Barack Obama’s Polluted Mind

Let’s take Barack Obama’s absurd assertion, that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant, one step further. By using Obama’s “logic,” life itself is built upon pollution. It makes me wonder, once again, if our new President is smarter than a fifth grader. For if one is familiar with photosynthesis – and most fifth graders are – it is a process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar. Plants only need light energy, carbon dioxide and water to make the aforementioned sugar. Photosynthesis, which cannot take place without carbon dioxide, occurs in plants (and a few bacteria) and is responsible for feeding nearly all life on Earth. But let’s not stop there. Another vital function photosynthesis performs pertains to generating the very oxygen which oxygen-breathing animals require for survival. So let’s get this straight Mr. Obama, you believe the life-giving process of photosynthesis is built upon pollution? If this is your firm conviction, then you have left me wondering if enough oxygen is making it to your brain. Yet what I do know now is that the gospel, according to Barack Obama, avows that life itself is dependent upon pollution. How utterly surreal.

Barack Obama, Al Gore, and politicians around the world are using global warming, and the outrageous lie that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, to increase state power and, thereby, reduce human liberty. It is an incredibly powerful scam which is frightening people into willingly giving up their freedoms in exchange for “saving” the planet. Therefore, step by step, country by country, the global-warming scare is helping politicians pave the road to socialism.

More pipes will pop as Montreal hits cold snap, city warns

City of Montreal officials are warning of the potential for more water-main breaks as forecasters predict even colder temperatures later this week.

In the past week, nearly a dozen underground water mains and valves have given way, from the Gay Village and Old Montreal to Ville St-Laurent and Ville-Émard, sending water into basements and onto some busy streets.

City spokesperson Darren Becker said the aging pipes are snapping as the temperature dips below –15 C.

The Grey Lady's Volte Face - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

In fact, before Kyoto’s came into effect the author of this piece (Andy Revkin) assailed and mischaracterized Bush’s judgment to eschew support for the pact, then studiously avoided mentioning the failure when the opportunity arose and, it seems, even gloating a tad during one of those annual false reports of a Bush reversal on the idea of such a treaty. When reporting on talks for a successor as late as this past summer, Andy only managed to throw in a closing line noting that Kyoto in practice wasn’t the gem it appeared (to some) in theory. But here we see that, in fact, it’s just . . . widely seen as a failure. Nothing to see here, move along (or perhaps “move on”?).