Monday, April 12, 2010

Study Examines Federal Spending on Climate Change [Scam] Programs
According to the CBO study appropriations for work related to climate change totaled about $99 billion (in 2009 dollars) in the 1998-2009 period.
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More than a third of the total amount, $35.7 billion, was provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which may present a spending challenge. Under ARRA, federal agencies have a September 30, 2010 deadline for issuing contracts, ordering goods and services or otherwise committing the funds. Questions have been raised about whether state and federal agencies will be able to meet the deadline and maintain program quality.
[Do these people really believe that CO2 may kill their grandchildren?] - Telegraph
Long-haul bookings are up 14 per cent, according to holiday company Thomson, with India, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey among the most popular destinations.

Almost half of holidaymakers are prepared to travel further this year than last, a Thomson poll of 1,159 adults showed.
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Sightseeing was regarded as the most important factor in choosing a far-away vacation, followed by a hotter climate
Sunday Funnies: Stephen Colbert Moderates Global Warming Debate | NewsBusters.org
If global temperatures are lower ten years from now despite rising CO2 levels, it will be almost impossible for the alarmists to convince anyone but the hopelessly devoted that their theory has any merit.

Somewhat surprising that such an inconvenient truth would be so prominently displayed on the left-leaning Comedy Central, don't you agree?
Beyond the Limits of Earth Day: Turning Up the Heat on Climate by Denis Hayes [chairman of the board of trustees of the American Solar Energy Society]: Yale Environment 360
The only way that Congress will act intelligently and boldly on this issue is if we give it no choice.
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Politicians who try to ignore climate disruption need to start losing their jobs next November.
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The junk-science, climate-denying interest groups are rich, powerful, and ruthless. But they are mostly the same bunch that fought tooth-and-nail against the Clean Air Act four decades ago.

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