April 2009 Archives

He's still just the "former" Vice President isn't he?

wattsupwiththat.com

What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like "NORTH POLE NOW OPEN WATER"? Or maybe "Global warming melts North Pole"? Perhaps we would. sensationalism is all the rage these days. If it melts it makes headlines.

By Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily

Regulators conclude biofuel can't help state reduce 'global warming'

In a decision anticipated as a major setback for proponents of renewable biofuels, California regulators appear ready to conclude that corn ethanol cannot help the state reduce "global warming."

In a hearing scheduled tomorrow in Sacramento, the California Environmental Protection Agency has evidently concluded that corn ethanol will not help the state implement Executive Order S-1-07, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Jan. 18, 2007, mandating a 10 percent reduction in the carbon intensity of the state's fuels by 2020.

By Elmer Beauregurad

Well it's "Earth Day" and everything is "Green" today, so much so that I want to throw up. So I am going "Blue" instead just to remind people that "nothing would be green without CO2" and we all emit CO2 when we breath, and if we were to stop emitting CO2 we would all turn blue.

CO2 is getting a bad wrap in the media these days so I figure I'd write a song about it.

It's been 50 years and Florida is still here.

Marc Sheppard, American Thinker

The latest Rasmussen poll reports that the lowest number of voters ever polled -- one-in-three -- believe that global warming is caused by human activity. That's an astonishing figure, especially considering the all-out green propaganda assault the mainstream media (MSM) exposes the public to on a daily basis.

After all, it's become nearly impossible to open a magazine, unfold a newspaper or turn on the television without being scolded about the selfishness of your energy consumption and the damage your unworthy existence does to the planet. And yet, Friday's Rasmussen found that forty-eight percent of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, not their so-called carbon-footprint. That's up 4% in less than three months.

By H. JOSEF HEBERT , Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare, taking the first step to regulating pollution linked to climate change, The Associated Press has learned.

Such regulation would have widespread economic and social impact, from requiring more fuel efficient automobiles to limiting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial sources, changing the way the nation produces energy.

by Steven Goddard. wattsupwiththat.com

In spite of the excess global sea ice area and the freezing Catlin crew, AGW proponents have recently ramped up the rhetoric about "melting ice caps." This has been based on a couple of points.

1. In the southern hemisphere, cracks appeared in a 200 metre thick ice shelf, as seen below.

The ice cracked, not melted - but that minor detail didn't stop nearly every major news outlet in the world from hinting at the fiery and imminent end to the planet.

'Obama has awakened a sleeping giant'

An estimated 1 million Americans participated in at least 1,000 tea parties, according to reports by organizers tabulating the nationwide numbers, with documented protests held in 50 states.

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform told WND, "The Obama administration has awakened a sleeping giant."

Tax Day Tea Party national event coordinator Amy Kremer told WND she has confirmed that more than 850 parties took place. She has at least 100 more reports in her e-mail inbox that have not been posted.

Asked how many people attended the events, she responded, "I would estimate it at over 1 million. I'm waiting on more numbers to come in from organizers right now. I can tell you it is absolutely over 750,000 right now."

Just in case you were going to a Tea Party and didn't have any cool sign to carry around.

Here are a bunch to download, they are 11 x 17 you can just bring them to Kinko's, or you can print them at 8 1/2 x 11.

Tom LoBianco, Washington Times

Allows action from those 'expected to suffer'

Self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who "expect to suffer" from it - from beachfront property owners to asthmatics - for the first time would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions under a little-noticed provision slipped into the House climate bill.

Environmentalists say the measure was narrowly crafted to give citizens the unusual standing to sue the U.S. government as a way to force action on curbing emissions. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sees a new cottage industry for lawyers.

"You could be spawning lawsuits at almost any place [climate-change modeling] computers place at harm's risk," said Bill Kovacs, energy lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Complete Article.

The Australian

Former believer Paul Sheehan, in The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, develops a new respect for informed dissent

WHAT I am about to write questions much of what I have written in this space, in numerous columns, over the past five years. The subject of this column is a book entitled Heaven and Earth, written by one of Australia's foremost earth scientists, Ian Plimer.

Much of what we have read about climate change, he argues, is rubbish, especially the computer modelling on which much current scientific opinion is based, which he describes as "primitive".

CARA JENKIN, AdelaideNow.com

AN Adelaide professor says climate change is unavoidable - but that humans are not the cause of it.

University of Adelaide Professor of Mining Geology Ian Plimer this week launches his seventh book, Heaven and Earth, Global Warming: The Missing Science, which aims to refute every scientific argument that humans are responsible for global warming.

Professor Plimer embarked on the project after being incensed by increasing public acceptance of the idea that humans have caused global warming.

Paul Fuhr, Cleveland Weather Examiner

"59" might be the magic number for Americans to start thinking twice about global warming fears.

59 scientists around the world have officially added their names to the much-publicized U.S. Senate Minority Report that denounces claims about man-made global warming. This pushes the tally of skeptical scientists to well over 700.

According to a new report, the 700-plus scientists are "now more than 13 times the number of U.N. scientists who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers." Many of the scientists are "affiliated with prestigious institutions" including NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Defense Department, Princeton University, as well as countless others.

By SETH BORENSTEIN , Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

Ben Sandilands writes on Crikey

Is misreporting really necessary to get the global warming message across to the masses? Or is the claimed fate of the Wilkins Ice Shelf simply a case of too good a photo opportunity to pass up, or in this case, pass off, as caused by anthropogenic climate change?

The news stories are making it sound like the snapping of the last ice bridge between one part of the crumbling shelf and its main body is a portent of doom for a warming planet. Only a small part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf is affected by this event. It is also located in the Antarctic Peninsula, which is milder and subject to higher snowfall than the main mass of the continent. The mass of ice involved is dwarfed by many larger ice shelf breakouts studied in great detail over the last 60 years in Antarctica.

It is embarrassing to see scientists and newspapers prostitute themselves in this manner. Are they that desperate to seek inclusion in the politically correct but unscientifically sound association of anything and everything with the truly serious matter of climate change?

By Elmer Beauregard

In the news, Hillary Clinton is talking tough with North Korea about their nuclear program, and the media is portraying her as a strong foreign policy figure. But lets not forget who gave them their Nuclear Technology in the first place, her husband. Yes it was Bill Clinton who gave both North Korea and Iran (2 spokes of the axis of evil) their nuclear technology.

In Obama's call for a One World Government in Strasbourg France, he likened commuters in Boston with Terrorists in Afghanistan.

"We also know that the pollution from cars in Boston or from factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, and that that will disrupt weather patterns everywhere. The terrorists who struck in London and New York plotted in distant caves and simple apartments much closer to your home. And the reckless speculation of bankers that has now fueled a global economic downturn that's inflicting pain on workers and families -- is happening everywhere, all across the globe."

He also listed all the reasons we need to be afraid and why we need a Global Government.

"For whether it's the recession or climate change or terrorism or drug trafficking, poverty or the proliferation of nuclear weapons, we have learned that, without a doubt, there's no corner of the globe that can wall itself off from the threats of the 21st century."

Amount nearly equals value of everything produced in U.S. in 2008

WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON - The federal government and the Federal Reserve have committed $12.8 trillion in spending so far to bailouts and "stimulus" packages - an amount nearly equal to the value of everything produced in the U.S. in 2008.

That's the report from Bloomberg News about efforts to reduce the economic drag of a debt-based recession - the worst financial crisis to hit the U.S. since the Great Depression.

"I think a new world order is emerging" - Gordon Brown

ABC News

The leaders of the world's wealthy nations agreed today to inject $1 trillion into the global economy in an effort to pull it out of the spreading recession.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who hosted the economic G-20 summit in London, called the investment the "largest macroeconomic stimulus the world has ever seen."

"We are undertaking an unprecedented and concerted fiscal expansion," a communique from the G-20 group said.

The statement predicted the stimulus plan "will save or create millions of jobs which would otherwise have been destroyed, and that will, by the end of next year, amount to $5 trillion, raise output by 4 percent, and accelerate the transition to a green economy."

Nick Loris, The Heritage Foundation

The current recession is causing Americans to take a second look at their household budget. Well, if Congress enacts cap and trade legislation, recently proposed by Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, families will have to take an even harder look at their budget and be forced to make additional cuts.

As recently acknowledged by a top White House official, a global warming tax could generate as much as $1.9 trillion in tax revenue over eight years, which amounts to a nearly $2,000 tax every year for every American household.* For comparison, the chart below indicates how much typical household expenditures cost families.

Written by Ed Hiserodt, thenewamerican.com

Over the past several years, it appeared that our society was doomed to succumb to what Weather Channel founder John Coleman has described as "the greatest scam in history": anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming (AGW). For two decades there has been an incessant drumbeat of propaganda attributing every weather-related event to an increase in carbon dioxide caused by the burning of fossil fuels. With the election of a president who is solidly in the global-warming-alarmist camp -- and with many high-level appointees who are bona fide climate-change alarmists -- coupled with a Democratic legislature anxious to please their environmentalist and media benefactors, the passage of legislation causing some form of economy-crippling energy taxation seemed to be a foregone conclusion.