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This week's cover of the Weekly Standard is the best caricature of Al Gore I've seen yet.

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"

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

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.

Read the article here.

By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Rest of the article.

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'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."

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.

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?

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Investors Business Daily

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.

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."

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.

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.

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By Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily

Blogosphere on fire: 'Is this satire? I really want to know!'

"Is this satire? I really want to know!"

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."

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

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.

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.

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."

"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.

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I like pointing out when supposed Conservative Republicans believe in Global Warming. I thought Glenn Beck was a Global Warming skeptic, but in his interview with USA Today he sounds more like a Greeny Weeny.

"You'd be an idiot not to notice the temperature change," he says. He also says there's a legit case that global warming has, at least in part, been caused by mankind. He has tried to do his part by buying a home with a "green" design and using energy-saving products. "I'm willing to do anything but use the CFLs," he says of compact fluorescent light bulbs. "I put them in once and couldn't stand the way they lit up the room."

by Elmer Beauregard

Part one:

Click the link below to view the rest of the special.

Saw this on CBS News last night and I thought it was a pretty fair report. Of course I may be biased because they used our youTube video. But you have to give credit where credit is due. Everyone should go here and leave a favorable comment.

Watch CBS News Videos Online

By Elmer Beauregard

These devices were brought here to curb "Global Warming" but they don't work because its TOO COLD!!

The Startribune has a good article today about the windmills that aren't working because of the cold weather but they put a very positive spin on the whole thing.

The article mentions the wind turbines should start to work in about 2 months, well duh!! It also mentions another solution could be to run electric heaters to warm up the fluid.

Am I the only one who sees the irony here?

First, in 2 months it will be warmer, hopefully.

Second, you would need another electrical source for the electric heaters. Once the windmill starts turning, then hopefully it would generate enough power to run the heaters to warm the fluid so it could turn if it was windy enough so it could produce...

Third, the only reason these billion dollar boondoggles were brought here is because of "Global Warming" which we now know is a fraud, obviously! But that is not going to stop us, we plan to litter the entire state with these monstrosities.

Its called the "Next Generation Energy Act of 2007", which mandates Minnesota utilities to produce at least 12 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by 2012. PLUS, they must produce 1 1/2% LESS electricity every year starting this year. On the second point I'd say they're off to a good start.

I like to call this bill the "Next Generation is Screwed Act of 2007" and it should be repealed now before any more damage is done.

Related Article.

A lot of people came out against Global Warming last week, like Leonardo DiCaprio and a group called "This Is Our Moment" came out with a nifty PSA pushing for Cap and Trade, and oddly enough so did Osama Bin Laden?!

The fact that Leonardo, Obama and now Osama want to pass Cap and Trade just maybe shows us what the ultimate goal of the bill is, as Osama put it "to bring the wheels of the American Economy to a halt".

I wonder if Hollywood will include Osama in their next PSA? If they did it could probably look something like this.

Local explorer Will Steger was on WCCO talking about Global Warming and his experience in Copenhagen. He explains that "weather" is different than the "climate".

He then explains how global warming will give us "more snow, heavy snows, and light snows". So basically no matter what happens he can say that global warming caused it.

Will Steger has been to both the North Pole and the South Pole, I wonder if that makes him bi-polar?

Watch video here.

By Elmer Beauregard

It's hard to worry about "Global Warming" when you're freezing to death.

I watched President Obama's State of the Union speech last night and was surprised by two things. Sure there was all the promises that most State of the Union speeches contain, like the Government is now going to pay for everything including college and green job this and green job that.

The first thing that surprised me was how small the Global Warming section of his speech was, Obama even acknowledged the skeptics who then clapped.

He seemed to be reluctant to bring up the whole subject, it's like he knew that everyone knew that the jig was up, that the emperor was naked, but he still had to pretend like it was real. There was even some laughter from the audience.

The other thing that surprised me is he mentioned building Nuclear and Coal Power Plants and even mentioned off-shore development.

Paul Joseph Watson, Prisonplanet.com

Dr James Hansen: Eco-fascist author who wrote that industrial civilization should be destroyed "has it right"

Prominent NASA global warming alarmist Dr. James Hansen has endorsed an eco-fascist book that calls for cities to be razed to the ground, industrial civilization to be destroyed and genocidal population reduction measures to be implemented in the name of preventing climate change.

Hansen, who was back in the news today commenting on a NASA press release that claims the last decade was the warmest on record, said that Keith Farnish, author of a new book called Time's Up, is correct in calling for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to the agrarian age.

Hansen is a key figure in the global warming movement, for it was his 1988 with testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore that really got the ball rolling for the elite in their mission to hijack the environmental movement and promote apocalyptic fears of climate change as a means of seizing absolute power over humanity.

By Joshua Frank, Truthout.org

It's round one in the 2010 fight against global warming and Minnesota has landed the first punch against coal-fired electricity that crosses its borders. The state is seeking to place a tariff on carbon dioxide turned out by coal plants in North Dakota.

While there has been a lot of huffing and puffing about carbon tariffs in the past from countries that want to stick a tax on items that are produced in polluting industries, Minnesota's move is the first of its kind.

Currently, the law does not mandate a carbon tariff; it only provides the framework to create such a pricing mechanism if a tax on carbon emissions becomes necessary in the future. Minnesota is currently looking at pricing guidelines for a likely utility rate increase in 2012.

Minnesota is hoping to pressure its neighbor to the west to drop coal and embrace renewable energy sources. North Dakota has ample wind energy potential and has even been called the "Saudi Arabia of Wind."

By Elmer Beauregard

While researching the big election on Tuesday in Massachusetts between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown, I came across this article. There is a snow storm heading for Massachusetts and the article said that "Republicans generally benefit from bad weather". I began to wonder why that is.

The article floated this theory:

Thomas Hansford, a political scientist at University of California, Merced, one of the authors of the study, which he said could also apply to state elections, said he and his colleagues theorized that bad weather can discourage peripheral, or occasional, voters. Those voters, according to Hansford, tend to be lower-income people and tend to vote for Democrats.

I however think that is not it. I think the reason Republicans benefit from bad weather on election day is THEY DRIVE SUVs!

Top Obama czar: Infiltrate all 'conspiracy theorists' Presidential adviser wrote about crackdown on expressing opinions

By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily

In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban "conspiracy theorizing."

Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that
the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.

Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate "extremists who supply conspiracy theories" to disrupt the efforts of the "extremists" to propagate their theories.

In a 2008 Harvard law paper, "Conspiracy Theories," Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, "What can government do about conspiracy theories?"

"We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories."

In the 30-page paper - obtained and reviewed by WND - Sunstein argues the best government response to "conspiracy theories" is "cognitive infiltration of extremist groups."

by Walter E. Williams, Townhall.com

Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence. Questioning those pronouncements makes one a sinner. No one denies that the Earth's temperature changes. Millions of years ago, much of our planet was covered by ice, at some places up to a mile thick, a period some scientists call "Snowball Earth." Today, the Earth is not covered by a mile of ice; a safe conclusion is that there must have been a bit of global warming. I don't know the cause of that warming, but I'd wager everything I own that it was not caused by coal-fired electric generation plants, incandescent light bulbs and SUVs tooling up and down the highways.

The rest of the article.

John Hirst, head of the Met Office, tries to defend the record of the weathermen after they predicted a mild winter. Andrew Neil asked him to justify his salary which is higher than the UK Prime Minister's. The presenter seems to know more about the subject than the actual guy running the MET Office.

By Tom Meersman, Star Tribune

Patti Lienau said there is no way to escape the hum or flickering shadows from the turbines built by her father's farm near Elkton, Minn.

ELKTON, MINN. -- Every sunny morning, shadows from the massive rotating blades swing across their breakfast table. The giant towers dominate the view from their deck. Noise from the turbines fills the silence that Dolores and Rudy Jech once enjoyed on their Minnesota farm.

"Rudy and I are retired, and we like to sit out on our deck," Dolores said. "And that darned thing is right across the road from us. It's an eyesore, it's noisy, and having so many of them there's a constant hum."

Just as they are being touted as a green, economical and job-producing energy source, wind farms in Minnesota are starting to get serious blowback. Across the state, people are opposing projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Opposition is also rising in other states. It's not likely to blow over quickly in Minnesota, which is the nation's fourth-largest producer of wind power and on track to double its 1,805-megawatt capacity in the next couple of years.

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While we're on the topic of Science and Religion, I was emailed this sermon which was given last Sunday by Charlie Moquin, at San Juan Unitarian Universalists Church in Farmington New Mexico.

Today's sermon will describe some of the spiritual benefits of global warming. As many of you know, I am a huge fan of global warming, but I also believe that driving while talking on a cell phone is safer than not, and that driving faster can increase your gas mileage. All of this is evidence that my head is not screwed on straight.

There is a Unitarian minister from Alabama who is going around preaching against global warming. I hope to meet her some day. In a church, where there is a sanctuary for my protection.

I am not alone in liking global warming; at last count there were fourteen of us (8 in Minnesota), and our numbers appear to double every few years, so your great grandchildren will probably agree with me. I have been a fan of global warming for over 25 years, before it even officially existed. The term 'Global warming' seems to be used everywhere, even in places where they don't speak English.

Clay Farris Naff, wrote a blog entitled Can Science Rescue Religion? at the Huffington Post. He quotes me then goes on some lame discussion about science and religion and how he thinks they are mutually exclusive or something.

"I suppose it was foreordained. Had to happen. In the midst of a terrible cold spell around the Northern Hemisphere, the new theology of denial has embraced a deadly arctic chill as a sign from God. A sign of what, you ask? Elmer Beauregard, head of Minnesotans for Global Warming, is pleased to explain:"

Feel free to join in the fray.

By Alan Caruba, freedomaction.net

"I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about, by the gross inaccuracies in his statements, by the almost pathological lack of sequences in his discussion, by the complete rectitude that he felt as to his own conduct, by the immense and growing egotism that came from his office, by his willingness to continue the excoriation of the press and business in order to get votes for himself, by his indifference to what effect the long-continued pursuit of these ends would have upon the civilization in which he was playing a part."




No, this was not a judgment of President Barack Obama, though the description eerily fits him. It was the view of Raymond Moley, a Columbia University professor and member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Brain Trust" who often wrote or helped write FDR's major speeches. FDR's policies extended the Great Depression for ten years.

Here are some facts worth considering every time Obama calls for an expansion or intercession of the federal government as an answer to the current financial crisis:

Social Security, a cornerstone of FDR's administration, was established in 1935. After 74 years it is on the brink of insolvency because Congress gave itself access to its funds.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 to facilitate home ownership. It has been around for 71 years. Congress has had to seize control of it and of Freddie Mac, established in 1970. Together, they presently own or guarantee about half of the United States' $12 trillion mortgage market.

The War on Poverty started in 1964. One trillion dollars has been transferred to "the poor" and it has not worked.

The Department of Energy was established in 1977 to lessen dependence on the import of foreign oil. With 16,000 employees and an annual budget of $24 billion, the United States has imported more oil with every passing year while denying U.S. oil companies access to vast national reserves in ANWR and off our continental shelf. It is an abysmal failure.

By Elmer Beauregard

For the third day in a row Minnesota has been the Icebox of the nation with record low temps going down as far as -40ºF.

One of Minnesota's nicknames is "The Blue Peninsula" because usually we are the coldest spot in the nation. On the national temperature maps with different color bands for each 10 degree range, there usually is a blue peninsula that hangs over our frigid state. Recently, however, since weather has become a political issue, the media seems to be hiding how cold it gets in Minnesota. Weather maps now show all temps below 0 as one color band so they can hide the decline.

Frustrated with this development I created this map to the left (as best I could) to show the world what Minnesota low temps have been for the last 3 days. And proudly claim that we are "The Blue Peninsula".

By Elmer Beauregard

So I wake up this morning and it -23 on my thermometer and I wanted to see how cold it is in northern Minnesota. So I go to the Statribune's website and I find this map.

Which makes it look like all of Minnesota is in the 0º to -10º range, which doesn't make sense because my thermometer reads -23, and if you look at the color key on the top they only have colors down to -10ºF. Does Startribune.com think that anything below -10º isn't news worthy? Plus the whole state should at least be in the white because the high right now for the whole state is in Minneapolis and it is -12F.

By Elmer Beauregard

2010 is getting off to a chilly start on this the second day of the new decade and especially in Minnesota. Our thermometer read -24ºF this morning it is -36º along the Canadian border at this hour. The ironic thing is this year Minnesota's "Next Generation Energy Act" will greatly increase the price of electricity and natural gas to fight "Global Warming".

A New Years Resolution
In 2010 now that "Global Warming" has been proven to be a fraud maybe we can overturn these idiotic laws.