June 2008 Archives

By Elmer Beauregard

If you click on the above image it compares the North Pole Sea Ice last year on this day to today, and as you can see we still have a lot more ice now than last year at this time.

I did a Google search on "North Pole Ice" and there are 2,609 stories all saying that the North Pole will be ice free by September, it might as well be ice free right now the way they're talking.

But what if they're all wrong and Santa doesn't have to move in September, will all 2,609 columnists go back and print a retraction? I don't think so.

I am going to go out on a limb and be the only blogger in the world that is predicting that the Noth Pole will still be there in September. In fact if it goes out I'll shave my head (and I'm one of those people that doesn't look good bald). While I'm at it, I might as well sell the RV and move to Costa Rica, where people don't have to heat their homes or plow their driveways. Because if all these people are right and the North Pole melts, it's over.

By Tom Harris and John McLean - On Line Opinion

It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: “2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.”

But it’s not true. And, for the first time ever, the public can now see the extent to which they have been misled. As lies go, it’s a whopper. Here’s the real situation.

By Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute

Bjorn Lomborg explains greenhouse gas treaty would cost $180 billion annually, but do very little to help the mascot of global warming alarmism.

Want to save the polar bear? According to one expert, don’t think you’re going to do it by making significant lifestyle changes in order to reduce your carbon footprint.

In May, the Interior Department listed the polar on its threatened species list because of the risks of shrinking sea ice. But Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish author and professor at the Copenhagen Business School, told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 25 that the threat is exaggerated and wouldn’t go away even if every country in the world signed and followed the Kyoto Protocol.

NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his call for trials against those who dissent against man-made global warming fears. Here are 12 articles exposing his lies and exaggerations.

1) The oil money's paltry contribution pales in comparison to the well funded alarmist industry. (LINK)

2) Earth has COOLED since Hansen’s Dire Climate Warning in 1988 (LINK)

3) Hansen’s Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis challenged by UN Scientists and new peer-reviewed studies. (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)

4) Hansen who alleged Bush administration muzzled him -- did 1,400 on-the-job media interviews (LINK) & (LINK)

5) Media Ignores Skeptical NASA Scientist’s Claims of Censorship (LINK)

6) Hansen Claims 1988 Hottest Day Testimony was result of being ‘lucky’ – ‘We were just lucky’ (LINK)

7) Senator Admits Hot Day and AC Failure during Hansen’s 1988 Testimony was ‘Stagecraft’ (LINK)

8) An August 2007 NASA temperature data error discovery has lead to 1934 -- not the previously hyped 1998 -- being declared the hottest in U.S. history since records began. (LINK)

9) Hansen Received $250,000 from partisan Heinz Foundation & Endorsed Dem. John Kerry for Pres. in 2004 (LINK)

10) Media Darling Hansen Assailed by NASA Colleagues (LINK)

11) Scientist Alleging Bush Censorship Helped Gore, Kerry (LINK)

12) Hansen conceded that use of “extreme scenarios" to dramatize climate change “may have been appropriate at one time” (LINK)

Fox News

The heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be "tried for high crimes against humanity and nature," according to a leading climate scientist.

Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, sounded the alarm about global warming in testimony before a Senate subcommittee exactly 20 years ago.

He returned to the topic Monday with a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., given to the Worldwatch Institute.

"Special interests have blocked the transition to our renewable energy future," Hansen writes in an opinion piece posted on the institute's Web site. "Instead of moving heavily into renewable energies, fossil fuel companies choose to spread doubt about global warming, just as tobacco companies discredited the link between smoking and cancer. Methods are sophisticated, including funding to help shape school textbook discussions of global warming."

"CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of the long-term consequences of continued business as usual," Hansen continues. "In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature."

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Elmer Beaureguard

OK, I'll admit it, it's been a rough spring, we've had a lot of rain and tornadoes, a little more than usual, but that won't stop the Global Warming fanatics from using the recent floods and tonadoes for their own purposes.

I did a Google search for "Global Warming" in the news, and everybody is blaming Global Warming for the floods and Tornadoes. USA Today, The Associated Press, Science Daily, the New York Times even George Bush thinks this is the case.

But wait a minute, if Global Warming is causing all this severe weather why is it happening this year, the coldest year in over a decade? Why isn't anybody actually looking at the data and saying maybe it's the cold weather causing these storms, maybe its the lack of Solar Activity that creates more storms.

It just goes to show there is no science behind the Global Warming movement and its just a perfect way to tax and control us. We have a few storms a few floods and they can blame it on basic human activity, and create more taxes and raise oil prices. Which leads us to our slogan "Its Stupid To Politicize The Weather!"

WorldNetDaily

Hinchey joins Waters, says 'We should own refineries'

The itch to control the U.S. oil industry is spreading among Democrats in Washington, with Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., adding his voice to a recent threat to nationalize the energy companies' assets.

"We (the government) should own the refineries," Hinchey said today, according to a Fox News alert. "Then we can control how much gets out into the market."

WND earlier reported when U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., during a grilling of oil executives by a panel of U.S. House members, threatened to nationalize the industry if executives were unsuccessful in bringing pump prices for gasoline down.

A report by Fox News, captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com, showed Waters challenging the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, to guarantee the prices consumers pay will go down if the oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want off of U.S. shores.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations

NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

WASHINGTON (AFP) —

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged Congress to lift a decades-old ban on offshore oil drilling to reduce dependence on foreign imports and offset sky-high energy prices.

Calling the federal ban "outdated and counterproductive," Bush asked the Democratic-controlled Congress to take action to expand access to the nation's Outer Continental Shelf.

"Congress must face a hard reality. Unless members are willing to accept gas (gasoline) prices at today's painful levels or even higher, our nation must produce more oil, and we must start now," Bush said in a news conference in the White House Rose Garden.

By Elmer Beaureguard, June 17, 2008

In Arlington Virginia yesterday Senator McCain said the ban on offshore drilling should be lifted, and that it should be up to the individual states to determine if they should drill on their own coasts. I think this is a good move by McCain because now there is actually a difference between him and Obama. But I still have a lot of questions.

What about states like Montana and North Dakota which are sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world but aren't on a coast, why can't they drill for their oil?

Why doesn't McCain endorse the Republican proposal that Michelle Bachmann has endorsed the No More Excuses Act, is he afraid he'll look too Republican?

by Tim Pugmire, Minnesota Public Radio

Rebuplican Rep. Michele Bachmann. (MPR Photo/Mark Zdechlik)

As gasoline prices continue to soar, 6th District U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she has a plan to get back to $2 a gallon. Bachmann, who's running for re-election to a second term, outlined a strategy Monday to lower gas prices by expanding domestic oil exploration and production. But Bachmann's chief political rival says the election-year promise is based on bad policy.

St. Paul, Minn. — The national average for a gallon of gas is just over $4. The price at the pump was $3.83 at the Sinclair station on Century Ave. in Woodbury, where Bachmann stood with charts and explained her plan to give motorists a break.

"It is the No. 1 issue that I hear from constituents of mine all across the 6th Congressional District," she said. "I think it's safe to say for the bulk of my colleagues as well, they are hearing from their constituents that they're being negatively impacted by the high cost of energy."

By Elmer Beauregurad

SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!

In Night Shyamalan's new movie "The Happening" the trees release neurological toxins into the air to defend themselves from mankind. I'm sure that M. Night believes that man is destroying the planent by driving SUVs. But I think he should go back to 7th grade science class and learn about a little something called Photosynthesis.

All the activity mankind does like driving cars, heating their homes, cooking food and oh yeah BREATHING releases Carbon Dioxide into the Atmosphere, which of course TREES NEED TO SURVIVE! It's their oxygen without it they can't grow. It's called SYMBIOSIS.

If anything the trees should attack the Greeny Weenies because they want to to cut down on CO2 emissions, the trees' very lifeblood. And what about the vegetarians? Shouldn't the plants go after the vegetarians? Meat eaters eat the things that eat the plants, plants should appreciate the meat eaters. I think "M" has it completely backwards.

By Elmer Beaugreguard

It was a stunning blow to the Global Warming Lobby last week when their much ballyhooed Cap and Trade Bill was pulled.

This week they are licking their wounds, but that doesn't mean they are down for the count. They are spinning this as some kind of victory and are saying, just wait untill next year when Obama is at the helm.

Eric Pooley of Time Magazine says:

most environmental groups found reason to be cheerful. "We have taken comprehensive global warming legislation farther than it has ever gone before," ..."A national limit on global warming pollution is inevitable."

By MIchele Bachmann, Star Tribune

Senate bill would do great harm to the economy and little good to the environment.

From its name, cap-and-trade legislation sounds harmless enough. Unfortunately, cap-and-trade would be more aptly called "tax and trade" or "tax and spend" and it is far from harmless, posing a serious threat to our economy and our personal freedoms.

A parliamentary maneuver was used on Friday to kill debate in the Senate, but this is only the beginning. With many national leaders, influential lobbyists and powerful special-interest groups pushing hard for a cap-and-trade bill, there is no doubt that this is going to be a hot debate in the months to come as well.

The bill in question is called America's Climate Security Act. However, like the subject of this bill, global warming, the legislation has been the subject of considerable hype and little hard-nosed analysis.

The Senate failed to pass the Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill on Friday, putting any climate-change legislation off to next year. The Obama campaign responded to the defeat:

As this week's debate on climate change has unfolded, the American people and those watching us around the world had every reason to hope that we would act. Every credible scientist and expert believes action is necessary. This is critical and long overdue legislation that represents a good first step in addressing one of the most serious problems facing our generation. Like many of my Senate colleagues, I believe the legislation could have been made even better. Had there been a substantive Senate debate about some of the concerns with this bill, I believe the outcome could have generated broad support. It certainly would have received my support.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the Senate has chosen to block progress, rather than work in a good faith manner to address this challenge. This is a failure of our politics and a failure of leadership -- a President who for years denied the problem, and a Republican nominee, John McCain, who claims leadership on the issue but opposes this bipartisan bill....

Obama is wrong on two points: actually most credible scientists don't think anything should be done about Global Warming. The Petition Project. And McCain was for the Lieberman-Warner, Cap and Trade Bill.

WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, commented today on the cloture vote that effectively halted the Climate Tax Bill.

"This bill was doomed from the start," Senator Inhofe said. "When the Majority Leader filled the amendment tree and filed cloture on the Climate Tax Bill, it was obvious that the Democrats were not serious about supporting this bill. This was one of the largest bills ever considered by this Congress and probably the largest non-appropriations bill the Senate has ever considered. This bill deserved a full and honest debate, with amendments offered and voted upon. The American people did not deserve a political exercise geared toward election year politics. Republicans were prepared to debate this bill with over 150 amendments ready to be offered. The Democrats did not want to debate and vote on our amendments that were aimed at protecting American families and workers from the devastating economic impacts of this bill. The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments were considered on the Senate floor for five weeks, and this comprehensive climate bill demands at least equal debate.

"The committee process was short-circuited, the floor debate was circumvented, and the amendment process was derailed. I do not see how the Democrats use this failed bill as any kind of model for future success. As I suspected, reality hit the U.S. Senate when the economic facts of this bill were exposed. When faced with the inconvenient truth of the bill’s impact on skyrocketing gas prices, very few Senators were willing to even debate this bill."

Wall Street Journal

Environmentalists are stunned that their global warming agenda is in collapse. Senator Harry Reid has all but conceded he lacks the vote for passage in the Senate and that it's time to move on. Backers of the Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill always knew they would face a veto from President Bush, but they wanted to flex their political muscle and build momentum for 2009. That strategy backfired. The green groups now look as politically intimidating as the skinny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face

By Dale Eisman, The Virginian-Pilot

A bid to attack global warming through limits on most future greenhouse gas emissions collapsed in the Senate this morning, but supporters, including Virginia Sen. John Warner, predicted similar legislation will gain a majority once a new president takes office.

“I’m very delighted... that we laid the foundation for this very important legislation,” Warner told reporters. Congress and the next president must act “hand-in-hand to put America in a leadership position” in attacking climate change, he said.

The “cap-and-trade” plan put together by Warner, a Republican, and independent Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut was pulled from the Senate floor after supporters could get only 48 of the 60 votes needed to limit debate.

By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

In the Senate, opponents focus on pump prices and tax consequences.

alex wong/getty images/newscom

Debate: Gasoline prices and nuclear power threaten a climate bill that Sens. Barbara Boxer, Joe Lieberman, John Warner, and Senate colleagues are debating.

Washington - Seventy-four senators voted this week to begin debate on a sweeping bill to curb carbon emissions, but agreement on any point of law from now on gets tougher.

The terms of the debate have shifted dramatically from 2003 and 2005, when the Senate rejected previous moves to curb global warming.

Largely out of this week's debate are cries that global warming is a "hoax" or that claims that carbon emissions affect the climate are simply bad science. There's also broad agreement that Washington should increase investments in clean energy technology.

Instead, the fault line in this week's debate is the scope of the role for Washington in curbing emissions and its likely impact on the economy.

By Marc Morano, EPW.Senate.gov

The Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill has been called many things, but this appears to be the first time it has been called a “huge tax cut.” The reference to the bill as a “big tax cut” was made by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), despite the bill’s being considered the largest tax increase in American history.

“The biggest pieces of this bill, is funds for the American people, a big tax cut. If my [colleague] opposes a tax cut, he ought to say it. It is a huge tax cut for the American people,” Boxer said on the Senate floor on June 3. Boxer also said on Monday, “This bill has one of the largest tax cuts in it that we've seen around this place in a very long time.”

But the Lieberman-Warner bill does not have a tax cut provision in it. Boxer’s claim of “tax relief” in the bill is based on a non-binding Sense of the Senate resolution that says some funds “should be” used to protect consumers from the coming “increases in energy and other costs” caused by the bill (Section 585, page 204 of substitute version, Sense of the Senate on Tax Initiative to Protect Consumers).

By Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily

Thousands of Americans are pledging to fire up their charcoal barbecue grills, bask in the infinite glow of numerous incandescent light bulbs, shun recycling of any kind and take spontaneous road trips in gas-guzzling vehicles to increase their personal carbon output – all in protest of the Senate debate over a bill calling for a "cap-and-trade" system.

Grassfire, one of the nation's fastest-growing grassroots organizations, has declared June 12 Carbon Belch Day and is enlisting citizens to expel more than 100 million pounds of CO2 to combat climate alarmist propaganda and to take a stand against a "$1.2 trillion carbon tax."

By James Inhofe, Wall Street Journal

With average gas prices across the country approaching $4 a gallon, it may be hard to believe, but the U.S. Senate is considering legislation this week that will further drive up the cost at the pump.

The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will create the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR's New Deal, complete with a brand new, unelected bureaucracy. The Lieberman-Warner bill (America's Climate Security Act) represents the largest tax increase in U.S. history and the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways. Well-heeled lobbyists are already plotting how to divide up the federal largesse. The handouts offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pockets of families and workers in the form of lost jobs, higher gas, power and heating bills, and more expensive consumer goods.

Today is the day they vote on the Cap and Trade Bill in the Senate.

Call Senator Coleman and let him know how you feel.

And Sign the Petition

Here are some of my favorites.

Michele Bachmann at Towbhall.com

During the first week of June, the U.S. Senate is scheduled to consider Cap and Trade legislation - more aptly called Tax and Trade legislation. Here are some pretty depressing stats to consider should this bill become law. Be sure to click on the links for details. The bottom line: this is bad news for Minnesota.

According to The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis Report on the Cap and Trade bill (S. 2191), Minnesota would lead the nation in per-capita job loss should this legislation become law. Across the country, the already hard hit manufacturing sector of our economy would lose millions more jobs. Household energy costs would rise dramatically, and household income would decline.