Obama gets heat for turning up Oval Office thermostat

While it is a perpetual summer in the Oval Office, the rest of the country has been trudging through a tough winter. Ice storms have cut power to millions in the Midwest and South.

Critics say Obama hasn't been willing to bear the cold like the rest of the country.

“It’s stunning hypocrisy,” said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of two books critical of global warming activists.

Charles Ebinger, director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institute, said that presidential roles and security measures would necessarily prevent Obama from being completely green.

Carbon storage scam pact sealed - Stabroek News

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Guianas yesterday signed a Grant Agreement valued at $23.8M with the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), in support of government’s bid to quantify the carbon storage capacity in Guyana’s forests.

The signing ceremony took place in the GFC’s Boardroom. The grant for the project is provided under the WWF Guianas Sustainable Natural Resources Manage-ment Project 2007–2011 and is funded by the Dutch Global Environmental Facilities (DGIS), French Global Environmental Fund (FFEM) and WWF-Netherlands.

According to a press release from the WWF, the project arising out of the Agreement will help to increase awareness and understanding internationally of the role of intact tropical forests in the global fight against climate change. The release stated that it will also help to put Guyana in an “unassailable position” with policymakers to receive incentives for the ecosystem services Guyana’s forests can provide if left intact.

If protecting Guyanese forests is really essential for preventing Guyanese children from frying in a CO2-induced conflagration, why should the Guyanese need additional monetary incentives?!