Aug 18, 2011 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: Flanked by a cadre of local political leaders, Mayor Chuck Reed of San Jose used a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a solar power company last week to talk up the promise of the green economy. Mr. Reed called the opening of the new headquarters of SolFocus, which produces large, free-standing solar panels, an “enormously ...
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Obama’s NASA “Scientists”: If We Don’t Stop Global Warming, Aliens From Outer Space Will Wipe Us Out
Aug 18, 2011 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim. Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to ...
Continue ReadingAug 17, 2011 4 Comments ›› Angelia
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming, calling it a scientific theory that has not been proven. "I think we're seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists that are coming forward and questioning the original idea that manmade global ...
Continue ReadingAug 17, 2011 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Seattlepi.com: Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy – able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint – and the announcement came ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2011 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its military mission to enforce the agenda of the Leftist/Globalist Green movement. Germany's ambassador to the UN, Peter Wittig, wrote in the Huffington Post, "A good first step would be to acknowledge the realities of climate change and its inherent ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
What's Up With That: Not content to make a fool of himself confusing weather and climate, Al has now decided to lecture empower women on how to reduce the population for the benefit of the planet. Watch the video below, now we know why he doesn’t allow recordings of his lectures. Darn those Flip Video Cameras. “One ...
Continue ReadingJun 20, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court unanimously ruled out a federal lawsuit Monday by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The court said that the authority to seek reductions in emissions rests with the Environmental Protection Agency, not the courts. EPA said in December that it will ...
Continue ReadingJun 6, 2011 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
National Times: Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ''Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why ...
Continue ReadingMay 27, 2011 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) – One thing that Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have in common: These GOP presidential contenders all are running away from their past positions on global warming, driven by their party's loud doubters who question the science and disdain government solutions. All four have stepped back from previous stances on ...
Continue ReadingMar 28, 2011 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Telegraph: The European Commission on Monday unveiled a "single European transport area" aimed at enforcing "a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers" by 2050. The plan also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50 per cent of all journeys above 186 miles should be ...
Continue ReadingFeb 11, 2011 63 Comments ›› Grizz
Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu has launched the next phase of the White House’s publicly stated agenda to bankrupt the coal industry via EPA regulations after announcing the prospect of “massive” coal plant closures even as Texas and other states suffer rolling blackouts as a result of maxed-out power plants that cannot cope with demand. The ...
Continue ReadingFeb 3, 2011 15 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: If the planet is warming, why is a third of America locked in a deep freeze, with record-low temperatures as far south as the Mexican border, where the thermometer in Ciudad Juarez plummeted Wednesday night to a bone-chilling 9-below zero? Self-proclaimed planetary climate czar Al Gore thinks he has answer. "As it turns out, the scientific ...
Continue ReadingJan 31, 2011 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: The world's current economic model is an environmental "global suicide pact" that will result in disaster if it isn't reformed, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, warned today. Ban said that political and business leaders need to embrace economic innovation in order to save the planet. "We need a revolution," he told a panel at the ...
Continue ReadingJan 21, 2011 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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Continue ReadingDec 11, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- A U.N. climate conference on Saturday approved a deal to create a "green" fund for developing countries and to take other small steps to address global warming, over heated objections from Bolivia that the pact doesn't go far enough. The agreement in Cancun went a long way to restoring faith in ...
Continue ReadingNov 21, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Activists burn a symbol of carbon dioxide in Berlin Agencie France Presse: Emissions of fossil-fuel gases that stoke climate change edged back less than hoped in 2009 as falls in advanced economies were largely outweighed by rises in China and India, scientists said Sunday. For 2010, emissions are likely to resume their upward track, scaling a new peak, ...
Continue ReadingNov 8, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Times: President Obama has already conceded that last week's midterm elections put an end for now to his "cap-and-trade" plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but European officials fear the GOP gains mark the death knell for the broader campaign for a binding worldwide agreement this year to address climate change. Mr. Obama told reporters ...
Continue ReadingNov 4, 2010 14 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) – Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Barack Obama said he will look for ways to control global warming pollution other than Congress placing a ceiling on it. "Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way," Obama ...
Continue ReadingOct 22, 2010 No Comments ›› Grizz
WashingtonExaminer Imagine that the price of food in America was prone to volatile price increases of 50 percent or more in a given year. Now imagine that while people struggled to afford food, government bureaucrats went around setting limits on how much food some American farmers can grow, while radical anti-obesity crusaders sued other farmers across ...
Continue ReadingOct 20, 2010 6 Comments ›› Grizz
Updated: 10/20/10 1:37 PM EDT Congressional Republicans planning an assault on the Obama administration’s environmental record aim to turn Lisa Jackson into public enemy No. 1. On the campaign trail, Republicans have adopted the Environmental Protection Agency as a favorite symbol of the White House’s regulatory overreach. And behind the scenes in Washington, GOP staffers and K ...
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