Thursday, February 19, 2009

Climate realist Wilson comes under increasing pressure over climate change row - Newtownabbey Today
EAST Antrim MLA Sammy Wilson has come under increasing pressure to resign his post as Environment Minister over his controversial views on global warming.
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Despite the widespread criticism of the Minister and his views, his DUP colleagues have rallied round him, dismissing last week’s vote as “political point scoring” and “silly games”.
Paul Driessen : Eco-Colonialism Degrades Africa - Townhall.com
“Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned,” British arch-environmentalist George Monbiot lectured readers of The Guardian, in a typically hysteria-laced column.

One has to wonder if he would apply the same standard to eco-colonialist executives who continue to perpetuate poverty, disease, malnutrition and death in the name of preventing “global warming disasters” that fewer and fewer respectable scientists still believe are caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.

It’s time to address Africa’s real problems and replace lethal eco-colonialism with fact-based science and humane public policies.
Steve Milloy’s JunkScience.com Quiz: Spot the George Soros hypocrisy
JunkScience’s George Soros-James Hansen Quiz: Which fact doesn’t seem to belong with the others?

1. “I think we have to stop the increased use of coal if we want to bring climate change under control…” [Source: George Soros to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, BusinessWeek, October 22, 2007

2. George Soros provided as much as $720,000 to supports James Hansen’s anti-coal climate crusade. [Source: “The Soros Threat to Democracy,” September 24, 2007]

3. “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.” [Source: James Hansen, “Coal-fired power stations are death factories: close them”, The Observer (uk), February 15, 2009]

4. Soros Fund Management, LLC (George Soros, Chairman) owned approximately $112 million in coal stocks (Arch Coal and CONSOL Energy) as of 12-31-08. [Source: Soros Fund Management LLC Form 13F-HR, filed February 17, 2009]

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