The Republican-American: Goring our earth

Al Gore is killing the planet. An investigation in 2007 by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research found his 10,000-square-foot, 20-room mansion in Nashville consumes more electricity in a month than the average household does in a year, and it burns nearly $1,100 a month in natural gas.

Mr. Gore travels extensively, often in limos and private jets, to promote himself and the cockamamie global-warming theory, which Mother Nature has spent the last decade refuting by lowering the earth's average temperature by more than 1 F even as atmospheric levels of greenhouse-gas emissions have increased.

On the carbon-footprint scale, Mr. Gore's is Sasquatch...

Wilson: What's needed to save planet is old-fashioned common sense

This is a news flash, but I’m no scientist. Neither are most of us being subjected to this nonstop, finger-wagging, schoolmarm lecturing about how man is the cause of any factor that can be labeled global warming (or is the catch phrase “climate change” this week?). But despite our lack of formal scientific training, fortunately most of us have what it takes to decipher what we’re hearing — common sense.

We hear how we’re horrible people if we don’t go buy those more expensive, dim bulbs personally approved by the King of the Dim Bulbs, Al Gore. What Gore won’t tell you is what a “risky scheme” those new-age bulbs become when they break.

Coal Industry Digs Itself Out of a Hole in the Capitol - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- Big Coal is on a roll in the nation's capital, winning early rounds this week in what promises to be a long fight over fossil fuels and climate change.

Despite a well-funded ad campaign by environmentalists attacking the industry, and a huge coal-ash spill in Tennessee that has led to calls for more regulation, the industry has received positive assurances this week from President-elect Barack Obama's nominees that the new administration is committed to keeping coal a big part of the nation's energy source.

Interest in global warming cooling off

It looks a lot like someone hit the snooze button on North American action to address climate change.
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But the Democratic president-elect derived a lot of his support from labour, and job protection is bound to be his overriding concern during a time of financial uncertainty.

Fears about imposing additional costs on U.S. industries that would harm their competitiveness doubtlessly will influence what Obama is able to achieve on the environmental front.

The U.S. government may opt to delay legislative action on climate change until 2010, the paper said.

Government accused of "blackmailing" firms over emissions trading scheme - 15 Jan 2009 - BusinessGreen

A number of the UK's leading firms have accused the government of blackmailing them into accepting conditions within the forthcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) carbon trading scheme that will effectively punish those firms that procure green energy.