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51% of Californians back offshore drilling

(07-30) 22:28 PDT San Francisco -- A majority of Californians favor more oil drilling off the coast, according to a statewide survey released Wednesday, for the first time since oil prices spiked nearly three decades ago.

The support by 51 percent of residents polled this month by the Public Policy Institute of California represents a shift caused by renewed Republican advocacy for drilling as well as motorists' reaction to soaring pump prices, according to the pollster.

The New Religion Garbed As Science : Bundarrah Days

The new environmental religion is different in that it preaches a collective transgression and seeks a collective solution. This represents a blatant religious grab for political power -- a return to the Middle Ages.

But it runs even deeper than that. This religion makes an enemy of the very foundation of life on earth - carbon.

Carbon is the ideal candidate for original sin since no one can escape dependence on it. The very thing that gives us life is now branded toxic and a pollutant.

If this was a theological essay I would identify this new religion as a inversion of Christianity with the same themes of sin and salvation - something that many religious people would claim was a diabolical attack on the true faith.

In the modern world clairvoyance has mostly had a bad rap but in the ancient world divination was pretty highly regarded. And now, in these early years of the so-called Age Of Aquarius, we have divination back in the form of computer modeling and the new soothsayers are more than generously funded and inhabit the scientific faculties of universities which they have transformed into their personal temples.

At the end of the day the high priests of this religion are the enemies of humanity who see people as an inconvenience or a pestilence that can be disposed of.

San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO TACKLE GLOBAL WARMING WEAKENS

Prospects for global co-operation to tackle climate change weakened Wednesday as the collapse of trade liberalization talks cast doubt on the international community’s capacity to act in concert for a common good.

A downbeat Kevin Rudd, Australia’s Prime Minister - who had personally stayed up to 2 a.m. calling world leaders - was Wednesday “deeply, deeply disappointed” that World Trade Organization talks, which would have reduced barriers to international trade, had been abandoned in the Swiss city of Geneva.

The Prime Minister suggested the failure of the talks augured poorly for the completion of international negotiations aimed at crafting a global agreement for carbon emissions reductions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012.

The climate talks, due to be finalized at a U.N. meeting late next year in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, are seen as crucial to creating a global approach to climate change by creating co-operation between developed and developing nations.

SWAC Girl: Global warming is a hoax....

What is truly upsetting about all of this is not that so many of us were duped. It’s that so many of us are still duped.

Back to the Stone Age | Venture Chronicles

Well it’s relieving to see that Jerry Brown isn’t wasting any time before running for Governor… again. Why not stop with evaluating electrical usage and diesel emissions, they should also be forced to evaluate emissions created by the cars that people will invariably use to get to work, their body heat and CO2 output, methane gas from human, uh, waste products, and radiation emitted by microwaves used to heat up Hot Pockets for lunch.