Ren: The great global warming scam » Abilene Reporter News

It’s one thing to be a person of faith. But it’s an entirely different thing to lock that faith within a closed mind.

That’s when it becomes a religion.

Confront a liberal thinker on the subject of climate change, and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

A Simple Carbon Tax Would Cost Only $2.50 A Gallon And Could Save The World

True, it is not certain that global warming will destroy the earth. But nothing is certain when you're talking about climate change.
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If we do nothing, meanwhile, global temperatures seem almost certain to rise, no matter who is doing the predicting. The consensus model at MIT, which includes the forecast of global warming denialists, shows a zero-percent chance of no temperature increase over the next century--and a 10% chance of a catastrophic 12-degree one.

Saving the Amazon may be the most cost-effective way to cut greenhouse gas emissions - latimes.com

If the U.S. adopts a cap-and-trade program, companies facing carbon controls could meet part of their obligations by preserving Earth's largest tropical forest.

Flashback: New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests - NYTimes.com

By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.

“There is far more forest here than there was 30 years ago,” said Ms. Ortega de Wing, 64, who remembers fields of mango trees and banana plants.

Scrappage scheme ‘fails to cut pollution’ - Times Online

Research by the US Department of Energy calculates that the average new car sold in 2009 required the energy equivalent of 1,540 gallons of petrol to manufacture. The figure dwarfs the fuel savings of 61.2 gallons per year and means that it will take 25 years before the new car repays its “fuel debt”.

EU Referendum: Global warming is back

The routine of it all, though, is a killer for the global warming lobby. They can scream all they like about the planet heating up. Their credibility is shot to hell, covered in layers of white stuff and destroyed by the matter-of-fact sense of humour of a population that knows bullshit when it sees it.