Waxman-Markey climate bill up for crucial House vote on Friday, says Gore

“For those who care about the global warming catastrophe -- this is the moment,” Al Gore told thousands of environmental activists Tuesday night during a nationwide conference call.

On Friday, The American Clean Energy & Security Act (Waxman-Markey) is coming up for a House vote. Gore’s job was to rally the foot soldiers enlist their help in passing pass the legislation, which he acknowledged could come down to a narrow margin.

WISCONSIN: State budget helps fund climate change [propaganda] lab at Aldo Leopold Nature Center

A science education center in Monona, funded in part with a $500,000 taxpayer grant slipped into the state budget with little scrutiny, could serve as a national model for teaching young people about climate change, organizers said.

"Climate change is the single biggest issue that’s going to affect our lives, and it’s not just global warming,” said Terry Kelly, chairman of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center, which is developing the $2.7 million, 4,000-square-foot classroom addition and interactive laboratory on its campus.

“It affects food growing. It affects the spread of disease. It affects our coasts and oceans. It just has a massive impact on life, not to mention energy policy.”
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“It’s part of a slew of earmarks (and) pork that have been inserted in the budget at the last minute at a time when we have a $6.6 billion deficit,” said Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, the top Senate Republican on the Legislature’s budget committee.