Tuesday, December 21, 2010

EU Referendum: Total eclipse of the Moonbat
The foolish Moonbat, along with his colleagues is plumbing new depths of stupidity, insisting in the loathsome Guardian that the "unusually cold winters" are caused by global warming.

It is not that he does not have a case (even if it is not very good). What make him so deservedly look the fool it that he, alongside the climate establishment, has spent the last decade or more trying to convince us that milder winters are a sure sign of global warming. Now, in the manner of Winston Smith, Moonbat seems to believe that he can rewrite history and we will not notice.
Environmental community shifts focus away from Washington with 'think local' strategies - Washington Post
As 2010 comes to a close, U.S. environmentalists are engaged in their most profound bout of soul-searching in more than a decade. Their top policy priority - imposing a nationwide cap on carbon emissions - has foundered in the face of competing concerns about jobs. Many of their political allies on both the state and federal level have been ousted. And the Obama administration has just signaled it could retreat on a couple of key air-quality rules.
MinnPost - Pawlenty wants ag disaster designation for four counties
Apple and grape growers experienced crop losses of 30 percent or more because of frost damage in Chippewa, Renville and Wright counties, he said. Losses to carrot, onion and potato crops in Freeborn County came in at more than 50 percent, he said.
Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: COLDEST NIGHT EVER TONIGHT -27 C
Heroes across the land defied the freeze yesterday as Brits face their coldest night EVER tonight with temperatures plunging to minus 27C.
Pondering a Polar Predator in Retreat - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com
Former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt sent an e-mail with these thoughts on trying to rein in carbon dioxide emissions using endangered species laws:

"The Endangered Species Act is not the right approach to control and mitigate global warming. No practical, real world way it can be used to shut down coal power plants in the United States, much less around the world.

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