Obama stifles climate change skeptics | Nolan Finley - Editorial Page Editor of The Detroit News

If doubts are raised about the reality of global warming, it threatens Obama's ambition to use climate change legislation to fundamentally reorder American society.

Chilly July heading for record

Where's the heat?

"That's the big question," says Environment Canada climatologist David Phillips.

Windsor and other Ontario communities are poised to set all-time records for cold in July.

Exclusive: Green Delusions Drive World Conflict

The Green obsession of the Obama administration and its left-wing constituents is harmful to America’s position in a dangerous world. It will hobble domestic economic growth, weakening the financial and industrial strength the country needs to protect itself at home and abroad. It will promote the transfer of productive capacity and wealth to rising rival states like China. It is also driving potential allies like India into an alignment with China and other anti-Western nations based on the perception that the U.S. and Europe want to impose self-destructive liberal nonsense on the rest of the world.

Washington should worry far less about fanciful notions of global climate change and more about the reality of global economic change and menacing changes to the global balance of power. The United States must return to policies that promote growth and provide a framework for alliances that advance mutual progress in world politics, security and prosperity. Green is the color of an extremely bleak future and must be discarded, along with any further participation by the United States in the UNFCCC-Copenhagen process.

Why you should love your carbon footprint

The truth is that Cap and Trade is but a symptom of the liberal environmental psychosis, of which capitalism and the free market (and the prosperity both bring), are seen as dangerous and destructive. It is through this derangement that CO2, a naturally occurring substance — crucial for life on this planet, can be seen as a poison and we are all told to hate our "carbon footprint."

It is interesting to note that while science daily disproves the correlation between the growth of carbon emissions and increases in planet temperature, few people speak out about the undeniable correlation between the growth of our "carbon footprint" and the growth of our freedom, stability, and economic prosperity. You see, there are blessings to be found in those big honking carbon footprints. India and China see this clearly, and they have chosen prosperity over carbon credit tomfoolery. Even the little developing nations of the world, with their war, death, and famine, would like to have a shot at a little more carbon footprint growth. That is, they would like to reap the rewards, not the Hollywood hyped detriments of the industrial world. With the Obama and Gore liberals of today, it is the capitalistic smell of the carbon footprint that offends them most; and in defense of such wondrous things, I say, embrace your carbon footprint, cherish it while you have it, and remember what it has given you. In reality, it is not a burning planet but prosperity, stability, and economic growth. Not a bad smell indeed.