Warming Skeptics
Lisle Tea Party: Next to Eyes to The Skies.
Happy 4th of July! Jim and I usually just walk down to Eyes to the Skies to see the hot air baloons, watch firecrackers and eat junk food. Yesterday, when Jim and I walkd down to Eyes to the Skies we noticed this:
I wonder how many people will show up?…
Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired power (by 2020 - prices expected to rise)
Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired powerThu Jul 2, 2009 4:33pm EDT By Bernie Woodall LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. Consumers of the Los…
There is No Evidence by Dr. David Evans
Article Tags: DAVID EVANS
Let’s break down the case for human-caused global warming logically:
1) There is plenty of evidence that global warming has been occurring recently.
2) There is ample evidence that carbon emissions causes warming and that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing.
3) But there is…
Cap and Trade: The Big Con
Article Tags: JOHN GRIFFING
Masquerading as an instrument of environmental salvation, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will result in one of the largest seizures of wealth in human history. The legislation will wreak havoc on American manufacturing and industry, and coerce the conformity of an already economically squeezed populace. The bill is…
The Climate Change Truth
Article Tags: PATRICK MCMAHON
The past week in Congress and across the country, a closer look has been taken at “climate change.” Last Friday, Congress passed a cap and trade tax bill, the main purpose for was to help reverse the effects of climate change. That controversial bill, perhaps the most…
MORE PROPAGANDA TO STOP NEW COAL POWER STATION
The World Development Movement (WDM - yet another well funded NGO which hardly anyone has heard of!) is holding a demonstration today at the Kingsnorth power station to protest against the proposal to build a new coal-fired power station on the site. You can read the claims they are making…
SCOTLAND TO CUT CO2 EMISSIONS BY 42% BY 2020
Yes, brave little Scotland has agreed, unilaterally, to double the target of the UK government in a bold, though futile, attempt to “save the planet”. No doubt the Scottish people will be suitably grateful when the jobs disappear and the lights go out. You can read the details here.
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GREENHOUSE GASES AND LIVESTOCK
Lots of good emails today — via Benny Peiser. The first email below is from Dr. Albrecht Glatzle [glatzle@chaconet.com.py] of Filadelfia, Paraguay — noting the myths about cow farts, sheep burps, etc. It was originally sent to TGS Newsletter editor, Ian Partridge, in Queensland, Australia
Yesterday I received…
FOOD CROPS UNDER STRESS AS TEMPERATURES FALL
Warming Activists
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Declare Independence from Mountaintop Removal
This evening, shortly after dusk, I’ll join millions of my fellow Americans simultaneously celebrating our nation’s liberty by gazing skyward to watch explosions in the sky. When you think about the 4th of July, you think one thing: fireworks. And lots of them, as loud as possible!
I’m lucky enough to live near enough to watch this dazzling celestial spectacle…
Zimbabwe: Winter - Let’s Do Our Best to Cope
EVERY year, Zimbabweans complain about winter and seem remarkably unprepared for this season.
Rwanda: Water Rationing Warning as Drought Bites
Electrogaz, Rwanda’s public utility, is considering water rationing due to shortages caused by a prolonged drought in parts of the country, officials said.
Climate change ’shrinking Scottish sheep’
Wild sheep living on a remote Scottish island are getting smaller as generations pass due to milder winters, scientists have claimed.
Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy
Journalist and science writer Eric Roston’s book The Carbon Age, highly praised when it was first published last year, is now available in paperback. It’s about carbon in the universe and the essential part it plays in life on Earth. It’s also about climate change, as its subtitle suggests: How Life’s…
Responsible Electronics Recycling: Turning Policy into Practice
From GreenerComputing.com
IT professionals have become good environmental and privacy stewards during the past 10 years — on paper. Corporate policy now generally reflects the fundamental tenets of good electronics stewardship, requiring verifiable data destruction and forbidding the use of landfills and export in lieu of responsible recycling. As anyone who…
Media Conservatives Continue to Push Widely Disputed Spanish Study on Green Jobs
From our friends at Media Matters: Conservatives in the media have continued to cite the findings of a widely disputed study by a Spanish economist to assert or suggest that the United States will lose two jobs for every one green job created if the American Clean Energy and Security…
In Public Housing, Talking Up the Recycling Bin
In the General Grant Houses in Manhattan, two women are spreading the word about recycling, door by door.
Environment Groups Find Less Support From Justices
Environmental groups lost all five of their cases before the Supreme Court last term, a trend scholars see continuing as the court moves to the right.
