Democrats Abandon the Environment

Shamus Cooke writes: “As a banker, I also welcome the fact that the 'cap-and-trade' system is becoming the dominant methodology for [carbon dioxide] control.”Simon Linnett, Executive Vice Chairman of Rothschild Bank.

Can the looming environmental catastrophe be solved by environmentalists working side by side with Wall Street Bankers? Such a question doesn’t deserve a serious answer. The Democrats, however, are attempting to address the issue of global warming by developing a “partnership” between those who love the earth, and those who love only profits.

Such a marriage must surely end in divorce. But the Obama administration is enjoying maximum political gain from the blissful honeymoon period, while in reality the honest environmentalists have already left in disgust, even those previously committed to supporting the Democrats: Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Public Citizen, etc. They rightfully feel betrayed and point to the Democrats’ “Cap-and-Trade” environmental bill as proof the same bill that Obama and the media claim to be a “historic” step forward.

[Woman works on teeth of freezing warmists; Princess gives her a medal]

Now, 12 years on, she has received the Polar Medal at Buckingham Palace for her impact and hard work in Antarctica.

Penny was presented with the medal by Princess Anne in front of 300 friends and family.
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Penny began her journey when she applied for the dentist's position with BAS - one of the world's leading environmental research centres.

She began her first day in June 2001, and since then the job taken her to some of the remotest, and coldest, places in the world. She has had to get used to 24-hour-a-day sunlight, as well as treating patients on a ship.
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She added: "Being part of a large scientific organisation is extremely stimulating and being surrounded by enthusiastic science and support staff is really brilliant.

''When hearing directly from the scientists the effects of global warming in the Antarctic and knowing that I'm part of the science support makes me feel, in some small way, part of the solution."
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"I call for patients on a radio, who then have to get to the ship by skidoo and spend what seems like an age undressing from their Antarctic warm weather gear before climbing into the chair.

NC Media Watch: Have you seen the strange clouds? [and do the climate models handle them perfectly?]

NLCs INVADE THE USA: On July 15th, a wave of intense noctilucent clouds (NLCs) descended over the continental United States. Story at Spaceweather.

Similar reports have poured in from Oregon, Washington, Nebraska, Idaho, the Dakotas and northern California. These sightings are significant because they come from places so far south. When noctilucent clouds first appeared in the late 19th century, they were confined to latitudes above 50o N (usually far above). The latitude of e.g., Nebraska, is only 41°30' N. No one knows why NLCs are expanding their range in this way; it's one of many unanswered questions about the mysterious clouds.