Jul 2, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London. "The ...
Continue ReadingJul 1, 2009 19 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NewsBusters: The Democrats spent years complaining that Republicans were questioning their patriotism, so now that they are in power, they certainly won’t question the Republicans’ patriotism just because their views differ on political issue? Yes, that was a rhetorical question. After cap-and-trade passed with just eight Republican votes, Henry Waxman, author of the bill, accused Republicans of “rooting ...
Continue ReadingJun 28, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
LiveLeak: This is Jeff Kuhner of the Washington Times filling in for Michael Savage ........
Continue ReadingJun 26, 2009 82 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: Democratic leaders are working furiously to corral votes for a controversial climate change measure, hoping to build a big enough margin so that vulnerable Democrats can be freed to vote against it. At the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama declared: “Now is the time to act.†Former Vice President Al Gore, who had planned ...
Continue ReadingJun 26, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: NOTE: This was an early am TEST VOTE only House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included "the largest tax increase in American history." The vote was 217-205 to advance the White House-backed ...
Continue ReadingJun 25, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Fact: The article frequently refers to Gore as the "Vice President," and not the "FORMER Vice President." POLITICO: Former Vice President Al Gore canceled plans to fly to Washington for a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, and instead was working the phones from Tennessee to help push a landmark climate bill to passage. Friday's ...
Continue ReadingJun 9, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NewsBusters: Have you ever read a newspaper article and walked away stunned that the writer seemed to be totally oblivious to the real story or left some significant questions unasked? Conservative readers of the June 9 Washington Post could understandably answer yes to the aforementioned question after reading the front page story "Early Lesson in Eco-Activism Comes ...
Continue ReadingJun 7, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
By Scott Harper The Virginian-Pilot WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was in a froth, and his audience loved it. The California Republican was talking about global warming and could barely contain his disgust. "Al Gore has been wrong all along!" Rohrabacher yelled into the microphone. "This is outrageous! All of this is wrong! The people who have stifled this debate ...
Continue ReadingJun 2, 2009 16 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: Barack Obama is prepared to stake his own political prestige on getting climate change legislation through Congress, and would be willing to intervene directly to ensure passage of America's first law to reduce the carbon emissions that cause global warming. Nancy Sutley, who is pivotal in setting Obama's green agenda as the chairwoman of the ...
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Post: The Obama administration and congressional Democrats have proposed a major cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists agree that CO2 emissions around the world could lead to rising temperatures with serious long-term environmental consequences. But that is not a reason to enact a U.S. cap-and-trade system until there is a ...
Continue ReadingMay 29, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer http://www.cnsnews.com/ The U.S. State Department has provided the United Nations with proposed text for a new global warming treaty that would require the United States to comply with stricter carbon emissions standards than most other countries in the world--including, for example, China and Saudi Arabia--and that anticipates that U.S. taxpayers will ...
Continue ReadingMay 28, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
By Brad O'Leary American Thinker: Obama supporters speak in a brand new poll. Zogby International, in conjunction with The O'Leary Report, recently conducted a comprehensive 100 Days Poll of the Obama Administration's actions and policy proposals. The results show that a majority of those who voted for the President disagree with him on many key issues. The poll ...
Continue ReadingMay 28, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BEIJING - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Beijing on Thursday to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right. Speaking at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University, Pelosi continued the theme of her five-day China trip—that combating global warming represented a new challenge that both governments must tackle jointly. "We are all in this ...
Continue ReadingMay 27, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Of London: GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon†food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.
Continue ReadingMay 27, 2009 23 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Financial Times: President Nicolas Sarkozy's desire to appoint an outspoken climate-change sceptic to a new French super-ministry of industry and innovation has drawn strong protests from party colleagues and environmentalists. Claude Allègre argues that global warming is not necessarily caused by human activity. Putting him in charge of scientific research would be tantamount to "giving the finger ...
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