Monday, March 02, 2009

Global Shamming: EPA to Regulate Your Breath
Welcome aboard the BS Express, ladies and gentlemen. You voted for it so you deserve everything you've got coming; Government is now going to rule your lives.
You had me at "gut": Bill would ease utilities' energy targets | Seattle Times Newspaper
The state Legislature is considering major changes to Initiative 937, a state initiative approved by voters in 2006 that forces large Washington utilities to buy more renewable power. Utilities and large industrial-power consumers are pressing for change, arguing it would protect them from big spikes in power rates. Environmentalists and wind-power proponents say it would gut the initiative.
Georgia: Thousands without power, roads to ice | ajc.com
Following snowy Sunday, icy roads and bitter cold will greet morning commuters and travelers. Some public school systems are closed today, among them Henry, Troup and Walton counties. The University of Georgia also is closed.

For drivers, the Monday outlook was grim.
Lorne Gunter: Climate change double-think
I had been fully prepared for the alarmists to take credit for the cooling once it became undeniable. What I had not predicted was the hubris and intellectual dishonesty that permitted the warmers to insist they knew all along of facts contrary to their theories, but believed those facts reinforced, rather than undermined, the validity of their earlier claims.
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Taking exception to a column written by The Washington Post's George Will, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin -- one of the warmers' most reliable trumpets -- wrote recently, "I've not met a single scientist focussed on sea ice who would point to a single year's changes as evidence" of global warming.
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Winston Smith, of course, was the character in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty- Four whose job it was to rewrite history, literally, and send the old, embarrassing versions that had been overtaken by facts down the memory hole for destruction. As the consensus on warming crumbles, expect more such Winston Smith denials from the theory's true believers.

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