Friday, August 20, 2010

13 US Senate candidates field questions at forum - The Herald Dispatch
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. (AP) — Several candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Robert C. Byrd say they would support a balanced budget amendment to bring federal spending under control.
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Responding to questions on the environment, [GOP candidate Mac Warner of Morgantown]  said he didn’t “buy into the global warming theory.”

“Yes, humans have some role but it is so small and the books have been cooked to show something otherwise,” he said.
Russia sets minimum carbon offset price - Aug 20 2010 - Breaking News - Envirotech Online
Russia has established a minimum price for carbon offsets under the environmental legislation of the Kyoto Protocol.
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Countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol may not be bound by the environmental legislation for much longer, after an article in New Scientist stated that there are "big uncertainties" regarding its members' carbon emission results, suggesting it might be an ineffective means of preventing climate change.
THEATRE: Earthquakes in London
Despite what you might have read, this is a fairly simple story of a climate scientist bought off to keep his mouth shut about the effects of global warming, and his three estranged daughters and their partners desperately trying to find meaning in their very different lives.
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Mike Bartlett tackles climate change head-on, but as one audience member pointed out, this never felt ‘preachy’, principally, because the characters are so accessible. Jasmine (Jessica Raine) is a gobby, smart, self-destructive student – the complete opposite of sister Sarah (Lia Williams), a Lib Dem Minster for Energy and Environment in the new coalition government. Freya (Anna Madeley) a vaguely messianic mother-to-be, hassled by her young pupil Peter (Bryony Hannah) glimpses a dystopic future Britain in which her unborn daughter will suffer so much she will regret her own birth.
Top 10 things that are a bigger rip-off than James Milner's transfer to Manchester City - Goal.com
3) Carbon Tax

There are two ways I decide whether I want to talk to someone. First of all, I ask if they think Pippo Inzaghi is a legend. Secondly, I ask for their opinion on global warming. If the answer to (1) is no, and the reply to (2) is ‘global warming is man-made’ – the conversation ends there and then. The biggest scam of our generation has seen Al Gore become a billionaire through his investment in green energy companies, and the brain-washing scare-mongering is just another way of the elite consolidating their control of the world and filling their wallets. Fact: Global warming is down to the sun, not humans. Temperatures have fluctuated for thousands of years, and they have gone up and down relative with sunspots. Eight-hundred years ago, during the medieval warm period, it was far warmer than today. Was it all down to those horse and carriages polluting the planet?

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