Hot Air Tour offers free balloon rides at Agri Park Thursday

The Hot Air Tour will stop first at McArthur Park in Little Rock at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The wording on the side of the large red balloon reads "Cap and trade means lost jobs, higher taxes (and) less freedom."

The tour's message focuses on the cost of climate change legislation, not on the debate over the science of global warming.

In defense of climate fraud: "Deadly heat" | Salon

"Any number is going to be controversial," says Eban Goodstein, an environmental economist at Lewis & Clark College. "But I think the general point is that we're already seeing severe climate stresses in places like Australia and Africa, and it's having real-world impacts. Global warming is just an added stressor on the backs of poor people in developing countries, who are already facing difficult lives."
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The authors of the report do suggest that their mortality numbers are by no means exact. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, one of 12 experts who reviewed the report before publication, told the New York Times' Andrew Revkin that reporting the numbers as fact is a mistake: "I don't think headline numbers that give a sense of precision we don't have are either necessary or helpful..."

Green Left - Resistance!: AUSTRALIA: Capitalism kills the Earth

The threat of climate change means that for the first time humanity is faced with the very real possibility of extinction. The root cause of the ecological crisis is capitalism’s drive to maximise immediate profits above all else.
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Stopping climate change is impossible unless the profit motive is removed from the equation. The crisis poses a big choice. We can continue in the ways of capitalism and an unhabitable planet, or we can start down the democratic socialist path — a path of harmony with nature, grassroots democracy and respect for life.