November 2007 Archives

By NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH and MORAG TURNER The Daily Mail

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible "mistake" of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.

By Elmer Beaureguard

On July 17, 2007 during the "Midday" show, Bill Kling the President of MPR was answering questions. At the 42:00 minute mark "Bill" calls in, after saying how much he loves MPR, he says that lately when it comes to the issue of Global Warming that MPR and NPR have "crossed the line from informing and is attempting to move us" he said this was "advocacy journalism". He said "it seems to me that the decision has been made that we not only inform people but we need to contstantly remind them of the issues surrounding global warming" and he was wondering if someone had gone out and gotten some funding to promote Global Warming.

He then referred to a story that he heard about 2 Geologists on a camping trip that had no news value at all. It was then at 44:45 in the show that Bill Kling said "NPR did recently get a grant... to cover global warming".

New fight over Big Stone power plant centers on carbon costs

by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio

Backers of a proposed coal-fired power plant near Ortonville had to downsize their project after two partners dropped out. This time around, the project's backers are figuring in the cost of carbon dioxide emissions.

St. Paul, Minn. — We've been hearing about the Big Stone II project for about three years now.

The basic idea hasn't changed. It's still a big coal-fired power plant to be built on the Minnesota-South Dakota border. The idea is to produce enough electricity for as many as 580,000 homes, instead of the 630,000 in the original proposal.

But here's what's new: The project's backers -- there are now five, instead of seven -- are starting to include the future cost of carbon emissions in their planning.

This is something environmental groups have been asking them to do.

By: Phil Brennan

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in (sic) allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environment whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon, they claimed to be a consensus?

—John Coleman, meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel.

Coleman goes on to describe what has taken place regarding what he calls the global warming scam.

“Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then team up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalists, [and] journalists to create this wild ’scientific’ scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to this radical agenda. Now, their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and becomes a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one [ABC] reporter has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.”

From Chris Welch and David Schechter, CNN

GRINNELL, Iowa (CNN) -- The college student who was told what question to ask at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events says "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was planted.

In an exclusive on-camera interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.

Watch video here

ABC 20/20 John Stossel's Give Me A Break on Global Warming

Takes aim at Gore, scientists for manipulating data for political purposes, financial again

WorldNetDaily.com

Taking aim at Al Gore and other "climate change" activists, the founder of the Weather Channel says the campaign to promote the theory of man-made global warming is "the greatest scam in history."

John Coleman, now a meteorologist for San Diego TV station KUSI, calls it a "manufactured crisis" by "dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives" who have "manipulated long-term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming."