patrickmead.net » Cowering in Fear As the Climate Changes

Michigan is about to face the brunt of global warming. We are taking precautions, stocking up on batteries, bread, milk, dehydrated foods, and full seasons of 24 and LOST. Today it got up to 72 but tomorrow the temperature is supposed to soar to… 69! Nights will be in the 50s. The low 50s.

This is to be expected. It is, after all, midsummer during a global warming crisis so dire that we must raise taxes, fees, and costs to every major business and, through them, to every single customer. Cap and Trade was rushed through without a single legislator reading the bill because the earth is warming so rapidly, polar bears are crying as they watch their little ice floe melt, and Miami disappears under the waves.

Except none of that has happened.

EarthNews » Archive » “Black Carbon” Chokes Chilean Towns

E&E News: On winter nights, Carmen Ahumada is unable to see across the street to her neighbor’s house. Visibility in Temuco, Chile, can be as low as five meters at times, she said.

Temuco, with a population of 300,000, has the fourth most polluted air in the country, according to local media. The burning of firewood for heating, cooking, and other uses is the main source of soot particulates, known as “black carbon,” that enter the air at levels 150 percent higher than the national standard and more than four times the World Health Organization’s recommended limit.

Obama Green Jobs Czar Communist? Van Jones Green Jobs Czar » Right Pundits

Is Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar a Communist? If you take him at his word he is. His official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Equality. That’s a fancy way of saying Green Jobs Czar that only answers to President Obama.

Palin vs. the Planet - Edward Markey

The future ex-Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, decided to dip her toe in the water on the national debate over energy and climate legislation in an op-ed in the Washington Post recently. Hailing from Alaska, one would assume the Governor might have noticed the water around her is indeed rising.
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The governor does not understand that Waxman-Markey is not a tax bill—as we explicitly rejected the carbon tax option in favor of a smart cap on pollution with price protections for consumers and businesses that will grow our economy and create jobs.

July '08:  Global Warming Led to ‘Black Hawk Down,’ [Ed Markey] Says

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) – A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.