Dec 31, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants ...
Continue ReadingDec 31, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
Parent Dish: In a recent op-ed in the Canadian National Post, editor-at-large Diane Francis calls on world leaders, especially those attending the UN's Copenhagen Conference, to consider the environmental virtues of China's one-child policy. According to Francis, only government mandated policies restricting women's rights to reproduce will save the planet from what she believes will be ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The American Spectator: Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, had an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal drawing attention to the rise of "online hostility" and the "degeneration of online civility." He (and coauthor Andrea Weckerle) suggested ways in which we can "prevent the worst among us from silencing the best among us." I agree with just ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 16 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Watts Up With That: his new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning move, and surely a blow to warmists everywhere, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out. Originally found here (Google ...
Continue ReadingDec 26, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Residents in the nation's heartland were digging out after a blustery storm as meteorologists warned that blizzard conditions could continue across the northern Plains on Saturday. The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin through Saturday. The storm had already dumped ...
Continue ReadingDec 25, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A fierce Christmas storm dumped more snow and ice across the nation's midsection Friday, stranding travelers as highways and airports closed and leaving many to celebrate the holiday just where they were. Meteorologists predicted the slow-moving storm would glaze highways in the East with ice through Christmas night and that gusty thunderstorms ...
Continue ReadingDec 22, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Post: It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly. It would have been unprecedented had the president not described the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit as "unprecedented," that being the most overworked word in his hardworking vocabulary of self-celebration. Actually, ...
Continue ReadingDec 22, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
HAVANA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Cuba accused U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday of being "imperial, arrogant" and dishonest during last week's global climate conference in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between Havana and Washington. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a televised press conference that Obama lied during the United Nations summit in ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2009 33 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNS News: A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is “mostly falsified.†That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals. The poll also shows that 58 percent of Americans believe ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Daily Beast: Copenhagen showed us the new normal: the U.S. has lost influence, China plays spoiler, and tiny nations veto anything they don't like. Leslie H. Gelb says get used to it. We have seen the future of international politics and it is Copenhagen. That future holds for monster issues like global warming as well as ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NASDAQ: WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud. Republican legislators say the records--due to be opened to the public in early January--could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Times Online: A new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship is needed to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gordon Brown will say tomorrow. The UN’s consensual method of negotiation, which requires all 192 countries to reach agreement, needs to be reformed to ensure that the will of the majority ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Now who was it that has been calling this the New World Order right from the start? I'm shocked that the MSM (or at least this very small facet of it) has caught on as quickly as it had, it makes me feel... Smart or something. Telegraph: There is scope for debate – and innumerable newspaper quizzes ...
Continue ReadingDec 18, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Daily Mail: Not many people understand climate change. But they can recognise hypocrisy when they see it, and are also likely to count their spoons whenever wild-eyed politicians invoke the impending end of the world. On Tuesday, Prince Charles flew to Copenhagen to attend the climate change summit, where he delivered a keynote speech. He informed his audience ...
Continue ReadingDec 18, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
COPENHAGEN (AP) - President Barack Obama announced Friday a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" on a global effort to curb climate change. But Obama said, "It is going to be very hard, and it's going to take some time" to get to a legally binding treaty. A deal reached by the United States, China, India, South Africa ...
Continue ReadingDec 18, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
So we've got Obama, Castro, Gore, Chavez, Clinton, Vidal, Brown, and hundreds of others like them collected in one place and the building is still standing? Talk about a missed opportunity... (AFP) Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday dismissed US President Barack Obama's trip to UN climate change talks in Copenhagen as a "show," and ...
Continue ReadingDec 18, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Guardian: Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act "boldly and decisively" on climate change. But his speech offered no indication America was ready to embrace bold measures, after world leaders had been working desperately against the clock to try to paper over ...
Continue ReadingDec 18, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Telegraph: When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those ...
Continue ReadingDec 17, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Guardian: The climate change summit in Copenhagen was in jeopardy tonight with the complex negotiations falling far behind schedule as the climate secretary, Ed Miliband, warned of a "farce". With just two days remaining, the inability to overcome disagreements about the shape of a deal to combat global warming led to hours of inaction today , ...
Continue ReadingDec 17, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NY Daily News: The planet may be saved after all, and it will only cost $100 billion. Just as the Copenhagen climate summit appeared to be on the verge of unraveling, the United States Thursday announced its support of an annual $100 billion climate protection fund, the Associated Press reports. “The US is prepared to work with other ...
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