Prince Charles on MySpace: how greens are helping to kill the rainforests :: James Delingpole

This is what's wrong with the modern green movement: like one of its early founding fathers Adolf Hitler, it will insist on fighting its wars on too many fronts. Some of its battles really are worth fighting: over-fishing is one; the destruction of the rainforests is definitely another. Unfortunately, the main effort of its campaigning has been wasted on a chimera: the thing they used to call "global warming" and now call "climate change." As Bjorn Lomborg and others have pointed out, this has resulted in billions and billions of dollars being squandered trying to prevent a natural process, when the same amount of money could have been used to do real good: providing vitamins to deficient children; providing drinkable water to every person on the planet; etc.

It's also exactly where Prince Charles goes wrong in his video. He uses rainforests as an excuse to bleat about "the urgent fight against climate change" and "the battle against catastrophic climate change", conflating two very different problems: one real and quite urgent, the other largely illusory. If he stuck to the rainforests and ignored the anthropogenic global warming drivel, his message would have so much more impact and credibility.

Want To Buy A CO2 Generator? - Minnesotans For Global Warming

In the Description of the product it mentions:
"The burners used in Green Air CO2 Generators are specially designed to maximize the production of carbon dioxide and minimize heat as a by-product. This generator provides carbon dioxide far more economically than any other means of enrichment."

If you click on the Principles of CO2 Enrichment link you'll find this:
"Successful indoor growers implement methods to increase CO2 concentrations in their enclosure. The typical outdoor air we breathe contains 0.03 - 0.045% (300 - 450 ppm) CO2. Research demonstrates that optimum growth and production for most plants occur between 1200 - 1500 ppm CO2. These optimum CO2 levels can boost plant metabolism, growth and yield by 25 - 60%."

The media’s latest example of hype distracting public- The New Haven Register

Thanks to the media, a good portion of my time over the next several weeks will be devoted to explaining to patients why they probably will not die of swine flu. I have had patients call my office to stock up on Tamiflu. Local emergency rooms are seeing people because they are convinced they have “pig flu.”

This is just one example of a fictional crisis. The media creates plenty of them. Global warming is a made-up crisis too, but at least with global warming my office is not flooded with phone calls.

Even Berkeley residents balk at cost of global warming swindle

After two years of public outreach and debate on an ambitious and controversial plan to curb global warming, Berkeley's city council this week was forced to water down the proposal — which initially required an energy audit of every home — after angry homeowners complained the plan could cost them tens of thousands of dollars.

Experts say Berkeley's retreat may serve as a cautionary lesson to other cities and counties contemplating plans to fight global warming: Even residents of the nation's most liberal jurisdictions may balk when it comes to paying the price of going green.

"I think we can expect to see episodes like the controversy over mandates in the plan more and more, because environmental and political leaders haven't been responsible about the costs of climate stabilization," said Michael O'Hare, professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley. ''If you don't level with the public about the first part, it's not surprising when people balk at climate policy that requires them to do some heavy lifting."
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But is the approved plan toothless?

Neal De Snoo, Berkeley's energy program officer, who helped draft the 145-page plan, said no.

Even though it will now be voluntary, the plan still "provides a solid direction for where we need to go," and will ''give the city and homeowners tools they need to make these large (energy) reductions."