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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Climate Change Strikes Minnesota
Climate Change Strikes Minnesota (M4GW)
It's April 26th and Minnesota is getting pelted with yet another late spring snow storm. Some places getting over a foot of snow, Pelican Rapids got 18" and its still snowing. So get yourself off that lawn chair, turn it back into a snow shovel and get to it.
Unpaid utility bills soar as economy sags
Unpaid utility bills soar as economy sags - USATODAY.com
I wonder if it would be a good idea to gouge these people with much higher energy costs that would further line Al Gore's pockets, yet would have no measurable climate "benefit"?
CHICAGO--Hundreds of thousands of utility customers are at risk of disconnections as the sagging economy drives up the number of past-due home heating bills and the amounts owed, utility companies in cold-weather states say.
Xcel Energy says 17%-19% of its 1.1 million Minnesota customers and its 280,000 Wisconsin customers are in arrears. That's about the same as a year ago, but balances owed are up 10% in Minnesota and up 20% in Wisconsin, says Pat Boland, Xcel's credit policy manager.
Xcel disconnects 600-650 customers daily, he says. "Obviously the economy is playing a very big role in the disposable income that folks have," Boland says. Another factor: Cold weather added 7%-8% to this year's bills.
Climate Change: You Don't Have to Believe It, But You Still Need to Plan For It
The argument below, in various forms, is extremely common on the Internet right now. Lots of people have figured out that catastrophic AGW is a crock, but they're still under the impression that the majority of other people are still buying it.
At least in America, the polls show that the majority of people are not buying it.
Climate Change: You Don't Have to Believe It, But You Still Need to Plan For It
At least in America, the polls show that the majority of people are not buying it.
Climate Change: You Don't Have to Believe It, But You Still Need to Plan For It
On the one hand climate change portends nothing less than the cataclysmic end of civilization as we know it. On the other it is simply the most insidious hoax foisted upon mankind in the history of humanity.
Whatever.
If you're a CEO or business leader it really doesn't matter what you believe about the science of global warming, because in the business world climate change is coming and if you aren't prepared for it your business will suffer.
Minnesotans: Always stick to locally grown citrus, coffee, chocolate etc
Ladies Logic: Watching What They Teach Part 2
Remember, our "reward" for great sacrifice could allegedly include even later arrival of future springtimes!
One of the more ridiculous suggestions on that sheet though was this one:
Buy Locally Grown Food
Let's see....we live in Minnesota where the growing season is what....4 months long? And how are we to get the produce that we need to maintain healthy lives and thus not need health care? Oranges and other citrus foods just do not grow in Minnesota!
Proof that American right-wingers were driving SUVs in 1878
Here.
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Could someone please explain to me again how we know that carbon dioxide is the dominant force driving the Earth's climate?
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After the warmest winter on record, the ice was out of Lake Minnetonka by March 11, 1878 -- the earliest date on record.After over a century of ever-accelerating and catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, note how early the ice went out last year:
In 2007 the official ice-out for Lake Minnetonka was April 3.Update: Official Lake Minnetonka ice-out for 2008 was April 23. Historical data is here.
Could someone please explain to me again how we know that carbon dioxide is the dominant force driving the Earth's climate?
A rational person reviews "An Inconvenient Truth"
Here.
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The science bit was so dumbed down that I cringed. Matt Groening cartoons showing greenhouse gasses fighting sunbeams, for God’s sake? The ’science’ bits seemed to be selected so that Gore could demonstrate his incredible ‘wit’. There were so many holes in his arguments I could have driven the entire American Navy through them.
All his data seemed to come from ‘friends of his’. He was incredibly selective in his data too.
Most of the time, he showed us graphs showing climate trends since 1970 or 1960. What? An that basis I can argue that today is colder than yesterday, therefore by the end of next week, we’ll be into another ice age!
He was hot on the computer graphics too. He showed us Manhattan after the Greenland Icecap has melted, and of course focused on the site of the World Trade Centre. If you want to whip up American fervour, you must mention the World Trade Centre.
What I saw was a film glorifying Al gore. What I didn’t see was anything to make me worry unduly about Global Warming.
I must have seen the wrong film.
If anyone has the right one, can they send it to me please?
John Christy piece
The Baptist Standard :: The Newsmagazine of Texas Baptists
In fact, I suspect an anthropologist, isolated from the media, would observe this global-warming fervor as a religion complete with anointed authority figures, sacred documents, creeds, sins requiring absolution, castigation of heretics and even an apocalypse.
Global Warming Holiday
Global Warming Holiday - WSJ.com
No one could get elected, or for that matter govern, on a platform that called explicitly for increased energy prices. So we get contradictions like a gas tax moratorium married to cap-and-trade carbon limits. To quote Mr. McCain, it's "a joke."
"It’s time for John McCain to realize he was sold a bill of goods"
Will The Global Warming Nuts Please Just Go Away Now. - Say Anything
Certainly their models didn't come close to predicting what we are now experiencing.
A Greenie consolation prize
GREENIE WATCH
The first great Greenie adventure into climate processes was the Montreal protocol which "saved" the ozone in the atmosphere over the Antarctic. Monkeying around with our refrigerators and spraycans was supposed to shrink the ozone "hole". Many years later, however, there is no evidence that the hole has shrunk. It just oscillates as it always did. The unfalsifiable Greenie way out of that is to say that the hole will shrink one day if we are patient enough -- a bit like waiting for the State to "wither away" under Communism.
Notice the increase in skeptical articles lately?
JunkScience.com Blog » Blog Archive » A cool idea to warm to
This in interesting. Notice the increase in skeptical articles lately? See how much more space newspapers are prepared to devote to telling readers about dissenting opinion?
Doubtless there will be plenty of claims this is due to some supposed evil-empire-financed campaign to deceive the hapless populace but these claims no longer cut it--too many in the "evil empire" have clambered aboard the rent-seeking "carbon constraint" bandwagon and now actively promote the myth for such an illusion to be sustained.
People are beginning to wonder why, with alleged consensus and unanimity of purpose, Al Gore and his merry band need spend $300,000,000.00 on another 3-year indoctrination campaign.
This, coupled with Earth's failure to behave as advertised, is beginning to cause zealots to make increasingly outrageous and absurd claims--note how much damage Hansen has done to his own credibility this past year or two.
Hold the line, the great gorebull warming farce is collapsing at last.
More about the Church of Global Warming
PheistyBlog » Blog Archive » Raped by Global Warming
With every day that passes, I'm becoming more convinced that this is the most oppressive and freedom-eroding religion this world has ever seen. That would be all fine and dandy if it weren't being forced upon us with such proselytizing madness, and if it weren't attempting to be legislated from every publicly-held office in our nation.
I'm Dreaming of a White...Mother's Day
As I look outside my windows here in Minnesota, it's snowing right now.
From this article:
From this article:
MINNEAPOLIS (Map, News) - It's late April, but Old Man Winter was showing Friday that he isn't finished with Minnesota just yet.
Heavy snow began falling in parts of western Minnesota, where a handful of schools closed early. Ivanhoe reported 2 inches of snow as of 1 p.m., and 5.5 inches was reported in the western town of Donnelly near Morris by 4 p.m. By 7:30 p.m., Appleton and Madison both reported 8 inches.
The National Weather Service said a large area of western and northern Minnesota could get 6 inches to 12 inches of snow by Saturday. Accumulations of 8 inches to 15 inches was expected Friday night and Saturday morning in Walker, Grand Rapids, Bigfork, Ely, Crane Lake and International Falls in north-central Minnesota.
Friday, April 25, 2008
We’re All Gonna Die! Global Warming Fear-Mongering
Check out the video and text here.
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In today’s floor session, Sen. Ellen Anderson (DFL, St. Paul) raised concerns that kids are living in fear that they won’t grow up because “they’re gonna die of global warming”, as if it is some new contagious disease. Perhaps it is. It may well be a new psychological disorder spreading through ignorance, shame, groupthink and the fear of the unknown. Chicken Little infected her friends with the same anxiety disorder, leading them all into the den of a cunning fox that promised to help them get to the king and solve the problem of the falling sky.
Let's all panic--there may be too little (or too much) ice for the narwhals!
1. From a typical alarmist article by Seth Borenstein here:
Polar bears can adapt a bit to the changing Arctic climate, narwhals can't, she said.2. From National Geographic in 2004 here:
While polar bears are "good-looking fluffy white creatures," Laidre said narwhals, which are medium-sized whales, are "not that cute."
The narwhal, which dives about 6,000 feet to feed on Greenland halibut, is the ultimate specialist, evolved specifically to live in small cracks in parts of the Arctic where it's 99 percent heavy ice, Laidre said. As the ice melts, not only is the narwhal habitat changed, predators such as killer whales will likely intrude more often.
In addition, changing sea-ice conditions may be affecting narwhal survival. While warming trends have generally caused sea ice to shrink, it has been increasing over the last several decades in Baffin Bay, one of the narwhal's wintering grounds.3. A related post is here.
"Narwhals aren't usually in trouble when they're migrating, because they're constantly moving ahead of the ice," Laidre said. But the species spends the winter in areas thick with pack ice—often more than 95 percent covered. With increasing sea ice, these close quarters could be getting even closer, and wintering narwhals could become trapped in the ice more often.
Climate alarmist Simon Donner counsels "patience" at the continuing lack of catastrophic warming
maribo: Patience, my friends
It also sets unrealistic expectations that every month will set a temperature record, that every new study will conclude climate change is more dangerous than the last study did.
Just like the US Presidential campaign, we risk being led into arguments about minutia rather than a much-needed conversation about the great challenges that lie ahead.
There is an undeniable warming signal. The climate is warming and it will continue to warm long into the future unless we drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is no reputable counter argument.
Online chat with Laurie David!
'An Inconvenient Truth' - washingtonpost.com
Philadelphial Pa.: We should all be stewards of the earth and take care of how we impact it. But how do you explain that his shift in climate is not naturally occurring? After all -- we had an ice age once before and the earth warmed up well before humans and cars and industry. How do we know that this just not a cycle?
Laurie David: We know its not just a natural cycle because all of the experts, all of the scientists say its not. Facts are facts.
There is now more CO2 in the atmosphere than in the last 650,000 years and just basic common sense tells us that cannot be a good thing.
Another Geologist Dissents on Man-Made Warming
Students meet state treasurer - Campus
With a graduate degree in geology, Mourdock said his studies have convinced him that global warming is not happening.
"I'm scared to death about each of the three candidates and their positions on global climate change," Mourdock said. "Global caps in the last 15 years receded until last year on Mars, but what do we have in common with Mars? Last time I checked, only the sun."
Mourdock explained that humans aren't the cause of global warming and that it's something bigger in the universe, such as the sun.
Let's just keep it simple and protest EVERYTHING in the name of Gaia
From this article:
“In planning this event, we made a conscious decision to encourage other activist organizations to get involved, to show the relationship between all of our issues,” said EON member Sarah Reed ’08. “It’s important to remember that humans are part of the environment. We must remind ourselves that war, economic injustice, environmental injustice, violation of human rights, violence, racism, sexism are also assaults against the Earth.”
All this for $25,000?
Town commits $25,000 to ‘green initiative’ | The Essex Free Press
Council was told that the town could cut greenhouse gases by implementing effective land-use, energy and transportation planning, infrastructure design, building retrofits, water conservation, solid waste diversion and the development of renewable energy projects.
Miller said the town would work towards creating a greenhouse gas emissions inventory. With no fixed time restraints, Miller said the town could decide on the timing and funding of any initiatives designed to cut those emissions.
All wet
JunkScience.com Blog » Blog Archive » All wet
Does this mean they are now admitting claims warming will not raise sea levels due to greater snow accumulation on ice shields? No, just that they have partly observed, partly modeled a recent (~50-year) change but have no idea where it fits in phases of what cycles. Does it necessarily have anything to do with fossil fuels or people? Nope.
Gosh, you think maybe energy is too expensive?
JunkScience.com Blog » Blog Archive » Gosh, you think maybe energy is too expensive?
Gee, let’s all work hard at pricing energy out of everyone’s reach to curtail those nasty emissions of essential plant food, a.k.a. CO2, and then — let’s all be surprised when people can’t afford their heating.
What can we do? Who can we telephone?
Global Warming Update
Moonbattery: Global Warming Update
Ninety percent of the ice on this planet is in the Antarctic region. If ice is growing there, that means we can forget about the rising seas scenario Al Gore et al. have used to frighten money out of the gullible.
Friends don't let friends kids go to Dartmouth
Dartmouth News - Green screen - 04/17/08
The most visible aspect of the initiative will be real-time, animated displays in the common spaces of the Rauner, Bildner, Goldstein and Thomas residence halls. The displays, broadcast on low-energy monitors, will show an animated polar bear, designed by Sonia Lei '08, at various levels of comfort or distress, depending on the amount of energy being used in the building. Low energy use equals a happy, healthy polar bear. High usage results in the bear suffering the effects of global warming. "The polar bear animations were chosen to give a simpler representation of what still seem to be far-distant effects of humans' energy consumption, and to visualize those effects on the bear while offering some level of interactivity," said Lei.
"IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT CLASTING THE ICONOCLASTS"
BrothersJudd Blog: IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT CLASTING THE ICONOCLASTS:
Being a green neoconservative is becoming less lonely, Woolsey says, especially as more hawks come to see energy as a security issue. He tells a story about an argument with a friend who is a global warming skeptic. When Woolsey explained how improvements to the electrical infrastructure could make it safer from terrorists, his friend replied, "Oh, well, that's fine, then—we can do all that as long as it's not because of this fictional global warming."
You people aren't despoiling a pristine wilderness by failing to bag up all that dog poop, are you?
From this Global Warming 101 post:
It is late April, and Spring time is here in the arctic too. Nice and sunny with 24 hour light. But we cannot smell the green grass and trees, the only smell around is pretty much dog poo and bad smelling people.
Since when does 41 percent constitute an "overwhelming consensus"?
From this page:
Note also that the "method of sampling excluded TV meteorologists who were not scientists". This neatly excludes a large block of skeptics from the sample; James Spann wrote:
The scientists were about evenly divided on whether they thought the effects of global climate change over the next 50 to 100 years were likely to be near catastrophic (41 percent) or moderately dangerous (44 percent). About 13 percent saw relatively little danger. About 56 percent of the scientists said that global climate change was a mature science, while 39 percent termed it an emerging science.Note that the headline claims that scientific concern is now "growing", based on a comparison with exactly one other survey conducted way back in 1991.
Note also that the "method of sampling excluded TV meteorologists who were not scientists". This neatly excludes a large block of skeptics from the sample; James Spann wrote:
Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh?
I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them...
Change a trace atmospheric gas, and the Great Barrier Reef disappears?
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary
You see, carbon dioxide is supposed to be relentlessly overheating the oceans (never mind the actual data that indicates that they're cooling).
If carbon emissions are not reduced to below 1990 levels and climate change continues at the current pace, the [Great Barrier Reef] will not be around for future generations to enjoy, says Berkelmans.
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries | The New York Sun
Mr. Senauer said climate change advocates, such as Vice President Gore, need to distance themselves from ethanol to avoid tarnishing the effort against global warming. “Crop-based biofuels are not part of the solution. They, in fact, add to the problem. Whether Al Gore has caught up with that, somebody ought to ask him,” the professor said. “There are lots of solutions, real solutions to climate change. We need to get to those.”
Mr. Gore was not available for an interview yesterday on the food crisis, according to his spokeswoman. A spokesman for Mr. Gore’s public campaign to address climate change, the Alliance for Climate Protection, declined to comment for this article.
Off Course: PUC fee reflects a bizarre mission departure
HollisterFreelance.com | Off Course: PUC fee reflects a bizarre mission departure
Feel like Californians don't pay enough in taxes and fees?
Well, then, you will be glad to learn that the California Public Utilities Commission will be collecting $600 million from utility ratepayers over the next 10 years to fund a global warming think tank.
There are so many astonishing aspects to this bizarre departure from the PUC's mission that it is hard to know where to start.
First of all, what makes the unelected commissioners, who are charged with ensuring a reliable and reasonably priced power supply, believe they have the right to impose a new fee on California ratepayers for a pet project, however worthy?
Then there is the price tag. ... For that kind of dough the California Institute for Climate Solutions, as the commission has dubbed its modest enterprise, should take a shot at delivering world peace in addition to solving global warming.
The staggering cost of renewable energy
Dominic Lawson: The staggering cost of renewable energy - Dominic Lawson, Commentators - The Independent
The British public might become even more furious when it learns that one reason for the extra cost of wind power is that its inherent variability means that we will still need to retain our entire existing network of conventional power stations as back-up. That is because it is not a good idea for us to endure what happened two months ago in Texas, America's biggest wind-power producing state: a sudden drop in wind combined with a fall in temperatures led to what was described as "an electric emergency" – customers in west Texas were deprived of power for 90 minutes.
One thing is clear; the British public does need educating about this: even one of The Independent's most intelligent commentators wrote here last week that "The mini-windmill on David Cameron's new house is an economical way for an individual household to generate electricity, even contribute to the national grid". Well, that's if you consider it economical to spend thousands of pounds on a roof-top turbine that produces – even according to its supporters – no more than 1 megawatt hour per year, worth £40 unsubsidised on the wholesale electricity market. As a contribution to reducing CO2 emissions it's about as cost-effective and meaningful as cycling to the House of Commons while having your chauffeur-driven car follow you with your briefcase, suit and black lace-up shoes.
If a serious economic downturn does hit this country, then such extravagant gestures, far from attracting praise, might begin to seem Nero-like in their irrelevance to an economy threatened by the flames of recession. Some Ipsos-Mori polling data published last week by the Financial Times showed that over the 12 months to January 2008, the proportion of those in Britain declaring "the environment" to be their biggest concern fell from almost 20 per cent to just 8 per cent.
Global Warming & Investing
Global Warming & Investing » Investing & Finance on Nabloid.com
Man-made global warming is the biggest lie ever sold to the public in the 21st century. It’s funny how everyone watched a single documentary by a former politician and instantly believed the science to be gospel (people believe it like its a new religion!). The documentary is so absolutely flawed and filled with lies that I don’t dare mention its name.
And all they had to do was "raise awareness"
From this link:
Note what big-name skiers were saying just five months ago.
2008 CLIF BAR “Save Our Snow” Winter Roadtrip Dates:Some results are here, in an article entitled "Eight Colorado resorts set snow records".
February 7: Colorado University—Boulder, Colorado
February 9: Winter Park Resort—Winter Park, Colorado
February 10: Copper Mountain Resort—Summit County, Colorado
February 12: Denver University—Denver, Colorado
March 1 & 2: Telluride Resort—Telluride, Colorado
March 8 & 9: Lake Tahoe, California
March 15 & 16: Mt. Hood, Oregon
March 22 & 23: Seattle, WA
Note what big-name skiers were saying just five months ago.
Climate Skeptic: I Was Wrong
Climate Skeptic: I Was Wrong
I am sorry that I said Al Gore was guilty of cherry-picking his filming spots to leave the wrong impresion about Antarctic warming. I should have instead said that Al Gore was guilty of using entirely made-up and fabricated CGI footage to leave the wrong impression about Antarctic warming.
Thank you for the opportunity to come clean and correct this error.
Brazil Oil Finds May End Reliance on Middle East, Zeihan Says
Bloomberg.com: Latin America
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's discoveries of what may be two of the world's three biggest oil finds in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere's reliance on Middle East crude, Strategic Forecasting Inc. said.
The link between solar cycle length and decadal global temperature
From this post:
This article is from Stephen Wilde
I've been a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1968. Admittedly that was before a science qualification was required but I've been a weather and climate geek for over 50 years.
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Making policy decisions on the basis of current knowledge (and in the light of recent observations) would be wholly irresponsible. Using food for biofuel production should be a crime and yet that is the single most influential result of global warming alarmism so far. Just the start of the potentially murderous cycle of bad policy decisions that are likely to be based on a false premise.
I was open minded as to the cause of global temperature changes when I started my work time ago. At first all I was pointing out was my observation of a change in global weather patterns around 2000 from a warming mode back to those of the cooling mode of the 60's and 70's. Observations since then have shown me to have been right. I was also doubtful about the standards of accuracy in official recording sites due to urban development. That doubt was prompted by my own observations of how much a nearby building affected my own readings and has been vindicated by recent surveys of U S recording sites showing a pitiful attention to site standards.
After a great deal of reading and research since then I have come more and more to the view that solar is more important than CO2 on all the evidence available and if that causes me to be out of line with the IPCC and any number of scientific experts then, tough.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Any similarities between the 1989 cold fusion fiasco and the current "CO2 drives the climate" fiasco?
From Robert Park's book "Voodoo Science", pages 92 and 93:
In the case of the wayward NASA Goddard scientists, Jim Hansen might fit the "famous mentor" role above, with folks like Gavin Schmidt and Andrew Dessler as the aggressive "junior collaborators".
The "fusion pioneers", as Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman were called by the Salt Lake Tribune, were to be the star witnesses. Barely a month had passed since their announcement of the discovery of cold fusion. They seemed like an odd couple, the urbane sixty-two-year-old Fleischman, with his not-quite-identifiable European accent, and the younger, nerdish-looking Pons, whose accent betrayed his roots in a small rural town in the hills of North Carolina. Elected to the Royal Society, a very high distinction in the United Kingdom, showered with honors, Fleischman radiated brilliance. Ideas on every subject seemed to spew forth effortlessly from his fertile brain, but few of his ideas were practical. Pons had been a student of Fleischman's at the University of Southampton in England. What Pons lacked in brilliance, he made up in aggressiveness and energy.I'm wondering if we're seeing a bit of the same pattern in the AGW case, as scientists working together combined to make much bigger mistakes than they would have made on their own.
But despite the superficial differences, they were too much alike to be effective collaborators. Neither had much taste for slow, careful science. They were both scientific gamblers, given to playing long shots. Together they could be almost manic. It is a pattern we will see repeated. The junior collaborator, dazzled by his famous mentor, believes him to be incapable of error. The older is confident that if he has made a mistake, his clever young friend will surely catch it. Thus are self-doubts suppressed as they carry each other along on an intoxicating ride.
In the case of the wayward NASA Goddard scientists, Jim Hansen might fit the "famous mentor" role above, with folks like Gavin Schmidt and Andrew Dessler as the aggressive "junior collaborators".
Nut wants Pawlenty to oppose coal-burning power plant
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Check out this claim:
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[Minnesota] Gov. Tim Pawlenty won't speak out against a massive coal-burning power plant on Minnesota's western border, despite a request from [Jim Hansen].I've been watching Pawlenty closely, and I think he may be figuring out that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and that we can't run this state on wind power.
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"The long-term answer is that we need to move aggressively and boldly into alternative energy sources that are economically feasible, " Pawlenty said. "But a lot are not yet ready."
Check out this claim:
Dan Sharp, communications manager for Big Stone II, said the plant will be about 20 percent more efficient than existing coal plants. It is being designed to accommodate CO2 capturing technology once that's available; meanwhile, it will buy carbon "offsets" to counter its emissions.
Global warming's curious absence as a campaign issue
Thomas: Global Warming Not a Big Campaign Issue | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
In the Pennsylvania primary global warming was such a peripheral issue that exit pollsters did not even bother to measure voter attitudes toward it.
India: Modi hosts special screening of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for his officialdom
Modi hosts special screening of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for his officialdom - ExpressIndia.Com
Gandhinagar, April 22 An Inconvenient Truth — the documentary by former US Vice-President Al Gore on climate change that took him to the Nobel Prize last year has impressed Chief Minister Narendra Modi so much that he made top state bureaucracy watch it at his official residence Monday.
"Chief Seattle is probably our greatest manufactured prophet"
Check out this snopes.com page.
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Al Gore uses the apocryphal Chief Seattle speech in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance.
McCain still doesn't get it
McCain sharply critical of Bush response to Katrina - Boston.com
McCain said the United States should be prepared for storms of such magnitude as a Category 5 hurricane because he believes global warming is creating conditions that are leading to more extreme weather conditions.
"I believe there's going to be more radical weather patterns and I think we're going to see with the warming of the globe, a rise in sea levels, and I think that's going to happen in the Gulf," he said.
Global "warming" causes extreme cold in Peru!
Climate Change: hail and freezing temperatures forecast for Puno and southern highlands | Peruvian Times
Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed more than a dozen people.
The extreme cold has claimed the lives of 16 people so far in Puno, and 5,053 others are suffering from respiratory ailments, most of them children under 5, Elsa Paredes, of Puno’s Regional Health Institute, told Enlace Nacional.
CNN: Journalism in Peril
Planet Gore on National Review Online
I’m curious whether any scientist actually says what this CNN piece implies, that world temperatures are increasing in recent years.
As the U.S. prepares to make policy on the basis of a movie for the first time since maybe Jaws (though I would suggest that Moby Dick is the more appropriate case study), that would be a useful discussion.
Raise Your Right Hand
Planet Gore on National Review Online
If ETS is such a success, perhaps Derwent can explain why Europe should increasingly threaten us with trade wars if we refuse to subject ourselves to a similar scheme? The gloomy fact is, the EU can’t afford the hit to their competitiveness for much longer.
Cooked Books, Warmed Earth
The Daily News Record:
Mr. Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State, is the world's pre-eminent authority on hurricanes. He is also an outspoken foe of the global-warming "consensus," one who has testified before Congress, delivered numerous speeches, and penned myriad articles on the subject. Here's his pungent take on the matter:
"I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people. I've been in meteorology over 50 years. I've worked damned hard, and I've been around. My feeling is some of us older guys who've been around have not been asked about this. It's sort of a baby-boomer, yuppie thing."
Carbon dioxide causes global warming which causes FIERCE COLD which harms Afghanistan's poppy crop!
Climate change delivers a boost in battle against opium harvest - Scotsman.com News
FALTERING British efforts to tackle Afghanistan's poppy crop have found an unlikely ally – in the weather.
Freak winter weather linked to global warming is expected to decimate parts of the country's opium harvest.
Scientists believe freezing temperatures followed by late rains and a possible drought could slash this year's yields. Some farmers could suffer up to 50 per cent losses. The fierce cold – which claimed hundreds of lives across Afghanistan – is thought to have stopped millions of poppy seeds from germinating, while late rains and a meagre snow melt following an unusually low snowfall have stunted many of the plants that survived.
One expert said: "It was too cold in some areas for the seeds to come alive. Between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of the seeds may not have germinated."
Do we really need Oprah telling us "how to live with less"?
Yahoo! 360° - Lisa's Domain on the World Wide Web.............. - Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do Day
With Oprah's mansion in Hawaii, her mansion in Montecito, California (one of the state's largest homes)--not to mention her other properties in Chicago, down South, and elsewhere--and her private plane (she won't fly with us little people), do we really need her telling us "how to live with less" (a show she did last week) and "how to be green and conserve energy" (today's show)?
LATE FROST DAMAGES CALIFORNIA VINEYARDS:
Instapundit.com -
As reader Jim May notes, this is "the sort of short-term weather news that would be front-page news if global *cooling* were the Left's cause-du-jour."
Ecological doomsayers
Timmins Daily Press - Ontario, CA
There are a growing number of Canadian scientists and climate experts who are speaking out and saying there are other more viable explanations for global warming. They point to historical climate records from the 1920s and '30s that mirror today's warming trends and suggest there are cyclical factors at play. They speak of changes in the output of the sun and the clearing of rainforests having a far greater influence on world climate than the buildup of greenhouse gases.
The point here is not to make people feel any less protective of the environment or the Earth.
But we need to be wary of swallowing everything we're being fed. We need to consider where information is coming from, how conclusive it is and the political influences that may be driving some of these findings.
Arizona: Legislature blasts governor's efforts on climate change
Legislature blasts governor's efforts on climate change
State lawmakers moved Wednesday to put the brakes on Arizona's participation in a regional climate-change initiative, arguing that the governor was wrong to sign the state up and questioning whether the plan is sound.
In a bipartisan decision, the Senate voted to prevent any state agency from entering a regional program that would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions unless it fit with federal law.
Irrational Green Exuberance
The Editors on Earth Day on National Review Online
One of these days, the editors of Time and other publications are going to grow bored of producing yet another “green” issue and tired of writing editorials demanding “action now,” just as the media grew exhausted by the population explosion, AIDS, urban sprawl, homelessness, and other former front-burner stories. No doubt another terrifying novelty will be discovered (the threat of Earth’s magnetic field weakening perhaps?) because it is the nature of the media and activist groups to find some new panic to ride. But the current green mania may be reaching a weary, used-up phase that signals a turning point.
Pope's Apostasy: Sierra Club Chief Disses Climate Bill This Year
Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Pope's Apostasy: Sierra Club Chief Disses Climate Bill This Year
So where does one of the nation’s most influential environmental groups – the Sierra Club - stand on this question? “Our top priority is not to pass a bill this year. Our priority is to lay the framework for a good bill next year,” says Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope. In an interview with Environmental Capital, Mr. Pope says his group wants “as close as we can get to” a 100% reduction; the leading proposal in Congress to cap greenhouse gases currently calls for closer to a 70% reduction.
Bravo, Mike Jungbauer
HometownSource.com - Local lawmakers attempt to remove moratorium on nuclear plant construction in Minnesota
Olson wasn’t the only local Republican finding fault with energy legislation.
During debate on a cap and trade bill in the Senate, Sen. Mike Jungbauer, R-East Bethel, argued that 22,000 years of earth history fails to prove a link between carbon dioxide and temperature.
“Please provide it to me,” he said of definitive information he believes hasn’t been found.
“Mother Nature has been extremely kind to us this year”
Brundage Mountain extends ski season into May | KTVB.COM | Idaho News
This is the first time Brundage Mountain has ever offered lift service in the month of May.
Does this sound like a winner?
Planet Green Lands ABC Anchor : TreeHugger
There's much excitement here at TreeHugger, as our sister site Planet Green will soon bring the first-ever 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network into 50 million homes (that would be June 4, for those of you programming your TVs.) The network will be action packed full of celebrities and personalities, and Bob Woodruff is the latest addition. Beginning in July, the ABC News anchor and familiar primetime face will head up an eco-newscast on the network, as part of an ABC News production.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Jeb Bush gets this one right
Jeb Bush gives opinion on global warming, McCain's running mate | WFTS-TV | First in HD
Bush said those who advocate action to limit climate change are acting out of something like religious zeal.
"Total hogwash"
Pete'sPlace: Climate Scientist Who Voted For Al Gore, Now Critical Of Climate Alarmism
The nonsense [Gore] spews comes from the IPCC [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], so in a sense I don’t condemn him as much as I do the so-called climatologists like [James] Hansen, who says things that are idiotic. They’re the ones giving him all this stuff.
DAMN that Climate Debate Daily
Climate Debate Daily: Pluperfect Rubbish | DeSmogBlog
CDD clearly exists not to resolve the "debate" about global warming, but to encourage the notion that a legitimate argument actually exists.
Voters Don't Care about Global Warming - but They Should
Voters Don't Care about Global Warming - but They Should
Voters must care, but not for Al Gore’s reasons. Plenty of scientists say we don’t have to fear a global warming apocalypse. The global food riots stemming from forced biofuel policy serve as a chilling clue of what we do have to fear. Instead of global warming causing food shortages, U.S. government policy has done that. Instead of rising sea levels, we must fear rising tax levels. Instead of ice caps melting away, we must fear our jobs evaporating.
Elevating the earth’s temperature to the prominence of our enemies in World War II is abominable. Ignoring what the next president could do to us is dangerous.
Klobuchar clearly doesn't understand the state of climate science, and she's WRITING key provisions of climate-change legislation?
From this link:
Klobuchar, a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote key provisions of climate-change legislation the committee produced in December. The bipartisan bill calls for mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and would establish a “cap and trade’’ system using market forces to achieve efficient reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. Klobuchar wrote the bill’s first title, which would establish a national greenhouse gas registry to measure carbon emissions so that a cap-and-trade system can go into effect.A post about Klobuchar's lack of climate change understanding is here.
Record lows put deep freeze on spring
Vernon Morning Star
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A couple hours later and the temperature had warmed up just a little as participants entered the Talkin Donkey coffee shop for the first Global Warming Café to be held in the interior.
The irony of the weather was impossible to ignore, but organizers pointed out that climate change does not mean the thermometer will always be north of zero.
“It’s the heat from the sun that powers our weather system, so if you add more heat to the system we’re going to get more powerful weather, and it’s not just heat,” said Bill Darnell.
Al Gore on Oprah
I recorded Al Gore's appearance on Oprah yesterday, and I just took a look at it.
1. Gore's segment was astonishly short (about 5 minutes) and perfunctory.
2. I thought Oprah's quote here was telling:
Gore quickly added "...with the help from a lot of others, too."
Mainstream journalists seem strangely disinterested in finding out who those "others" are.
4. Note that while this Gore appearance was all about the dangers of CO2, the topic seems completely missing from candidate Gore's September 2000 Oprah appearance.
Remember, Gore said this in 1992:
1. Gore's segment was astonishly short (about 5 minutes) and perfunctory.
2. I thought Oprah's quote here was telling:
When Oprah turns on the television, she says she sees a lot more "green" products being advertised. "Green is what 'no carbs' were five years ago," she says.3. Oprah also said that "Al used the cash award from the Nobel Peace Prize and his own money to pay for that [$300 million ad] campaign."
Gore quickly added "...with the help from a lot of others, too."
Mainstream journalists seem strangely disinterested in finding out who those "others" are.
4. Note that while this Gore appearance was all about the dangers of CO2, the topic seems completely missing from candidate Gore's September 2000 Oprah appearance.
Remember, Gore said this in 1992:
"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."5. From a related post here:
Some mumbling by Al Gore at the end for good measure. (The audience seemed to clap more when they learned they would receive a free box of soy candles than for poor Al.)6. Following his latest Oprah segment, there seems to be a significant amount of criticism of Gore on Oprah's web site.
Why Steger's Global "Warming" 101 team is not providing daily temperature updates
In his April 21 audio here, around the 2:45 mark, Will Steger admits that the trip's "warmest" of 23 days has just occurred, with the temperature at -20 degrees F.
I wonder how much melting ice they've encountered?
I wonder how much melting ice they've encountered?
Coal'd Truth: European Power Gets Dirtier
Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Coal'd Truth: European Power Gets Dirtier
Here’s the umpteenth reminder that sky-high oil prices aren’t an environmental panacea. High crude prices are making oil-burning power plants in Italy uneconomic, so they are being converted to—coal-burning plants.
Coal Plant Remarks Spark House Ire
Coal Plant Remarks Spark House Ire - Business - redOrbit
Apr. 23--TOPEKA -- Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson said Tuesday that even if the Legislature overrides Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of two coal-fired power plants, the administration will try to block the project.
"We're certainly going to evaluate all of our options," said Parkinson, who is considered Sebelius' top energy adviser.
Parkinson's comments drew criticism from House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, R-Ingalls, who supports the $3.6 billion project.
"The lieutenant governor's comments are another example of the governor's administration ignoring the will of the people of Kansas and the future energy needs of our entire state," Neufeld said.
Wake me up when Global Warming's over
Wake me up when Global Warming's over | The Register
Today's climate warrior will have performed a 180 degree turn from twenty years ago: rainforests are now being felled in the rush to create biofuels, a strategy which is causing the world's poorest people to go hungry, and toxic substances banned from the home are creeping back in. The justification for each move is CO2.
No wonder Greenpeace's co-founder Patrick Moore wrote recently that "the environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity." Moore frowns on using the term "environmental" for the Global Warming campaigners. I can see his point.
Perhaps it's time hear from "traditional" environmentalism for a change, instead of its successor, the Carbon Cult?
Don’t blame climate change for Michigan moose decline
Don’t blame climate change for Michigan moose decline | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
Michigan’s summer temperatures have actually trended downward nearly 1 degree F. since records began to be kept in 1895, and Michigan’s annual temperature trend is flat with no change between 1895 and 2007, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.
Swedes weigh global warming versus a better tan
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...This winter, 300,000 Swedes booked flights to Thailand alone.
"We're talking enormous travel distances, so even if the flight is full, the total emission per passenger will be fairly high," says Kjell Andersson, head of energy and transport at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. "One Sweden-Thailand round trip is equivalent to putting 15,000 kilometers [9,300 miles] on your car for several years."
Such facts jolt Katarina Eriksson. The hardware store employee just returned from a three-week trip to northeastern Brazil and says she knows "we're destroying the world." She and her husband travel abroad every fall and spring – usually to Greece – and plan eventually to retire away from the cold climate of Mora, their home town in the middle of Sweden.
After trying a winter trip to the tropics this year, they're contemplating adding India to their 2009 itinerary. "You think of your kids and grandchildren – what will life be like for them?" Ms. Eriksson says. "But I live for these trips. I used to get depressed every fall and winter, and I think our trips really helped me overcome that."
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency recently asked the government to curb airport construction and to impose stricter emissions caps on existing airports to make flying more difficult and expensive. Mr. Andersson also hopes that a future European aviation emissions trading scheme, which uses economic incentives to curb pollution, will slow the travel frenzy – especially in a weakening economy. "We don't tell people to stay home, but we can apply financial pressures," he says.
Is Sweden Really Green or Just Rich?
Is Sweden Really Green or Just Rich? | OpenMarket.org
The conclusion is the one that you will hear the amazing policy fellows at CEI repeat over and over again, wealthier is healthier and richer is cleaner. The greenest thing you could have done to celebrate Lenin’s birthday today, eh…, I mean to celebrate earth day today is to help increase free trade, help do something to get another poor farmer or factory worker in a developing country get out of poverty. If they get rich, they can afford to clean up their environment, just like the countries on top of the environmental performance index have been able to do.
Internal Radiative Forcing And The Illusion Of A Sensitive Climate System By Roy Spencer
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Internal Radiative Forcing And The Illusion Of A Sensitive Climate System By Roy Spencer
Based upon the evidence, it seems likely that the neglect of sources of internal radiative forcing has resulted in diagnosed feedbacks which give the illusion of a climate system that is more sensitive than it really is. This has then led to the development of climate models which produce too much global warming in response to the external radiative forcing caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
Biofuels rethink looms
FT.com / In depth - Oil hits fresh high as biofuels rethink looms
...Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, said on Tuesday the country could push for a change in a European Union target to increase the proportion of biofuel to 10 per cent of road fuels by 2020.
Malcolm Wicks, the UK energy minister, went further, telling the Financial Times that the targets should be reviewed because of mounting concern that they are contributing to food shortages.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Green Politicization of Iwo Jima Photo Condemned by Black Veteran
Green Politicization of Iwo Jima Photo Condemned by Black Veteran
"For Time to compare the politically-driven hoax about the severity of man-made global warming to one of most pivotal moments in American history is a slap in the face to the brave men who fought their way up Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi to plant our flag and send a clear message that victory in the long war in the Pacific was achievable," said Martin. "To callously use a famous military image so important to our nation's veterans with seemingly no concern for its impact on them shows just how far those promoters of this hoax will go."
Senator Amy Klobuchar displays her lack of knowledge on global warming
Yesterday afternoon, I heard WCCO radio's Don Shelby interview Senator Amy Klobuchar about global warming. Shelby is clearly not a right-winger, but to his credit, he asked Klobuchar some good questions about global warming hysteria.
For example, he asked about the science concerning natural temperature changes that the Earth has clearly seen many times in the past. Incredibly, Klobuchar first replied that you only have to go outside or "talk to resort owners" to see the effects of human warming in Minnesota. Later, she did admit that "I don't think anyone can say specifically what's manmade and what isn't".
Shelby also said that the conservatives and "perhaps some Democrats" feared that a cap-and-trade plan could "put people out of business". Klobuchar launched into an inane anecdote about visiting a 10-employee solar company in Minnesota and "jumping up and down" on their solar panels to show that they can withstand hail damage. She suggests that cap-and-trade would result in job gains for Minnesota, and "if we don't develop this technology, they're going to do it in China".
Note that in an op-ed published yesterday, Klobuchar claimed that "The [climate change] science is clear".
As a member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Klobuchar owes it to her constituents (and herself) to become much better informed about the science of global warming.
For example, he asked about the science concerning natural temperature changes that the Earth has clearly seen many times in the past. Incredibly, Klobuchar first replied that you only have to go outside or "talk to resort owners" to see the effects of human warming in Minnesota. Later, she did admit that "I don't think anyone can say specifically what's manmade and what isn't".
Shelby also said that the conservatives and "perhaps some Democrats" feared that a cap-and-trade plan could "put people out of business". Klobuchar launched into an inane anecdote about visiting a 10-employee solar company in Minnesota and "jumping up and down" on their solar panels to show that they can withstand hail damage. She suggests that cap-and-trade would result in job gains for Minnesota, and "if we don't develop this technology, they're going to do it in China".
Note that in an op-ed published yesterday, Klobuchar claimed that "The [climate change] science is clear".
As a member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Klobuchar owes it to her constituents (and herself) to become much better informed about the science of global warming.
Isn't that special
Kulongoski hits the pavement for Earth Day commute | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional
Normally, an Oregon State Police officer chauffeurs Kulongoski in a Lincoln Town Car from the governor's residence at Mahonia Hall.
More from James Hansen
Timeline for Irreversible Climate Change
Hansen apparently thinks he's been elected the world's foremost Authority on Everything; this evidently means that we should follow his advice without asking about pesky mathematical details, etc.
If we WERE allowed to question Hansen's advice, I would first ask him this: Given the graph here, where are you getting this idea that we should keep CO2 under 350 ppm, rather than some other number like 1000 or 3500 ppm?
Hansen apparently thinks he's been elected the world's foremost Authority on Everything; this evidently means that we should follow his advice without asking about pesky mathematical details, etc.
If we WERE allowed to question Hansen's advice, I would first ask him this: Given the graph here, where are you getting this idea that we should keep CO2 under 350 ppm, rather than some other number like 1000 or 3500 ppm?
Sucking the Oxygen Out of the Environmental Movement
Coyote Blog: Thoughts for the Day
Observe today how little of the discussion is about anything other than climate. There are still many environmental issues in the world that can be improved by the application of man's effort and technology -- unfortunately, climate is the least of these but the issue getting the most attention. Consider how the global warming panic has sucked the oxygen out of the environmental movement. Ten years from now, I predict that true environmentalists will be looking back on the hysteria over trace amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere as a huge setback for real environmental progress.
A progressive in Utah weighs in
This Time, It's Personal: Earth Day: All This Focus on Global Warming Bothers Me
This bothers me.
Why? Because it's so easy to turn global warming into a political issue. And that turns it into something debatable. Even if we establish that global warming is happening, debate turns to whether or not humans are causing it, and whether or not humans can do anything about it anyway. Then the debate ensues over whether anything really should be done.
Trouble for Greece and Canada
Greece suspended from U.N. Kyoto carbon trading | Environment | Reuters
OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - Greece has been suspended from U.N. carbon trading in an unprecedented punishment for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, officials said on Tuesday.
A group of legal experts enforcing compliance with the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol also said it was opening proceedings against Canada for alleged violations of rules on accounting for heat-trapping gases.
"Greece is declared to be in non-compliance," the enforcement branch said in a statement distributed by the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, the first such ruling since Kyoto entered into force in 2005.
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Canada's emissions were 25.3 percent above 1990 levels in 2005, far above a Kyoto target of a 6 percent cut by 2008-12. Canada has said its target is unachievable, as it develops oil sands which involve high carbon emissions.
David Attenborough pays no attention to the polls
The Green Screen | Popular Science
In conversation, Attenborough's optimism about the current state of human interest in climate issues can seem at times naive: "In the last five or 10 years global warming has become incontrovertible," he says, seemingly unaware of the huge numbers of people who continue to believe it quite controvertible. "We have to work harder to convince people; over the years your country has changed its view," he says, glossing over the U.S.'s still tenuous relationship with the subject.
Why Edmonton will never get an MLB franchise
The Third Edge of the Sword: Why Edmonton will never get an MLB franchise
This is April 22: Earth Day as it ironically is known. Right now while eastern Canada is falling over themselves worrying about this global warming nonsense Alberta and her two neighbours are dealing with possibly the worst spring snowfall in history.
An ice age cometh?
About the author:
Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut.
Rudd's mates steer the ship
Rudd's mates steer the ship | Herald Sun
Hear it especially from Sam Mostyn, a former Labor aparatchik and now insurance PR, who instructed her session on global warming: "We do represent the entire community."
No you don't, sister. Not one Australian voted for you. Indeed, you barely represent even yourself.
I say that because every sign is that the summiteers were pulled together to give Rudd exactly the mandate voters never got around to giving him - a mandate for what Labor wanted to really do, but was too afraid to ask.
First step in this con was to select a crowd that would agree to any scheme involving Big Government, global warming alarmism and the rest.
And so of the 1000 delegates, an astonishing 118 came from a single Left-wing activist group, GetUp, whose former spokesman is now Rudd's press secretary. Dozens of serving and former Labor politicians were also dragged in, from Bob Carr and Barry Jones to John "No Water" Thwaites and even Joan Kirner.
Naturally, heads of the biggest green groups were drafted, such as WWF's Greg Bourne and the Australian Conservation Foundation's Ian Lowe, as were a whole glacier of professional global warming alarmists, from Tanya Ha to Tim Flannery. They were joined by a dozen past or present ABC staff, including David Marr, Geraldine Doogue and Jeff McMullin, and a generation of "stolen generations" propagandists such as Robert Manne, Lowitja O'Donoghue and Pat Dodson.
It worked. Of 100 summiteers asked to discuss climate change, for instance, not one was an identifiable sceptic.
Bicycle maker claims that bicycles can reverse global warming
Clinton Center's Earth Day to Feature 'Innovate or Die Contest' Winner
"We believe in the power of the bicycle," says Specialized's Founder and President Mike Sinyard. "We believe that the bicycle can be a self-powered solution for reversing global warming, improving the environment and making the world a better place for future generations."
Al-Qaida's No. 2 proudly stands with Al Gore on global warming
The Associated Press: Al-Qaida No. 2 says 9/11 theory propogated by Iran
Al-Zawahri spoke on a wide range of issues, even global warming, which he said reflected "how criminal, brutal and greedy the Western Crusader world is, with America at the top."
He predicted that global warming would "make the world more sympathetic to and understanding of the Muslims' jihad against the aggressor America."
Do You Need to "Believe" in [AGW]?
Andrew Winston: Do You Need to "Believe" in Climate Change? - Business on The Huffington Post
And at nearly every talk I give on green business, people at all levels in companies from CEOs down inform me that climate change is not real.
Major League Baseball takes a few symbolic steps and then claims to be a "powerful leader in the global green movement"
From a related link here:
By the end of the [2008] regular season, the Mariners will have traveled a franchise-record 55,000 miles.Also on the MLB web site is this article:
DALLAS -- When it comes to travel, the Rangers believe they are at the top of the league.Another related article is here, entitled "Dodgers' trip to China [from Florida] delayed a day by charter problem".
Their new 757 charter aircraft that they unveiled on Tuesday at Love Field is the latest evidence of that.
...The Rangers flew approximately 60,000 miles this season...
Unintended Global Consequences
Planet Gore on National Review Online
What better time than Earth Day to reflect upon a few of the calamities that we humans have visited upon the environment and ourselves. We would do well to remember that even the best of intentions can prove deadly when, in our preoccupation with precaution, we fail to contemplate the unintended consequences of our actions.
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