May 15, 2008

Polar Bear Decision Angers Alaskans

By TOM KIZZIA, Anchorage Daily News

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Polar Bears relax after being listed as endangered.

Alaska industry and political leaders reacted with disappointment, even vehemence, to the decision Wednesday to protect the polar bear as "threatened," despite assurances from the Bush administration that the listing would mean no new regulation in Alaska.

Industry officials worried that the listing decision would give environmentalists a new tool for opposing development in the Arctic, especially new offshore oil exploration and development. Politicians attacked the science behind the decision as speculative.

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May 12, 2008

Wanna help planet? 'Let's all just die!'

Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily

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May we live long and die out" is the unofficial motto of a movement that seeks to improve the Earth's ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive.

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT, consists of volunteers who have made active life decisions to remain childless for the benefit of the Earth, thereby preventing the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals.

While no one person takes credit for being the founder, Les U. Knight created its name and is the spokesperson for the movement.

"We've already exceeded Earth's carrying capacity for humans by quite a bit," Knight told WND. "We are using up our resources. The best way to stop it is by not breeding. It's really the best way because the people we don't create don't exist, and so there's no impact on them."

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Another Scientist Jumps Ship

Patrick Frank, Skeptic.com

The claim that anthropogenic CO2 is responsible for the current warming of Earth climate is scientifically insupportable because climate models are unreliable

Excerpt: So the bottom line is this: When it comes to future climate, no one knows what they’re talking about. No one. Not the IPCC nor its scientists, not the US National Academy of Sciences, not the NRDC or National Geographic, not the US Congressional House leadership, not me, not you, and certainly not Mr. Albert Gore. […] But there is no falsifiable scientific basis whatever to assert this warming is caused by human-produced greenhouse gasses because current physical theory is too grossly inadequate to establish any cause at all. Nevertheless, those who advocate extreme policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions inevitably base their case on GCM projections, which somehow become real predictions in publicity releases. […] General Circulation Models are so terribly unreliable that there is no objectively falsifiable reason to suppose any of the current warming trend is due to human-produced CO2, or that this CO2 will detectably warm the climate at all. Therefore, even if extreme events do develop because of a warming climate, there is no scientifically valid reason to attribute the cause to human-produced CO2. In the chaos of Earth’s climate, there may be no discernible cause for warming. Many excellent scientists have explained all this in powerful works written to defuse the CO2 panic, but the choir sings seductively and few righteous believers seem willing to entertain disproofs.

Global Cooling Theories Put Scientists On Guard

By Gerard Wynn

LONDON (Reuters) - A new study suggesting a possible lull in manmade global warming has raised fears of a reduced urgency to battle climate change.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of hundreds of scientists, last year said global warming was "unequivocal" and that manmade greenhouse gas emissions were "very likely" part of the problem.

And while the study published in the journal Nature last week did not dispute manmade global warming, it did predict a cooling from recent average temperatures through 2015, as a result of a natural and temporary shift in ocean currents.

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Blizzard Stops Another Global Warming Expeditioin

Tony Carnie

South African snow adventurer Correne Erasmus-Coetzer has been forced to abandon her dream of becoming the first African woman to cross the icy continent of Greenland on foot.

The dream came to an end this week when the expedition of nine men and women came up against a ferocious wind and snow storm, and rapidly dwindling food supplies, as they approached the quarter-way mark of their 550km slog from the east to west coast of Greenland, across the Arctic Circle.

Erasmus-Coetzer was hoping to create awareness about global warming and raise money for the Durban-based Wilderness Leadership School.

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May 3, 2008

Late Storms Slow Area Farmers

By Tom Hintgen, The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

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In a perfect world, local farmers Mike and John Haarstad would have all their corn planted in the ground.

But the world isn’t perfect, and instead the Calisle men are looking at snow on their land.

A week ago the Haarstads began planting corn in their field. What they hoped would be the start of seven to 10 days of corn planting came to an abrupt halt two days later on Friday, April 25.

That’s when Old Man Winter started dumping what would become over a foot of snow.

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You Can't Complain About the Weather Anymore

Elmer Beaureguard

It's May 3rd and it snowed last night, normally we could go out for coffee and complain about it. You know say things like "is it cold enough for ya?" Or "don't know if I should use the boat or the auger for the opener". It's part of being a Minnesotan, we have horrible weather but at least it was fun to complain about, and an ice-breaker (pun intended) with strangers, something to talk about.

But now thanks to AL Gore, we're supposed to be happy that its snowing in May because that means we're not destroying the planet as fast as we thought. And vice versa, if it was 70º and sunny we can't enjoy it, we would just feel guilty while we drive our SUV to the golf course.

By the way, MPR doesn't call it "the weather" anymore now its "the latest news on the climate".

April 29, 2008

Teenage Skeptic Takes on Climate Scientists

by David Kestenbaum, npr.org



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Morning Edition, April 15, 2008 · If you're a scientist trying to convince people they are making the world warmer, Kristen Byrnes is your worst nightmare. She's articulate, intelligent, she has a Web site, and one day her people will be running the world. Her people, meaning 16-year-olds.

Kristen's Web site, "Ponder the Maunder," has made her a celebrity among climate skeptics. After she posted a critique of Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, her Web site got so many hits the family's internet service provider sent them a warning.

Her story may dismay mainstream scientists, but plenty of people are friendly to her ideas.

In one poll last year, only about 50 percent of people agreed humans were contributing to global warming. The other half either disagreed, weren't sure or didn't believe the Earth was warming in the first place.

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Al Gore PR Campaign Targeted by CEI TV Ad

by Richard Morrison, CEI.org

Counter to Gore’s $300M Global Warming Alarmism Project

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is re-launching a national advertising campaign on the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda. The ad, which begins airing April 4, responds to the ads produced by Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, which start April 2nd.

The Alliance campaign attempts to build support for policies that would restrict energy through higher prices and reduced supplies. CEI’s ad contrasts Gore’s energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries.

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April 26, 2008

Climate Change Strikes Minnesota

By Elmer Beureguard

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It's April 26th and Minnesota is getting pelted with yet another late spring snow storm. Some places getting over a foot of snow, Pelican Rapids got 18" and its still snowing. So get yourself off that lawn chair, turn it back into a snow shovel and get to it.

This of course plays right into my Second Law of Global Warming where God reminds us who actually controls the weather. You'd think a storm like this might be used as an argument against Global Warming, but they'll just call it "Climate Change"

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April 24, 2008

Start Your Engines!

FOX News

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Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist.

Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."

April 23, 2008

Food For Thought

Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

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(NaturalNews) It was one of the dumbest "green" ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get from the fuel itself! Meanwhile, sit back and proclaim you've achieved a monumental green victory (President Bush, anyone?) all while unleashing a dangerous spike in global food prices that's causing a ripple effect of food shortages and rationing around the world.

I think politicians need to spend less time bragging about their latest greenwashing schemes and more time studying The Law of Unintended Consequences. Because while growing fuel on cropland initially sounds like a great idea, any honest assessment of the total impact leads you to the inescapable conclusion that biofuels are largely a government-sponsored scam. With a few exceptions (see below), biofuels produce no net increase in energy output, and they cause food shortages while creating strong economic incentives for the destruction of the very rainforests we desperately need to stabilize the climate!

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April 22, 2008

Happy Smurf Day!

By Elmer Beauregurad

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Well it's "Earth Day" and everything is "Green" today, so much so that I want to throw up. So I am going "Blue" instead just to remind people that "nothing would be green without CO2" and we all emit CO2 when we breath, and if we were to stop emititng CO2 we would all turn blue.

The false religion of global warming

By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

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hysteria – a psychiatric condition variously characterized by emotional excitability, excessive anxiety, sensory and motor disturbances, or the unconscious simulation of organic disorders, such as blindness, deafness, etc.

That's how my dictionary defines hysteria.

It's a good definition – especially insofar as the way I use the word to characterize the pathological obsession with the thoroughly unscientific theory that the world is facing doom and gloom from manmade, catastrophic global warming.

For many of the purveyors of this psychosis, there is little reason to offer up facts to counter their delusions. There can be no debate on this matter, they contend. The hour is too late. Anyone who counters their zealotry has suspect motives and is probably on the payroll of the oil industry.

Ironically, of course, the politician most closely associated with global warming hysteria is Al Gore, whose family fortune was built on Occidental Oil stock. Now he is attempting to expand his fortune through the sale of carbon credits.

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April 20, 2008

When Will The Ice Go Out On Minnetonka?

By Elmer Beauregurad

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It's April 20th and the ice it not out yet on Lake Minnetonka.

The last time the ice was on the lake this late was 1996, that was the year that it got down to -60º below zero in Tower Minnesota.

It seems like the Global Warming crowd is having a hard time with all the ice we've had this year. Not only here but the South and North Poles have had a lot of ice too. I'm sad to see that Paul Douglas was let go from WCCO. It was fun to watch him squirm every time he had to talk about the record cold winter we're slowly recovering from. Us Minnesotans love to talk about the weather that's for sure, but I never thought it would become a political debate.

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Lake Minnetonka prepares for spring.

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April 14, 2008

Global Warming Big Topic at Tax Cut Rally

Elmer Beaureguard

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Over 3,000 people braved the bitter temperatures and snow to go to Jason Lewis' Tax Cut Rally at the Minnesota State Capital last Saturday. They came to protest all of the taxes being levied on Minnesotans. Ironically many of the proposed taxes have to do with "Global Warming".

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Central Plank Of Global Warming Alarmism Discredited

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet

Inspiration for Al Gore's movie cover, contention that global warming causes intense hurricanes, discredited by professor who first proposed it.

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One of the central philosophies of climate change alarmism and an image that adorned the cover of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - the contention that global warming causes deadly hurricanes - has been completely discredited by the expert who first proposed it.

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April 10, 2008

Global Warming Panel Makes Recommendations

By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press

Critics say global warming panel recommendations could increase energy costs,
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Recent recommendations from Minnesota's global-warming advisory group are unrealistic and too expensive, a collection of lawmakers and business interests charged today.

"Essentially, their proposal is a fantasy,'' said David Strom, president of the Minnesota Free Market Institute, one of several groups hosting a Capitol press conference. "It has no correlation to the trends we see.''

The critics, armed with a study that two of them commissioned, warned that the advisory group's recommendations understate the costs of altering future energy-consumption practices to address global warming. If those recommendations are followed, they projected the state could lose billions of dollars and thousands of jobs and see energy costs rise dramatically.

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April 9, 2008

Why Do They Measure CO2 From A Volcano?

By Elmer Beaureguard

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We've all seen the now famous chart of the increasing CO2, but did you know that it comes from a volcanic mountain in Hawaii called Mauna Loa?

If you've watched "The Great Global Warming Swindle" you know that CO2 for the most part is a natural occurrence. By far the largest conrtibutor of CO2 is the ocean, second is rotting vegetation, third is volcanoes. Well Mauna Loa has all three of these natural producers of CO2 going for it, its on an island in the Pacific its a tropical paradise with lots of vegetation and is a volcanic mountain that has erupted twice since the chart began and is increasing in volcanic activity and could erupt again.

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