Browsing the ‘Global Warming’ Category

“exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit”
The Telegraph:
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker [...]

Tulsa World:
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress’ most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor.
“I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,’’ the Oklahoma Republican [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with “global warming” and “9/11″ topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s.
The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track the frequency of [...]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action.
Some argued that legal technicalities might otherwise distract the talks in Copenhagen and it was better to focus on the [...]

Al Gore Makes Fun Of Prejean On Larry King

Telegraph:
Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say.
Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
It would [...]

Politico:
President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning.
The president’s plan, which the officials said was under discussion [...]

CNS News:
United Nations - Confident that governments will reach a climate change deal next month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to Washington Tuesday to ensure that the United States is on board.
Ban plans to meet with key senators and White House officials to discuss how governments are approaching the climate negotiations “and what those [...]

Barb Boxer Resorts To “Nuclear Option” To Force Climate Bill Through Committee

Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats began readjusting strategies as they sifted through the results of Tuesday’s off-year elections for clues about how to gain ground in next year’s nationwide Congressional campaigns.
In the meantime, the debate in Washington on issues such as health care, climate change and immigration could be affected by the way [...]

Diane Sawyer Hits Al Gore On His Methane Meals
Gore Denies Being A Financially Motivated Global Warming Hoax Perpetrator

Human Events:
The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.
As shown in the charts below, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves.
While Russia is a [...]

Monckton, Bolton And Beck

Ace Of Spades:
Methane! - “new and improved”, now with 30% more evil!!.
…When this indirect effect of the potent greenhouse gas is included one tonne of methane has about 33 times as much effect on the climate over 100 years as a tonne of carbon dioxide, rather than 25 times as in [...]

IBD Editorials:
The Environment: Britain’s climate chief says humans should give up eating meat to protect the planet from global warming. The alarmists keep making it hard for anyone to take them seriously.
According to Lord Nicholas Stern, “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on [...]

CNS News:
Around the globe, environmental protesters tried “a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef,” according to The New York Times.
The sweeping Oct. 24 protest was to bully developed nations like the United States into a climate change agreement when they meet in Copenhagen this December.
The 350.org [...]

<b>Sex Sells:</b> Supermodels Take It Off For Climate Change

Wall Street Journal:
Suppose for a minute—which is about 59 seconds too long, but that’s for another column—that global warming poses an imminent threat to the survival of our species. Suppose, too, that the best solution involves a helium balloon, several miles of garden hose and a harmless stream of sulfur dioxide being pumped into the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The analysis released late Friday by the office of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, generally mirrors [...]