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Obama Green Czar: ‘Green Jobs’ Goal Is ‘Complete Revolution’ Away From ‘Gray Capitalism’
President Obama’s Communist “Green” Czar admits what we’ve always known about the “green” movement — It’s really the new RED.
(hat tip Breitbart TV)
Environmental Extremism Responsible For California Wildfires
Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans to burn away highly flammable brush at the edge of L.A. to prevent raging forest fires.
After battling environmental groups in the courts the U.S. Forest Service finally obtained a permit to do a controlled burn on more than 1,700 acres of Angeles National Forest.
Due to pressure from liberal groups the Feds dragged their feet and only cleared a 193 acres before the wildfires sparked.
Even though this latest blaze has burned more than 5 dozen homes and killed two firefighters, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity had this to say (emphasis mine):
iologist Ileene Anderson with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental organization, said burn permits should be difficult to get because of the potential damage to air quality. Clearing chaparral by hand or machine must be closely scrutinized because it can hurt native species.
Notice the enviro-kooks always look out for everything except human beings. It doesn’t matter how many people or homes burn as long as the “native species” are not harmed.
People in California need to wake the hell up and take their state back from the environmental Marxists and loony progressives. Until they do, California will continue falling apart.
-Chris Jones
(hat tip Mere Rhetoric)
Sarah Palin Shreds Obama’s Cap And Trade Plan
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has an excellent Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post about the Obama “Cap & Tax” energy plan. She lays out the clearest arguments yet for why the Obama plan is a disaster that will destroy our economy.
G8 Leaders Agree To Control Earth’s Temperature
This via the Times Online:
President Obama and other leaders backed historic new targets for tackling global warming last night in an agreement designed to pave the way for a world deal in the autumn.
For the first time, America and the other seven richest economies agreed to the goal of keeping the world’s average temperature from rising more than 2C (3.6F).
This is truly historic. This marks the first time in world history that the leaders of the 8 richest countries have agreed to tackle a problem that doesn’t really exist.
Even if global warming weren’t a total sham, the idea that 8 men have the power to control the temperature of the earth is so absurd I question their sanity.
Since we’re talking about phony global warming, I highly recommend the new book “Green Hell” by Steven Milloy.
Green really is the new red.
-Chris Jones
(image courtesy of NewsBusters)
Obama Urges Congress To Pass Climate Change Bill
President Obama once again urged Congress to pass “historic legislation” to fight global warming.
All I can say is that it is indeed “historic legislation” — historically stupid.
Global warming is the biggest scam in the history of the world. It’s based on junk science ginned up by Al Gore and his progressive climate extremist cronies.
Confirmed: Olbermann Is A Tool
You have to read this story about Keith Olbermann. He really is the biggest drama queen douchebag on TV.
French Scientist Calls Gore A “Crook” And His Followers “Religous Zealots”
The most outspoken global warming skeptic in France is Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession. His new book, “Ma Verite Sur la Planete” (“My Truth About the Planet”), doesn’t hold back.
He calls Gore a “crook” presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore’s French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.
Allegre rightly points out that while the icecap of the North Pole is shrinking, the one covering Antarctica — or 92 percent of the Earth’s ice — is not, he says. Nor have Scandinavian glaciers receded, he says. To play down these differences by basing forecasts on a global average makes absolutely no sense.
Though water is drying up, a Chinese metropolis booms
SHIJIAZHUANG, China: Hundreds of feet below ground, this provincial capital of more than two million people is steadily running out of water. The water table is sinking fast. Municipal wells have already drained two-thirds of the local groundwater.
Above ground, this city in the North China Plain is having a party. Economic growth topped 11 percent last year. Population is rising. One new upscale housing development is advertising waterfront property on lakes filled with pumped groundwater. Another half-built complex, the Arc de Royal, is rising above one of the lowest points in the city’s water table.
“People who are buying apartments aren’t thinking about whether there will be water in the future,” said Zhang Zhongmin, who has tried for the past 20 years to raise public awareness about the city’s dire water situation.
For three decades, water has been indispensable in sustaining the rollicking economic expansion that has made China a world power. Now, China’s galloping, often wasteful style of economic growth is pushing the country toward a water crisis. Water pollution is rampant nationwide, while water scarcity has worsened severely in north China – even as demand keeps rising everywhere.
China is scouring the world for oil, natural gas and minerals to keep its economic machine humming. But trade deals cannot solve water problems. Water usage in China has quintupled since 1949, and leaders will increasingly face tough political choices as cities, industry and farming compete for a finite and unbalanced water supply.
One example is grain. The Communist Party, leery of depending on imports to feed the country, has long insisted on grain self-sufficiency. But growing so much grain consumes huge amounts of underground water in the North China Plain, which produces half the country’s wheat. Some scientists say farming in the rapidly urbanizing region should be restricted to protect endangered aquifers. Yet doing so could threaten the livelihoods of millions of farmers and cause a spike in international grain prices.
For the Communist Party, the immediate challenge is the prosaic task of forcing the world’s most dynamic economy to conserve and protect clean water. Water pollution is so widespread that regulators say a major incident occurs every other day. Municipal and industrial dumping has left broad sections of many rivers “unfit for human contact.”
Cities like Beijing and Tianjin have shown progress on water conservation, but China’s economy continues to emphasize growth. Industry in China uses 3 to 10 times more water, depending on the product, than industries in developed nations…CLICK FOR FULL STORY
Al Gore Charges $25,000 per person at Australian Meet-and-Greet
AL GORE has a story he wants to tell the world. But it will cost you a thousand dollars to hear it.
In a passionate attack on the climate policies of Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush, the former US vice-president, addressing a very expensive lunch in Sydney yesterday, called Australia and the US “the Bonnie and Clyde” outlaws of the global environment for their failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
Mr Gore called on Australia to change course on Kyoto and its climate policies, saying if it did “it would be impossible for the United States to withstand the pressure” to join the rest of the world in ratifying Kyoto.
Labor under Kevin Rudd has promised to ratify the protocol while Mr Howard is adamantly opposed to it and is backing Mr Bush’s efforts to find a “post-Kyoto accord”.
Mr Gore made his comments after reporters were asked to leave the lunch venue. Despite the cost, lunch in the 700-seat room at the Sydney Convention Centre was a sell-out, as is tomorrow’s event in Melbourne. VIP packages, which included a spot close to Mr Gore and a meet-and-greet with him, cost $25,000.
With Liberal Party members allegedly warned off attending, yesterday’s lunch was something of a Labor Party affair. Mr Gore paid tribute to two Labor Bobs present — Hawke and Carr — praising the former for the hole-in-one he hit while playing with Mr Gore earlier in the day, and the latter for his commitment to the environment.
Mr Gore earlier met NSW Premier Morris Iemma, who brought with him Maxine McKew, Labor’s candidate in the federal seat of Bennelong, who also attended the lunch. Ms McKew said that Mr Gore was well informed about Australian politics and knew of her run for the Prime Minister’s seat.
“He said to me, ‘I’ve been talking to Bob Hawke about you, and I’ve been reading about you.’ ”
After his salutations, Mr Gore got down to business. The ballooning world population and the dizzying pace of technological change had helped turn mankind into an environmental “bull in a china shop”, he said.
That the world’s population had quadrupled in the past 100 years partly explained this. Technological change had also had a significant impact on “this shell of the environment that surrounds our planet”.
He went on: “In the last three weeks, the amount of ice melting in the Arctic has been completely unprecedented. In only six days an area the size of the US state of Florida disappeared; in the week before that, an area almost twice the size of Britain disappeared.
“It’s melting 10 times faster than previously recorded. Experts are now saying that if we don’t act with urgency, the entire ice cap could be completely gone in less than 23 years.”
Mr Gore said that despite all the scientific evidence about climate change, inaction still ruled among governments and business.
Raising his voice almost to a shout, he said climate change was not scientific, political or ideological.
“It’s about survival.”
[The Age]
Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears
A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun’s irradiance. “This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850,” said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.
Other researchers found evidence that 3) sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4) that our storms and droughts are becoming fewer and milder with this warming as they did during previous global warmings; 5) that human deaths will be reduced with warming because cold kills twice as many people as heat; and 6) that corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate.
Despite being published in such journals such as Science, Nature and Geophysical Review Letters, these scientists have gotten little media attention. “Not all of these researchers would describe themselves as global warming skeptics,” said Avery, “but the evidence in their studies is there for all to see.”
The names were compiled by Avery and climate physicist S. Fred Singer, the co-authors of the new book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, mainly from the peer-reviewed studies cited in their book. The researchers’ specialties include tree rings, sea levels, stalagmites, lichens, pollen, plankton, insects, public health, Chinese history and astrophysics.
“We have had a Greenhouse Theory with no evidence to support it-except a moderate warming turned into a scare by computer models whose results have never been verified with real-world events,” said co-author Singer. “On the other hand, we have compelling evidence of a real-world climate cycle averaging 1470 years (plus or minus 500) running through the last million years of history. The climate cycle has above all been moderate, and the trees, bears, birds, and humans have quietly adapted.”
“Two thousand years of published human histories say that the warm periods were good for people,” says Avery. “It was the harsh, unstable Dark Ages and Little Ice Age that brought bigger storms, untimely frost, widespread famine and plagues of disease.” “There may have been a consensus of guesses among climate model-builders,” says Singer. “However, the models only reflect the warming, not its cause.” He noted that about 70 percent of the earth’s post-1850 warming came before 1940, and thus was probably not caused by human-emitted greenhouse gases. The net post-1940 warming totals only a tiny 0.2 degrees C.
The historic evidence of the natural cycle includes the 5000-year record of Nile floods, 1st-century Roman wine production in Britain, and thousands of museum paintings that portrayed sunnier skies during the Medieval Warming and more cloudiness during the Little Ice Age. The physical evidence comes from oxygen isotopes, beryllium ions, tiny sea and pollen fossils, and ancient tree rings. The evidence recovered from ice cores, sea and lake sediments, cave stalagmites and glaciers has been analyzed by electron microscopes, satellites, and computers. Temperatures during the Medieval Warming Period on California’s Whitewing Mountain must have been 3.2 degrees warmer than today, says Constance Millar of the U.S. Forest Service, based on her study of seven species of relict trees that grew above today’s tree line.
Singer emphasized, “Humans have known since the invention of the telescope that the earth’s climate variations were linked to the sunspot cycle, but we had not understood how. Recent experiments have demonstrated that more or fewer cosmic rays hitting the earth create more or fewer of the low, cooling clouds that deflect solar heat back into space-amplifying small variations in the intensity of the sun.
Avery and Singer noted that there are hundreds of additional peer-reviewed studies that have found cycle evidence, and that they will publish additional researchers’ names and studies. They also noted that their book was funded by Wallace O. Sellers, a Hudson board member, without any corporate contributions.
HYPOCRISY ALERT: Video Shows ‘Green’ Gore on Luxury Private Jet
As former Vice President Al Gore waits to hear if he has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless effort on climate change, a new video will air this weekend capturing Gore on a fuel-guzzling private jet!
FOXNEWS host Sean Hannity is set to unleash the damning video this Sunday night, network sources reveal.
Developing…
Emmy Academy Vetoes Fox’s Green Carpet Plan
In a move that would have parted with decades of broadcast tradition, Fox wanted to roll out a green carpet during its presentation of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards. But the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which considers the traditional red carpet an iconic part of its brand, overruled Fox’s request earlier today.
Changing the carpet color was an unannounced part of Fox’s green-themed Emmy Awards presentation strategy, which includes employing hybrid vehicles for event transportation, using recycled materials and reducing carbon emissions from the production.
Fox pushed for the attention-getting switch as part of parent company News Corp.’s initiative to combat global warming and promote eco-friendly concepts, but the network was met with strong resistance from the more traditional Academy.
“They are so bound by ‘this is how it’s always done’ that it’s like moving mountains trying to get them to agree,” a production insider says.
An Academy insider said their carpet verdict has gone back and forth in recent weeks as the parties debated the plan. “It was red, then it was green, then it was red again,” a source says.
The Academy claims sponsor Macy’s denied the request, sources say, insisting the carpet remain red since the color matches the store’s signage. Switching the carpet might also have impacted arrivals coverage specials that are traditionally titled and marketed using the “red carpet” brand.
Though Fox was denied a green carpet, the network still convinced the Academy to have a “green” carpet—as in eco-friendly. The carpet will be made from recycled material and donated to a school or library after the event.
[TV Week]
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