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    <title>Chanel muses on global cooling with iceberg show</title>
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    <published>2010-03-10T22:18:56Z</published>
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    <summary> By Sophie Hardach and Mathilde Gardin, Reuters - Vancouver Sun PARIS -- An event based around hundreds of fashionistas flying in from all over the world was never going to be a convincing platform for environmental campaigning, but designers...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Chanel+muses+global+cooling+with+iceberg+show/2666451/story.html"> By Sophie Hardach and Mathilde Gardin, Reuters - Vancouver Sun</a></p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2666375.jpg"><img alt="2666375.jpg" src="http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/assets_c/2010/03/2666375-thumb-300x209-343.jpg" width="300" height="209" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>PARIS -- An event based around hundreds of fashionistas flying in from all over the world was never going to be a convincing platform for environmental campaigning, but designers in Paris haven't let that stop them.</p>

<p>While British designer Vivienne Westwood regularly rails against global warming, fashion king Karl Lagerfeld trumped her with a rival theory at the Chanel show on Monday: the globe is in fact cooling, and he has an iceberg to prove it.</p>

<p>"Have you felt any warming this winter?" Lagerfeld, with trademark black sunglasses and white ponytail, told reporters after showing his autumn collection, referring to freezing cold weather outside. "Maybe that's all nonsense, who knows."</p>

<p>Lagerfeld had erected a huge iceberg in the middle of the glass-domed Grand Palais to mark his chilly theme, dressing models in fake fur trousers and yeti boots to prepare them for the coming ice age.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>"In any case, nature has its surprises," he added wisely.</p>

<p>Chanel's classic tweed suit was reinforced with fur-trimmed sleeves and hems. The tweed itself was lightened up as Lagerfeld used wool-embroidered organza instead of classic heavy tweed.</p>

<p>Animal fur has been making a comeback on catwalks in recent years, despite fierce protests from animal rights activists, but Lagerfeld said he had opted for a compromise.</p>

<p>"There wasn't any real fur, it's all fake. The word 'synthetic' is horrible, fake fur used to be hideous but there's been enormous progress," he said.</p>

<p>In a celebration of Lagerfeld's northern German roots, a deep male voice sang "Ich moechte ein Eisbaer sein" ("I want to be a polar bear") over techno beats as models trotted around the iceberg in swinging long coats and snug white dresses.</p>

<p>It was not the first time Lagerfeld has dabbled in green politics. At the spring collection last year, he staged a country fete around a barn and declared that environmental activists had a point but should learn to dress better.</p>]]>
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    <title>M4GW is Back!</title>
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    <published>2010-03-10T14:40:16Z</published>
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    <summary>After many hours in the network bathroom and talking to Network Solutions for hours around the clock and around the globe, M4GW.com is back up!...</summary>
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    <title>We Are Experiencing Some Technical Difficulites</title>
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    <published>2010-03-08T23:33:17Z</published>
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    <summary>For those of you out there who have noticed that M4GW.com is down. We are aware of this and we apologize for any inconvenience. But don&apos;t worry our Cracker Jacks box team of IT specialist is working around a clock...</summary>
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<p>But don't worry our Cracker Jacks box team of IT specialist is working around a clock to figure out which email account our domain renewal notice was sent to.</p>

<p>In the mean time I can be reached <a href="mailto:info@minnesotansforglobalwarming.com">here</a>, or leave a comment I also read those too.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Best Al Gore Cartoon Ever!</title>
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    <published>2010-03-08T22:59:20Z</published>
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    <summary>This week&apos;s cover of the Weekly Standard is the best caricature of Al Gore I&apos;ve seen yet. It shows him in his birthday suit with 2 Polar Bears laughing and pointing at him. I can&apos;t help but think of the...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><big><strong>This week's cover of the Weekly Standard is the best caricature of Al Gore I've seen yet.</strong></big></p>

<p>It shows him in his birthday suit with 2 Polar Bears laughing and pointing at him. I can't help but think of the story of the "The Emperor's New Clothes" which I often refer to on this blog and is the inspiration for the name of our band "The Frozen Emperors"</p>

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<p>The Weekly Standard's cover story is called "In Denial, The meltdown of the climate campaign" here is an excerpt:</p>

<p><em> It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago--changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.</em><br />
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    <title> 50 ships stuck in Baltic thick ice</title>
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    <published>2010-03-06T02:21:10Z</published>
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    <summary> A handout photo released by the Swedish Coast Guard shows a large cargo ship stuck in the ice in the Baltic Sea. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) STOCKHOLM, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish Maritime Administration said on Thursday that about 50...</summary>
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<small><em>A handout photo released by the Swedish Coast Guard shows a large cargo ship stuck in the ice in the Baltic Sea. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)</em></small></p>

<p>STOCKHOLM, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish Maritime Administration said on Thursday that about 50 vessels are stuck in the thick ice in the Baltic sea off Sweden's east coast.</p>

<p>Among the vessels, there are six large passenger ferries which are in total carrying more than 2,000 passengers, the administration said in a statement.</p>

<p>Two of the ferries, including the large Isabella passenger ferry carrying 1,322 passengers and crew, have been freed.</p>

<p>Four other vessels, including the Amorella, another passenger ferry with 753 passengers and 190 crew members aboard, are still stuck.</p>

<p>The administration has sent all the ice breakers in the area to free the ferries, but gale-force winds are hampering the effort.</p>

<p>No one is hurt and there are no immediate plans to bring people off the ferries, but helicopters and military hovercraft are on standby in case evacuations become necessary, the administration added.</p>

<p>Sweden has suffered an unusually harsh winter this year, with temperatures across the country almost continuously lying well below freezing since December. </p>]]>
        
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    <title>Climate Panel Pile-Up: UN to double-check fuzzy research </title>
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    <published>2010-03-04T14:39:06Z</published>
    <updated>2010-03-04T14:39:49Z</updated>

    <summary> UN looks to set a new panel overseeing the old one.. Body in question is the IPCC responsible for monitoring climate change. Lately it was accused of fuzzy research hyping the hysteria surrounding global warming....</summary>
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<p>UN looks to set a new panel overseeing the old one.. Body in question is the IPCC responsible for monitoring climate change. Lately it was accused of fuzzy research hyping the hysteria surrounding global warming.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say</title>
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    <published>2010-03-03T14:50:39Z</published>
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    <summary>By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times To meet the Obama administration&apos;s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say/">By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times</a></p>

<p>To meet the Obama administration's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.</p>

<p>To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.</p>

<p>The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency's budget for fiscal 2010.</p>

<p>In their study, the researchers devised several combinations of steps that United States policymakers might take in trying to address the heat-trapping emissions by the nation's transportation sector, which consumes 70 percent of the oil used in the United States.</p>

<p>Most of their models assumed an economy-wide carbon dioxide tax starting at $30 a ton in 2010 and escalating to $60 a ton in 2030. In some cases researchers also factored in tax credits for electric and hybrid vehicles, taxes on fuel or both.</p>

<p>In the modeling, it turned out that issuing tax credits could backfire, while taxes on fuel proved beneficial.</p>

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    <title>Argentinian Couple Shoot Kids, Kill Themselves Over Global Warming </title>
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    <published>2010-03-02T15:13:18Z</published>
    <updated>2010-03-02T15:19:26Z</updated>

    <summary>Steve Watson, PrisonPlanet.com Eco suicide pact: Miraculous survival of seven month old baby A seven month old baby has miraculously survived being shot after the parents killed themselves and their two year old son, citing fears over a lack of...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/argentinian-couple-shoot-kids-kill-themselves-over-global-warming.html">Steve Watson, PrisonPlanet.com</a></p>

<p><strong>Eco suicide pact: Miraculous survival of seven month old baby</strong></p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2010/03/02/Protestor.jpg"><img alt="Protestor.jpg" src="http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/assets_c/2010/03/Protestor-thumb-300x181-333.jpg" width="300" height="181" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>A seven month old baby has miraculously survived being shot after the parents killed themselves and their two year old son, citing fears over a lack of government action on global warming.</p>

<p>Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, are said to have shot their young son in the back, killing the toddler instantly.</p>

<p>Neighbors called the police, after complaining of a stench coming from the house.</p>

<p>Police broke into the property and discovered the horrific scene three days after the shooting, the Latin American Herald reported Saturday.</p>

<p>Still alive, but covered in blood, the baby was rushed to the hospital where it was revealed that the bullet from her father's handgun had somehow missed all the child's vital organs, lodging itself in her chest.</p>

<p>In a suicide note, reportedly discovered by police, the couple cited their extreme fears over the effects of global warming.</p>

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    <title>Al Gore&apos;s Personality Disorder</title>
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    <published>2010-03-02T14:51:07Z</published>
    <updated>2010-03-02T14:59:15Z</updated>

    <summary>Henry I. Miller, Forbes.com Is the former vice president not-so-secretly a narcissistic, shameless phony? Just when we thought that--finally--we wouldn&apos;t have Al Gore to kick around any more, he resurfaces with a characteristically apocalyptic, know-it-all New York Times op-ed about...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/01/al-gore-environment-climate-change-opinions-contributors-henry-i-miller.html?boxes=opinionschannellatest">Henry I. Miller, Forbes.com</a><br />
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Is the former vice president not-so-secretly a narcissistic, shameless phony?</strong></p>

<p>Just when we thought that--finally--we wouldn't have Al Gore to kick around any more, he resurfaces with a characteristically apocalyptic, know-it-all New York Times op-ed about global warming, "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."</p>

<p>How awful a calamity? "The displacement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees, civil unrest, chaos and the collapse of governance in many developing countries, large-scale crop failures and the spread of deadly diseases." Sounds almost as bad as a Gore presidency.</p>

<p>Leaving aside the school-marmish, patronizing attitude that makes him such a magnet for parody (recall the Saturday Night Live send-ups before the 2000 general election), how believable is Gore? </p>

<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/01/al-gore-environment-climate-change-opinions-contributors-henry-i-miller.html?boxes=opinionschannellatest">Rest of the article.</a></p>]]>
        
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    <title>A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore </title>
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    <published>2010-03-02T14:42:41Z</published>
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    <summary>﻿﻿Investors Business Daily Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody&apos;s perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you. If hyperbole and...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=522575">﻿﻿Investors Business Daily</a></p>

<p>Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you.</p>

<p>If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore's op-ed in Sunday's New York Times. Gore surfaced from the global warming witness-protection program to opine that despite admissions of error and evidence of fraud by various agencies, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."</p>

<p>Perhaps he's trying to protect his investments as he knows them, for he is heavily involved in enterprises that deal with carbon offsets and green technology. If the case for climate change is shown to be demonstrably false, a lot of his green evaporates like moisture from the ocean.</p>

<p>Interestingly, it's that moisture from the ocean that he uses to defend his failed hypothesis. The blizzards that have buried the Northeast, he writes, are proof of global warming because record evaporation due to warming is what produces record snows. Except that supporters of his theory not long ago argued exactly the opposite.<br />
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    <title>Does Glenn Beck really believe in global warming?</title>
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    <published>2010-02-26T20:59:16Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-26T21:02:25Z</updated>

    <summary>By Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily Blogosphere on fire: &apos;Is this satire? I really want to know!&apos; &quot;Is this satire? I really want to know!&quot; That&apos;s just one of many questions bloggers and Glenn Beck fans are asking about a Feb. 21...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126207">By Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily</a></p>

<p><strong>Blogosphere on fire: 'Is this satire? I really want to know!'</strong></p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2010/02/26/USAWeekendBeck.jpg"><img alt="USAWeekendBeck.jpg" src="http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/assets_c/2010/02/USAWeekendBeck-thumb-250x253-331.jpg" width="250" height="253" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>"Is this satire? I really want to know!"</p>

<p>That's just one of many questions bloggers and Glenn Beck fans are asking about a Feb. 21 interview story in a leading national Sunday-newspaper magazine that claims the newest superstar among conservatives "believes in global warming." </p>

<p>"You'd be an idiot not to notice the temperature change," Beck said, according to USA Weekend.</p>

<p>Writer Dennis McCafferty reported Beck also thinks global warming could be caused partly by man's activity. At home, he's going green by using energy-saving products, according to the report.</p>

<p>On his top-rated nationally syndicated morning radio show and Fox News Channel television program Beck has been a frequent critic of scientists and advocates such as Al Gore who contend man is causing catastrophic changes in the Earth's climate. Many Beck supporters say his record of opposition to global warming alarmism should speak for itself.</p>

<p>In response to some suggestions that a layer of pollution be released into the atmosphere to cool the earth and counteract global warming, Beck said in a 2007 segment on his show, "Welcome to Crazy Town, USA."</p>

<p>"I believe something is happening. I'm not sticking my head in the sand here. Global warming probably is having ... global climate change is real. It probably is natural," Beck said. He railed against Al Gore's proposed solutions to offset the purported effects global warming. </p>

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    <title> Leaked UN Documents Reveal Plan For &quot;Green World Order&quot; By 2012 </title>
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    <published>2010-02-26T17:47:27Z</published>
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    <summary>Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com Massive $45 trillion transfer of wealth to fund creation of &quot;global governance structure&quot; Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a &quot;green world order&quot; by 2012 which will be enforced by a...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/leaked-un-documents-reveal-plan-for-green-world-order-by-2012.html">Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com</a></p>

<p><strong>Massive $45 trillion transfer of wealth to fund creation of "global governance structure"</strong></p>

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<p>Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a "green world order" by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists' insidious plan to centralize power, crush sovereignty while devastating the economy is exposed once again.</p>

<p>As we warned at the time, the failure of Copenhagen in December did not spell the end of the global warming heist, but merely a roadblock in the UN's agenda to create a world government funded by taxes paid by you on the very substance you exhale - carbon dioxide.</p>

<p>Using the justification of the vehemently debunked hoax that carbon dioxide is a deadly threat to the planet, the UN is already working to resurrect the failed Copenhagen agreement, with a series of new Copenhagen process negotiations set to take place in April, May and June.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/022510_greeneconomy.pdf">Leaked planning documents</a> (PDF) obtained by Fox News lift the lid on the UN's plan to impose global governance by the time of their 2012 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio, which will mark the 20th anniversary since the notorious "Earth Summit" held in the same city.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p align="left">"The new Rio summit will end, according to U.N.
documents obtained by Fox News, with a "focused political document"
presumably laying out the framework and international commitments to a
new Green World Order," <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587426,00.html">reports Fox News' George Russell</a>.</p>
<p align="left">"Just exactly what that environmental order will look
like, and the extent of the immense financial commitments needed to
produce it, are under discussion this week at a special session in
Bali, Indonesia, of the United Nations Environment Program's 58-nation
"Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environmental Forum," which
oversees UNEP's operations."</p>
<p align="left">The document outlines the globalist's mission to enact
a "radical transformation of the world economic and social order" by
putting "a new treaty in place as the capstone of the Green World
Order".</p>
<p align="left">This system will be managed by "an additional governing structure composed of exactly those insiders," writes Russell.</p>
<p align="left">"Moving towards a green economy would also provide an opportunity to re-examine national and <em><strong>global governance structures</strong></em>
and consider whether such structures allow the international community
to respond to current and future environmental and development
challenges and to capitalize on emerging opportunities," states the
white paper (emphasis mine).</p><p align="left">The imposition of such "global governance structures"
will be achieved with the help of "vast wealth transfers" from richer
countries (in the form of carbon taxes levied on citizens) to poorer
nations, amounting to no less than $45 trillion dollars. The paper also
outlines the need to change the "consumption patterns" of people living
in richer countries, which undoubtedly is a euphemism for lowering
living standards.</p>
<p align="left">The policy proposes that the old economic model be
discarded in pursuit of a new global green economy focused around
"green jobs".</p>
<p align="left">As we have previously highlighted, the promise that the
creation of "green jobs" will offset the inevitable damage to the
economy that a 50 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions will
cause is a complete fallacy.</p>
<p align="left">The implementation of so-called "green jobs" in other countries has devastated economies and cost millions of jobs. <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009385016_will26.html">As the Seattle Times reported back in June</a>,
Spain's staggering unemployment rate of over 18 per cent was partly
down to massive job losses as a result of attempts to replace existing
industry with wind farms and other forms of alternative energy.</p>
<p>In a so-called "green economy," "Each new job entails the loss of
2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created in other industries
because of the political allocation -- sub-optimum in terms of economic
efficiency -- of capital," states the report.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-pushes-carbon-tax-proposal-that-would-inflict-new-great-depression.html">As we have documented</a>,
a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 50-80 per cent would inflict
a new great depression in the United States, reducing GDP by 6.9
percent - a figure comparable with the economic meltdown of 1929 and
1930.</p>
<p align="left">The UN's mission to create a legally binding treaty on the reduction of CO2 emissions is running parallel <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/cap-and-trade-scam-to-be-enforced-at-state-level.html">with measures already being enforced at state level in the U.S.</a> which bypass stuttering federal efforts to impose the cap and trade fraud.</p>
<p align="left">The very foundation of the global warming argument has
been completely eviscerated by the Climategate scandal, which proved
that United Nations IPCC scientists forged and exaggerated data to
"hide the decline" in global temperatures while engaging in witch hunts
to cull dissenting opinions from appearing in IPPC reports.</p>
<p align="left">Despite this, control freaks intent on taxing the
life-giving gas carbon dioxide have signaled that they no longer care
about the truth behind man-made climate change and have resolved to
slam through their totalitarian agenda anyway. <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/epa-head-no-warming-since-1995-doesnt-mean-warming-isnt-occurring.html">EPA head Lisa Jackson told reporters this week</a>
that "The science regarding climate change is settled, and human
activity is responsible for global warming," even though she failed to
refute the fact that there had been no global warming since 1995, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html">as was admitted by CRU scientist</a> Professor Phil Jones.</p>]]>
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    <title>Reid Bullish on Climate Bill</title>
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    <published>2010-02-26T17:42:00Z</published>
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    <summary>By Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones Does John Kerry have good reason to be so optimistic about a climate bill? The Washington Post reports that he&apos;s getting strong signals that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a bill ASAP, indicating that...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/02/reid-bullish-climate-bill">By Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones</a></p>

<p>Does John Kerry have good reason to be so optimistic about a climate bill? The Washington Post reports that he's getting strong signals that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a bill ASAP, indicating that senators might be closer to a deal on climate and energy than many people around Washington have assumed.</p>

<p>Kerry indicated to reporters Tuesday that an energy package is still atop Reid's agenda for the year. And in a statement to the Post, Kerry said that Reid is "deadly serious about making progress this year on climate and energy reform." Reid met with Kerry on Tuesday after a he huddled with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to discuss the anticipated measure.</p>

<p>"Senator Reid made it clear to me the other day that he wants a bill and he wants it soon," Kerry said. "I can't give you an exact timeline, but we are working very very diligently with our colleagues and all of the stakeholders to think this through carefully and get this done right, and get it done in a way that can pass the Senate."<br />
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    <title>UKIP would ban Al Gore film in schools</title>
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    <published>2010-02-26T17:34:24Z</published>
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    <summary>By Louise Gray, Environment, Telegraph, UK Al Gore&apos;s global warming film would be banned in schools under plans by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to court the climate skeptic vote. The party, that has traditionally campaigned on the anti-European Union...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7309204/UKIP-would-ban-Al-Gore-film-in-schools.html">By Louise Gray, Environment, Telegraph, UK</a></p>

<p><strong>Al Gore's global warming film would be banned in schools under plans by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to court the climate skeptic vote. </strong></p>

<p>The party, that has traditionally campaigned on the anti-European Union vote, launched a manifesto for the environment.</p>

<p>Following a number of scandals around the science of climate change, UKIP are promising to launch a Royal Commission led by a High Court judge to investigate whether global warming is man-made. </p>

<p>Pending the results of the commission, the party, that has no MPs at the moment, have promised to build new fossil-fuelled power stations to meet energy demands and scrap subsidies for wind farms. Global warming 'propaganda' like the Al Gore film Inconvenient Truth will be banned in schools and public authorities will not be allowed to spend money on climate change initiatives.</p>

<p>A recent poll found the just one in five people believe climate change is man-made, compared to one in three a year ago.</p>

<p>The survey of 1,000 people found people over 65 were more likely to be skeptical. </p>

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    <title>FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Climate Panel to Announce Significant Changes</title>
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    <published>2010-02-24T18:43:14Z</published>
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    <summary>By Ed Barnesn, FOXNews.com In the wake of its swift and devastating fall from grace, the U.N.&apos;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) says it will announce &quot;within the next few days&quot; plans to make significant changes in how it...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/24/exclusive-climate-panel-announce-significant-changes/">By Ed Barnesn, FOXNews.com</a></p>

<p><strong>In the wake of its swift and devastating fall from grace, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) says it will announce "within the next few days" plans to make significant changes in how it does business.</strong></p>

<p>Just one year ago a pronouncement from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) was all that was needed to move nations and change environmental policies around the world. But today, the panel's creditability and even its very existence are in question.</p>

<p>In the wake of its swift and devastating fall from grace, the panel says it will announce "within the next few days" that it plans to make significant though as yet unexplained changes in how it does business. </p>

<p>Brenda Abrar-Milani, an external relations officer at the IPCC's office in Geneva, Switzerland, said changes have been slow in coming because "we have to inform the governments (all 194 member States) of any planned steps, and they are the ones who eventually take decisions on any revision of procedures."</p>

<p>"We put everything on the table and looked at it," she said, explaining that the panel's reforms would be extensive. She refused to detail any of the changes, but she did confirm that are in response to recent scandals involving the panel.</p>

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