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Media Misrepresent Senators' Global Warming Trip to Greenland - By Noel Sheppard - As NewsBusters reported Monday, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) was quoted in an Orange County Register article as saying about a recent trip by Senators to investigate Greenland's glaciers, "I think everyone who has seen this is changed." On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported: "There is absolutely no disagreement that the greenhouse gas emissions are adding to climate change and global warming," [Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland)] said. "No one disagrees that it would be a healthy thing for our world to have less greenhouse gas." Sadly, neither of these articles chose to get opinions from the two Republican senators on the trip. If they had, another picture might have been presented... (07/31/07)

Climate Change: Globalist Hot Air? IV - by Jayme Evan - If there's one thing that true believers of anthropogenic global warming have in common is true devotion. You might say it has become a religion, the anointed leader, the Reverend Al Gore (07/31/07)

Global Warming is now being blamed for ice falling from the sky!
Terror from the skies - Global warming has engendered its own particular form of paranoia, and now there's a new warming-related danger to worry about - large chunks of ice plummeting out of a clear blue sky. (07/31/07)

photo: Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times

Weather Babe gets a fluff piece interview with the New York Times...no surprise here. Into the Limelight, and the Politics of Global Warming - By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Here's a few excerpts... ...It's been said to me that 9 times out of 10, the visual trumps what you say on television... ...It's often a challenge to make climate issues visual. When I first began, all we had was a little stock video of droughts in the Sahara with dead animal carcasses, and glaciers falling into the sea. We ran them over and over again... ... To me, global warming isn't a political issue, it's a scientific one. But a lot of people out there think you're being an advocate when you talk climate science... Of course you're an advocate. That's really why you ruin B-roll of droughts in the Sahara, a desert, and glaciers falling into the sea over and over again. Q: Rush Limbaugh accused you of Stalinism. Did you suggest that meteorologists who doubt global warming should be fired? A: I didn't exactly say that. I was talking about the American Meteorological Society's seal of approval. I was saying the A.M.S. should test applicants on climate change as part of their certification process. They test on other aspects of weather science. Actually, here is exactly what she said: If a meteorologist has an AMS Seal of Approval, which is used to confer legitimacy to TV meteorologists, then meteorologists have a responsibility to truly educate themselves on the science of global warming. (One good resource if you don't have a lot of time is the Pew Center's Climate Change 101.) Meteorologists are among the few people trained in the sciences who are permitted regular access to our living rooms. And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns. It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement. (07/31/07)

The Cult of Global Warming - By Don Feder - Global warming has become the apocalyptic cult of the new millennium. None of the other jeremiahs, throughout the ages, can hold an end-of-the-world candle to ozone-layer mystics prophesying climate Armageddon. I just came across the ultimate Al Gore coffee table book, "The World Tomorrow: Scenarios of Global Catastrophe" by Yannick Monget. On the jacket, the author is described as "the founder and chief representative of the Ankaa Group, an organization dedicated to conceiving and developing ambitious projects for the environmental protection of Europe." If that weren't enough of a contribution to mankind, we are told Monget "has written several volumes of socially committed science fiction in France" - which didn't sell nearly as well as Gore's several volumes of socially committed science fiction, including "The Earth In Balance" and "The Assault on Reason." "The World Tomorrow" is a lavishly illustrated book that stunningly depicts ecological end-times in familiar settings. (07/31/07)

Watch for the coming flood of global warming litigation - By Stephen M. Bainbridge, The Examiner - Washington, D.C. -- Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that the climate change phenomenon commonly called "global warming" exists and is being caused, at least in part, by human activity. Who is responsible? The only sensible answer is, everybody. We all contribute to the release of greenhouse gasses, as did our ancestors going back at least to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. One would therefore think litigation is no more an appropriate response to global warming than litigation would be to any so-called "act of god." One would be wrong. Earlier this year, Texas trial lawyer Stephen Susman told the Dallas Morning News that "You're going to see some really serious exposure on the part of companies that are emitting CO2." He added, for good measure, that "I can't say for sure it's going to be as big as the tobacco settlements, but then again it may even be bigger." (07/31/07)

Cause of global warming is still undecided - By Dick Little - Global warming, which is often a subject here, is a difficult issue because of its complexity. It has been "politicized" and politics and science do not mix. In science, one and one equals two, but in politics one and one equals whatever makes you feel good. Most scientists approach issues with an open mind. They seek the truth regardless of where that truth can be found. There is no "liberal truth," or "conservative truth" in science. It's either right or it's wrong. When politicians glom onto science, science gets distorted because politicians are "spin masters," and real scientists seek to find the truth through such tools as research, calculations. (07/31/07)

Moonbeam update
Global Warming Target Shifts from Tailpipes to Roads
- By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer - In the debate about how to fight global warming, a primary focus has been on ways to reduce carbon dioxide spewed from cars' tailpipes -- a major contributor to the greenhouse effect. But as the San Diego region looks to build new roads to accommodate a million more residents expected by 2030, state Attorney General Jerry Brown is trying to expand the fight. (07/31/07)

New Zealand Farmers Global Warming Heroes - Food miles is a false argument and instead of being blamed for New Zealand's high emissions New Zealand farmers should be recognised as global warming heroes, says Frank Brenmuhl of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. (07/31/07)

More green terror...
Environmentalists Push, but Home Depot Refuses to Drop Ads on Fox News - By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN - Activists are urging Home Depot, which recently unveiled an environmentally conscious marketing program, to withdraw advertising from Fox News, whose hosts and commentators dismiss global warming as liberal hysteria. But Home Depot is unswayed, and the environmentalists appear to be doing something they generally discourage: wasting energy. (07/30/07)

Today's Know-Nothings - By Gary Bauer - Consider global warming and the recent Live Earth concerts. Introducing Al Gore in New York, actor Leonardo DiCaprio claimed that "a consensus has emerged in our scientific community that global warming is... a crisis with truly global implications." In a statement about the event, Sen. Hillary Clinton cited the alleged source of the supposed crisis, saying, "The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming: We are causing the planet to warm, with potentially devastating consequences to ourselves and our children." Of course, the notion that there is scientific unanimity on global warming - not only about its existence and exigency but also the precise magnitude of the human impact - is hardly new. (07/30/07)

Water experts find Earth's warming, rainfall linked to sun - By Dennis T. Avery - A team of water experts says the pattern of droughts and floods in South Africa shows our global warming was triggered by the variability of the sun's irradiance rather than by human-emitted CO2. They say variations in South African rainfall patterns are keyed to periodic reversals of the sun's magnetic field - and to the constantly changing distance between the sun and the earth as both move through space. In South Africa, alternate 11-year sunspot cycles produce opposite rainfall results. One complete "double sun cycle" occurs every 20.8 years: the "first" cycle brings a big flood, followed by a small drought; the next brings a big drought, followed by a small flood. Lead author Will Alexander used the double sunspot cycle to publicly predict the end of major South African droughts in both 1995 and 2006. He notes that South African droughts have often been broken at 11-year intervals by severe floods associated with sunspot maxima - as in 1822, 1841, 1863, 1874 and 1885. The research summary appears in the June 2007 issue of the Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering. (07/30/07)

USAToday Reports More Bluster on Hurricanes, Global Warming - By Ken Shepherd - The 1800s wrought mass industrialization and technological marvels. Weather satellites, obviously, were not one of them. But that point didn't bear repeating until deep in Dan Vergano's July 30 article, "Study links more hurricanes, climate change." (07/30/07)

When fear (about everything) lurks around every corner
- By Dennis Byrne - I'm done. I'm alarmed out. Alarm numbness has set in. There's no escaping the alarms about our lives, nation, globe and universe. The number of alarms issued by experts, politicians and media has become, well, alarming. Everywhere we turn, we're greeted with more "alarming" news. NBC's evening news guy Brian Williams, for one, can't seem to get through a single show without once saying, "In alarming news, ..." (07/30/07)

Global cooler - By Bill Steigerwald - Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg (Knopf) "Cool It" is not the first book Denmark's Bjorn Lomborg has written about global warming. Lomborg's heretical 2001 best-seller, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," drew a firestorm of nasty criticism and unveiled hatred from environmentalists and the global warming crowd because it said most of the bad effects of climate change have been grossly exaggerated. Named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2004, Lomborg -- a statistician by training -- believes global warming is occurring. But he also believes we should approach the problem rationally -- which means not wasting all our energy and resources today on global warming's long-run effects when there are more-pressing human-killing problems like malaria and malnutrition we should be addressing. (07/29/07)

In the eye of the storm over global warming - Lawrence Solomon - He's called the world's most famous hurricane expert, not because he likes to fly into hurricanes to experience them up close -- which he does -- but because of what he's learned from them, up there, buffeted by the fury of nature. William Gray has developed an intuitive sense when it comes to understanding the atmosphere in its infinite complexity. This intuition rooted in experience allowed him to pioneer the science of hurricane forecasting more than two decades ago, and subsequently to practice his craft with an unprecedented precision that he keeps refining year after year. He and his colleagues have now reached a 95% accuracy rate in predicting the number of major storms and hurricanes that will occur next season. Insurance companies set their premiums, and government emergency-preparedness authorities set their budgets, on the basis of his pioneering work. How has Dr. Gray adapted his methods of prediction in light of global warming, to maintain his accuracy rate? He hasn't. Dr. Gray views recent climate-change science as meaningless "mush," the product of simplistic computer models that crudely track a handful of factors and ignore the myriad others that influence the weather. (07/29/07)

PRO-CON: IS GLOBAL WARMING CAUSE FOR BRITISH FLOODING? - If the recent torrent of water was not bad enough, the surge of ignorant speculation as to its causes has added to the misery of the season. Numerous commentators and supposed "experts" have asserted that the flooding is proof of global warming. (07/28/07)

Global warming is nature's doing - By Frank Britton - IN the 1970s, some climatologists warned the world about global cooling. Now it's global warming. Then it was particulates in the air blocking the sun; now it's carbon dioxide forming a greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is now presented as the most dangerous greenhouse gas in the Earth's atmosphere, the primary cause of global warming. Some even call it a pollutant. With my education in physics and chemistry, I'd like to shed some light on this issue. CO2 makes a very small contribution to the Earth's temperature. It is only 0.039 percent of the atmosphere. Nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor and argon comprise more than 99 percent of the atmosphere. Furthermore, carbon dioxide is not a particularly effective greenhouse gas. Out of the wide spectrum of radiation received from the sun, CO2 only absorbs energy from three very narrow levels. (07/28/07)

ACORE's Eckhart attempts to downplay e-mail threat.
Global Warming War: Is Threatening E-Mail Tip of the Iceberg? - By Noel Sheppard - The war over climate change got much hotter Friday, so much so that anthropogenic global warming skeptics who have claimed that there is a huge number of scientists staying silent about this issue to protect their careers may have been validated. As NewsBusters previously reported, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen Johnson, was apprised by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) during a Senate hearing Thursday of a threatening e-mail message sent to a climate change analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. On Friday, the e-mail sender, Michael T. Eckhart, President of the American Council on Renewable Energy, responded by letter to Inhofe. Much of the letter's content was similar to what Eckhart's representative Tom Weirich sent me by e-mail Friday morning, and to what Eckhart e-mailed me himself Friday afternoon: PDF (07/28/07)

Serving Caterpillar at the Global Warming Table - By Tom Borelli - As global warming legislation heats up this summer, one of the more frightening developments for free-market and limited government advocates is the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) - a coalition of corporations and environmental activists. After years of adversarial and contentious relationships, some of the largest corporations are now collaborating with their former foes in pursuit of global warming regulations. The combination of financial, lobbying and grassroots advocacy represents a potentially overwhelming political force. Corporate support for global warming regulations may very well tip the lobbying balance in favor of laws that essentially gives the federal government the power to set energy prices at a great cost to our standard of living and liberty. (07/28/07)

Al Gore Gives More Reasons For Global Warming - Al Gore, whose award winning movie "In Inconvenient Half-Truth," brought the condition known as global warming into the forefront of everyday conversation, is expanding his list. Gore and his team of scientists have listed several other reasons and causes for controversial scientific phenomenon. (07/28/07)

Who is policing Carbon Cops? - By Michael Duffy - Imagine the scandal if ABC TV ran a series promoting a controversial point of view that was partly funded by an advocacy organisation. We'd never hear the end of it, would we? Well, it all depends on the point of view. This is what the ABC is doing with its Tuesday night prime-time series Carbon Cops. This is a politically correct version of a home makeover program, where the presenters turn up and tell you the planet is doomed unless you change your house and your lifestyle. Carbon Cops is produced in association with the ABC by FremantleMedia and December Films. December Films received $350,000 towards the series from Sustainability Victoria. This is a state government agency involved in advocacy and action, whose website claims: "Everything we do is dedicated to changing the way Victorians supply and use resources." (07/28/07)

Global Warming Foes Trade Barbs Over Threatening E-mail Message - By Noel Sheppard - Well, sports fans, the tale of the threatening global warming e-mail message took an interesting turn Friday morning when a representative from the American Council on Renewable Energy sent a message to yours truly containing a response from ACORE President Michael T. Eckhart. As NewsBusters reported here and here, Eckhart sent the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Dr. Marlo Lewis an e-mail message on July 13 threatening to ruin his career as a result of their differences over whether man is responsible for warming the planet. (07/27/07)

It must have been a slow day for Soros-funded Media Matters. Bill O'Rielly had the day off so they found the following article in the Washington Post. Obviously, they realize Fred Thompson is gaining traction among Republicans. His common sense approach to government is why I've been supporting his candidacy since January of this year. This is just another example.
Wash. Post's Solomon uncritically quoted Thompson "mocking global warming" - In a July 27 Washington Post article on presumptive Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson displaying his "conservative credentials" through his online writings, staff writer John Solomon wrote, "Thompson seems to have taken particular pleasure in mocking global warming" in commentaries he posted on National Review Online (NRO). Solomon quoted Thompson's March 22 NRO entry, which said, "It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto," and continued, "This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle." But missing from Solomon's report was any indication that Thompson's claim -- that warming on other planets is evidence that warming on Earth is the result of natural circumstances, and not largely caused by humans -- is one, according to a scientist interviewed in National Geographic about the theory, that is "completely at odds with the mainstream scientific opinion." (07/27/07)

New View of Global Warming: Hoax or Herding? - Bob Prechter discussed how social herding seems to be leading to social hysteria over global warming in his June Elliott Wave Theorist. That article brought cries of outrage from some readers. As he puts it in his July Theorist: "Because my interest lay in the herding phenomenon, I gave short shrift to the scientific case for man-made global warming...." Bob goes on to revisit his discussion to clear up any misconceptions. If you care about global warming - one way or the other - you will be interested to read his explanation of why mass fears often prove to be unfounded. (07/27/07)

Another Gore Miracle: Turning the Gulf of Mexico Green - By Fulton Lewis - Now, we discover that, thanks to increased ethanol production, something else is turning "Green" -- the Gulf of Mexico. A huge 8,543-square-mile dead zone, roughly the size of New Jersey, is growing off the coast of Mississippi and Louisiana. It is the result of a huge algae growth, fueled by nutrients flushed from the farmlands in the Midwest watershed.
These feed enormous soupy green algae blooms that suck oxygen from the water, suffocating any fish, shrimp or mollusks that become trapped in that area. As the algae die, the mass of cells sink to the seafloor, bacteria break down the organic matter consuming most of the oxygen at that level which, in turn, suffocates sea stars, corals, snails and other shellfish. What has caused this sudden ecological catastrophe? The culprit is believed to be the sharp increase in ethanol production in the Midwest -- 19% more corn in 2007 than in 2006. (07/27/07)

China exporting pollution: Made-in-China massive air pollution ignored by global warming gurus Al Gore & Maurice Strong - By Judi McLeod - You'll never hear this from global warming guru Al Gore and Canadian sidekick Maurice Strong: Massive dust plumes from China fouling air breathed in North America, are causing dramatic changes in climate. China, in the proverbial doghouse for exporting tainted food for humans and pets, is also sending pollution of nightmare proportions through the air that we breathe. (07/27/07)

The terrorism of politics - Classically Liberal - Apparently global warming is cholera and nuclear power is the plague. Of course, the Left never uses hyperbole. Just ask them. (07/27/07)

Soggy excuse for global warming - By Andrew Bolt - HOW handy global warming is for the battling politician. Take Britain's new and nervous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. He's got thousands of British houses now drowning in flood water, with soggy citizens ready to make someone pay. These furious voters could, for instance, ask their politicians why they let so many houses be built on old flood plains. They might demand to know why the country's Environment Agency was so slack in maintaining flood defences. And they certainly are bitching about the Government's slow rescue efforts. So how does Brown escape? He blames global warming: "Obviously, like every advanced industrial country, we're coming to terms with some of the issues surrounding climate change." Brilliant! From potential scapegoat to noble prophet. (07/27/07)

Analogy based in stupidity, and maybe some Guinness...
Time, tide - and global warming, wait for no man - It is a warm, sunny day. My two young children (I am pregnant with the third) are playing on a beautiful beach in Dingle, Ireland. Buckets and spades at the ready, the five-year-old has, with a little help from his wee sister, managed to dig a large, deep hole. They are now playing in it. But they have no real understanding of inexorable nature of tides - and the tide is coming in. Eventually, of course, the first tentative wave to reach them brings a trickle of water into the hole. Startled, they jump up. Action has to be taken. Buckets and spades are duly deployed and construction of flood defences starts immediately. (07/27/07)

Global Warming and Falling Ice - What this scientist in Spain's theory is that more turbulence, quote, unquote, generated by climate change can do something like this is just ridiculous. It's fear mongering and it's just pure panic. There's literally no way that ice can form from a clear sky, certainly not this big and it's not going to stay up there long enough to get that big. It just can't. You don't have hailstones that are that big, why is this? All kinds of reasons. Now, the thing that's probably right and the caller agrees to it is, you have these airplanes and you've got leaking lavatories and ice forms on the fuselage outside the airplane and eventually breaks off, and by the time the ice reaches the ground the plane's long gone. So nobody sees the airplane. When it's flying at an altitude 37, 39,000, feet you're not going to hear it, even. So if you're not looking up and you don't see the airplane and all of a sudden -- well, how could you if you're in our house waiting for it to get bombed by a falling blob of ice from an airplane -- you're going to look up there, what's up there? Airplane is long gone. So it becomes a mystery. Of course, guys like this scientist over in Spain try to take advantage of people's fear and ignorance. It's turbulence up there, things are happening that we can't explain, has to be global warming. Roger, thanks much for the phone call. (07/27/07)

EPA to Probe Threatening E-Mail Sent to Global Warming Skeptic - By Noel Sheppard - On July 13, NewsBusters reported that Michael T. Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, sent an e-mail message to Dr. Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute threatening to destroy his career:
"If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity."
During a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday, this matter was brought to the attention of Stephen Johnson, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, as was the shocking revelation that the EPA is a part of ACORE. Presenting this information was Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), who showed and read the following panel of the offensive e-mail message for the record (video available here): (07/26/07)

Floods in China: Where's the Global Warming Connection? - By Pam Meister - In all the stories I've read from major news outlets about the devastating flooding in China, I have yet to see that the floods have been linked to the phenomenon known as man-caused global warming. Meanwhile, recent flooding in Britain has been connected to it on more than one occasion, as Newsbusters has reported. What's the difference? I'm not sure. Could it be due to the fact that China is on the list of "developing" countries that was exempt from pressure to abide by the rules of the Kyoto protocol, even though the country ratified it and now produces the most greenhouse emissions of any other country (including the U.S.)? Or perhaps that China's government isn't likely to bow to pressure in the form of journalistic hype about a topic that is still in the infancy of debate? (07/26/07)

"Arctic Tale" "Documentary" Scripted; Tricks Kids Into Worrying About Global Warming - By Lynn Davidson - Environmentalists are targeting kids and using deception to get their message out. Anthropogenic global warming evangelists and wildlife filmmakers, Sarah Robertson and Adam Ravetch, made the upcoming live action "Arctic Tale" because as Robertson told the LA Times, "Global warming to a lot of people is statistics...What we wanted to do was put a face on climate change." OK, so there's the goal, now how to accomplish it? Adults ask all of those pesky questions, but children's minds are easier to mold and manipulate. During the credits, the filmmakers came right out and showed their cards, using kids to shill for AGW and convince their parents to change their evil habits. (07/26/07)

Global Warming Makes Hurricanes Worse: No! Yes! No! Yes! - By Brandon Keim - Hurricane expert and anthropogenic global warming skeptic William Gray has an opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal...Just something to keep in mind when the next time you're arguing climate change with a skeptic: leave the hurricanes out of it. (07/26/07)

Hurricanes and Hot Air - By WILLIAM M. GRAY - Since 1995, the Atlantic basin has experienced a significant increase in major hurricanes, with 47 major storms in the last 12 years. During the prior 25-year period, 1970 to 1994, there were only 38 major hurricanes, or, on an annual basis, slightly less than 40% as many. On a long period normalized basis, major hurricanes account for about 80% to 85% of all U.S. tropical cyclone-related destruction. Some scientists, journalists and activists see a direct link between the post-1995 upswing in Atlantic hurricanes and global warming brought on by human-induced greenhouse gas increases. This belief, however, is unsupported by long-term Atlantic and global observations. (07/26/07)

Oh no! Get out the tar and feathers! Bring back the Fairness Doctrine! Burn the heretic at the stake!
KCOL guest co-host Herron: "It's a proven fact global warming doesn't exist" - Summary: Discussing the recent debate during which he said Democratic presidential candidates were "all talking about global warming," Fox News Radio 600 KCOL guest co-host Jesse Herron asserted, "It's a proven fact global warming doesn't exist." (07/26/07)

Blog: Official Global Warming Talking Points of the Week:

"Throw out the record books"

It's amazing how this week so many "spokespersons" have used the same line "Throw out the record books" all over the United States. This week the seems to have been chosen as "insert location here" is experiencing (or will be) the hottest temperatures since "insert date here." Here are a few:

Meghan McCloskey of Environment Colorado
Parjanya Rijal of Environment California
Environment California Global Warming Advocate Jason Barbose
Matt Wallace of Environment Iowa
Environmental Texas Director Luke Metzger
Environment Texas Field Associate JJ Karabias
Environment Florida field director Holly Binns
Adam Rivera, Environment Florida
U.S. Public Interest Research Group spokeswoman Carly Melin
U.S. PIRG spokesperson Angela Kilbert
U.S. PIRG spokesman Ruben Henriquez
U.S. PIRG spokesperson Erin Wetherley
U.S. PIRG Federal Global Warming Program Director Emily Figdor
Glen Hooks, the Sierra Club

The above articles all appeared in the last three days and they all contain the same exact quotation:

"Throw out the record books"

This is the mantra being parroted around the country following a bullshit report released Tuesday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The "report" claims to be the results of a study that claims that 2006 was an exceptionably hot year. In the "report" you will find a table that shows 10 cherry-picked locations from the lower 48 states that the authors use to make their case. I find it rather interesting that only ten locations are listed out of thousands in the continental US. Oh, and these are all surface locations that just happen to be located at airports. Anyway, you can read the report for yourself and decide whether or not the results were determined at the time of conception. Your opinion is welcome. (07/26/07)

Global warming warnings create unfounded fear - Phil Gremilion - It seems to me that there is so much information coming out about global warming that it boggles the mind. There is also misinformation being thrown out, too. Accurate statistics have only been kept for three or four generations while the Earth has been here for more than a billion years. It seems to be a little premature to say that, based on the acquired information so far, that we can predict all these dire warnings. (07/26/07)

Juicing down for global warming - Some utilities hope to install "intelligent sockets" that communicate between appliances and the electricity provider. On hot summer days, when electric rates would be raised through "dynamic pricing," those customers who voluntarily give up control of their usage - and it would have be voluntary - would be given rebates. But can such watt-saving steps help save the planet? Yes, if they keep utilities from building more carbon-spewing power plants - especially the expensive kind that rev up only during peak hours. By many estimates, fossil-fuel power plants are likely to be the preferred source of electricity for years to come. As it is, utilities can't keep up with rising demand. One projection shows a 19 percent rise in peak-time electricity usage over the next decade while only a 6 percent growth in power capacity. Something's got to give. And it may be consumer lifestyles. A three-year experiment in California with 2,500 customers showed they reduced their average electricity demand by 13 percent during peak summer hours when they had to pay five times the normal cost. Users with the kind of "smart" thermostats that adjust appliance use cut back by 27 percent. Gee, we needed a three year study to find out that it's possible to price the demand out of electricity??? (07/26/07)

Is the media's global-warming hysteria just a lot of hot air? - The divide between fact and speculation is getting blurred. Recently, the International Herald Tribune carried a story about a heat wave in France that caused multiple deaths. One aspect of the story was particularly remarkable: nowhere did it contain the phrases "global warming" or "climate change." The reason? The story was in the "Looking Back" section, and the heat wave in question happened in the late 1950s. Back then, Al Gore was still in knee pants and a heat wave was just a heat wave. I have no intention of taking on the global scientific community on the issue of global warming. There may be skeptics and speculation, but the vast majority of scientists have lined up on the side of human-influenced climate change. Even if I was of a mind to dispute it, there would be no reason to pay attention, because I'm no scientist. However, I do know something about how media works, and I know that what's happening in the media right now bears little to no relation to what's actually happening in the atmosphere. The media climate has its own rules of heating and cooling, and, right now, global warming is a very hot story. Whether that has anything to do with the temperature of Planet Earth is highly debatable. (07/26/07)

'Early Show' Blames British Flooding on Global Warming - By Justin McCarthy - With any weather related disaster, the mainstream media typically blames it on "global warming." This was no exception on the July 26 edition of "The Early Show." Upon reporting on the flooding in Britain, correspondent Elizabeth Palmer concluded her report blaming the disaster on global warming and predicting more to come. "But most people think that with climate change, flooding like this, or even worse, could become common place here in Britain." As if floods did not occur before the industrial age. CBS followed NBC's "Today" as correspondent Keith Miller blamed the disaster on "global warming." (07/26/07)

NYT Offers Two Glowing Reviews of Kristin Gore's Global Warming Film - By Noel Sheppard - In the past four days, the New York Times published two reviews of "Arctic Tale," a new film about polar bears threatened by - wait for it! - global warming. Makes one wonder whether the need for two reviews versus the normal one was due to the Times's desire to advance alarmism concerning the great, liberal bogeyman of climate change, or that the screenplay was co-written by soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's daughter Kristin. Whatever the reason, both articles were certainly chock-full of scary global warming references like the following from Andrew C. Revkin's piece from Sunday. (07/26/07)

Moonbeam still at it...
Dan Walters: It's Jerry Brown vs. GOP again - By Dan Walters - California's two-thirds vote for state budgets -- it's one of just three states with a supermajority requirement -- provides minority Republicans with virtually their only opportunity to wield real power, and they often use it to pursue agendas that have little or nothing to do with the budget. This year's version of the syndrome is a GOP demand that the Legislature rein in Attorney General Jerry Brown's crusade to force local authorities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as they make land use and transportation decisions. (07/26/07)

Floods, heat hit Europe, but is it global warming? - By Gerard Wynn - LONDON (Reuters) - Computer simulations may soon be able to show how likely it is that extreme weather events such as the floods and heatwaves that swept Europe this week were caused by climate change, scientists say. (07/26/07)

Is something fishy going on? - The weather is a British obsession and with the term "global warming" used to explain every freak climate change from the hottest April on record to the wettest June ever and the disastrous July floods, everyone is suddenly an expert. However, Piers, a former student of Adams Grammar School in Newport and now a long-range weather forecaster for Weather Action in London, remains at odds with the views of international scientists and is sceptical about carbon dioxide as a key driver of climate change. He wants nothing to do with what he describes as "the promotion of hysteria" and says changes in world climate have nothing to do with man, the emissions pumped from the exhaust pipe of his BMW, or the size of his so-called carbon footprint. (07/25/07)

Critic challenges claim that plant would reduce global warming - By Associated Press - WISCASSET, Maine - An environmental critic of a proposed $1.5 billion energy plant that would burn gas extracted from coal challenged claims that the project would boost efforts to curb global warming. "This will be a step backward in our attempts to lower greenhouse gases," Steven Hinchman, staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, said Tuesday night at an informational meeting on the Twin River Energy Center project.
The plant, to be built on the site of the former Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, would use coal and wood biomass to produce electricity and diesel fuel. (07/25/07)

City's temperature heats up -- maybe - By Allison M. Heinrichs - Temperatures in Pittsburgh either have been alarmingly warm for the past several years or are right on track -- depending on how "normal" is defined.
PennEnvironment, a Philadelphia-based environmental group, released a report Tuesday that shows the average temperature in Pittsburgh from 2000 to 2006 rose almost 1 degree, compared to the average of the 30 years prior to that. The temperature this century has averaged 51.8 degrees, compared to 50.9 degrees from 1971 to 2000. The National Weather Service has records of yearly temperatures for Pittsburgh dating to 1872. When the 135-year record is averaged, the result is a norm of 51.8 degrees -- the average temperature PennEnvironment considers alarmingly high. (07/25/07)

Satire: Jack Bauer Gets Global Warming Mission - By Noel Sheppard - With Saturday's revelation that the hit television series "24" has gone carbon neutral, it only seems logical that some episodes next year might involve characters advancing anti-global warming principles or taking green measures to protect the environment. Some have suggested lead character Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, might drive a Toyota Prius, for example. Well, taking the possibilities to a conceivably absurd level for their comedic potential, NB member AGW Heretic has penned a wonderful idea that I certainly hope the good, green folks at Fox will consider for the upcoming season. (07/25/07)

Look what are we doing to our kids.
Miniature travelers learn about effects of global warming - By NICOLE GERRING - Staring at the tall white polar bear, Wesley, Jamilah and Jorge were astounded. Wesley had seen them at zoos, playing on slides and jumping for raw fish. But here, on this icy and cold terrain, the bear just looked frightening. He wasn't fluffy and smiling like polar bears in Coca Cola's Christmas commercials. The ends of his fur were a mess of wet, gray tangles. His claws looked sharp and menacing. Before anyone could make a decision about what to do next, the bear was running toward them. Feeling even smaller than they already were after being miniaturized for the firefly ride, the children crouched together, looking to the fireflies - Lumiere, Noor and Luz - for help. (07/25/07)

Van Horn High School students take part in global warming project - I am concerned that increases in global average temperatures are causing terrible things to happen in many parts of the United States and the world. Yeah, terrible things! Global warming's impacts are somewhat hard for people to understand and even more difficult to adjust to. That's because the science is inconclusive at best. Everyone is learning more about global warming every day, and its effects on the planet. You mean learning that it's a hyped up, overblown non-issue and it's effects are entirely unknown and unpredictable? (07/24/07)

Global warming and England's floods - Are Land Rovers and their ilk really killing the planet? Think again, argues Gavin Green. I have been driving a Land Rover Discovery 3 diesel these past few weeks. It comfortably took my family of five to France, complete with masses of luggage and two bicycles, averaging 26.4mpg in the process. That works out at 132mpg per person. Yet I still received one of those bossy "climate criminal" leaflets under my wipers when I returned to London. I'm to blame for last year's arid summer in Britain and this year's wet one, it seems. The inconsistency of the eco activists and their media mouthpieces is now almost risible. Remember after last year's phew-what-a-scorcher, we were told that we could expect long hot summers and wet mild winters? This was the "disastrous" climate scenario for 21st century Britain. (Not so bad, if you ask me.) (07/24/07)

CBS Evening News Blames British Floods on Global Warming - By Noel Sheppard - It's getting rather predictable, isn't it? Any severe weather event occurs anywhere in the world, and American media will blame it on global warming. Such was certainly the case on the "CBS Evening News" Monday night when correspondent Elizabeth Palmer, doing a report on the greatest floods in England since 1947, stated: "And Britain is going to have to get used to it. Research published today suggests human activity is warming the planet and changing rainfall patterns. Isn't that special?" After all, at roughly the same time on a competing network, NBC's Martin Savidge was telling "Nightly News" viewers the real reason for England's heavy rains: "This May and June were the wettest on record, experts say because of the jetstream that has moved too far south, delivering storm after storm." Savidge should feel comfortable in the knowledge that British meteorologists agree with his assessment. (07/24/07)

Silky's wife: I'll fight global warming by cutting back on tangerines - An absurd statement hides a serious point. Silky insists he doesn't want to tax food but a trade policy that would force businesses to financially "acknowledge" their carbon footprint would have that effect. The further food has to be shipped, the more transportation is involved, the greater the footprint. Hence Mrs. Silky's vow to skip the tropical offerings like the tangerine and stick with the fruit of the local vine henceforth. It's all a question of how much hardcore global warming warriors are willing to personally sacrifice. Carbon ratings on product labels? Eco-houses? Vegetarianism? Vasectomies? When you're finally growing your own, you've reached climate change nirvana. (07/24/07)

Award-winning Sci Fi Author Debunks Global Warming and 'Hockey Stick' Hoaxes - By Noel Sheppard - Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction author who made his first huge step into the political arena on the day before Election Day 2006 when he wrote an op-ed - as a life-long Democrat, mind you - declaring: If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one. Four months later, he wrote a piece for the Greensboro, North Carolina, paper he's been writing for since shortly after the attacks on 9/11 - The Rhinoceros Times - that largely slipped under the radar until Meridian magazine republished it this month (h/t Tim Ball). In his own inimitable style, Card meticulously debunked the infamous "Hockey Stick Hoax" that much of global warming alarmism is based on, and, after doing so, concluded: "What matters right here and now is that it is time for the world's scientists to apostatize from the Church of Global Warming. It is a false religion. It is based on lies, and its leading prophets know that it is because they're the ones faking the data or stretching it to ridiculous lengths to pretend that the real world hasn't already ruled against their claims. It is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data." (07/24/07)

New doubt about Arnold's shade of green - By Thomas Elias - Southern California Focus - National magazines in recent weeks have made Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a cover boy symbol for a worldwide battle against greenhouse gases and global warming. He's traveled the globe, meeting with presidents, prime ministers, provincial governors and premiers to promote carbon emission exchanges and credits, all part of an effort to remove as much carbon dioxide (CO2) and other warming gases from the atmosphere. All the while, here at home he was trying to eliminate a 42-year-old program that removes at least 1.75 million tons of CO2 from the air every year at a relatively small cost to the state and no cost to businesses. (07/24/07)

Climate change crystal ball clouds over - By Mark S. Lawson - One of the main clubs with which the very vocal pro-greenhouse camp repeatedly beat their opponents is the assertion that there is a "consensus" of scientific opinion that temperatures are set to increase dramatically in coming decades. This club is wielded again and again in response to almost every counter argument. Pro-greenhousers repeatedly state that "every scientist" agrees or that there is a "steady accumulation of scientific evidence" in favour of warming, and so on. Some of this is due to public confusion over the object of the debate. There is no doubt that temperatures have increased by about a degree or so since 1860, but greenhousers seem to be arguing as if the sceptics are questioning that basic point. In fact, the sceptics are usually questioning the value of the temperature forecasts made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is most certainly up for debate. (07/24/07)

Watts' research trumps junk science - By Dick Little - Anthony Watts has been doing weather forecasting in Chico for more years than most of us can remember. He's also a foe of the "climate change hysteria" that is sweeping the country as are most climatologists.
Watts is constantly checking the science behind the global warming hysteria (my word, not his) and has found what he terms "flaws" in the system used to checks our temperatures nation wide. (07/24/07)

Slowing Global Warming by Enhancing the Natural Sulfur Cycle - Scientists have proposed a limited iron fertilization of the Southern Ocean as a means to stimulate the natural sulfur cycle associated with marine phytoplankton. This could result in increased cloud reflectivity that would slow down global warming and possible decrease sea level rise. (07/24/07)

Yawn
Groups: Global warming to blame for weather - By TOM HARRIS - According to the group Environment Texas, global warming may be to blame. The group says it could also be causing the widespread flooding the Austin area is seeing this summer. (07/24/07)

Here we go again with the alarmist headline...
Britain under water: A 21st century catastrophe - By Michael McCarthy- And look, it's written by the same hack that only yesterday wrote this!
Flood-ravaged Britain is suffering from a wholly new type of civil emergency, it is clear today: a disaster caused by 21st-century weather...
But, in paragraph six... No one can yet attribute the flood events of the past week, or indeed, those of June, when Yorkshire suffered what Gloucestershire and Worcestershire are suffering now - again from one single day's rainfall - directly to global warming. All climates have a natural variability which includes exceptional occurrences. (07/24/07)

A lame attempt to defend an idioc environmental law that prohibits residents from clearing their property of dead brush?
WEBCAST: Global warming boosted by Lake Tahoe fire - "It doesn't matter how well you prepare for the defense of your home, if you live next to a national forest, the odds are that if it burns your house if going to burn," he says. Mr. Bonnicksen says that's because the usual practice of clearing vegetation from the ground around a structure does not account for firebrands - the flaming pieces of wood spewed for miles by an intense fire. "The sky was literally raining burning debris" during the Lake Tahoe fire, he says. But the bottom line is that some residents' homes were spared because they ignored the law and cleared the brush away from their homes, despite the idiotic law that prohibits it! (07/24/07)

Corzine's global warming initiatives just smoke and mirrors - BY STEVEN LONEGAN - There are clearly feel-good political points to be gained on the global warming issue, but what effect can the New Jersey state government actually have on global climate change? Consider the ambitious Kyoto Protocol, which seeks significant worldwide cuts in emissions. The National Center for Atmospheric Research estimates of lower global temperatures with full implementation of Kyoto are so negligible it would never justify the economic costs. If the United States cannot make a material impact on climate change, it's the height of folly to think a single state, New Jersey, can. Even if all industry ceased to exist in New Jersey, and the state never emitted another molecule of carbon dioxide, the effect on global climate would be meaningless. This is all about symbolism, of course, and Corzine and Gore hope to set an example for other states and countries, they say. Unfortunately, that symbolism will cost many New Jersey workers and entrepreneurs their livelihood. New Jersey has lost 8,000 private sector jobs in seven years, and this "politically correct" feel-good nonsense will accelerate that sorry trend. (07/24/07)

Global warming talk heats up - Sportsmen check in on how conservation will impact great outdoors. - By Christian Berg - ''On every subject you can think of, there are people on the other side of the issue,'' Perry said. ''There are people who still claim the Holocaust doesn't exist. So, it's not surprising that people are still wondering if [global warming] is happening or not, and I think it's mostly due to the fact they are unfamiliar with the science.'' Personally, I think it's mostly due to the fact that some people know bullshit when they smell it. (07/24/07)

British teach less Churchill, more global warming - Starting next year British teenagers will face an exotic range of new disciplines designed to equip them with more practical skills. - By Mark Rice-Oxley - Once upon a time, the British curriculum was straightforward. There was math, English, science. You learned about Winston Churchill, how to locate Greece, and how to say "My name is John" in French. But starting next year British teenagers will face an exotic range of new disciplines designed to equip them with more practical skills. Healthy cooking, personal finances, and global warming are in. Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and the Battle of the Nile may be nudged out. (07/24/07)

More absurdity
We need fewer people to halt global warming - Charles Clover meets the new head of the Science Museum and hears his controversial views on tackling global warming. Beware of increased noise next time you visit the Science Museum, temple to scientific reason since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Its new director is a confidant of Al Gore's, with a lifetime belief that if you have a big story to tell you should "tell it with a megaphone." It was two years ago, at the Government's conference on climate change in Exeter, that Rapley declared that Antarctica was now "a giant awakened" - in other words, the melting of suspended ice that could eventually raise global sea levels by five metres had, in a small way, begun. (07/24/07)

Global Warming Got You Down? Try Zegna's Solar-Powered Jacket - By Sara Gay Forden - For the truly "green" conscious, Ermenegildo Zegna SpA, known for its luxury men's suits, presented a sporty jacket with solar panels on the collar that can recharge a mobile phone or an iPod. The $750 coat, something James Bond might be proud to wear, will be in stores in November. Why would one assume that James Bond is green global warming zealot? Because 007 is a hero, famous for saving the world from imaginay villians...just like Al Gore. (07/24/07)

Australian prof a world-class skeptic on global warming - By Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post - Bob Carter, a professor at James Cook University (Queensland) and the University of Adelaide (South Australia), is a paleontologist, a stratigrapher, and a marine geologist. He has been chair of the National Marine Science and Technologies Committee, director of the Australian office of the Ocean Drilling Program, and chair of the Earth sciences discipline panel of the Australian Research Council. He is Cambridge-educated. He has published more than 100 papers in international science journals. And he is an outspoken global-warming skeptic. (07/23/07)

DDT And Global Swarming - Jul. 23, 2007 (Investor's Business Daily) -- Disease Control: The Los Angeles Times hypes an alleged link between global warming and a rise in malaria in parts of Africa. It so happens those areas don't use a cure that the Times doesn't mention -- DDT. Last time we checked, mosquitoes -- not sports utility vehicles -- spread malaria. But Times staff writer Edmund Sanders made that linkage last Saturday, when rising malaria rates in parts of Kenya were attributed to higher temperatures and those temperatures to the carbon emissions of the U.S., among other countries. In Kenya's western highlands, Sanders wrote, "maximum annual temperatures over the last 20 years are up about 1.8 degrees." This has caused the "emergence of malaria" in towns like Thangathi, which Sanders calls "one of the new fronts in the global struggle with a changing climate." Industrialized nations, "including the United States," account for "the vast majority of carbon emissions," we are told, while "poorer countries, particularly in Africa, are the most vulnerable to its effects." Get it? Every time you drive your SUV to Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) , you're spreading malaria in Kenya. (07/23/07)

Fight Global Warming, Eat Pizza! - Free food AND fighting global warming??? It's true. Right now students all over the country are joining the effort to ReEnergizeUS by helping with recruitment for marches happening August 1-5 in New Hampshire and Iowa. Over 30 students have dedicated their summer to organizing across these two states and building towards the Marches to ReEnergizeUS. The goal is to raise the profile of global warming solutions in the national public debate by capitalizing on all the public attention focused on these two early primary/caucus states. We're demanding our leaders at all levels take immediate action to reduce emissions 80% by 2050 by building a clean energy economy that would create 2 million new jobs for Americans. (07/23/07)

CNN's O'Brien Insists Global Warming Debate Is Over - By Brad Wilmouth - On the Friday July 20 The Situation Room on CNN, substitute anchor Miles O'Brien insisted that, regarding the role of carbon emissions in global warming, "the scientific debate is over," as he lectured former Republican Congressman J.C. Watts on the subject. In response to Watts' contention that "I don't believe the Earth is melting because of carbon emissions," O'Brien responded: "Well, you're not paying attention to the science, J.C. You're definitely not paying attention. ... The scientific debate is over, J.C., we're done." (Transcript follows) (07/23/07)

Global Warming Cloud Controversies & Al Gore - Al Gore says that clouds are growing more important in scientific studies of global warming. Speaking at a conference last week, Gore discussed reports from several scientific journals on the varying roles played by clouds in climate change models. Drifting between his roles as a politician and a Hollywood mogul, the former Vice President is working to keep scientists from fighting over their results in the hope they can work together. (07/23/07)

Global warming much overblown - In the 1960s, our concern was global cooling. But it did not happen. Now we are going in the other direction. In the 1970s, our concern was a worldwide food shortage. But it did not happen. Now we are using food as a gasoline substitute. Now our concern is global warming. This, too, shall pass. (07/23/07)

A lunatic crop of laws for global warming - By Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph - The cool wet summer of 2007 may be looked back on as the moment when global warming finally got serious: in two respects. First, we are beginning to see the scarcely credible costs of the legislation our politicians are dishing out, supposedly to change the world's climate. At the same time, the latest climate data themselves begin to raise some rather serious question marks over the scientific basis for that legislation. (07/23/07)

Fear and global warming - Last Friday on the local Con Man radio show the subject of global warming was discussed. A caller stated that global warming is not all mankind's fault. The Con Man responded something like all causes are not relevant to the discussion because global warming is a fact and mankind must do its part to stop the destruction and everyone should stop wasting time arguing the causes. In more specific terms, all the facts are not needed to frame a course of action; only the facts that our side determines are relevant. This line of reasoning is followed by many in the ecological movement. It should make everyone wonder what is the real agenda? (07/23/07)

More indoctrination from Vermont Lefty: God is a woman; but she's not qualified to be an office manager.
Cabaret teaches youngsters about global warming - As a playwright, actor, director, puppeteer and teacher, Wes Sanders, 65, of South Burlington has spent a lifetime translating serious social and political issues into entertaining musical theater. His recent work, "Beat the Heat," presents the issues around global warming in cabaret-style -- touching on all of the arguments with humor, songs, dances, even a huge puppet dinosaur skeleton.. "I want 'Beat the Heat' to be an infusion of inspiration and energy for people on the cusp of taking action," Sanders says, "but taking technical material and making it entertaining is difficult." The cabaret, directed toward fourth- through sixth-graders, is intended to be start of an educational discussion about global warming for teachers and students. This from a guy who... presided over productions that focused on the nuclear arms race, the sanctuary movement, and Columbus' discovery of America -- from the point of view of the Indians. (07/23/07)

The sky is falling! Dishonest headline?
England under water: scientists confirm global warming link to increased rain - By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor Hack - It's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity. Really? More intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming, the study has established for the first time ­ an effect which has long been predicted but never before proved...
But you have to get all the way down to paragraph 11...
The new study, carried out jointly by several national climate research institutes using their supercomputer climate models, including the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office, does not prove that any one event, including the rain of the past few days in Britain, is climate-change related. (07/23/07)

'Today' Blames Flooding in Britain on Global Warming - By Geoffrey Dickens - The ever present boogeyman that, in the media's eyes, is global warming, reared its ugly head again today. Reporting from England on the rising flood waters there, NBC's Keith Miller, on this morning's Today show, offered the following observation: Keith Miller: "The damage from the flood waters is already estimated to be more than $100 million. Roads are out, the electricity supply has failed and the water supply is now contaminated. The people of Britain are all asking the same question today, could this be global warming?" (07/23/07)

Shocking news: Britain's a wet country - By Paul Simons - What on earth is going on with our weather? Three months' worth of rain fell in a few places last week, Britain is drowning under floods of biblical proportions and nothing like it has been seen since Noah got his sea legs. In a wave of hysteria, the cry goes out for millions of sandbags, better drains and more flood defences. And fingers of blame are pointing at global warming. But a simple fact has been overlooked: Britain is a wet country. (07/23/07)

More inconvenient propaganda...
'Artic Tale': Global warming goes family friendly - By Andrew C. Revkin - NEW YORK: There is something unnerving about watching a polar bear stalk across floating sea ice in the Arctic and doing so from the frigid waters directly beneath the bear, the world's largest four-legged predator. Overhead, through ice so thin that it is transparent, plate-size paws set down, one after the other, as the half-ton animal pursues its prey. Gripping moments like this abound in "Arctic Tale," a new film exploring challenges facing polar bears and walruses, two familiar denizens of the icy, but warming, seas at the top of the world. But "Arctic Tale" is not a typical addition to a lengthening line of somber documentaries on dangerous or endangered wildlife. Sure it is. (07/23/07)

It's the sun, stupid! - By Bill Steigerwald - Go outside at noon on a cloudless day. Hold up your arm with your palm perpendicular to the blinding bright spot high in the sky. Feel the heat on your hand? It's coming from 93 million miles away. Yet it's so powerful it'll eventually burn your flesh. Even filtered by our atmosphere, even after traveling eight minutes at the speed of light, sunshine is so full of energy it can create life on Earth, turn water to gas and melt polar ice. But the sun can't cause global warming. (07/22/07)

Linear thinking in a political spin - Partisan reasoning oversimplifies complex issues - By Richard Fabrizio - I'm back from vacation and I need to clear the (hot) air (conditioning) comment in my last column before I headed off on that much-needed respite. Protecting our open spaces is just one example of how we can help cool the planet and keep Earth healthy. But, all of this doesn't change the fact there is hypocrisy in the global warming movement. See Al Gore's $1,600 a month electricity bill - it's not just a mean-spirited GOP spin tactic. Worrying about how much petroleum Gore sucks up gallivanting around the globe doesn't mean I like to run the home air conditioner with the windows open while I'm outside burning plastic in the fire pit using gasoline. By the way, I know a staunch Democrat who actually does run the air conditioner with the windows open. (07/22/07)

Global warming? No, just an old-style British summer - By JOHN KETTLEY - This year's apparently extraordinary weather is no more sinister than a typical British summer of old and a reminder of why Mediterranean holidays first became so attractive to us more than 40 years ago. Because, while we are being drenched, a heatwave has brought temperatures of 40C (104F) or more across other parts of Europe. To many people the disparity may seem to indicate some seismic and sinister shift in our climate. In fact, temperatures are exceptional only in eastern Europe, where a band of air has been moving westwards from Asia Minor. Central Europe is experiencing temperatures of 30-35C (85-95F) - just what you'd expect for this time of year, along with the blue skies and light winds. The weather patterns across Europe are all linked in such a way that the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean never enjoy, or suffer, the same weather at the same time. And now we are feeling the full force of two extreme fronts from the West and East that are usually modified by a third from the South. (07/22/07)

"24" Star Sutherland: "Global Warming Is A Crime For Which We Are All Guilty!" - By Noel Sheppard - UPDATE: Woman to be President in Episode Seven - Remember all that media chatter in January about the hit TV series "24" being conservative? Well, likely to the applause of Jack Bauer's green fans, the producers announced the following Saturday: "24," the Emmy Award-winning series from Imagine and Twentieth Century Fox Television, will strive to become the first television production ever to save enough energy and reduce enough carbon emissions over the course of a season to render its entire season finale "carbon neutral." Star Kiefer Sutherland has already filmed a public service annoucement which begins: "Global warming is a crime for which we are all guilty!" Think that will put to rest all the "24" is conservative nonsense? No, I don't either. (07/21/07)

Readers Sound Off on Al Gore and global warming - Do you think Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness about global warming -- most recently through the Live Earth concerts -- is having an impact? Are his arguments valid ones? Do you think Gore should run for president? Do you think he'd make an effective president? Anyone who believes the likes of Al Gore or Michael Moore is a total idiot. Global warming is not real. It is about politics and power and control. Do what Gore wants done, along with passing Hillary's socialist health care if, God forbid, she becomes president, then this country, what little remains of it, will be finished. (07/21/07)

Global Warming Theories Fizzle, New Studies Show - Claims of alarming changes in nature because of global warming are being discredited. Results of two new studies of historical hurricane patterns add to a growing body of research that discredits global warming alarmism, said James M. Taylor, an environmental policy senior fellow at The Heartland Institute. Reports on the studies were carried in the June 7 issue of Nature but largely have been ignored or overlooked by most news reporting services. In that report scientists documented their reconstruction of Atlantic Ocean hurricane activity back 270 years. Compared with historical norms, the research found the 1970s and 1980s were periods of "anomalously low" hurricane activity compared with historical norms. The higher frequency and intensity of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes since then is not an unnatural surge of destruction due to global warming, the researchers said, but merely "a recovery to normal hurricane activity ..." (07/21/07)

You don't need a whole article to explain this. Crist is a moron. He bought the IPCC bullshit back in February.
How Gov. Crist became Gov. Climate - Chalk it up to old friends and some help from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. - By CRAIG PITTMAN and DAVID ADAMS - Just six months after taking office, Gov. Charlie Crist has leaped to the forefront of an issue his predecessors rarely mentioned: global warming. (07/21/07)

Global warming will take care of war - The George Bush-Dick Cheney secret plan for winning the Iraq war - and their best chance to do it - should now be obvious to anyone who stands back from the withered American trees to see the dying international forests: They intend to globally warm the Taliban to death. Osama bin Laden and the insurgents will finally be defeated by heat stroke and carbon poisoning. - Donald Charnetski, Grinnell. (07/21/07)

Global warming in 1907 - By Henry Lamb - It is widely agreed that the global mean temperature has increased .07 degree C. over the last century. It is also widely agreed that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from about 280 parts per million, or ppm, to nearly 380. And there is general agreement that at least some, if not most, of the increase in atmospheric carbon is the result of humans burning fossil fuels. Here's where the agreement ends. One side - Al Gore and the global warming doomsayers - contend the warming is the result of the increase in carbon dioxide. The other side contends the warming is consistent with past natural climate variations and that the human-caused increase in atmospheric carbon has little or nothing to do with the increase in global temperature. (07/21/07)

"Funny Weather," the latest work of art on global warming - ASLI SAGLAM - All articles, news and manifestations on global warming are now a part of our lives. Although it is not clear if anyone is taking action, the weather is getting weirder each day. Now there is a new comic book published in Turkey to mark what's going on, to put a smile on people's faces and to teach them important things about global warming. The book "Funny Weather," written and drawn by British caricaturist Kate Evans, is one of a kind...In just one month 170,000 people petitioned for Turkey to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Madra says that it was mostly young people that signed the petition. Gee, ya think? (07/21/07)

Fighting Global Warming the Liberal Way - By Wayne Winegarden - Concerns about global warming, and its potentially devastating impact on the planet, has caught Congress' attention. Global warming may well be serious, but so are the consequences from combating global warming. The economic costs of reducing carbon emissions are by no means trivial and therefore it's not enough for policymakers to simply press forward in the name of global warming and ignore the economic consequences of the various plans. What we can say with a high degree of certainty is (1) A cap and trade policy is inappropriate and (2) that a higher overall tax rate on carbon emissions per se will have a devastatingly negative impact on the long term growth of America and the world. Poverty, despair, and suffering will expand exponentially. - Cap and trade regulations cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, sub-divide the cap into smaller parts (or emissions allowances aka rationing coupons), and distribute the emissions allowances to businesses that emit GHGs. Those companies that wish to emit GHGs beyond their specific allowances could purchase the right to do. Cap and trade regulations are nothing more than tax increases in disguise. (07/21/07)

Letter: Article ignored global warming - I found troubling that Tuesday's cover story on our current heat wave made no mention whatsoever of global warming or that human burning of fossil fuels is partly to blame. That's because it doesn't stupid. (07/21/07)

Mr. Back-to-Earth - Rep. John Dingell, Michigan Democrat and chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is the best Democratic advocate for global-warming realism in the Democratic 110th Congress. With House fuel-economy legislation negotiations entering the final stage, he's trying to start a serious debate, which is more than the global-warming hotspurs on the left want. They prefer scorn for dissenters. (07/21/07)

Insanity squared
A sunshade for the planet - David L. Chandler - EVEN with the best will in the world, reducing our carbon emissions is not going to prevent global warming. It has become clear that even if we take the most drastic measures to curb emissions, the uncertainties in our climate models still leave open the possibility of extreme warming and rises in sea level. At the same time, resistance by governments and special interest groups makes it quite possible that the actions advocated by climate scientists might not be implemented soon enough. (07/21/07)

Up against the warming zealots - Martin Durkin says his British documentary rejecting the idea of human-caused global warming has survived last week's roasting by the ABC. WHEN I agreed to make The Great Global Warming Swindle, I was warned a middle-class fatwa would be placed on my head. So I wasn't shocked that the film was attacked on the same night it was broadcast on ABC television last week, although I was impressed at the vehemence of the attack. I was more surprised, and delighted, by the response of the Australian public. The ABC studio assault, led by Tony Jones, was so vitriolic it appears to have backfired. We have been inundated with messages of support, and the ABC, I am told, has been flooded with complaints. I have been trying to understand why. (07/21/07)

How Hot Is Global Warming? A Review of the Polls - By Karlyn Bowman - In the run-up to Earth Day each year, pollsters take the public's temperature on a variety of environmental issues. This year, pollsters added many new questions on global warming. Their findings provide some clues about how Americans see the problem and what they are willing to do about it. Is global warming emerging as a potent issue, much like the environment did four decades ago? To read the headlines this spring and summer, one would think that the answer is a resounding yes. But a careful review of public opinion data suggests that while the public is warming up to global warming, it is not yet a top-tier concern. To understand the polls on global warming, it is helpful to review current polling on the environment. (07/20/07)

On backseat drivers' urban legends - Johnny D. Symon - Where is this ever changing world we're all told exists? What exactly is changing on good old planet earth that somehow fails to attract my attention? Ecologists have been using this term in several ways, one of them in a futile attempt at persuading us all that there's "global warming" and "climatic change" going on. (07/20/07)

Low-cost Flights: Taxes Talk Louder Than Global Warming Fears - Three out of ten people would be put off flying to and from France if a new 'green tax' on low-cost airlines was imposed, a survey by the online magazine website FrenchEntrée.com has found. Source: Michael Streeter (07/20/07)

Ignore the naysayers, it's China's time to shine - By Huang Qing (China Daily) - As a matter of fact, China places as much importance on matters of global warming and energy-supply strains as Western countries do. Really? Reducing waste discharges and energy consumption, for instance, are part of China's national policy. Many compulsory measures have been taken at the expense of many short-term interests. (07/20/07)

Most means less than half?
Bosses concerned over climate change - MOST business leaders are worried about climate change and believe companies have the main responsibility in tackling the problem, a survey has found. But less than half of those polled believed pollution was the main cause of global warming and only a third planned to buy a more fuel efficient car. (07/20/07)

Recap
GLOBAL WARMING'S TRILLION DOLLAR GIVEAWAY - Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) recently introduced their "Low Carbon Economy Act" (LCEA) intended to combat global warming. The bill ought to be called the "The Trillion Dollar Giveaway and Wealth Redistribution Act," says Steven Milloy, adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. (07/20/07)

Stop Global Warming, Take Off Your Tie - The Italian Health Ministry has said that freeing the neck of a tight fitting tie immediately cools the body and helps stop global warming. In an unconventional campaign to combat climate change, the Italian Health Ministry said that freeing the neck of a tight-fitting tie immediately cools the body temperature by 2 degree celsius to 3 degree celsius. And cooling workers would allow offices to turn down the air conditioning on hot summer days, thereby saving energy and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, reported the online edition of New Scientist. (07/20/07)

Green spin
GSPI: Algae, The Misunderstood Answer To Our Fuel And Global Warming Problems - SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC:GSPI) President, Joseph LaStella, stated "Today we are closer than ever before solving our energy and global warming issues. The solution is 'ALGAE', one of the oldest forms of life on Earth." (07/20/07)

Sorry Al, you can't be taken seriously unless you're a vegan. Study Links Beef Production To Global Warming - Japanese scientists have concluded that beef production typically contributes more to global warming than cars do. A study commissioned by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan, and published in the Animal Science Journal, found that producing 2.2 pounds of beef generates more carbon dioxide than an average car does every 160 miles. (07/20/07)

Save the planet with a vegetarian diet - By Patrice Green - Most people are neglecting one of the most important steps toward stopping global warming: adopting a vegetarian diet. Americans need to know that what we eat has a huge impact on the environment - and changing our diet can make a difference. Animal agriculture, a major source of water pollution and deforestation, has become one of the biggest culprits in global warming. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a report this year showing that farmed animals are a top contributor to today's serious environmental problems, including greenhouse gases. The report found that livestock produced 35 percent to 40 percent of all methane emissions (which have 23 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide), 65 percent of nitrous oxide (which is 320 times as warming as carbon dioxide) and 64 percent of ammonia, which contributes to acid rain. (07/19/07)

New Atmospheric Modeling Technique May Have Major Implications for Global Warming Studies - US Department of Energy-funded research to lead to improvements in climate modeling and climate change predictions. LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. (AER), a leader in earth, ocean, atmosphere, and space science R&D, announced a major new development that will impact global warming and climate change predictions. Supported by the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, AER's rapid radiative transfer model for short wave energy has recently proven to be very effective in improving operational weather forecasts. The potential impact on global climate models is now under study. (07/19/07)

Is Al Gore our new savior? - Global warming has literally become a global religion with Al Gore rising to the status of a new "savior" to help cleanse the world of its CO2 sins. The reality is that Gore is the biggest con artist of the century, enabled by a politically biased and uncritical media promoting this pseudoscience (Gore owns a major carbon offset company). Mandatory school viewings of Gore's documentary have manipulated our youth into fearing that the Earth is going to burn up in a massive ball of fire. (07/19/07)

The real inconvenient truth - By Jim Clements - Al Gore has been able to find a seemingly endless audience of wide-eyed zombies to follow him over his man-made global warming cliff. I remember when he was slapped down by John Denver (a more sincere environmentalist, even if I didn't always agree with him) in the senate during Gore's music censorship hearings in the mid-eighties. I remember when Gore claimed he was responsible for the initiative to create the Internet. I remember how "Mr. Environment" pulled strings and got the Connecticut River Joint Commission to release 4 billion gallons of water, worth $7.1 million, to raise the Connecticut River several inches so that his rowboat wouldn't get stuck during a photo-op. This photo-op was for the sole purpose of patting himself on the back for helping to secure a $100,000 grant for that same commission. Real environmentalists were understandably upset that they could never get the same consideration for the fish that actually lived in it. (07/19/07)

Time travellers warn Lovebox festival visitors about global warming - London's Lovebox festival (21-22 July) with headlining acts Sly & The Family Stone, Groove Armada and Blondie will get surprise visitors from out of space who are coming back from the future to warn people about global warming. As part of its 'Climate Changed' campaign, Christian Aid is working with a theatre group at UK summer festivals to make the subject more engaging. (07/19/07)

School global warming insight - By Telegraph newsdesk - PUPILS from Burnley are using the building of their new school to learn about the environment and encourage action to stop global warming. The 11 and 12-year-olds from Shuttleworth College, in Kiddrow Lane, have set up a sustainability project as part of their science learning. They are researching the school's carbon footprint and finding ways of reducing energy consumption. (07/19/07)

A city gone mad - Standing in the rain for skin cream and a canvas bag - have we lost it? - BY NICOLE LYN PESCE AND ELOISE PARKER - As of 6 a.m. yesterday, 600 people had lined up at the Bowery store in the pounding rain, plus 500 at Union Square and 400 at both Chelsea and Columbus Circle. Each customer was allowed three bags, which quickly sold out after their 8 a.m. debut. Union Square alone doled out 3,000 bags in an hour (but at least there were no casualties - last month's Taiwan launch sparked a stampede that sent 30 people to the hospital, and a similar riot erupted in Hong Kong). (07/19/07)

Paper or Plastic? A New Stylish Answer - Trendy Designer Bag Proclaims "I'm Not A Plastic Bag" - And Ladies Line Up For It - Gloria Dawson / Photo Editor - On our way into work this morning we couldn't help but notice the droves of people waiting in line for Whole Foods at Columbus Circle here in Manhattan... We love organics as much as well, anyone but in line in the rain? (07/19/07) The best part is that the designer canvas bags were being distributed in PLASTIC BAGS! We'll try to find some pictures of that.

Live Earth - Dead Africans? Policies that prevent energy development have lethal consequences for Africa - By Paul Driessen - The recent Live Earth concerts have been roundly criticized for the overheated rhetoric and hypocrisy of their rock star and political headliners, including former Vice President Al Gore. Far more relevant to the debate over catastrophic climate change, however, is this unavoidable fact: if the concerts cause more people to demand that Africa and other poor countries not develop the energy they so desperately need, the false global warming "solutions" could be disastrous for the world's most impoverished citizens. (07/19/07)

Greenpeace proclaims naked truth - To draw attention to global warming, the environmental group commissions a controversial photographer to take pictures of nude volunteers on a Swiss glacier. Spencer Tunick, the American photographer famous for snapping shots of large groups of people in the nude, is looking for volunteers in Switzerland. Tunick is searching for 50 people willing to stand on a Swiss glacier with no clothes on for photographs to be taken on Aug. 18 and 19. The project has been commissioned by Greenpeace. The environmental group wants to use the images to call attention to the issue of global warming and its impact on glaciers. (07/19/07)

Is The Threat of Global Warming for Real? - Notwithstanding the hoopla over the Global Warming threat that supposedly looms large in front of us, there are few voices with a little more than plain skepticism to counter this theory. (07/19/07)

Icarus Flying II - wot no sun? - In the second of his looks into the negative effects of aviation, Bob Maddox claims we should also be aware of Global Dimming
WHAT do you say to a scientist who asks you to believe that, while the Earth is indisputably getting warmer, it is at the same time receiving significantly less sunlight than it did 40 years ago? Since sunlight is the only source of heat for our planet, it does not take the likes of a Vulcan Science Officer to arrive at the conclusion: "illogical." (07/19/07)

Nuclear power revisited - but is it really US energy supply's white knight? - Lisa Roner, North America Editor - All Americans love a good comeback story, but there are serious concerns that "Nuclear Energy, Part II" will not effectively address energy supply problems in the US. As the US begins to take a serious look at how to tackle climate change and its ongoing dependence on foreign oil, nuclear energy is capturing widespread attention for the first time in more than a generation. No new reactors have been ordered in the US since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 that turned the American public sour on the safety of nuclear power and no reactors have come online in the US since 1996. But before 2009, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) expects to receive 28 applications to build and operate 19 new reactors. (07/19/07)

Whith most of the civilized world concerned about the possibility of a nuclear Iran, Japan of all countries, is more concerned about what Iran can do about global warming.
Japan and Iran,Discussion on Global Warming - Professor Hiroshi Fukino said, "Now global warming and climate change is the number one issue in the world." Commenting on the issue of global warming and ways to deal with it, Esmaeili stated that sensitivity about the environment is increasing nowadays. He went on to say that countries like Japan are trying to convince the United States to sign the Kyoto Protocol, adding, "However, we do not want to adopt a politicized stance on the issue of the environment." Really? Then shut the hell up! (07/19/07)

And speaking of politicized...
Gore: human species in a race for its life - Gore advised the audience to compare the blue orb of the Earth to Venus, where daytime temperatures reach 867 degrees Fahrenheit and it rains sulphuric acid. The two planets have the same amount of carbon, Gore explained, but Venus' just happens to be in the atmosphere, while most of the Earth's is still locked underground. "The habitability of this planet for human beings really is at risk," he said. - So is there room for optimism faced with the specter of Venus? Gore thinks so, but it's not in the current parade of presidential candidates or the slew of climate-related bills moving through the U.S. legislature -- measures Gore called "baby steps." (07/18/07)

An Examination of the Media and the Global Warming Hoax - "It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of 'geologists.' Only the president at the time wasn't Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland. And the Times wasn't warning about global warming -- it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age. The year was 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis. Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be 'wiped out' or lower crop yields would mean 'billions will die.' Just as the weather has changed over time, so has the reporting -- blowing hot or cold with short-term changes in temperature. Following the ice age threats from the late 1800s, fears of an imminent and icy catastrophe were compounded in the 1920s by Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan and an obsession with the news of his polar expedition. As the Times put it on Feb. 24, 1895, 'Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again.' (07/18/07)

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