July 2009 Archives

By Randy Parker, CEO, Utah Farm Bureau Federation

People are beginning to recognize the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill before Congress will increase energy costs, hurt our economy and likely do precious little, if anything, to reduce global warming.

Tom Tripp, a Utah magnesium specialist and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently spoke about global warming to a statewide gathering of farmers and ranchers in Provo at the Farm Bureau Mid-year conference. Tripp, along with 2,000 members of the IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

"Despite what you hear in the media, there is no scientific consensus regarding global warming." Tripp said. "The atmospheric data is not overwhelming and even with increased levels of carbon dioxide it is still only a miniscule portion of the atmosphere. If there are warming trends today, man may not be the prime suspect. For instance, 700 years ago global warming halted the Ancestral Pueblo civilization and it probably wasn't caused by SUVs," he noted.

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By Marc Morano - Climate Depot

Peer-Reviewed Study Rocks Climate Debate! 'Nature not man responsible for recent global warming...little or none of late 20th century warming and cooling can be attributed to humans'

Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are the dominant influence on climate, in a study just published in the highly-regarded Journal of Geophysical Research. According to this study little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity.

The research, by Chris de Freitas, a climate scientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, John McLean (Melbourne) and Bob Carter (James Cook University), finds that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key indicator of global atmospheric temperatures seven months later. As an additional influence, intermittent volcanic activity injects cooling aerosols into the atmosphere and produces significant cooling.

We at M4GW believe that we DID land on the moon, furthermore we believe the men and walked on it who say that Global Warming is a hoax.

By Marc Morano - Climate Depot

Former Clinton Administration official and climate fear promoter Joe Romm -- followed in the footsteps of former Vice President Al Gore -- by linking skeptics of man-made global warming fears to those who believe the 1969 moon landing was staged.

The embarrassing problem for Romm is that he -- unknowingly -- used one of the most prominent global warming skeptics, NASA moonwalker Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, in an attempt to "prove" climate skeptics are akin to those who believe the moonlanding was staged.

Schmitt, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, declared in 2008:

"The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities."

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

The government wants to shake us down for our visits to the lavatory

The vampiric and gluttonous feeding frenzy currently being enjoyed by the federal government under the pretext of climate change is set to be expanded with a range of new taxes on products disposed of via waste water, including cosmetics, toothpaste and toilet paper.

The "Water Protection and Reinvestment Act," H.R.3202, introduced last week by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore), will be "financed broadly by small fees on such things as bottled beverages, products disposed of in wastewater, corporate profits, and the pharmaceutical industry," according to Blumenauer's fact sheet.

I had to wear my down vest to softball last night, in JULY!

By ALEX EBERT, Star Tribune

A strong northerly wind is prompting the National Weather Service to call for a high of 64 in the metro area.

Chilly and blustery. That's the un-July-like forecast for today that is poised to push temperatures down to a record cold high for this date in the Twin Cities.

This cold weather could dampen spirits at Minneapolis' Aquatennial celebration, which begins today. Promoters have long promoted the 10-day festival as "The Best Days of Summer," but that could be a hard sell this time around.

By Elmer Beauregard

Last week at the G8 President Obama called for an 80% reduction in CO2 by 2050, I think this will be a problem. By 2050 the earth's population will increase, probably not double like it did in the last 50 years. But with heavily populated countries like China and India coming on line, the demand for energy will probably double. I don't think wind and solar alone can create that amount of energy, unless every square inch of spare earth is covered with either a solar panel or a wind generator.

Unlike his predecessor Obama isn't stupid, yet he speaks with such authority that this is an attainable goal.

There are 3 possibilities on what's going on here.

1. President Obama, though no dumby, is not very good with math.

2. He wants us to go back to an agrarian society.

3. He knows something that we don't know.

Like a new source of energy or technology that will totally revolutionize society.

By Walter E. Williams, WorldNetDaily.com

Here's what I wrote in last year's column titled "The specter of global cooling" (Dec. 24, 2008): "Once laws are written, they are very difficult, if not impossible, to repeal. If a time would ever come when the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of the global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more." On June 28, 2009, the House of Representatives, by a narrow margin (219-212), passed the Waxman-Markey bill. The so-called "cap and trade" bill has been sold as a system for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the struggle against global warming. There's a full-court press on the U.S. Senate to pass its version of "cap and trade."

"Cap and trade" is first a massive indirect tax on the American people and hence another source of revenue for Congress. More importantly "cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation, and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.

By Sarah Palin, washingtonpost.com

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.

American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.

Climate Depot

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about "global governance."

"I bring you good news from the U.S., "Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

"Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill," Gore said, noting it was "very much a step in the right direction." President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it "will dramatically increase the prospects for success" in combating what he sees as the "crisis" of man-made global warming.

"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements." (Editor's Note: Gore makes the "global governance" comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)

By Richard Cowan, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said her self-imposed deadline of early August for finishing writing a bill to combat global warming has been put off until after Congress returns from a recess that ends in early September.

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by Elmer Beauregard

Yesterday, Greenpeace defaced Mount Rushmore with a giant banner that had a picture of Obama and the words "Stop Global Warming", they said if Barack Obama wanted his face on Mount Rushmore he better do just that.

I say let's put his mug on there because he already has stopped Global Warming.
At the G8 yesterday President Obama said he would limit global warming to an increase of 2 degrees. Well that's an easy goal to reach because the global temperature has already cooled significantly since he has taken office. I think just the fact of him being President has scared off Global Warming forever.

This handout photo courtesy of Greenpeace shows activists scaling Mount Rushmore yesterday and hung a banner urging US president Barack Obama to get tough on climate change next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln. Photograph: Kate Davison/Greenpeace/AFP/Getty Images

Environmentalists yesterday scaled Mount Rushmore and unfurled a banner along President Abraham Lincoln's face challenging America's leaders to stop global warming.

Eleven people were charged with trespassing and the misdemeanour crime of climbing on Mount Rushmore National Monument, US attorney Marty Jackley said. They pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The environmental group Greenpeace said in a statement that three of its members hung the banner on Mount Rushmore while other activists blocked access to the site. Greenpeace said the climbers, using existing rock anchors that the park service uses for occasional cleanings, went up the back of the monument, then rappelled down its face to unfurl a 65-by-35-foot (20-by-11-metre) banner reading: "America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming."

"Our brave climbers rappelled down the face of Mt Rushmore to issue a challenge to President Obama: if he wants to get his face on this monument, he needs to be a true leader on global warming, not a politician," wrote Greenpeace USA's "Mike G" in a blog post yesterday.

By Elmer Beauregard

President Obama has achieved Godlike status and is now determining what the globe's temperature should be.

In an article about the upcoming economic summit in Italy, it is stated that President Obama will limit the increase in the earth's temperature to 2 degrees.
Here is that quote.

"He'll arrive Wednesday in Italy reportedly prepared to embrace the broad goal of limiting global warming to an increase of 2 degrees Celsius -- 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit -- in the global average temperature."

I was amazed to read this, the discussion went form how much CO2 the peasants should be allowed to emit, to actually deciding what the temperature should be.

If it were up to me I could see an increase of 5 degree C. You're going to need at least that much to make Siberia and parts of Canada inhabitable, not to mention northern Minnesota.

Appropriately enough, Mr. Obama will also be meeting with the Pope to discuss the weather, I mean recent "Global Warming" (formerly known as "Summer"). Maybe, together these two deities will decide what the Globe's temperature shall be.

By Marc Morano  -  Climate Depot

The latest global averaged satellite temperature data for June 2009 reveals yet another drop in the Earth's temperature. This latest drop in global temperatures means despite his dire warnings, the Earth has cooled .74°F since former Vice President Al Gore released "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006.

According to the latest data courtesy of algorelied.com: "For the record, this month's Al Gore / 'An Inconvenient Truth' Index indicates that global temperatures have plunged approximately .74°F (.39°C) since 'An Inconvenient Truth' was released." (see satellite temperature chart here with key dates noted, courtesy of www.Algorelied.com - The global satellite temperature data comes from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Also see: 8 Year Downtrend Continues in Global Temps)

Local Blogs - Guy Midkiff

What is science? I decided to pay a visit to my online Merriam Webster Dictionary and see how they described science. According to them, science means the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding.

In order to know something, it must be proven. To me, science is a proposition that has been proven by demonstrable processes that leave no doubt as to the truth of the proposition. For example, Copernicus did not hold as most scientist of his time, that the earth was at the center of the universe. This was the medieval period where science was fashioned and bent to powerful influences from the church and contemporary philosophers.

But true scientific findings should be free of external influences. Religion, money, philosophy, peer pressure, and politics have no roll in scientific determination. When these corrupting influences entwine themselves in the scientific process, the ultimate result is solutions before research - which is sham science.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 2, 2009

The controversial climate bill that is set to be taken up by the Senate on Monday after its passage in the House will legislate home inspections by government regulators who will demand to audit every aspect of your property under the threat of substantial and repeated fines if their visits are denied or their demands not satisfied.

The climate legislation is written in a manner that automatically assumes that global warming is taking place and that it is attributed to rising CO2 levels, despite the fact that this is a highly contentious question and is being rejected by more and more scientists as time goes by.