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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 21, 2009 — An insecticide used to fumigate termite-infested buildings is a strong greenhouse gas that lives in the atmosphere nearly 10 times longer than previously thought, UC Irvine research has found.

Sulfuryl fluoride, UCI chemists discovered, stays in the atmosphere at least 30-40 years and perhaps as long as 100 years. Prior studies estimated its atmospheric lifetime at as low as five years, grossly underestimating the global warming potential.

Do You Believe In Manmade Global Warming?

Even Al Gore, in his October 12, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize press conference, said the following: "Global warming is the most dangerous challenge we've ever faced, but it is also the greatest opportunity that we have ever had to make changes that we should be making for other reasons anyway." Changes we should be making for other reasons anyway. This has been his refrain in speech after speech, and it begs the question: If global warming is the impending Biblical disaster he claims, why should any further rationale be needed to support his prescription? Could he be hedging his bets? [Via CO2 Sceptics]

Gore's inaugural ball was star-studded (even without Obama)

Then I spotted the real rock stars of the evening (at least if you're an enviro wonk): incoming EPA administrator Lisa Jackson and CEQ head Nancy Sutley. We exchanged pleasantries. (Journalists were allowed to mix with the dignitaries, but we were not supposed to harass them for interviews.) Other bigwigs spotted in the VIP section and the "platinum" VIP section: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jason Grumet, Van Jones, Paul Reiser, Blair Underwood, Lisa Ling, John Cusack, Jon Bon Jovi, and Al Franken.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also made an appearance, telling the crowd, "Nothing could be more important than the issue that brings us here." She continued: "I made this issue, reversing climate change and ending energy dependence, the flagship issue of the Democratic Congress."