ago. Nevermind,
they fired that guy, it's all about warming now -- and Al Gore. Gotta
love Al Gore. (05/18/07)
Global
Warming Could Be Offset Until 2080s By Urban Green Spaces, UK -
Scientists looking at the effect global warming will have on our major
cities say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street
trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises. The University
of Manchester study has calculated that a mere 10% increase in the amount
of green space in built-up centres would reduce urban surface temperatures
by as much as 4°C. Really? What
a bunch of crap! (05/18/07)
Global Warming
Means Global Cooling, as Love Lives Shrivel Under Commutes, Stress
- WOODSTOCK, CONNECTICUT May 18, 2007 Lifestyle News - (PRLEAP.COM)
Woodstock, CT, May 18, 2007 - In a recent poll by popular lifestyle
site RatRaceRebellion.com, a whopping 89% of respondents reported that
the rat race has run over their love lives, leaving many with a mousey
definition of romance - "TV dinners on the couch while watching
'Survivor.'" (05/18/07)
Showdown
on States' Rights, Clean Air and Global Warming - WASHINGTON, May
18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Clean Air
Watch: The federal government has been stalling for a year and a half,
but it's finally time for a showdown. California is seeking federal approval
to enforce its greenhouse gas pollution standards for motor vehicles.
It's a critical decision -- and not just for California. Eleven other
states have already adopted the California standards, and even more states
are waiting in the wings. Key officials from many of these states are
coming to the DC area May 22 to rally
in support of California -- and make their case to the EPA. (05/18/07)
This should scare the heck out of
anyone that believes in capitalism.
Talking
about a revolution: Calls for action on global warming, inequality
- By Susan Webb - The latest report of a world scientific panel on global
warming has called for what amounts to a social revolution, one of the
report's authors said. (05/18/07)
Nuclear
technology can help reduce global warming: Experts - Express News
Service - Chandigarh, May 18: The development of nuclear technology
can go a long way in reducing the problem of global warming, believes
Jagman Singh, retired chief engineer, Irrigation Department (Haryana),
and author of many books on the subject. (05/18/07)
Wx
Expert: People Not To Blame For Global Warming - (CBS4) MIAMI Dr.William
Gray is widely respected in the scientific community. He is a professor
in the department of atmospheric science at Colorado State University
and says it's much too early to blame people for global warming. "I
think this is a natural cycle," said Dr. Gray. "I'm not saying
humans aren't doing a little bit, but they're certainly not the major
cause of the climate change." (05/18/07)
R
Ravimohan: Global warming is part of evolution - Preparing to live
in a warmer earth is as important, if not more important, as trying
to cool it down. There has been a strident expression of concern on
global warming in recent months. Good, well-researched and articulated
studies have sought to establish that the globe we live in is getting
warmer. These studies also have highlighted various kinds of harm that
will befall the human race if we do not act to reverse the warming process.
These are important messages that must be heeded, and acted upon. However,
a global consensus on the need to act and on what that action should
be is lacking. More seriously, there is no sign as yet of any convergence
and willingness on the part of both the developed and the developing
world to act to address this issue. (05/18/07)
Now this is just plain unbelievable!
Global
Warming Extreme: No Impact Man, No Toilet Paper, ABC Applauds -
By L. Brent Bozell III - Webster's tells us that an extremist is one
who is "at the end or outermost point; farthest away; most remote."
In politics, extremism is "the extreme right or the extreme left."
Both sides have their respective ideological embarrassments, but with
one striking difference: If you're a left-wing environmental extremist,
you are treated as sensible, even praiseworthy, by ABC News. (05/17/07)
Kids
Air Views on Global Warming for SOS - Anonymous Content lends a
slightly tinted angle to this green campaign for SOS Live Earth. Here
a bunch of kids air their views on global warming. (video
link) (05/17/07)
Regulation
is not the best way to fight global warming - By Jay Ambrose - On
the "The News Hour With Jim Lehrer" recently, a global-warming
expert was discussing how cap-and-trade agreements might work, and while
she was perfectly pleasant, there was something in her cool, technocratic
description that made me feel I might be glimpsing a terribly oppressive
future. (05/17/07)
Satire
Mitt
Romney Spars With John McCain Over Global Warming - Mitt Romney
today challenged John McCain to a one-on-one debate over global warming.
The two candidates have starkly different positions on the issue. Romney
supports global warming, arguing that northern places like his current
state of Massachusetts, as well as Michigan and Utah, where he has deep
connections, benefit from a warmer environment. Pitted against Romney
is John McCain, from Arizona, a state that gets, as he puts it, "pretty
damn hot" in the summer. McCain also is a survivor of skin cancer,
and is generally thought to take this issue quite personally. A few
days ago, McCain referred to Romney as "Oven Mitt" when the
issue arose. (05/17/07)
Oil Patch
Democrats Concerned Global Warming Bill Could Raise Energy Prices
- By Noel Sheppard - Did you hear about the nineteen Democrats that
sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) expressing concern that a global warming bill
being discussed in the House could reduce energy supplies and raise
prices? You didn&'t? Want to know why? Well, because other than Environment
& Energy Daily, nobody reported it. (05/17/07)
Another
State Climatologist Bashes Al Gore and Global Warming Alarmism -
By Noel Sheppard - Do you hear that hissing sound? That's the balloon
that soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry alarmists have
floated concerning a scientific consensus on man's role in global warming
losing air. As the media continue to pound the table about the debate
being over, another state climatologist has come out of the closet so
to speak to voice his views about all things climate change. (05/17/07)
Commentary:
Al Gore main problem with global warming - By David Hayford - The
only topic that stirs more passion and vitriol than George Bush these
days is GLOBAL WARMING. Letters to the editor on the subject contain
gratuitous insults with few facts. That is, I believe, because the vast
majority of us are totally ignorant of any scientific facts on the subject.
I shall present my views without vitriol or insults, nor any pretense
of scientific knowledge. Belief in global warming is a lot like belief
in God - a lot of faith is required. (05/17/07)
Oppressors
of global warming - On the "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer''
recently, a global-warming expert was discussing how cap-and-trade agreements
might work, and while she was perfectly pleasant, there was something
in her cool, technocratic description that made me feel I might be glimpsing
a terribly oppressive future. The scheme she spoke of is often presented
as a free-market means of curtailing fossil-fuel consumption, but listen
carefully and you realize it would instead be a vast bureaucratic arrangement
controlling significant operations of whole industries. (05/16/07)
Permanent
Ice Fields Are Resisting Global Warming - Science Daily - The small
ice caps of Mont Blanc and the Dôme du Goûter are not melting, or
at least, not yet. This is what CNRS researchers1 have announced in
the Journal of Geophysical Research. At very high altitudes (above 4200
meters), the accumulation of snow and ice has varied very little since
the beginning of the 20th century. (05/16/07)
Greenpeace
Rebuilding Noah's Ark to Highlight Global Warming - (AP) ISTANBUL,
Turkey - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark
on Mount Ararat - where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after
the great flood - in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace
said Wednesday. (05/16/07)
L.A.
Mayor Heads To Global Warming Summit - (AP) LOS ANGELES Los Angeles
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa heads Wednesday to a global warming summit
in New York, a day after announcing an array of steps to sharply reduce
greenhouse gases in L.A. by 2030. (05/16/07) Not
surprising. He's never in LA doing his job. He's always somewhere else
looking for the next photo opportunity. If this moron puts his face
on the global warming ship, it will surely sink. You go Antonio!
List of
Global Warming Skeptics Grows, Media Couldn't Care Less - By Noel
Sheppard - While global warming alarmists like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore
and his band of not so merry sycophants continue talking about a scientific
consensus concerning man's role in "climate change," the list
of scientists that have grown skeptical of this nexus continues to grow.
Unfortunately, a media obsessed with advancing hysteria on the subject
refuse to acknowledge the existence of such folks as they continue to
pound the table about the imminent doom to the planet. (05/16/07)
State
climatologist not jumping on global warming bandwagon - By Joey
Vaughan - Many people who saw "An Inconvenient Truth," a global
warming documentary featuring Al Gore, immediately became very concerned
about global climate change and impending weather disasters. Don't count
state climatologist Dr. Charles Wax of Mississippi State University
as one of them. "First off, there isn't a consensus among scientists,"
Wax told the Columbus Rotary Club Tuesday. "Don't let anybody tell
you there is." (05/16/07)
Energy
Nonsense : Bush's ethanol plan is almost entirely bad. - By Jerry
Taylor - President Bush's ability to pull-off impressive political sleights
of hand was on full display this week. As some may recall, the Supreme
Court recently found that the EPA has the legal authority to regulate
greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without any further act of
Congress. Moreover, the Court argued that, unless the agency were to
find that greenhouse gas emissions cause no substantial injury to human
health or the environment, the EPA must go forward and do exactly that.
(05/16/07)
An encouraging glimmer of hope:
A small sense of reality still exists in my neighborhood.
Leter
to the Editor - Global warming not the impending doom forwarned
- By Andrea Mays Griffith - In response to Facundo Tangona's article,
which ran in the May 10 issue of the Daily Forty-Niner, titled "Global
warming impacts all aspects of life - even allergies": Are there
no scientists on campus who care to (dare to?) refute the unsubstantiated
claims contained therein? (05/16/07)
Reader's
letter: You can't stop global warming - Just about every day you
read some hype about global warming. No doubt we contribute to it but
global warming is a cyclical phenomenon that has been occurring for
millions of years. We can't stop it any more than we can stop the sun
from rising and setting. The only thing we can do is to learn to live
with it. Grin and bear it. V. Fred Rayser, Yucca Valley (05/16/07)
Satire
New
Study Proves Global Warming Causes Vaginal Dryness - Ponds Laboratory
Pine Island Florida - A Study conducted by the Womans Crevice Research
Institute has concluded that Global Warming is the cause of the high
rate of Vaginal Dryness suffered by the woman of the world. (05/16/07)
Oregon has their own Al Gore
Global
warming roadshow : Proud Al Gore 'lieutenant' Bill Bradbury spreads
word in towns around Oregon - MICHAEL MILSTEIN - This is the Bill
Bradbury global warming road show, which Oregon's No. 2 elected official
promises to give anywhere at least 50 people want to hear it. While
Gov. Ted Kulongoski pushes global warming legislation in Salem, Bradbury
motors his white Prius hybrid across the state telling Oregonians why
it matters. It's far from his elected duties of corporate legalese and
state program audits, and he does it on his own time. But he sees it
as one of the most important jobs he's had. (05/16/07)
Czech
president calls for rational debate on global warming, rejects "current
hysteria" - Associated Press - PRAGUE, Czech Republic: Czech
President Vaclav Klaus on Wednesday called for a rational debate on
global warming, rejecting what he called "hysteria" driven
by enviromentalists. (05/16/07)
Czech
president says his book highlights curtailing of freedom - Prague
- Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that his new book "Blue, Not
Green Planet" is not aimed to meddle in the agenda of climatologists
or meteorologists, but wants to highlight the threatening and curtailing
of freedom, which Klaus considers the key topic of the present era.
(05/16/07)
Global
warming - a new religion? It's okay, the polar bears are thriving
- David Carte - Global warming might yet be revealed as the biggest
and most expensive myth since the dreaded Y2K bug. Remember the horror
stories at the end of 1999 - planes would fall out of the sky and Eskom
would seize all because computers would be confused by the date 2000
in their internal clocks. Factories would stop working. Shop shelves
would be emptied. Paranoid people actually stocked up on baked beans
and candles in case. Even the respectable media was saturated with a
looming catastrophe that turned out to be a big hoax. That time the
world's hardware and software makers and their consultants made billions
of dollars. (05/16/07)
Summer
Returns to Starbucks with Celeb-Rated Green Umbrellas and the Refreshing
Flavors of Orange - Sip the Nostalgic Tastes of Summertime under
an Umbrella Hand Designed by Celebrities Such as America Ferrera, Lawrence
Bender and Chad Lowe with Starbucks ''Green Umbrellas for a Green Cause''
Campaign and Auction to Support Global Green USA. (05/16/07)
At
Witz' End: No Consensus on Global Warming - The earth is warming
- but we're not at fault. - By Gary Witzenburg - If you have tried to
reason with a GWF (Global Warming Fanatic), you know it's a waste of
time. They believe GW with a passion that has no room for facts and
data. (05/15/07)
Climate
Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global
Warming - Now Skeptics - Growing Number of Scientists Convert to
Skeptics After Reviewing New Research - By Marc Morano - Following the
U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP
article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune
time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking
place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made
global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate
skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent
scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President
Al Gore, the United Nations and the media driven "consensus"
on man-made global warming. (05/15/07)
Runaway
Models - Climate Change: It turns out that the global warming theorists
have missed on another of their predictions. Shouldn't that be a deeply
harmful, if not fatal, blow to the credibility of their argument? James
Hansen, the NASA scientist who is largely responsible for the global
warming hysteria, knows as well as anyone that general circulation models
spin out projections that are not reflected in the real world. His model
predicted a 0.45 degree Celsius (0.81 degree Fahrenheit) rise in global
temperature between 1988 and 1997. But it was off by a factor of four.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change records
show that ground-based temperatures had increased by only 0.11 degree
Celsius. Hansen's projection didn't fare well when compared with other
measurements, either. In fact, it looks downright silly. (05/15/07)
Senate
defeats climate change measure - By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press
Writer 12 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Senate, after one of its first
full debates on global warming, on Tuesday defeated a proposal requiring
the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the impact of climate change
in designing water resources projects. (05/15/07)
Global
Warming Comes to Neptune - By Matthew Sheffield - Watching the global
warming alarmists it's amazing to see how much they completely discount
the sun's role in determining the earth's temperature. It's something
that can be readily observed simply by stepping outside during the day
and at night. Yet, we almost never hear the sun mentioned by Al Gore
and friends. This is despite the fact that astronomy continues to prove
that the sun has an influence on its planets temperatures and is likely
to be responsible for observable warming of the earth. First came the
news that Mars is getting warmer, now comes the news that Neptune is
also experiencing global warming: (05/15/07)
'Early
Show' Uses Feature Story to Lobby Congress on Global Warming Alarmism
- By Justin McCarthy - "Early Show's" cheery weatherman Dave
Price used his forum to feature Dan Lewis, Starbucks regional marketing
manager, and Matt Petersen, the CEO of, Global Green USA, a left wing
environmental group. While much of the story focused on what individuals
can do to save the planet, Petersen noted that "global warming
is a serious issue, and we need our leaders in Washington to act, our
corporate leaders to act." Petersen also encouraged the viewers
to "send a message to Washington" about what viewers "think
they should be doing about global warming." (05/15/07)
Soil's
contribution to global warming - The University of Melbourne - Greenhouse
gases are not only emitted by industry, cars or households. In addition
to carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases are emitted by soils as part
of the natural cycling of nutrients and decomposition. These so called
non-CO2 greenhouse gases are more potent than carbon dioxide with regard
to global warming, and already make up one quarter of Australia's greenhouse
gas emissions. (05/15/07)
Teachers
score in Surrey battle over Gore's Inconvenient Truth - Suzanne
Fournier, The Province - Surrey students will be allowed to see Al Gore's
film on climate change, even though trustee Heather Stilwell is demanding
that a film slamming Gore's evidence be shown as well. A three-teacher
committee moved quickly yesterday to approve Gore's An Inconvenient
Truth, overturning a May 10 memo to schools and heading off a motion
by Stilwell that could have had the effect of banning screenings of
the Gore film until trustees could "approve" it at a May 31
meeting. (05/15/07)
Just
maybe, like the line in the film, you can't handle the truth - By
JOHN A. NEWBY - After my column on global warming a few weeks ago, the
passionate global-warming fanatics emerged from their slumber to offer
up their passionate, spoon-fed talking points. One of the main criticisms:
Who am I to doubt climate expert Lord Gore? After all, he won awards
with that slick piece of propaganda. Let me be the first to admit, I
am an avid reader. I try to read a book a week, three or four newspapers
a day (need to know what the enemy is up to). I must admit, much of
what I convey in my columns is information I have gained from others.
I suspect that is the case with most of us. I'm the first to point out,
he who steals information from me, runs the risk of stealing twice.
(05/15/07)
Satire
Global
Warming in Hell - Well, it seems as though some people just can't
get any breaks. Of all the places which least need to feel the effects
of global warming, Hell undoubtedly tops the list. (05/15/07)
Dissenting opinions on AGW now caused
by aliens? LMAO!
Global
Warming shows human gene pool compromise from Manipulative Extraterrestrial
Consciousnesses - By David Stein - It is apparent that the intelligences
that are directing humanity into its course of self-destruction undoubtedly
view Earth as an "alien planet" which is to be exploited to
its destruction, before moving onto other planets, which can also be
exploited. Therefore, a critical observer who appreciates that Extraterrestrials
have had contact with humanity over its course of development on planet
Earth can logically conclude the following. Humans who act inconsistent
with a self-preservation context on Earth, have either been manipulated
at the genetic level, or are being manipulated by beings who if human
in appearance, have been genetically compromised in a manner in which
the vital self-preservation context of living species on our planet
Earth has been somehow disabled or replaced. (05/15/07)
Pave
The World: Trees Create Global Warming - STOP planting trees to
offset that trip to the shops by jet plane and gare a handful of cement.
Trees create globale warming. Pave the world. It's the only way. (05/15/07)
Hysterics
exposed - By W Stiller - Britain's Channel 4 of March 15 has produced
a devastating documentary tiled "The Global Warming Swindle".
It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the USA
or Australia, but fortunately it is available on the internet. Distinguished
scientists specialising in climate and climate-related fields talk in
plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock
the current global-warming hysteria is. (05/15/07)
'Technology
cure to global warming' - Privately-funded technology will do more
to curb dangerous global warming than the mandated capping of carbon
emissions favoured by the European Union, a senior US official said
on Monday. (05/15/07)
The
human impact of anti-warming legislation
Commentary: U.S. carbon limits won't help environment, will hurt miners
- By Robert E. Murray - CLEVELAND (MarketWatch) -- "Global warming"
is a human issue to me, not just an environmental one.
The unfolding debate over atmospheric warming in the Congress, the news
media, and by the pundits has been skewed and totally one-sided, in
that they have been preoccupied with possible, speculative environmental
disasters of climate change. (05/15/07)
UK
Green Shares Rise as Climate Policy Heats Up - LONDON - Shares in
Britain's "green" companies rose on Monday after press reports
on the urgent need for action on climate change and that Gordon Brown
intends to create five eco towns, analysts and traders said. (05/15/07)
Did the
U.N.'s IPCC Report Exaggerate CO2 Increases to Hype Global Warming?
- By Noel Sheppard - Those who have been following the manmade global
warming debate are well aware that every time the United Nation's Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change issues another dire pronouncement, the media
report the bad news every hour on the hour. However, what if a new scientific
study concluded that the IPCC cherry-picked data concerning CO2 levels
in the past in order to make it look like today's levels are out of
the ordinary. Would the media report that? Well, an article written
by scientists Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris of the Natural Resources Stewardship
Project was published on Monday making exact this claim. (05/14/07)
New
findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual - By
Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris - "Stopping climate change" may
be all the rage with celebrities and environmental lobbyists, but fortunately
for the rest of us, the scare's scientific foundation is rapidly disintegrating.
One of the fundamental pillars of the hypothesis that humanity is causing
dangerous climate change is the belief that levels of carbon dioxide
(CO2), the greenhouse gas of concern in countries such as Canada, have
been rising steadily since the start of the industrial revolution. But
what if CO2 levels have not increased? How could our emissions of this
otherwise benign gas then have anything to do with the past century's
modest warming? (05/14/07)
Stranded
by Global Warming - By Shaun Moore - Saturday mornings at my house
are usually spent reading my copy of The Nation. Just writing that last
sentence is a reminder of how mind-numbing my life is at times. I have
quite the ritual. The magazine usually arrives in my mailbox sometime
midweek and sits on my coffee table until I wake up on Saturday morning,
put on my slippers, brew some coffee and let the dog out. (05/14/07)
Ozone
healing under global warming cloud - The Montreal Protocol is not
only healing the ozone hole, but doing better than the Kyoto Protocol
to slowdown global warming. The gains may get reversed if the two treaties
don't work in sync. (05/14/07)
Vegetarian
Union Challenges Al Gore and Global Climate Activists to Acknowledge
the Most 'Inconvenient Truth' - The Vegetarian Union of North America
(VUNA) challenges global warming activists and environmentalists to
acknowledge the "Inconvenient Truth" that eating animals and
their byproducts is the single greatest cause of global warming and
that humankind can take an essential and enormous step in reducing global
warming by eating lower on the food chain -- ideally, a plant-based
diet. VUNA is initiating a major campaign to urge Al Gore and the environmental
community to transfer the meat from their plates to the center of their
climate change-fighting agendas. (05/14/07)
Al
Gore's Global Warming 'Live Earth' Music Events Ripped by Geldof
- By Jackson Simpson - Al Gore is no Bob Geldof. Especially in Geldof's
eyes. The organizer of Live Aid and Live 8 benefit concerts has basically
ripped into the failed presidential candidate and Global Warming alarmist
saying the Live Earth music events Al Gore is putting together this
summer lack a specific goal, according to a Dutch newspaper report Saturday.
In a plan that many have already criticized, the Live Earth concerts
will be held in cities around the world on July 7, with proceeds funding
a yet-to-be-named foundation to combat climate change, under Gore's
direction. In other words, hand money to Al Gore and he will decide
what to do with it later. But that's not the reason he is feeling the
wrath of the former Boomtown Rats' frontman. (05/13/07)
The
coming cool - By David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen - A few months
ago, I wrote a series of unflattering columns on current trends among
the Gaia worshippers. The last of these opened, "The more I think
about 'global warming,' in light of the most recent United Nations report,
the more confident I become in averring that it is a fraud, a political
stunt, a criminal imposture, that every intelligent journalist should
be helping to expose." (05/13/07)
OK; how many of you enviros have
lawns? Al? Sheryl? Laurie?
Lawns
affect warming - The question: When is a lawn not a lawn? The answer:
When it is a landscape. Grass as a source of carbon emissions? Apparently
it is, because the booklet's 10 suggestions for eco-friendly gardening
practices includes this: Trees and shrubs utilize carbon dioxide in
photosynthesis and sequester carbon for years, decades, and for a century
in some species. Lawns only sequester the carbon compounds they produce
for a few weeks at the most. (05/13/07)
Global
warming pecans - By Colin McNickle - The global warming alarmist
industry has turned so wacko that even "intellectual vapidity"
is too weak a phrase to describe it. And never have so many been so
totally buffaloed by the ecocrats' redefining of "political science."
(05/13/07)
Stick
to the science on global warming - Regarding "Climate change
merits serious talk, not hype" (Opinions, Wednesday): Robert Robb's
column about global warming is where the thinking on the subject should
be. It is a topic for the scientific community to continue studying,
not one to exaggerate and exploit for profit, the way a former vice
president is doing. The "Chicken Little" scientists and their
political cronies who spread fear through their so-called informed speculation
- Joseph Fraher,Gold Canyon (05/13/07)
Al Gore
Protested by 'Environmental Militants' in Argentina, Media Mum -
By Noel Sheppard - When President Bush receives protests as he travels
abroad, it's front-page headline news. Yet, when former Vice President
Al Gore is so protested, the media couldn't care less. Although the
Associated Press did report Gore's visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina,
to speak at a biofuels conference Friday, virtually no American media
outlet picked up the story: As Gore spoke, outside the hotel demonstrators
on bicycles and wearing surgical masks chanted slogans against multinational
agribusinesses, saying the biofuel boom will cause deforestation and
turn arable land into deserts. Sadly, there wasn't a lot of details
in this piece about the actual protests. Thankfully, I received the
following La Nacion article by e-mail yesterday with a translation that
offered a lot more insights into the matter: (05/12/07)
Hot
Air, Cold Cash : Who are the Merchants of Fear? - By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
- No response is more predictable than the reflexive squawk of the Greenhouse
fearmongers that anyone questioning their claims is in the pay of the
energy companies. A second, equally predictable retort contrasts the
ever-diminishing number of agnostics to the growing legions of scientists
now born again to the "truth" that anthropogenic CO2 is responsible
for the earth's warming trend, the melting of the icecaps, the rising
of the seas, the increase in hurricanes, the decline in penguin fertility
and other horrors too numerous for individual citation. (05/12/07)
Global
warming will soon put incandescents in the dark - NEW YORK - The
light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great
idea anymore, as lawmakers in the United States and abroad are talking
about banning the century-old technology because of its contribution
to global warming. But what comes next? Compact fluorescent bulbs are
the only real alternative right now, but "bulbs" that use
light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are quickly emerging as a challenger.
LEDs, which are small chips usually encased in a glass dome the size
of a matchstick head, have been in use in electronics for decades to
indicate, for example, whether a VCR is on or off. (05/12/07)
The
Spy Who Went Into The Heat - By John J. Miller - Something tells
me that when it comes to predicting the weather, intelligence agencies
should be more concerned with mushroom clouds over American cities than
icebergs near Greenland. (05/12/07)
Study:
'Global Warming' Making Northern Hemisphere Greener - By: James
M. Taylor - Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, together
with moderately warming temperatures, have caused a substantial greening
of the Northern Hemisphere. That's according to Craig Idso, founder
and former president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and
Global Change, reporting in the March 14 issue of CO2 Science. (05/12/07)
I THINK
I OWE THE GREENIES AN APOLOGY - Ever since I first started doing
research into environmentalism over 30 years ago, it has seemed obvious
to me that they are simply a revival of mankind's most primitive religion
- nature worship. Awe before nature is in fact probably so primitive
and goes back so far that it has to an extent been hardwired into us.
(05/12/07)
Global
Warming Not Major Cause of Storms - By Vanessa Rozier - According
to experts like William M. Gray and Phil Klotzbach, research associates
in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University,
it is not global warming, but "changes in ocean salinity"
that can be blamed for the surge in natural disasters in the United
States. (05/12/07)
A Student's
Opinion on Global Warming - My hypothesis: Global warming is real;
however, so is global cooling. Some areas will heat up dramatically
and some will cool down exponentially. (05/12/07)
Bad
Climate "Science" The ideology goes in before the science
goes on. - By Joel Schwartz - Assume that human greenhouse-gas emissions
are causing dangerous changes in the Earth's climate. What should we
do about it? Public debate on climate change has focused almost solely
on requiring large reductions in fossil-fuel energy consumption. Enter
the journal Nature with a new feature article on another potential means
of dealing with climate change. (05/11/07)
Global
warming : 'scare mongering' - Ronald Reagan has been quoted as saying,
"Facts are very stubborn things." And indeed, they are. Here
are a few stubborn facts about global warming. It is fact that our planet
is warming. It started warming around 1850 and warmed a little over
one degree Fahrenheit between 1850 and 1940. Then, there was a slight
cooling between 1940 and 1970. It has continued warming since 1970.
It is fact that the planet goes through cycles of cooling and warming,
and has been doing so for thousands of years. There have been previous
warm periods in history, most notably around 900 A.D. until after 1300
A.D., when the Danes had farms in Greenland, and during the height of
the Roman Empire from about 200 B.C. to 600 A.D. It is fact that the
computer models that are being used to predict long-range global warming
fail when they are applied to historic past warming periods. If a computer
model cannot reconstruct the past, how can it be relied on to predict
the future? (05/11/07)
CNN's Situation
Room Asks 'What If the World Took Climate Change Seriously?' - By
Matthew Balan - The mainstream media's promotion of climate change hype
continues unfettered. A segment on Thursday's "The Situation Room"
wholeheartedly embraced the theory of human-caused global warming, and
the International Panel on Climate Change's recent "action plan"
to do something about it. (05/11/07)
Unmasking
Global Warming: The Case of Mikhail Gorbachev - By Vasko Kohlmayer
- The most remarkable aspect of the man-made global warming claim is
the lack of solid scientific evidence for it. Yet there are those whose
apparent goal it is to advance this theory at all costs. Blatant in
their disregard of the facts, they try to convince as many as would
believe of the real nature of this alleged danger. But since this activism
does not rest on scientific evidence or hard facts, it must be driven
by motives other than those publicly stated. This much at least should
be obvious, but sadly far too many people have failed to make this inference.
Blinded by fear, they have not considered the possibility that those
fanning the flames of hysteria may harbor ulterior motives. (05/11/07)
What
Kindergartners Think of Global Warming - I have recently found myself
in the unexpected and rather wonderful position of kindergarten science
teacher at a Manhattan independent school. The kids are fascinated by
and thirsty for science, and were riveted by our unit on color, light,
and shadow that was ongoing when I stepped in. However, no lesson I
have taught yet galvanized their passion and attention like this week's
impromptu discussions on global warming. (05/11/07)
Scientists
Urge Gore to Cool His Global Warming Rhetoric - By Bonner R. Cohen
- While basking in the afterglow of having his movie, An Inconvenient
Truth, awarded an Oscar, former vice president Al Gore is finding his
rhetorical flourishes on the subject of global warming aren't always
welcome, even among his supporters in the scientific community. (05/11/07)
Governor
all but threatens global warming veto - MONTPELIER, Vt. - Gov. Jim
Douglas all but threatened to veto a global climate change compromise
bill on Thursday, decrying a tax that would fund it and the bureaucracy
that he says it would create. (05/11/07)
More good news for lawyers
A
changing climate - Birmingham Business Journal - By Ty West - With
global warming and climate change among the hot topics of the day and
the potential of tightened emissions regulations from the Environmental
Protection Agency, some environmental lawyers see opportunity on the
horizon. That's because local experts say that changes in environmental
law and regulations could not only lead to more casework and litigation
but could also play a major role in how many manufacturers do business.
(05/11/07)
A new level of absurdity has been
reached
Global
warming heats up debate over Arctic sovereignty, foreign threats
- Sheldon Alberts, - WASHINGTON - A group of retired American generals
and admirals has warned Congress the U.S. faces a dire threat to its
national security from global warming - and flagged Canada's claim to
Arctic sovereignty as a future flashpoint between the two longstanding
allies. (05/11/07)
Shadegg
remarks show tough time for House panel on global warming - Mike
Madden - WASHINGTON - The hearing was almost over, but Rep. John Shadegg
was just getting started. The Republican from Arizona took the microphone
at a recent hearing of the new House Select Committee on Energy Independence
and Global Warming and proceeded to ignore the witnesses testifying
on how climate change could affect the insurance business. Good!
(05/11/07)
Global
Warming Suspicions and Confusions - By Justin Podur - In recent
years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing
debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou's book, Dead
Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky's latest book,
Failed States, mentions global warming as one of the three more urgent
problems humanity faces (the others being war and the lack of democratic
institutions to deal with problems). George Monbiot's new book, Heat,
provides a workable set of proposals for stabilizing the climate without
draconian sacrifice (except commercial flight). (05/11/07)
From the JunkMan
Junk
Science: Climate-Controlled Classroom? - By Steven Milloy - Should
schools teach the global warming controversy by showing students only
Al Gore's alarmist movie? Roger Williams University just learned the
answer to that question the hard way. (05/11/07)
ERAU
professor seeks balance in global warming debate - By MARK HARPER
- DAYTONA BEACH - Nick Shipley, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
freshman, had just spent a week of classes watching two films with polar-opposite
conclusions about global warming. "After watching 'An Inconvenient
Truth,' I was relatively convinced," Shipley said one day last
month in class. "(Al Gore) did a good job in presenting his points
very methodically one after the other. They all build up to essentially
prove his point. "After watching 'The Great Global Warming Swindle,'
my thinking completely changed," he said. "I kind of did a
complete flip-flop." (05/10/07)
The
Greenpeace in the chicken coop (from the Politics Blog) - Here's
a little insight into how the "global consensus" on climate
change is formed. The Times of London reports that "tackling global
warming need not cost the Earth, a panel of UN scientists said today.
In the third in a series of reports, the IPCC said that keeping the
rise in temperatures to within 2 degrees C would cost only 0.12 per
cent of annual gross domestic product if governments exploited new technologies
to cut greenhouse gas emissions." So who authored this rosy, "scientific"
scenario? "It's a low premium to pay to reduce the risk of major
climate damage," Bill Hare, a Greenpeace adviser who co-authored
the report, told Reuters news agency after the culmination of marathon
negotiations. That's right - Greenpeace. One of the world's leading
proponents of climate change. Would the MSM declare a report written
by Exxon-Mobil to be the definitive report on global warming? Needless
to say, Greenpeace's - er, the IPCC's - conclusion is nonsense. As a
Wharton Business School of Economic study found, implementing Kyoto
would cost the US about 2.3% of its GDP - or about 20 times 0.12%. And
that's just to comply with Kyoto, which doesn't come close to lowering
emissions by the 85% that the IPCC claims is required to keep temperature
increases below 2C. (05/10/07)
Weather
Expert: Sub-tropical Storms Being Named to Fuel Global Warming Alarmism
- By Noel Sheppard - For weather watchers, the name Joe Sobel should
be a familiar one, as he has been with AccuWeather for 35 years, and
is a regular guest on radio stations as well as MSNBC. With that in
mind, Dr. Sobel posted an article at the AccuWeather blog Wednesday
highly critical of the naming of sub-tropical storms, most recently
Andrea. In his view, this practice - which is only five years old -
is exaggerating the number of storms per year thereby adding to global
warming alarmism. (05/10/07)
Biofuel
or Biohazard? - There is a need for biofuel certification, and the
ugly inconvenient truth is if you came up with a comprehensive set of
criteria for biofuel certification, there may not be any environmentally
justifiable reason to grow biofuel, other than in certain low yield
applications in arid regions to stablize soil, and within contained,
factory environments. (05/10/07)
Warming
fallacy - By Larry Kelley - The sun's output has been steadily increasing,
as is evidenced by the melting of the polar ice caps on Mars, the liquefying
of Saturn's ice-covered moons and the fact that Pluto is maintaining
an atmosphere further into its solar apogee. Nothing we can do will
halt the cyclic heating of the sun. The truth is the New World Order
crowd, including the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations,
have seized on this opportunity to blitz the controlled media into imposing
a global tax on carbon emissions. Increased control and surveillance
will follow. (05/10/07)
Power
plan dooms world's poor - By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN - Environmentalists
keep telling us they love humanity. So apparently it's just people a
lot of them have trouble with. This tendency is being noted with alarm
even by former environmental crusaders, as the hysteria over global
warming escalates. (05/10/07)
This is a must read!
JANET
ALBRECHTSEN: Hysterics 101 - APPARENTLY, the NSW Board of Studies
is looking to introduce climate change classes for kindergarten to Year
6 children as part of its science and technology syllabus. The problem,
of course, is what they will be taught. There are plenty of reasons
for concern on this score. Adults have barely engaged in a grown-up
conversation over the causes of global warming. Debate over the what,
how, why, and when on global warming has been drowned out by hysteria.
If you disagree with some of the science, and the religious fervour
it has fuelled, or even evince a level of agnosticism towards it, you
are not just wrong. You are a bad person forced to defend your integrity
as well as your arguments (05/10/07)
The
Battle of the Bulb - By Pamela Meister - Believe it or not, several
states have fallen for the "global warming" hysteria, introducing
legislation designed to ban traditional light bulbs in favor of fluorescents!
FSM Contributing Editor Pam Meister takes misguided politicians to task
in this entertaining and informative article. (05/10/07)
Oh Jeezus!
Hybrid-driving
media mogul finds it's easy being green - By Mark Coultan, Herald
Correspondent in New York - RUPERT MURDOCH has got the message, and
now he wants the rest of us to get it, too. He's become a convert to
concerns about global warming and climate change. He recently bought
himself a hybrid car. And if you
believe this, I got some carbon offsets I'll sell ya... (05/10/07)
This
article was written by Randy Hall, staff writer and editor at CNSNews.com
- To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island,
students are being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth,"
the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President
Al Gore. The science class requirement has prompted one conservative
student to declare that "we should stop calling these schools 'bastions
of knowledge' since they're really bastions of leftist thought."
(05/09/07)
I'll
give you something to worry about - David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen
- I have written before in these pages that "global warming"
is a great imposture and fraud that will, a generation from now, look
like the Club of Rome forecasts for a generation ago. That aside, it
is tremendously consequential: not because the predictions are plausible
(they are based on computer modelling, which cannot even tell you reliably
what the weather will be next week), but because it offers a "window
of impunity" to vastly increase the scope of government. That is
why, all over the world, politicians have scrambled aboard the climate-change
bandwagon even more enthusiastically than the media. (05/09/07)
German
Mag Debunks Climate Change Hysteria, Extols Benefits of Warming Planet
- By Noel Sheppard - Here's something you're unlikely to see in an American
newspaper or magazine: global warming might actually be good for the
planet and its inhabitants. This radical idea was advanced Monday by
the German magazine Der Spiegel which did something I can't imagine
a U.S. publication having the nerve to do in this highly politicized
environment: offer readers a comprehensive, balanced view of the pluses
and minuses inherent in a warming earth. (05/09/07)
Common-sense
solutions needed - By Dave Wheeler, Niagara Falls, The Hamilton
Spectator - Re: Greening the economy - I wonder how hasty the global
warming pundits would be to get rid of the coal-fuelled electrical generators
and replace them with greener but more expensive power if their jobs
depended on some of that power? The expensive greener power they propose
will make it harder for manufacturers in Canada to compete with industries
that use cheap fossil fuel power such as the U.S., China and India.
Expensive green power will make it harder for the ordinary working stiff
to get and keep a job. Throw in a higher electrical power bill at home,
just to rub salt in the wound. (05/09/07)
Gore
As Religious Figure - By Warner Todd Huston - I can understand
the appeal of the global Warming religion, I really can. For those
who have disavowed conventional religion and have decided that man
is the ultimate power - by which they mean themselves in particular,
not just humanity in general - the thought that they alone can save
the planet is heady stuff, indeed. (05/09/07) |
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Time Magazine has become one of
the most absurd publications in the country. From their asinine "100
Most Influential People" to this ridiculous "Global Warming
Survival Guide", the editors at Time have driven the publication
into the world of the tabloids.
Global
hysteria - By Ben-Peter Terpstra - TIME Magazine believes that Gore
and "global warming" sermons are a great combination. That's
why their environmental doctrines are so very bizarre, I guess. How
bizarre? Try reading TIME Magazine's "Global
Warming Survival Guide" dated, April 9, 2007, and the "51
Things You Can Do to Make a Difference". Rule 26: "Plant
a bamboo fence", because it feels good? (05/09/07)
Inconvenient
truths - By David Deming, Ph.D., The Sun - The largest single factor
driving the debate on global warming is the Al Gore film An Inconvenient
Truth. The movie has been marketed as a scientific documentary, but
in fact it is an artful and deceptive propaganda film. (05/09/07)
The
Nutty Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Consider Major Global Warming
Lawsuit - Court to Decide Challenge to Low Fuel-Economy Standards
- SAN FRANCISCO - On Monday, May 14th, a three-judge panel of the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals will consider the Center for Biological Diversity's
challenge to the Bush administration's national fuel-economy standards
for SUVs and pickup trucks. The lawsuit asserts that the government
violated the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and the National Environmental
Policy Act by ignoring greenhouse gas emissions and global warming when
setting the fuel-economy standards for model year 2008-2011 SUVs and
pickup trucks. (05/09/07)
Scientists:
Early Tropical Storm Not Due to Global Warming - By Andrea Thompson
and Ker Than - The first named Atlantic storm of 2007 crept in Wednesday
well before the season's official June 1 start, raising the question
of whether global warming might be responsible for its early arrival.
Flowers, tree leaves, birds and other signs of spring have appeared
earlier in recent years at various spots globally, so can Subtropical
Storm Andrea's arrival three weeks ahead of schedule also be blamed
on climate change? "Oh, gosh, no," said James Kossin, a meteorologist
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (05/09/07)
Global
Warming Lecture: Sheryl Crow Still Refusing to Eat Crow - By Bob
Parks - No one was challenging her patriotism. Just her sanity. Crow
has the right to say anything she wants, and we have the right to respond.
(05/09/07)
Uh-oh. The greenies are getting
wound up now...
Right
Wing's Global Warming Denial Takes New Form, Now Attacks Advice Of Military
Generals - The national security consequences of climate change
are real and predictable. Leading environmental scientists have already
said that climate change will bring about reduced access to fresh water,
impaired food production, more diseases, land loss and displacement
of major populations. This is most likely to affect the world's poorest
regions, thus providing an incubator for extremist ideologies and terrorism
and fights over scarce resources. Oh
no! It's the end of the world!!! (05/09/07)
The
Left's Global Warming Solution: No More Children! - By Ben Shapiro
- Proving once again that foolish ideas don't die or fade away -- they
walk the earth eternally, preying on the brains of the living -- scientists
at a UK think tank have determined that the greatest threat to the planet
is more human beings. "The effect on the planet of having one child
less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we
might do, such as switching off lights," explains Professor John
Guillebaud, co-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT). "The
greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the
planet would be to have one less child." (05/09/07)
Stop
global warming: eat plants? - By GRAEME MCRANOR, 24 HOURS - "The
production of animal-based foods uses a huge amount of resources and
an incredible amount of energy from fossil fuel to produce," says
Brazier. "Food production and its transportation is the No. 1 draw
(05/09/07)
Doherty
declares himself a global warming skeptic - Local politician debates
issue. His opponent's on a mission to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
- By SARA K. SATULLO - The Express-Times NORTH BRANCH | For state Assemblyman
Mike Doherty, R-Warren, the debate over global warming is far from over.
Tuesday night he sponsored a public forum at Raritan Valley Community
College with Assemblywoman Linda Stender, D-Middlesex/Somerset/Union.
Stender is the driving force behind the Global Warming Response Act,
which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020, and 80
percent by 2050. "My goal here is to let the public know there's
at least one legislator in New Jersey that doesn't think Americans and
New Jersey residents are the bad guys," Doherty said, explaining
much of the burden of combating global warming has been put on America.
He reiterated his skepticism over the truth in global warming, citing
conflicting findings among scientists. Doherty said he wants to keep
the conversation going. (05/09/07)
Trade-offs
and global warming - If fighting climate change is inconvenient
and expensive, it won't happen: A modest proposal to make it easier,
from Fortune's Cait Murphy. - By Cait Murphy, Fortune assistant managing
editor - "Please tax me to encourage a long-term shift away from
harmful emissions" is not much of a bumper sticker, but it is both
honest and the best policy. And, over time, it may just fill that clean-energy
bus to the Hamptons (05/09/07)
Warming
hysteria misplaced - By Andrew Bolt - We're told so many mad scare
stories about global warming, why shouldn't Art Bell believe this one,
too? And so the radio host and best-selling author last weekend read
out to his audience on Coast to Coast, one of America's most listened-to
shows, this latest report he'd picked about our warming horror: "Shocking
reports from the Kremlin today are showing that the Government of Australia
has entered into secret negotiations with the United States and their
Commonwealth allies for the proposed evacuation of upwards of 11 million
of its 20 million citizens." (05/09/07)
Global Warming
is Good for You - By Alan Scholl - The scary scenarios are well
known: Global warming will kill all the polar bears. It will lead to
famine for humans. It will cause mass extinctions because animals can
not adapt to rapidly rising temperatures. Biologist Josef Reichholf
doesn't believe any of it. A zoologist who, according to the German
version of Wikipedia, has held academic positions with the Technical
University of Munich and with Ludwig-Maximilians-University, also of
Munich, Reichholf dismissed many of the most frequently referenced fears
about global warming in a recent interview with the German magazine
Der Spiegel. (05/09/07)
'We
Are Children of the Tropics' - Biologist Josef Reichholf discusses
the benefits of a warmer climate for animals and plants, large cities
as centers of biological diversity and the myth of the return of malaria.
(05/08/07)
Hey Nancy, Sheryl, Laurie and Al,
did you know...?
Overcrowded
skies add to global warming - In the West, the growing worry about
planes causing global warming has forced big aviation companies to develop
and adapt greener technology. But many are asking that, will it really
matter if the skies get more and more overcrowded. The white cloud,
whether seen or unseen, is said to be a cocktail of deadly gases that
are contributing to global warming. At the altitude of 25,000 to 50,000
feet the release of especially Nitrous-di-Oxide affects the ozone layer
directly. This damage is more than any emissions on the ground. (05/08/07)
Light
Plight: Bulbs better for environment can be hazardous to health
- By Jeff Alexander - Replacing conventional lights with compact fluorescent
bulbs -- a popular energy conservation measure promoted as a way to
fight global warming -- could create toxic nightmares for unsuspecting
consumers. Compact fluorescents and all other fluorescent bulbs contain
small amounts of mercury, which can cause brain damage. When broken,
fluorescent bulbs release mercury vapors into the air that could pose
health threats, particularly to small children, government officials
said. (05/08/07)
Global
Warming Real Estate - By Nicole Martinelli - Pssst! Have I got a
deal for you: buy landlocked property near the Italian Riviera today
and global warming will bring the beach to your door in about 15 years.
(05/08/07)
Volcanoes,
CO2 global warming - So, where the term 'global warming' come from.......?
We made it up! - By Bud Clydesdale - These fear mongering luddites
are a well oiled industry and a very profitable one to the propagators
of it. Books, papers, 'studies', appearances, interviews, donations,
speeches, articles, columns, foundation grants, government grants, 'non
profit' tax exempt salaries and web sites with 'donate buttons'. And,
as long as it can keep a duped media on side, it will continue to be
profitable. (05/08/07)
ABC Science
Blog: What the Heck, Let's Blame Global Warming Anyway - By Ken
Shepherd - The Greensburg tornado disaster was just the perfect excuse
for another global warming item on ABCNews.com. After all, the Associated
Press and CNN have focused on an Iraq angle to devastating tornado damage,
but finding an Iraq angle to everything is so, I dunno, 2004. At any
rate, on his "Science and Society" blog at ABCNews.com yesterday,
reporter Ned Potter set out to find why tornado touchdowns have increased
in the past few years. (05/08/07)
Neptune
News - Neptune is the planet farthest from the Sun (Pluto is now
considered only a dwarf planet), Neptune is the planet farthest from
the Earth, and to our knowledge, there has been absolutely no industrialization
out at Neptune in recent centuries. There has been no recent build-up
of greenhouse gases there, no deforestation, no rapid urbanization,
no increase in contrails from jet airplanes, and no increase in ozone
in the low atmosphere; recent changes at Neptune could never be blamed
on any human influence. Incredibly, an article has appeared in a recent
issue of Geophysical Research Letters showing a stunning relationship
between the solar output, Neptune's brightness, and heaven forbid, the
temperature of the Earth. With its obvious implications to the greenhouse
debate, we are certain you have never heard of the work and never will
outside World Climate Report. (05/08/07)
BS ALERT: Americans stealing water.
Lake
Superior recedes to lowest level in 80 years - Frank Dobrovnik /
THE SAULT STAR Local News - Hey, who pulled the plug from Lake Superior?
That's just about the only explanation Marilyn Reed can come up with
after watching her Goulais River shoreline, just upstream from Superior,
drop two feet since last summer. "I think there's some kind of
drain at the bottom of Lake Superior somewhere, spilling into the core
of the Earth," said Reed, who installed a breakwall last July and
"could actually see it going down, down, down" since then.
(05/08/07)
It's the consumerism, stupid!
Waste
not now, want not later - By Tami Jones - So if we truly want to
stop global warming, complete depletion of local water resources and
excess effluents into the ocean, lets start working on our excessive
consumerism. Consumerism consumes us all and it's our spending habits
that negatively affect the planet, the poor and destitute world-wide
and nature's perfect tradition and harmony. Is there hope? Sadly, it
looks as though unless we all go beyond the glib actions of being voracious
consumers, there is none. LAMO! Well
excuse me for living. (05/08/07)
Warming-Induced
Increases in Ocean Productivity - In setting the stage for their
important new study, McGregor et al. (2007) say "coastal upwelling
occurs along the eastern margins of major ocean basins and develops
when predominantly along-shore winds force offshore Ekman transport
of surface waters, which leads to the ascending (or upwelling) of cooler,
nutrient-rich water." In addition, they note that these regions
of coastal upwelling account for about 20% of the global fish catch
while constituting less than 1% of the area covered by the world's oceans.
(05/08/07)
Global
Warming and Malaria: The Northern Thailand Story - Noting that "there
has been a steady reduction through time of total malaria incidence
in northern Thailand, with an average decline of 6.45% per year,"
Childs et al. say this result "reflects changing agronomic practices
and patterns of immigration, as well as the success of interventions
such as vector control programmes, improved availability of treatment
and changing drug policies," which means that we can't attribute
the welcome trend to global warming. Aw, shucks. (05/08/07)
Is
Global Warming Causing the Earth to Burn? - ncreased wildfires are
often said by climate alarmists to be caused by global warming, because
somewhere on earth it is always possible to find such a trend; and in
some of these cases, it is possible that rising temperatures may indeed
have been involved. But what is learned when the entire world is surveyed?
Although one can identify parts of the world that experienced increases
in land area burned over the last two decades of the 20th century, for
the globe as a whole there was absolutely no relationship between global
warming and total area burned over this period. (05/08/07)
The
Corporate Climate Coup - By David F. Noble - Don't breathe. There's
a total war on against CO2 emissions, and you are releasing CO2 with
every breath. The multi-media campaign against global warming now saturating
our senses, which insists that an increasing CO2 component of greenhouse
gases is the enemy, takes no prisoners: you are either with us or you
are with the "deniers." No one can question the new orthodoxy
or dare risk the sin of emission. If Bill Clinton were running for president
today he would swear he didn't exhale. (05/08/07)
lmao!
Stockholders'
Questions Answered at Berkshire's Annual Meeting - There is enough
evidence to suggest global warming is occurring. General Re is taking
it seriously. Charlie Munger chimed in, however, that "you'd have
to be a pot-smoking journalism student to believe global warming is
a threat to the existence of mankind." What matters are the dislocations
that will occur due to global warming, not global warming itself. People
generally like it warmer. After all, people aren't moving from Southern
California to North Dakota. (05/08/07)
Melting
Of The Greenland Ice Cap May Have Consequences For Climatic Change
- Based on this observation, scientists consider that the acceleration
of the melting of the Greenland ice cap could play an important role
in the future stability of ocean circulation and, hence, in the development
of climate change. (05/08/07)
Cold
shoulder to global warming - By Matthew Warren - The much-vaunted
green budget has ended up being a clear statement of disintent. The
Howard Government has put the environment well down the dispatch list
of economic priorities. The priority of last night's environment budget
was a return to traditional environmental issues. It deliberately makes
as its centrepiece the management of the bush, trees and water, ahead
of the hot topic of climate change. (05/08/07)
Arctic
Climate Expert: Gore's Film Is 'Science Fiction' - LaRouche Youth
Movement member Ian Overton interviewed Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former
Director of the International Arctic Research Center, on April 23, 2007.
The interview was conducted by telephone. Dr. Akasofu appeared in the
British Channel 4-TV documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle,"
aired March 8. Video
is available (05/08/07)
Keep
global warming debate focused on issues
Editorial - An editorial from the Sudbury Star - Green Party Leader
Elizabeth May has a penchant for controversy, and it befits her goals,
but she has no one to blame but herself for three days of bad press
over her decision to invoke the spectre of the Nazis
in her crusade. If her intention was to get press, she got it, but it
didn't do her any good. (05/08/07)
FormRouter
and Global Warming Initiatives Launch GreenPDF.com to Raise World Awareness
- Knowledge Workers Can Now Do Their Part to Save the Environment by
Adding the 'Print Less' Message to All PDFs They Distribute CARY, N.C.,
May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- FormRouter, a pioneer in hosted services for electronic
forms, and Global Warming Initiatives (GWI), a leading non- profit helping
organizations to reduce greenhouse gasses, announced today the launch
of GreenPDF.com. The website and awareness campaign are designed to
educate the public on the environmental impact of printing PDF documents.
The GreenPDF.com website allows anyone to upload a PDF and have an environmental
awareness notice injected into the document. The goal is to encourage
the 700 million users of PDF documents not to print when viewing one
of the 200 million PDFs on the Web today. (05/08/07)
Mayors
fall into "carbon trap" - Press Release: New Zealand Climate
Science Coalition - The Auckland and Waitakere mayors have fallen
into the carbon trap laid by the likes of the Green Party and Greenpeace,
in adding their voices to the unproven myth that emissions of carbon
dioxide will threaten the survival of the planet, said Rear Admiral
Jack Welch, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. (05/08/07)
Global
Warming Hysteria! - By Malcolm Hedges - Progressives in a massive
rush to avoid reality, clamor to embrace the fake Global Warming scam.
The real enemy of the Western World is IslamoFascism, but candy-a**
Progressive wimps want to suppress the message by going wild over this
Global Warming BS! (05/07/07)
GLOBAL
WARMING : Not the End of the World as We Know It - By Olaf Stampf
- How bad is climate change really? Are catastrophic floods and terrible
droughts headed our way? Despite widespread fears of a greenhouse hell,
the latest computer simulations are delivering far less dramatic predictions
about tomorrow's climate. (05/07/07)
Inheriting
The Wind - Energy Policy: The Senate may vote this month to require
that 15% of domestic energy production come from alternative sources
by 2020. Welcome to the People's Republic of America. (05/07/07)
Children
to learn how to help save polar bears - Monaco/Gland, Switzerland
- WWF and Canon Europe launched today a "Save the Polar Bear"
website as an educational tool to teach children about the environmental
impacts of climate change. (05/07/07)
We're
not yet serious about this 'war' - By Lorrie Goldstein - With everyone
from Prince Charles to Green Party Leader Elizabeth May comparing the
fight against global warming to the Second World War -- some more tastefully
than others -- let's make something clear. The comparison is stupid
and misleading. Fighting a "war" implies there is an "enemy"
that we can defeat after a few years of supreme effort and sacrifice,
as our parents and grandparents did defeating the Axis powers. This
is nonsense. There is no enemy, unless you think things like electricity,
heat and modern transportation are the enemies of mankind. (05/07/07)
Gore's
willing accomplices in the classroom - By Jason Mattera - Music
icon Sheryl Crow just wrapped up her "Stop Global Warming College
Tour." And while no Rhode Island school hosted her biodiesel bus,
the pop singer's persistence on propagandizing young and malleable minds
with greenhouse hype sure did resonate with the leftist faculty at Roger
Williams University (RWU). The week before Earth Day, professors teaching
CORE 101: Science, Technology and Society broke from a normal day of
classes to watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The eco-marching orders
were handed down by the assistant dean of the science department, Jeffrey
A. Hughes (contact info here). (05/07/07)
Political
Economist Robert Higgs on Peer Reviews and Scientific Consensus
- By Noel Sheppard - How many times in the past year as global warming
has become a headline issue have you heard a liberal media member or
Hollywood elite talk about a consensus of peer reviewed scientists?
So much so that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one, correct?
(05/07/07)
Biofuels
Will Not Solve Global Warming: IPCC's Report Sparks Protest - By
Clayton Bodie Cornell Last week's release of the IPCC's Summary for
Policymakers on climate change mitigation sparked backlash from several
environmental groups. In a joint press release, Biofuelwatch, Global
Forest Coalition, Global Justice Ecology Project, and several others
stated they are "deeply concerned" about the inclusion of
"large-scale expansion of biofuels from monoculture", including
Genetically Modified (GM) crops, as a specific recommendation for mitigating
catastrophic climate change. (05/07/07)
Gas
pump prices - Jack, say it ain't so! - By Arthur Weinreb - The negative
reaction of Jack Layton to the increase in gasoline prices that will
help save the environment is further proof that the nonsense he and
others spout about man-made global warming is further proof that climate
change is a political, not a scientific issue. We are constantly being
told to reduce our "carbon footprints" by being more "environmentally
friendly". We are only a few short years away from having the light
bulb police banging at our doors to look for illegal incandescent light
bulbs. Yet being unable to drive as much and having to resort to public
transportation or horror of horrors, bicycles, is now a bad thing; a
problem that must be cured by creating another government agency to
bring down the cost at the pumps. (05/07/07)
And the alarmists get upset about
a $10,000.00 incentive for evidence to
the contrary; Who are the real shills?
Japan
pledges $100 million to Asian Development Bank to combat global warming
- By HANS GREIMEL - KYOTO, Japan (AP) - Japan pledged $100 million in
grants to the Asian Development Bank on Sunday to combat global warming
and promote greener investment in the region and called for a stronger
international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The money is
part of a new initiative by the government in Tokyo to support sustainable
development in response to increasing concern that Asia's breakneck
economic growth is destroying the environment. It comes just days after
a breakthrough agreement in Thailand set the world's first roadmap for
fighting climate change. (05/07/07)
Liberal
"Scientists" Lead Jihad Against Global-Warming Skeptics
- by Ivan Osorio, Iain Murray, and Myron Ebell - The Union of Concerned
Scientists is not about to relent in its green climate crusade. Yet
UCS does not speak for the scientific community. Instead, it is a well-funded,
left-wing pressure group, which politicizes science while claiming to
be its true guardian. A partisan is no less a partisan because he has
won the Nobel Prize, but a scientist is less of a scientist if he allows
ideology to color his research. (05/07/07)
3
of 4 Pinoys want global warming addressed but gradually - Three
of four Filipinos want the government to address the problem of global
warming but want gradual, low-cost solutions, with the Philippines also
placing in the middle of a 12-nation survey on citizens' sense of urgency
in addressing the issue. (05/07/07)
Global
warming forum Tuesday - Local legislators feel it's important to
present both sides of the issue. - By Trish G. Graber - TRENTON | An
executive order signed this year by Gov. Jon Corzine to combat global
warming followed years of worldwide public debate over whether humans
actually contribute to the earth's rising temperature. But Assemblyman
Mike Doherty says the debate isn't over yet. (05/07/07)
Supreme
Global Warming Derangement: Having Large Families 'Is an Eco-crime'
- By Noel Sheppard - Global warming derangement syndrome has taken a
disturbing turn for the worse, as The Sunday Times published an article
May 6 stating that parents should only have two children in order to
avert climate change. I kid you not. The piece, despicably titled "Having
Large Families 'is an Eco-crime,'" unbelievably began: HAVING large
families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in
the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing
to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green
think tank. (05/06/07)
The other day, comedian Bill Maher
refered to conservatives' facination with Ronald Reagan as almost "gay".
Well if that's true, the following story illustrates how the media's
facination with the Goracle is even more obsessive, even cultish.
Bob
Richter: Gore sure didn't want coverage, but here's why he's getting
it - Gore's message is too important, I think, to get muddled. Our
intrepid reporter, Caputo, went over to the convention center Thursday,
registered under his own name and address as an "expo only"
attendee and got a pass that gave him access to the speech. Then he
covered it and wrote about it. It was that
easy. Purists might contend that was unethical. To me, it was like crashing
a Ku Klux Klan rally. Gore didn't want coverage. We think he deserved
it. (05/06/07)
Global
warming not to blame for storm spike, scientist(Dr. Chris Landsea) says
- By Mike Lyons - I don't know about you, but I really liked last year's
hurricane season. Only five hurricanes formed during 2006, and for the
first time since 2001, none of those tropical systems came anywhere
near Florida. In fact, to give you some idea how unusual last year turned
out to be, the tiny island of Bermuda was threatened and hit by more
tropical storms and hurricanes than any other location in the Atlantic
basin (the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.) The issue
has become one of the hottest debates in science and is the subject
of a new study by Dr. Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center.
(05/06/07)
WA
announces climate change vision - Experts will begin preparing Western
Australia for a future national carbon trading scheme as part of the
state's efforts to address climate change. Premier Alan Carpenter outlined
an action plan to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 60
per cent of 2000 levels by 2050, including tougher building rules to
be introduced from September 1. "There will be a national carbon
trading scheme in Australia despite what John Howard may or may not
want." (05/06/07)
Markey
feels heat as chair of global warming committee - By Associated
Press - WASHINGTON - Rep. Edward Markey did not look happy. The chairman
of the newly formed House committee on global warming was presiding
over a recent hearing - and getting an earful from Arizona Republican
Rep. John Shadegg. Shadegg complained that Markey had gaveled him down
prematurely at a previous hearing as Shadegg zeroed in on some key testimony
from a witness. "I assumed he would not have intentionally cut
me off, although the appearance was there," Shadegg said of the
Malden Democrat. (05/06/07)
But wouldn't using paper pags mean
killing more greenhouse gas absorbing trees? I'm so confused...
Kicking
Plastic Bag Habit - By Joel Lang, Courant Staff Writer - Connecticut
residents are taking global warming personally, suggests a new poll
conducted for The Courant. By wide margins, residents said they favor
three conservation measures that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
getting rid of energy-wasting incandescent light bulbs, banning plastic
grocery bags and paying a $5 recycling surcharge when they buy any computer
or television. (05/06/07)
What? The bullshit begins in the
title...
Flora
and fauna pushed around by cold April, global warming - By John
Serrao - Even though some European scientists and birders are reporting
that many birds have been returning as much as one or two weeks earlier
in spring compared to just a few decades ago because of global warming,
my observations haven't seen such differences in the northeastern United
States. Some people may be tempted to view this April's cold weather
as proof that global warming is untrue. Such a conclusion is extremely
naive, since it's based on a single month's weather. The truth is, many
of the warmest years ever recorded on earth have been in the past two
decades. (05/06/07)
Monckton
saves the day! - A favourite policy adviser of Mrs Thatcher in the
Eighties, the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is now the country's
most notorious climate-change sceptic and has thrown down a challenge
to Al Gore to a public debate on global warming. What does he know that
we don't? Only that he has never been wrong. - By Tim Adams (05/06/07)
Pollution:
the real problem - I am cynical about a lot of the hype about Global
warming, not because I don't feel it is true (I used to live in Minnesota,
after all. It was under 200 feet of ice twelve thousand years ago) but
because it is this years' "We're All Gonna Die" hype, similar
to hypes of various sorts that I've heard about over the last 50 plus
years. (05/06/07)
Pure
lunacy! More global warming madness and First Amendment attacks
- Felicia Benamon - Could we get any more idiotic than this? The designation
of July 4th, our Independence Day as "Energy Independence Day"!
Have I missed something? Has the Global Warming fanaticism hit SO hard
that now we direct attention away from one of our most patriotic days
celebrated in our nation to declare our allegiance to... "Mother
Earth?" (05/05/07)
Ah hah!
The
Greenpeace in the chicken coop - By Henry Payne - Here's a little
insight into how the "global consensus" on climate change
is formed. The Times of London reports that "tackling global warming
need not cost the Earth, a panel of UN scientists said today. In the
third in a series of reports, the IPCC said that keeping the rise in
temperatures to within 2 degrees C would cost only 0.12 per cent of
annual gross domestic product if governments exploited new technologies
to cut greenhouse gas emissions." So who authored this rosy, "scientific"
scenario? "It's a low premium to pay to reduce the risk of major
climate damage," Bill Hare, a Greenpeace adviser who co-authored
the report, told Reuters news agency after the
culmination of marathon negotiations. (05/05/07)
How to make a case for only presenting
the alarmist side...
what
we need here is a bias in favour of truth - The pressure to present
balanced accounts of controversial issues shouldn't extend to nonsense
- Peter McKnight, Vancouver Sun - Two years ago a Scientific American
editorial announced that the magazine would institute a sweeping policy
change, a change so radical that it would completely reorient the magazine's
approach to science journalism...The editors were, of course, not really
suggesting that they intended henceforth to put science and non-science
- and nonsense - on equal footing; they were, rather, ridiculing those
who demand that journalists do so, those who argue that good journalism
involves merely presenting both sides of an issue and letting readers
decide the truth. (05/05/07)
Gore
sees 'spiritual crisis' in warming - Anton Caputo - It's in part
a spiritual crisis," Gore told the crowd in the Convention Center
at the American Institute of Architects national convention. "It's
a crisis of our own self-definition - who we are. Are we creatures destined
to destroy our own species? Clearly not." On the request of Gore's
media handlers, Saturday's event was closed to the media. Because of
the importance of the issue and Gore's status, the San Antonio Express-News
chose to cover it anyway. (05/05/07)
Oh just shut up and sing already.
On second thought, just shut up!
Sheryl Crow: On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way - By Sheryl
Crow - It's been well over a week since our little run in with the adviser
to our president. I am just now processing all that took place during
the last few days of the Stop Global Warming College tour and a few
concerns still hang heavy on my mind and heart. First, I am deeply concerned
over where we are as a nation. We are so blessed to live in a country
where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin
to imagine. However, what terrifies me is not what we are ignoring about
the state of our planet but the fact that we seem to have lost touch
with our connection to the earth. (05/04/07)
The
human contribution is negligible - John Fogle - A funny thing happened
on the way to doomsday. Well, not really funny, but peculiar anyway.
In looking at the science and logic behind global warming alarmism,
specifically the theory that increases in carbon dioxide cause a global
temperature increase, I discovered a fantastic new technique for analyzing
scientific data. (05/04/07)
Global
Warming Consensus Watch, Vol. III - THIS WEEK: A fungus among us
- again; more on Mars; are weather satellites creating more hurricanes?;
Live Earth isn't totally worthless; Laurie David is the GREATEST HERO
IN AMERICAN HISTORY; and human sacrifice on the altar of environmental
religion. (05/04/07)
Ali
G vs. Borat - [Jim Manzi] - Why is Ali G so much better than Borat?
Because it's much better to laugh at a comic when he is making fun of
self-important celebrities than when he mocks ordinary people just trying
to be nice to someone who is mocking them. I have a lot of sympathy
for people who are trying to lead simpler lives. Not so much for vapid
celebrities who are hectoring everyone else on the planet. (05/04/07)
Time's
100 'Most Influential' Loaded with Little Green Men (and Women)
- Eco-tastic celebs, politicians and even CEOs make the magazine's
list. - It's hard to believe that after offering more than 50 ways
to save the planet that Time could find more ways to revel in environmental
hype. Yet, the latest Time issue which lists the 100 "Most Influential
People in the World" paints a very green picture. The list of "people
who shape our world" favors those interested in saving the world
by fighting off global warming and forcing "green" practices
on businesses and individuals. (05/04/07)
Al
Gore - By James Hansen, Al's special friend - Article ToolsPrintEmail
Al Gore understands the science of global warming better than anyone
else in the world of politics. His interest was sparked when he was
a student at Harvard, studying with the legendary geochemist Roger Revelle,
who realized that humanity's pell-mell burning of fossil fuels could
make the earth a vastly different and warmer place. (05/04/07)
What? See if you can follow this
"logic"
Global
Warming to Change Day's Length - By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience
Staff Writer - Like the physics behind a figure skater pulling in her
arms to cause a faster spin, the pressure transfer would shift the ocean's
mass toward Earth's axis of rotation, Marotzke said. As the mass shifted,
the Earth would spin around faster, shortening the length of the day
by about 0.12 milliseconds (about 1/500th of the blink of an eye) by
the year 2200. (05/04/07)
New from the JunkMan
Green
Gas-Lighting? - By Steven Milloy - We will continue this column's
look at the unintended consequences and knee-slapping irony of our society's
mindless lurch toward becoming "green" by considering two
new studies on alternative fuels. From hybrid cars costing far more
than they save in the way of fuel economy to Northern latitude forests
causing global warming, to mercury-containing compact fluorescent light
bulbs potentially turning homes into toxic waste sites, it's becoming
more apparent every day that green-ness is not necessarily what it's
cracked up to be. (05/04/07)
More absurdity
Plan
for global warming: Bite the dust - By Jim Downing - Bee Staff Writer
- Say 2080 comes around and the climate-change doomsayers have turned
out to be right. Greenland is half-melted. Coastal cities are starting
to flood. California's reservoirs have all but dried up. It's time to
bring out the big guns. In a bombardment of the skies, battleship artillery
blasts millions of tons of sulfur dust into the stratosphere. It deflects
enough of the sun's rays to cool the planet by a few critical degrees.
In a flourish worthy of Superman, the sweaty planet is saved. (05/04/07)
Media
untruthful in reporting global warming as mankind's top problem
- Given the hot air over global warming, it follows that the public
mistakenly believes it is a "top problem" and that mankind
is responsible (Times Union, April 21). What we need is more truthful
reporting of historic temperatures, greenhouse gases, warming skeptics,
solar activity and the costs of adopting the Kyoto Treaty. (05/04/07)
I smell something...
Beating
global warming need not cost the earth-UN - Source: Reuters - By
David Fogarty - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
in the third of a series of reports, said keeping the rise in temperatures
to within 2 degrees Celsius would cost only 0.12 percent of annual
gross domestic product. And if
you believe that, I got some carbon offsets I'll sell ya!
(05/04/07)
The
Regular Guy View on the Global Warming "Danger" - By Roger
Pool - I do believe Global Warming presents a dire threat to humanity
but not in the way most people think it does. Global Warming is just
another scare scam that is being used to herd us regular people off
of a cliff. Is there Global Warming? Yes, but it is not confined to
Earth. (05/04/07)
The
IPCC WG1 AR4 Final Report Is Available - The IPCC WG1 AR4 Final
Report is now available. An interesting check on its completeness will
be the diversity of peer reviewed papers that it includes, particularly
on research that differs from the IPCC conclusions. (05/04/07)
Kyoto
Protocol not effective, says Speaker - Dwelling on the problem of
global warming and climate change, Speaker Nembang said a decade has
elapsed since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol but its implementation
as was expected at the initial stage has not been that effective. (05/04/07)
Holy
Document Violated - A young Canadian Gore disciple - he's seen An
Inconvenient Truth three times - attends a Gore lecture, only to discover
something terrible: (05/03/07)
Tangents
and Tirades - Saving the world one square at a time. Seven out of
eight candidates campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination
flew in chartered jets to their debate in South Carolina last week.
The only candidate who didn't charter a jet was Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.)
who flew in a private jet. As Newsday.com notes, "No one jet pooled,
no one took commercial flights to save money, fuel or emissions."
(05/03/07)
Are global warming greenies a bunch
of pot-heads?
Liberation
Day event highlights global warming, marijuana use - Hemp cultivation
to help end global warming. Every environmentally-aware citizen needs
to learn about using nature's greatest agricultural crop for biomass
and other industrial uses. Despite the rhetoric of detractors, the hemp
varieties which grow the best fiber, oils, and pulp for paper grow the
worst marijuana. This multi-use plant must return to the marketplace,
with the possible outcome of saving small farmers and slowing the growth
of greenhouse gasses. lmao!
(05/03/07)
Move over polar bears, there's a
new star on the rise...
Arctic
leaders blame warming for wolves, suicide - Source: Reuters - By
Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent - WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters)
- Global warming sent marauding wolves into an Alaskan hamlet, killed
Norwegian reindeer with unlikely parasites and may even spur suicide
among Inuit youth, Arctic leaders said on Thursday. Suicide?
How ridiculous! It's becoming more and more difficult to read Reuters.
(05/03/07)
Global Warming:
It's the rice paddies, stupid - Right now I'm "studying"
ancient history, i.e. the neolithic world and the rise of agriculture.
Part of the reason for it was...climate change. I mean, if the Sahara
hadn't changed from a lush grass plain full of animals into a desert,
the people would never have bothered to settle along the Nile and plant
crops. This is not to argue that we shouldn't stop pollution, but that
simplistic arguments to demonize SUV's and destroy the US economy by
following Kyoto are not the way to go. Yet now there are reports of
other sources of "global warming", such as cows. And today's
scare tactic? It's the rice paddies, stupid. (05/03/07)
Study
Stirs Up Debate On Global Warming, Hurricanes - NEW ORLEANS - A
new study is stirring up debate over the connection between global warming
and hurricanes. It's been widely publicized that global warming raises
water temperatures and therefore leads to more frequent and powerful
hurricanes. But a group of researchers said global warming may actually
do the opposite - that is, decrease the strength of hurricanes or even
help to prevent the deadly storms. (05/03/07)
Dems:
Use intelligence funds to study warming - By Christina Bellantoni
- Senior House Republicans are complaining about Democrats' plans to
divert "scarce" intelligence funds to study global warming.
The House next week will consider the Democrat-crafted Intelligence
Authorization bill, which includes a provision directing an assessment
of the effects that climate change has on national security. "Our
job is to steal secrets," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan,
the ranking Republican on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"There are all kinds of people analyzing global warming,"
he told The Washington Times. "There's no value added by the intelligence
community here; they have no special expertise, and this takes money
and resources away from other threats." (05/03/07)
Glenn Beck's
"Climate of Fear" Attacks Global Warming Alarmists and Kyoto
Fallacies - By Noel Sheppard - If you missed it last night, Glenn
Beck's skeptical program about anthropogenic global warming, "Climate
of Fear," aired on CNN Headline News. In it, Beck skewered many
of the misnomers advanced by global warming alarmists, especially soon-to-be-Dr.
Al Gore. (05/03/07)
"Progressives" attack
CNN Anchor for daring to interview Glenn Beck, thus allowing an opposing
view to be heard. The audacity of CNN to allow one of their anchors
to interview one of their hosts about a program that appeared
on their network. The nerve of those self-promoting conservative
devils at CNN!
Former
Fox Host Helps CNN Promote Glenn Beck's Anti-Global Warming Agenda
- Last night, CNN's right-wing pundit Glenn Beck - who has a history
of making flagrantly false and offensive statements - aired a documentary
on global warming entitled "Exposed: The Climate of Fear."
Beck concluded, "Al Gore's version of climate change has no longer
become science. It's dogma. And if you question it, you are a heretic.
The debate is not over. I have a feeling it's just beginning."
What? An alternative view to climate
change? Oh, the horror! (05/03/07)
Al
Gore Global Warming Snafu: How Green Was My Palace? - By Froma Harrop
- Can one be big and green? Environmentalists have long pondered whether
you can stick solar panels on a battleship of a house and still claim
to be the planet's friend. Revelations that Al Gore's manse in Nashville,
Tenn., uses 10 times the energy of the average American home have goosed
this ongoing debate. How unfortunate that the Paul Revere of global
warming - the man who gallops across America to warn of the coming environmental
disaster - spends $500 a month to heat his pool alone. (05/03/07)
The
right to be wrong - An attempt to block the DVD release of The Great
Global Warming Swindle displays contempt for free speech. - A recent
reaction to a climate change denial documentary broadcast on primetime
TV displays contempt for free speech and political ineptitude. If Durkin's
Great Global Warming Swindle DVD should be withdrawn or corrected, what
about Al Gore's hyperbolic An Inconvenient Truth, soon to be distributed
to all schools in England courtesy of Her Majesty's government? (05/03/07)
Fraud?
Yeah, right - Al Gore's critique of Canada's environmental plan is rich
- By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN - Canadians will decide for themselves whether
Al Gore's description of the Conservatives' latest environmental plan
as "a complete and total fraud" that is "designed to
mislead" is accurate. (05/03/07)
Environmentalism
vs. skepticism - Should we believe scientists' diagnoses of our
planet's health? Cal urges caution and patience in assessing the "cult-like"
enviro-movement. Bob says the time to act is now. Cal Thomas is a conservative
columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime
friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers
in Washington cannot. (05/03/07)
Name-calling
doesn't advance warming debate -
Two recent letters attacked those who disagreed with the theory that
man's actions were the main cause of global warming. In these letters,
syndicated columnists were referred to as "weasels" and persons
who challenged the theory as "lackeys of ExxonMobil." Here
are but a few of those he refers to as lackeys. Dr. John R. Christy,
professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville; the authors of the
"IPCC Assessment," Cambridge University; members of NOAA Paleoclimatology
Group, National Climate Data Center, Asheville, N.C.; Dr. Claudine Stirling,
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University; Petr
Chylek, Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia; (05/03/07)
Duh!
Buyer
Beware, Carbon Cuts Not Always Real - LONDON - Companies and individuals
who want to pay others to cut carbon emissions on their behalf are not
always getting real cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, as a voluntary,
unregulated trade in carbon offsets mushrooms. Oh
no, you mean I got
ripped off? Oh wait, they were free. (05/03/07)
The Swindle
Complaint and Myles Allen - By Steve McIntyre - Bob Ward, who you
may remember as the author of various complaints from the U.K. Royal
Society, is now employed at Risk Management Solutions Ltd. In his business
capacity as Director, Global Science Networks, Risk Management Solutions
Ltd., he has filed a complaint about Swindle under a section of the
broadcasting code which states: "Views and facts must not be misrepresented".
I could understand Ward complaining as an individual citizen, but I'm
surprised that he is doing so in his capacity as an employee of Risk
Management Solutions. It's intriguing that Risk Management Solutions
perceives itself as having a business interest in suppressing the distribution
of Swindle as it stands. (05/03/07)
Canadian
controversy: How do polar bears fare? - By Fred Langan - Despite
global warming, an ongoing study says polar bear populations are rising
in the country's eastern Arctic region. Polar bears are the poster animals
of global warming. The image of a polar bear floating on an ice floe
is one of the most dramatic visual statements in the fight against rising
temperatures in the Arctic. But global warming is not killing the polar
bears of Canada's eastern Arctic, according to one ongoing study. Scheduled
for release next year, it says the number of polar bears in the Davis
Strait area of Canada's eastern Arctic - one of 19 polar bear populations
worldwide - has grown to 2,100, up from 850 in the mid-1980s. (05/03/07)
Now this is ironic! No mention of
the fact that Beck was referring to Ellen
Goodman of the Boston Globe who first used the phrase Holocaust
deniers on February 9, 2007 when describing anyone opposed to the global
warming cult. Maybe it's because his name is "Beck"?
ADL
Says Glenn Beck's Outrageous Holocaust Comparison Part Of Troubling
Epidemic On The Airwaves - New York, NY, May 2, 2007... The Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) today denounced remarks by radio personality Glenn Beck
where he compared efforts to raise awareness about global warming to
Hitler's plans to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust, saying his
remarks are part of "a troubling epidemic on the airwaves, where
comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are becoming all-too facile."
(05/03/07)
So
now "Chamberlain" and "appeasement" are politically
incorrect - By Arthur Weinreb - Last weekend, Red Green Party leader
Elizabeth May compared Stephen Harper and his Tory government's plan
to combat climate change to Sir Neville Chamberlain's 1930s appeasement
of Hitler and the Nazis. Reaction was swift and May was criticized for
the use of Nazi-era atrocities to make her point about how the Canadian
government is handling the environment and global warming. (05/03/07)
Amazingly stupid answers to amazingly
stupid questions
5
questions for global warming activist Laurie David - By Todd Hartman
- Global warming guru Laurie David, producer of the Academy Award-winning
documentary An Inconvenient Truth starring Al Gore, pops into town tonight
to speak at the Colorado Convention Center. She's here to wrap up a
month of "green" events sponsored by the Denver Public Library
and Greenprint Denver, the city's program of environmental initiatives.
The event is sold out. (05/03/07)
Reuters, Greens, and ArabianBusiness.com
all agree?
Nuclear
power no cure for global warming - By Reuters - It's nearly impossible
to build enough nuclear power plants to stop earth temperatures from
climbing, according to a US think tank. Nuclear energy may not live
up to its promise as the solution for global warming, according to separate
reports released this week by an environmental group and an independent
think tank. (05/03/07)
Christians
Taking Sides in Global Warming Debate - By Nathan Burchfiel (CNSNews.com)
- Efforts aimed at curbing carbon emissions blamed for global warming
could have a negative impact on the world's poor, according to a Christian
group formed recently to oppose what it sees as climate change alarmism
in evangelical circles. (05/03/07)
Polar
Bear Tourism for a Warming Planet: Natural Habitat Raises the Bar on
Eco Travel - BOULDER, Colo., May 2 /PRNewswire/ - The polar bear
has become something of a global warming poster child. Following the
World Wildlife Fund's announcement - that if current climate trends
continue unabated, polar bears could become extinct by the end of this
century - tourism to icy environs is on the rise. "It's natural
to want to see these incredible creatures while we still can,"
says Ben Bressler, Founder and Director of Natural Habitat Adventures,
known for its intimate, small-group expeditions to visit polar bears
in northern Manitoba's Hudson Bay area. "But it's crucial that
travelers take responsibility for making sure visits don't further endanger
fragile habitats." (05/03/07)
Vegans
help lessen global warming - Although it was encouraging to learn
that Thais are becoming aware of the threat of global warming ("Climate
change now issue of concern here" Bangkok Post, May 2), I was disappointed
that no mention was made of the fact that the UN has said that the livestock
industry is the No.1 cause of global warming. Consider the following
facts: (05/03/07)
Is U.N.
Using Media to Spin CO2 Emissions of Developing Nations? - By Noel
Sheppard - A truly extraordinary media event occurred Wednesday. One
news outlet reported: "Developing nations that are fast industrializing,
such as China and India, have braked their rising greenhouse gas emissions
by more than the total cuts demanded of rich nations by the U.N.'s Kyoto
Protocol." Practically at the same time, another reported: "Yet
[China's] coal habit means it will soon overtake the United States as
the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, some say as early as this year."
(05/02/07)
The
Political Economy of Climate Change - By Robert Haddick - The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will soon release its 4th Assessment
Report. This report will again warn that atmospheric temperatures are
due to rise this century with harmful consequences for the planet's
ecosystems. The IPCC will recommend that the world embark on an urgent
effort to rein in greenhouse gas emissions to diminish these harmful
effects. However, regulatory efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
cannot succeed and governments, especially in the developed world, should
not attempt them. (05/02/07)
God,
Gore & The Global Warming Hype: Hysterics Over The Earth - By
Felicia (Fee) Benamon - Global Warming advocates have pushed Global
Warming over and over, to the point of hysterics. Al Gore testified
before Congress last month on the need to implement changes in American
society that would counteract the effects of Global Warming. No doubt
there were a few in Congress who disagreed with his assertions, and
as Gore continued with his thoughts on the issue, he was clearly irritated.
(05/02/07)
Why
Canadians may be cool to global warming warnings - In Canada, the
problem for those trying to rouse the public to battle climate change
is that there are some real advantages that come with warming (05/02/07)
How
the left argues - By Thomas Lifson - Soros-funded Media Matters
operates in essence a briefing organization, supplying left wing journalists
and opinion leaders with talking points to discredit conservative media,
especially talk show hosts, in a press release today. It was mass emailed
even to me this morning. Media Matters debunks in advance a program
they haven't seen, a one hour global warming TV show by Glenn Beck,
of Headline News and talk radio.
CNN's
Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-fest - Summary:
A CNN press release declared that Glenn Beck's upcoming "special
report" will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype
surrounding global warming" and "question[] the accuracy of
Al Gore's claims in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth."
Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related to global climate change,
cited debunked scientists to support his doubts that "we're causing"
global warming, and regularly attacked Gore. (05/02/07) What
are they so afraid of? The truth maybe?
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