Sunday, February 28, 2010

Moderate Republicans poised to gain ground in Congress - latimes.com
Republican moderates in primary fights are under heavy pressure to turn to the right. Simmons in Connecticut, for example, has renounced his past support for legislation to combat global warming as he runs to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd. And Simmons has taken to carrying a tea bag in his copy of the Constitution, a nod to grass-roots activists.
Steven Newton: Denying Science, Legislating Reality
Just as creationists fundamentally misunderstand how evolution works, those who attack climate science often reveal a startling lack of knowledge about the particulars of climate science and how science works.
Climate Change Preps for Its Scopes Trial
...the Medieval Warm Period they point to appears to have been a local phenomenon and unlike the current warming, was not driven by atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by human activities. They offer “shifting warm water currents” as an alternative explanation for the dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice; actually, such shifts are predicted consequences of global warming. They repeat the widely mocked claim that carbon dioxide is “the gas of life,” and therefore not a dangerous pollutant...
James Cameron - Cameron Goes Green With Gore - Contactmusic News
Oscar-nominated director JAMES CAMERON is teaming up with politician-turned-activist AL GORE to help save the planet - they will both appear as guest speakers at an upcoming environmental conference in Brazil.
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Former U.S. Vice President Gore, who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has fronted a global warming awareness programme over the last few years and he will join Cameron at the event between 26-27 March

2 comments:

susan said...

I wish luck to candidates who realize the idea of man made global warming originated in the 1970s with an international group of billionaires for the purpose of putting a stop to America. There were no climate scientists in the group and the meetings were secret. This group of billionaires in the so called Club of Rome is still going strong. A republican politician could go a long way for himself by exposing this scandal. But none will.

papertiger said...

Steven Newton is so sure in his convictions, so storng in his belief, that he hides behind Arianna's skirt to throw tomatos at skeptics.

Weasel. Climate weasel. Hey that's a good term for them.

Lets further define.

Climate Weasel; A proponent of the global warming falacy who is outspoken only when safely esconsced behind a moderated message board of like minded syncophants. examples: Joe Romm, Real Climate, various members of the public education system.