MPR: Bachmann says Obama plan is an 'energy tax'

While most of the several hundred audience members applauded Horner's and Bachmann's comments, several dozen college students came to the event to protest. Jared Smith, a student at St. John's University, said he was disappointed that only one side of the issue was presented. Smith said much of the information Horner presented was inaccurate.

"They pull out little snippets of time and when you're looking at geological times, you need to look at thousands, even millions, of years to show trends," Smith said. "He would look at 100 years and show 'This trend doesn't exist,' well you need to zoom out a little bit and look at things bigger."

Smith was also disappointed that Horner questioned the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, which is considered the world's leading authority on climate change. The IPCC says there is overwhelming evidence that the Earth is warming due to human activity.

Using the climate scam to sell more Tupperware!

THERE'S an unlikely new weapon in the campaign against climate change. The Tupperware party, where people gather to hear the virtues of the plastic food containers (and buy them), is being used to communicate a message about the environmental cost of wasting food.

Global Warming Is ‘No Longer An Abstraction,’ Warns Environmental Activist

New Haven, Conn. — We may be too late to save the world from meltdown, but we have to try anyway, so said writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben to the audience that had gathered in Marquand Chapel to hear his lecture on global warming.
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A Methodist Sunday school teacher, with self-described "pulpit envy" McKibben put the matter in biblical terms, referring to the book of Job "as the first great piece of nature writing"
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McKibben, who has written widely about the perils facing the planet, then described the dire situation in stark terms: After spending many years and research dollars trying to "bring down" the theory of global warming, he said, scientists "woke up to the truth" in the late 1990s when the polar ice caps proved to be melting much faster than they had predicted.