Friday, February 20, 2009

Newsmax.com - California Weather Exposes Fiction of Global Warming
“It's the Gore Effect,” says a laughing James Taylor, editor of the Heartland Institute think tank journal Environment & Climate News. “Almost every time global warming doomsayer Al Gore speaks or his movie is shown, unusual cold or blizzards happen. And now we have the Chu Effect. He warns of global warming-caused drought in California, and the heavens reply with almost nonstop rains. Maybe somebody up there is trying to tell us something.”
I love this headline from alarmist Emily Gertz: "Well-Dressed Activists, Spin-Savvy Journos Equally Essential to Stop Global Warming"
From McKibben's description, this action looks like it's taking a thoughtful, course away from tired, self-limiting activist tactics that (in the opinion of this former activist) needed to be retired long ago...
Yeah, good luck with that one - washingtonpost.com
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to make her first overseas trip to China, where she arrives today, highlights the daunting tasks the new administration faces as the world scrambles to forge a new climate-change treaty this year: trying to persuade emerging economies to make deep cuts in greenhouse-gas releases that they have long resisted while coaxing Congress to adopt first-ever limits on the United States' own emissions.
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"This is an opportunity waiting to be seized," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who held a hearing last month titled "The Road to Copenhagen" and had privately urged Clinton to make her first overseas trip to China to discuss global warming.
While I was reading this Washington Post article on saving the world from Co2, I was amused that their accompanying video ad was urging me to fly Air France.

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