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Heliogenic Climate Change: "Democrats' history of "no" on ANWR"

Two myths run through the Democrats’ ceaseless mantra. First is the “only six months" supply claim. They know this is a gross distortion. In fact there is oil equal to 16 years of imports from Saudi Arabia — more than enough to affect world petroleum prices. Second, it only takes 10 years to get the oil because of absurd permitting processes. We could, otherwise get the oil much sooner. The Alaska pipeline, an engineering marvel, was built in just 3 years."

Penn & Teller to mock climate fears and Gore on Showtime Thurs.

Consider it a certainty that the Climate Police will lock up Penn & Teller after Thursday's show. Not only does it feature interviews with some scientists who aren't totally sold on the idea that the Earth is toast, it whispers an even more inconvenient truth: A lot of the scariest global-warming tales are told by people who stand to make a buck by scaring you.

How about an atmospheric trust to slow global warming?

It's called an "earth atmospheric trust" or a "sky trust," and here's how it would work:

# Set up a worldwide organization, a trust, that implements a cap-and-trade system to control greenhouse gas emissions.
# Auction off the permits allowing greenhouse gas emissions, with revenues going to the trust.
# The trustees distribute some fraction of this sum back to the world on per-capita basis. This would give political cover to countries like India and China, while simultaneously giving them incentive to use the most climate-friendly energy sources possible. (It would also, it should be pointed out, provide for a wealth transfer, possibly a big one, from industrialized countries to developing countries.)
# Use the rest of the money raised to install renewable energy sources like wind in solar in economies where they might otherwise be judged too expensive.
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...the sky trust would deliver a check for hundreds of dollars a year to every citizen of the world.

Megan McArdle (July 23, 2008) - Gored!

I know I'm late to the party, but I was on the beach this weekend with a malfunctioning wireless broadband modem, and by the time I was ready to make fun of Al Gore, Andy Revkin had done it for me. Don't get me wrong, I think that Al Gore has a hobby. I just think it's a pity that hobby is making a fool of himself in public. His speech on global warming is full of misstatements, exaggerations, and outright untruths. What's worse is that I'm sure he believes every word of it.
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...when bold passes into lunatic, I think most sensible people just stop listening.

ecoEnquirer: NASA Satellite Discovers Massive Vegetation Die Off

(Greenbelt, Maryland) A new sensor on a NASA Earth-orbiting satellite has for the first time observed a global-scale die off of vegetation, a new article in Science magazine reports this week.

"We were amazed at the continental scale that this die off occupied", said Dr. John Jorgenson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The relatively rapid change in vegetation characteristics was observed from late summer through the fall, when the multi-million dollar NASA instrument recorded a distinct change in vegetation color from green to various shades of yellow, brown, orange, and red.