Thursday, August 06, 2009

They Don’t Think Much of You, Part II - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Rep. Collin Peterson Tells Minnesota Farmers That “He Wouldn’t Want the [Cap-and-Raid] Bill That Passed the House to Become Law” — You Know, The One He Teamed Up With Waxman to Pass.
Arctic Ocean may be polluted soup by 2070 - environment - 06 August 2009 - New Scientist
WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic's most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming.
Al Fin: Peak Oil: Meet North Dakota Oil
Peak oil catastrophe and climate catastrophe are two useful facades to facilitate the agenda. North Dakota is an awkward counterpoint to the talking points. There will be more -- many more. This is a time for those persons who have escaped the academic and media camps with their intellectual curiosity intact, to start paying attention. Things are soon to become interesting.
Walking the Green talk — Hot Topic
To label this alarmism is wrong. I’ve not felt Greenpeace is pushing the boundaries in its warnings. It doesn’t need to. Leipold made it clear in the interview that the science has continued to move in the directions that Greenpeace has drawn attention to. Catastrophe is not an inappropriate word to use when pointing to the result of carrying on with business as usual. There is nothing to retract.

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