EPA Really Is Serious About Taxing Cow/Pig Emissions - Say Anything

I’ve said before that with global warming alarmists claiming that the very air we exhale is a pollutant they have an excuse to exert government control over every aspect of our lives. After all, if we can’t eat or breathe without polluting there’s no way we can avoid it. It now appears as though the global warming alarmists have that very goal in mind.

And we, in turn, should all be very alarmed about that.

NASA mad scientist tells Barack Obama Australia is destroying earth with coal emissions | The Daily Telegraph

AUSTRALIA'S use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the "destruction of much of the life on the planet", [an allegedly] leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama.
The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Professor James Hansen, has written an open letter to Barack Obama calling for a moratorium on coal-fired power stations and the use of next-generation nuclear power.

In the letter he says: "Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large
as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet."

Baby, it's cold outside : Editorials : Boulder Daily Camera

And so, as they always do, global-warming deniers will foolishly crow, "If this is warming, I'm Al Gore!" , exposing their own lack of understanding of the issue. The Camera even published an editorial cartoon Saturday depicting a half-buried guy complaining, "If only I didn't have to shovel global warming."

First and foremost, global warming is a statistically established fact. With a century's worth of data under the microscope, we know that global temperatures, atmospheric carbon and other "greenhouse gases" have been rising steadily.

Read our lips: There is no debate.
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The Earth's climate is an incredibly vast, complex and chaotic system. Perhaps we should leave conclusions about warming to scientists who actually understand the phenomenon.

Irony: Scant Future For Plenty

It turns out Plenty was paying attention to the wrong climate change: A tipster tells us the environmental magazine laid off almost the entire staff today after a funding round fell through.

Back in September, Plenty may have foreseen it faced extinction as advertising cooled. It was trying to cut a funding deal, purportedly with global-warming evangelist Al Gore. (Given the losses and layoffs at Gore flagship media property, Current TV, news of the former vice president's interest should have been recognized immediately as a bad omen.)

But the do-gooder magazine apparently moved far too slowly.

Our tipster said the money from Gore or whoever didn't come through, and that Plenty editor and publisher Mark Spellun on Monday sacked everyone save for a skeleton crew of four or five people who will keep the website going. Which is actually a net positive for the environment, short term, what with the rescued trees and all. We just wish the likes of Vanity Fair and the Times Magazine would do the same with their own much more cynical "green" issues.