Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Green Is the New Red by Rich Lowry on National Review Online
For liberals and the media, there is never a “left-wing extremist.”
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For Jones, the environmental movement is a perfect vehicle. In today’s America, it is the most natural place for someone with Marxist sensibilities and aspirations outside a college English department. A frontal assault on capitalism on behalf of the working people of the world is passé and doomed. A stealth assault on capitalism in the name of saving the planet is chic and entirely plausible. In this sense, green is the new red.
Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth – Robinson Jeffers poem predicted global warming in early 1960s - True/Slant
Throughout the 20th Century, scientists occasionally predicted the ice caps would melt, but there was no consensus, and they were as likely to predict a coming ice age.
Hedegaard: Climate deal hinges on China and India - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
A new global treaty on climate change hinges on China and India agreeing to limit their CO2 emissions, Denmark's climate and energy minister Connie Hedegaard said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
[Lack of global warming tough on Iowa and Minnesota pheasants] - TwinCities.com
Weather: Until this year, Minnesota was on a roll with eight consecutive years of mild winters to boost pheasant populations to levels not seen in 40 years. Kurt Haroldson, Minnesota's pheasant biologist, said last winter's moderately severe conditions cause the pheasant hen population to decline. That trend was made worse by three cold days in June that significantly hurt brood survival.

Iowa, on the other hand, has been pummeled by winter storms and cold springs in recent years. This July was the coldest on record since the 1870s, Bogenschutz said.

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