Green Stimulus: Tying Economic Package to Energy and Environment Plan Is Not Workable

There is plenty of reason to believe that Congress's proposed stimulus package will not work. A recent Heritage Foundation analysis noted that such government spending "cannot be stimulative because every dollar that government spending 'injects' into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy. Rather than create new purchasing power, these policies merely redistribute existing purchasing power."

But don't they get fatal kidney stones on slightly warm days?: Help save robins from starvation

RSPB wildlife adviser Lee Hollingsworth said: "It's incredible that such small, fragile creatures as robins survive at all as it gets really cold, especially as they need to feed themselves more or less all day long.

"A couple of days of bitter cold and ice-covered ground is enough to kill many birds..."

Man, 93, freezes to death after city limits power | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Water in the kitchen sink was frozen. Frost covered the inside of the windows.

The temperature inside the modest Bay City house had plummeted below 32 degrees.

The bitter cold slowly and painfully killed the 93-year-old man living there earlier this month, a medical examiner said Monday.

Several days before his death, the city had placed a device on Marvin Schur's home that shuts off electricity if a certain limit is exceeded, said a city official.
[Update: Schur was a World War II vet.]

James M. Taylor: Scientists flip-flop on Antarctic melting | detnews.com | The Detroit News

When dealing with the latest hysterical claims about global warming, it's essential to keep in mind a fundamental principle of science: Theories must be testable. A scientific theory describes a predicted outcome and one or more means by which the theory can be tested.

Far from supporting a sound scientific theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis, last week's assertion by prominent global warming alarmists that Antarctica is getting warmer illustrates the flip-flopping nature of global warming predictions.
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Sound science dictates that a theory be testable and conform to known facts. When it is asserted that anything and everything that could possibly happen is consistent with and proves a certain set of beliefs, that is not science. That is religion, and nothing more.