Global Warming -- Leftover Topics

Global Warming — Leftover Topics

The scraps, clutter and noise left over from the Global Warming Page.

This page includes material about global warming concerns that are important enough to publicize, but only when they are seen as mere distractions from the main themes of the global warming debate.

Many claims made about global warming should be obviously absurd. But all it takes is one TV news report to lend credibility to an argument that can't stand up to scrutiny.

Mississippi Court Ends Global-Warming Suit. A federal judge in Mississippi has ended a long-running suit that attempted to hold a selection of U.S. utilities and coal and oil companies responsible for flooding damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr., in a decision released yesterday, dismissed Comer vs. Murphy Oil with prejudice, meaning it can't be refiled or reconstituted. The decision should serve to preclude, other similar lawsuits accusing companies of emitting global-warming gases that cause damaging weather patterns.

Reselling Climate Change to Voters Without Saying So. Since the notion of manmade climate change has been debunked by a number of experts, the dialogue on the subject has undergone some dramatic changes. Rather than attempting to assert the truthfulness of manmade climate change, environmentalists and supporters of cap and trade have redirected the American people's attention to high gas prices and the effects of pollutants on children, in the hopes that voters will be swayed to inadvertently elect global warming warriors to office.

Dissecting December's Canadian Senate Climate Hearing. On the morning of December 15, 2011, The Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources heard from four expert witnesses about the science and economics of climate change. This was the first time since 2005 that scientists who do not accept the hypothesis that humanity's carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are causing dangerous global warming were permitted to testify before a Canadian government committee.

How we shipped off $599 million to the United Nations' warmists. This is impossible. Under the "Fast Start Finance" commitment from Cancun, which Combet announced, $599 million will be given to the IPCC under Australia's combating AGW obligations. This $599 million is on top of the commitment made by Australia at Cancun to give 10% of revenue raised from a carbon tax to the IPCC.

Wichita temps swing 95 degrees in a week. It's been a wacky week for weather in Wichita. Last Thursday morning, the temperature fell to minus 17 in Wichita, setting a record low for Feb. 10. This Thursday's temperature hit 78, setting a record high for Feb. 17. That's a swing of 95 degrees from Thursday to Thursday in Wichita.

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The people who worry about "global warming" at the rate of two degrees per century are probably surprised that any plant or animal survived that 95° temperature swing.

Marketing 'Climate Change'. [Scroll down] Environmental activists, not willing to give up on an enormous source of money from government grants and extortion, have come up with a myriad of approaches to try to make the climate change argument attractive. Some ideas are:
[1] Greater emphasis on emotional messaging using animals such as polar bears and whales and people suffering the results of weather catastrophes. An old but tried-and-true PR strategy that has lost its luster, but it is very difficult to give up.
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[3] Climate activists have begun funneling millions of dollars into training programs for so-called environmental journalists to encourage even more advocacy journalism.

White House: Global Warming Out, 'Global Climate Disruption' In. From the administration that brought you "man-caused disaster" and "overseas contingency operation," another terminology change is in the pipeline. The White House wants the public to start using the term "global climate disruption" in place of "global warming" — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

G-8 agrees to cap on global temperatures. The Group of Eight industrialized nations joined with developing countries in agreeing Wednesday [7/8/2009] that average global temperatures shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius in a significant new acknowledgement in the fight against global warming. The United States and other G-8 leaders also said they supported a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent or more by 2050.

Making it up in global warming theory. Science Magazine has good news for global warming crowd: The Hockey Stick is back! It was shown to be a fraud before, but now — Shazam! It's back! Gee it's hot today. But... compared to what? That's the big question in the global warming game.

House Bill Would Allow 'Victims' to Sue for Global Warming. Global warming "victims" could be able to sue the government and companies if two congressmen have their way. ... The language, as originally reported by The Washington Times on April 10, would allow for anyone "who has suffered, or reasonably expects to suffer, a harm attributable, in whole or in part," to government inaction on global warming to file a "citizen suit."

Stop scaring kids about global warming. In the United States, the ABC television network recently reported that psychologists are starting to see more neuroses in people anxious about climate change. An article in the Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal extinctions from global warming. In her words: "I don't like global warming because it kills animals, and I like animals." From a child who is yet to lose all her baby teeth: "I worry about (global warming) because I don't want to die." The newspaper also reported that parents are searching for "productive" outlets for their eight-year-olds' obsessions with dying polar bears.

Do not read this column. To all those ... who don't understand the difference between weather and climate or how cap-and-trade works, although you always think you do — please, go buy a book on climate change, sit down, read, learn. Then maybe we can have a rational discussion. Look, I'll help you. Start with Robert Henson's The Rough Guide to Climate Change: The Symptoms, The Science, The Solutions — the most readable, balanced, and informative book on the subject I've come across. Read just the first chapter "The basics — global warming in a nutshell" and, at the end of 40 pages, I promise you, you'll know more about climate change than 90% of the politicians promising to "fix" it.

Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus. The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is "global warming." The term turns people off, ... [so] Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about "our deteriorating atmosphere." Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up "moving away from the dirty fuels of the past." Don't confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like "cap and cash back" or "pollution reduction refund."

Carbon Cuts Won't Work. When world leaders meet for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen this December, they will make decisions that will affect the world for many generations. Three months before that meeting, there is an alarming absence of serious discussion about what these decisions should be. What passes for debate is usually a shouting match between those who believe that climate change is not real and those who believe that it will end life on Earth. We are all, it seems, either "deniers" or "believers."

Getting Warmer. [Scroll down] In the more relevant comparison, the ratio of economic production to greenhouse emissions, the United States is the best performer among this group by a very wide margin, producing $2,000 in economic value per ton of greenhouse emissions to China's $450, India's $497, and Indonesia's $679. A ton of emissions from the United States brings the world 4.5 times as much economic good as a ton of emissions from China.

JFA opposes plan to limit convenience store hours to battle global warming. The Japan Franchise Association (JFA) is opposing local government plans to limit convenience stores' night opening hours as a global warming countermeasure, saying carbon dioxide reductions would be minimal and crime prevention problems would emerge.

Global Warming and Mt. Kilimanjaro. [Scroll down] Climate activists claim the receding ice is evidence of the need for developed countries to reduce carbon output. Actually, the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro have been receding since 1890, according to research by G. Kaser, et al., published in the International Journal of Climatology (2004). They note that when Ernest Hemingway published "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in 1936, the mountain had already lost more than half its surface ice area in the previous 56 years. This is more than it has lost in the 70 years since.

Kilimanjaro's shrinking snow not sign of warming. The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania have been diminishing for more than a century but probably not due to global warming, researchers report. … Most of the retreat occurred before 1953, nearly two decades before any conclusive evidence of atmospheric warming was available, they wrote.

Climate Change and Melting Glaciers. Most suggestions of rapid melting are based on observations of a small handful of India's 10,000 or so Himalayan glaciers. A comprehensive report in November by senior glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, released by the Indian government, looked more broadly and found that many of these glaciers are stable or have even advanced, and that the rate of retreat for many others has slowed recently.

Focus on people, 'not the climate'. [Scroll down] In prioritising how best to spend $75 billion over the next four years to deliver the greatest good to mankind, a panel of eight economists, including five Nobel laureates, did not feature any climate change spending among their 13 priority projects. … The 13 priorities would deliver between $20 and $30 of value for every dollar invested, compared with 90¢ for the mitigation of greenhouse gases, because of the high cost of cutting emissions now and the limited impact such reductions would have.

More methane a mystery. Levels of climate-warming methane — a greenhouse gas 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide — rose abruptly in the earth's atmosphere last year, and scientists who reported the change don't know why it occurred.

The Editor says...
Sometimes unexpected things happen in the atmosphere, and when they do, all the computer models and predictions are then invalid.

Limiting C02 Emissions Hurts Poor Most. When our economic bus is teetering at the edge of a cliff, it's a bad time to throw on some extra weight. Yet government-mandated restrictions on carbon emissions would do precisely that, adding enormous additional weight to an economy already reeling.

Zippy the Pinhead Mocks Global Warming Alarmism. Has global warming alarmism finally jumped the shark? If so, then perhaps its jump the shark moment can be traced to last Sunday when global warming alarmism was openly mocked in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip.

Keeping Our Cool. No matter what, the worrywarts have the future covered. Steven Guilbeault of Greenpeace explained, "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with." No wonder humanity is having trouble addressing the problems — we can't even decide what the problems are. However, activists can agree on who's to blame: The United States, of course.
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NASA Misses Climate. Sorry, Dr. Hansen, but the melting edges of the Greenland ice sheet don't prove your point. Melting around the edges is exactly what the Vikings saw on Greenland 1000 years ago when they named the island — for its green coastal meadows. They moved in with their cattle, and thrived for 300 years, during what we now call the Medieval Warming. The Vikings' mistake was thinking that Greenland would stay warm, that the Earth's climate was stable.

Let logic join the global warming debate. When it comes to global warming, Americans have a right to be confused. Is it a problem or isn't it? You don't have to look far to find passionate voices on both sides of the issue, while the amount of information and disinformation is staggering.

New Zealand's Global Warming Tax: Can we tax our way out of global warming? We'll soon find out thanks to what is described as a "tax experiment". New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (US$2.12) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.

Let Them Confess Their Faith. It wasn't long after I became a research scientist that I learned that scientists aren't the unbiased, impartial seekers of truth I always thought they were. Scientists have their own agendas, philosophies, pre-conceived notions, and pet theories. These views end up influencing their science. Nowhere does this have a greater impact on the science than in global warming theory.

Caving in on global warming. As a great public service, someone should send a copy of Michael Crichton's new book "State of Fear" to the chief executive officer of every Fortune 500 company in America. Mr. Crichton is not a scientist, but he understands science and how to separate out fact from fiction. His book undresses the environmental alarmists for a lack of evidence to support their apocalyptic claims of global warming and does so with impressive documentation.

Report Summary Spins Global Warming, Says a Participant. As with past summaries for policy-makers, the summary tends to downplay uncertainty, emphasize human culpability and generally provide only information supporting policy options favored by the United Nations — the immediate adoption of international agreements to reduce the emissions of "greenhouse gases."

Eight State Attorneys General Decide to Set National Global Warming Policies Themselves. Environmental policies properly are established by legislators voting in view of the public, not by lawyers in courtrooms. As the New York Attorney General's office describes it, "the Attorney General serves as the guardian of the legal rights of the citizens." What happened to the citizens' right to be governed by a legislature it selects?

Attorneys General Global Warming Lawsuit: A Desperation Ploy. On July 21, 2004, the debate over climate change reached a new low as attorneys general in eight states — all Democrats but one — and the corporation counsel for New York City sued five electric utilities for their alleged role in causing "global warming." The lawsuit is frivolous. Evidence of a human role in climate change is slim and constantly being challenged in scholarly journals. There has been no warming trend in the U.S. or in any of the eight states participating in the lawsuit.

Aliens Cause Global Warming. My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming.

Global Warming in the Courts: When liberals can't win at the ballot box, they take their case to the courts in hopes that liberal judges will endorse their fantasies in the history of jurisprudence. Such is the case when it comes to the issue of so-called global warming.

Environmentalism's Tainted Roots: "The global warmers… predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple."

Washington's weapons have the ability to trigger climate change. The world's climate can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated "non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians have developed capabilities to manipulate the World's climate. In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP).

Greenpeace co-founder praises global warming. Global warming and nuclear energy are good and the way to save forests is to use more wood. That was the message delivered to a biotechnology industry gathering yesterday in Waikiki. However, it wasn't the message that was unconventional, but the messenger — Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore.

Human life vs. the Earth. They've been at it again. In Montreal, a bunch of politicians and activists just finished another round of negotiations among themselves about just how much of our freedom to take away in pursuit of a greener planet.

Celebrities and notable global warming activists

In the last 25 years or so, many people accepted the idea that the opinions and viewpoints of Hollywood celebrities are somehow more credible and beneficial than other people's ideas. This is partly the result of 24-hour tabloid news programs and a culture that has deteriorated to the point where people are famous just for being famous. But wealth and fame do not necessarily bring wisdom and sound reasoning.

Al Gore 'left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture'. Green-minded campaigner Al Gore has been left red-faced after being accused of leaving his car running for almost an hour while he gave a lecture on sustainable development. It is alleged that Gore made the gaffe while he spoke at the School of Business, Economics and Law in Gothenburg, Sweden on Wednesday [10/27/2010]. His mistake was compounded further by the fact that he had asked his distinguished guests to attend the event by public transport in order to minimize CO2 emissions.

Al Gore under fire for leaving car idling for an hour during speech. Climate change warrior Al Gore has invited controversy after reportedly leaving his car idling for an hour during an environment lecture in Sweden. A blogger revealed the Nobel Peace Prize winner arrived for the Gothenburg speech in a rental car (with or without driver is unclear), from the airport, and subsequently left the engine running for the entire lecture, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The Playboy of the Green Hypocrisy. I am constantly amazed by the double standards that characterize the environmental/liberal movement. Billionaires are bad ... unless they are called Oprah, Spielberg, or Soros. Flying is bad too because of the emissions it produces is bad for the environment, or so environmentalists tell us. But it seems it is only other people flying that is damaging. Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rajendra Pachauri, and the tens of thousands of IPCC fellow travelers spend their lives on planes and receive no criticism from their hypocritical environmental cheerleaders.

Al Gore, Tipper Gore snap up Montecito-area villa. Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal. The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

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Five bedrooms and nine bathrooms, for just two people? How big is the garage?

Al Gore jumps twenty-five sharks. Will Al Gore now be the butt of more jokes than anyone who ever lived? Well, not quite, but it was always easy enough to make fun of Al — that blowhard who claimed to have helped create the Internet (tell CERN) and that his marriage inspired Love Story. But no one could have anticipated his never-to-be-forgotten June of 2010, a month that would give even the strongest of us a migraine for life. And everything seemed to be going so well for him in May with the announcement of his purchase of a nine-million dollar ocean front home in Montecito. Well, that place may have had a carbon footprint the size of Indiana, but we're used to the hypocrisy of the supposedly green-minded. It comes with the territory.

Home Field advantage: Bradys' pigskin palace slammed. What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon? Why, that would be the Hub's favorite Pats fan, Gisele Bundchen! And a paparazzo's sneak pics of Bundchen and hubby Tom Brady's gargantuan new Brentwood, Calif., chateau has green activists seeing red.

Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges. On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. "We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she says. "But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report."

Come Fry with Me. [Scroll down] As Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explains: Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world's leading climate scientist has told the Observer. Rajendra Pachauri? Hey, if you're manning the VIP lounge at Heathrow, that name may ring a bell: Dr Rajendra Pachauri flew at least 443,243 miles on IPCC business in this 19 month period.

Taking the private jet to Copenhagen. Any celebrity flying the green flag needs glittering eco-credentials. But how do they justify the fleet of customised planes, the luxury homes and the posse of servants?

Limousine liberals enjoy the weather in Copenhagen. As the world's leaders come together to try to hammer out measures to fight global warming, they are not forgetting to take time out to live it up. Junketeers at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen — many of them from developing nations — are enjoying luxuries like limos, private jets, and fancy gourmet food while claiming that the world is going to hell in a handbasket because of our consumption.

Mr. Obama has one standard for himself, another standard for the rest of us.
Try to Meet the Carter Standard. Add President Obama's name to the ever-growing list of global-warming hypocrites. ... Obviously, a president gets a necessary pass on driving in a big (i.e., safe) car. But it turns out that Obama keeps the Oval Office at near-tropical heat levels. The New York Times reports that he doesn't wear a suit jacket at his desk because he has "cranked up the thermostat." Explained adviser David Axelrod: "He's from Hawaii, OK? He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."

Obama and his thermostat. The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

Carbon footprint undermines U2's planet-saving credentials. U2 and Bono's long-held commitment to "save the planet" has been questioned after it emerged they have a combined carbon footprint big enough to fly the band the distance from the Earth to Mars.

Oprah: It's Great to Have a Private Jet. During a speech to Duke University's graduating class, Oprah talked about the secrets and joys of success. Among them: owning a mansion and a jet. "It's great to have a nice home. It's great to have nice homes! It's great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara," she told the students. "It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you."

Prince Charles leaves a 53-ton carbon footprint as he flies in a 12-seat private jet. Prince Charles is being accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed that he is chartering a luxury private jet for a five-day tour of Europe to promote environmental issues. ... Instead of using scheduled flights, the Royal party has hired a private plane, thought to be an Airbus A319.

GE Irresponsibility: Time magazine, alarmist astronomer James Hansen, and Hollywood climate "experts" George Clooney and Julia Roberts are working overtime to convince Americans that global warming is already devastating our planet. But few scientists buy their apocalyptic theories, no real evidence backs them up, Earth's turbulent climate history belies the claim that something new is afoot, and the scary "scenarios" shouted by headlines and alarmist literature are the product of only superheated rhetoric and a couple of "outlier" computer models.

James Hansen Goes Extreme. Last year, Dr. Hansen was forced to revise NASA's surface temperature records after an independent researcher pointed out that Hansen's analysis incorrectly identified the 1990s as the hottest decade on record. A new analysis of the data showed that the 1930s were in fact the warmest decade. That correction confirmed that even leading NASA astronomers and physicists can be wrong, but it did not lead Dr. Hansen to cool his activism.

Prince admits environmental cost of green speech. The Prince of Wales made a speech to the tourist industry on how it will have to make efforts on an "heroic scale" to minimise the impact of travel on the environment — only 24 hours after his own ten-day tour of the Far East was announced. When Clarence House was asked to justify the trip to Japan, Brunei and Indonesia — which will include a lecture by the Prince in Jakarta on climate change — it said that the trip was regarded by the Government as vital for cementing British relations in the Far East.

Smelling an activist rat. Heather Mills — celebrity divorcee and green extremist — last year urged us to stop drinking the milk of cows. Milking ex-husband Paul McCartney may have been fine, but Mills felt milking cows was going too far. You see, the burps of these gassy beasts were heating the world to hell, she told a press conference. "There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?" And with that, she roared off in a Mercedes four-wheel drive, trailing clouds of hypocrisy.

Madonna's carbon footprint under scrutiny. Madonna may have headlined last year's Live Earth concert promoting climate change, but her carbon footprint for her world tour has come under scrutiny. The emissions generated by the singer's 45 date tour is the equivalent to that created by 160 Britons in an entire year. According to website Carbonfootprint.com, her 250 staff would generate 1,080 tons flying on commercial planes, while there would be 460 tons of carbon from her heavy cargo.

'Green' Means Money, Not Environmentalism to Madonna. Madonna, who seems to be on top of all her many business endeavors, has actually invested about $2.7 million dollars in companies that are creating the destruction that Live Earth is trying to raise awareness about. She has invested in several companies named as the biggest corporate polluters in the world.

See Jane's Big Carbon Footprint. What's your carbon footprint? Next year, it will probably be much smaller than that of Jane Lubchenco. The renowned climate-change crusader and professor of marine biology is Obama's choice for administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). National Review Online has obtained an e-mail from Lubchenco's husband, Oregon State University professor Bruce Menge, suggesting that the couple will contribute mightily to global warming next year after she takes the job by making frequent cross-country plane trips.

Green idealists fail to make grade, says study. According to the researchers, people who regularly recycle rubbish and save energy at home are also the most likely to take frequent long-haul flights abroad. The carbon emissions from such flights can swamp the green savings made at home, the researchers claim.

Do as our eco saviours say, not as they do. Take Al Gore. He is the world's loudest climate-change warrior. He believes the Earth is a "ticking time bomb". Or does he? Dogged reporters in the US make the point that Gore can't really be concerned about the planet because he has three homes, including one in Nashville with 20 rooms, eight bathrooms, a guesthouse and a pool. … Either the planet is coughing, spluttering, dying and in need of urgent action, or it isn't.

They preen that others may sacrifice. Americans for Prosperity catches on video Gore's supporters arriving in cabs for his speech on global warming in which he calls for higher gas taxes and greater use of public transportation. But there's more: Gore himself "brought a fleet of two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV!"

Do as Al says, not as Al does. On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U.S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said. Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall. So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the Gore party was inside.

Doubts In The Midst Of Greens. I'm attending New York Green Fest this weekend. The Green Fest promises to "celebrate sustainable living and Green politics", but I've that even within this group of people who ought to be among the most environmentally aware, there are patches of of soot grey obscuring the green color. One attendee from close by, who uses electricity obtained through the burning of coal that very likely is obtained through mountaintop removal mining, mentions her interest in organizing against the construction of wind turbine. She doesn't want it in her backyard, she says.

'Global warming' Gore attracts heat. The latest angry anti-Gore round boiled up when radio talk show host Steve Gill, a regular Gore basher, fired up listeners over the family's new 100-foot houseboat that's docked on Center Hill Lake. As he often does, Gill labeled Gore a hypocrite who preaches energy conservation to curb what Gill refers to as "so-called global warming," but who doesn't practice it.

Knights of the Planet Gore. The Democratic nominee-in-waiting arrived for his speech outlining our post-oil, post-SUV future in three gigantic, gas-guzzling SUVs. Then — taking a cue from Al Gore — Obama mounted the stage to declare a ten-year goal of ending our "addiction to oil" … or at least the oil from "the entire Middle East and Venezuela" (he also declared an end to war, and to human aging).

Climate change envoy's carbon footprint is 30 times British average. The diplomat charged by the [British] Government with lecturing the world on global warming has been revealed as one of the biggest contributors to it. John Ashton, whose role is to persuade other countries to reduce CO2 emissions, has made so many foreign trips by air in his job that his carbon footprint is already 30 times bigger than the UK average.

With five private jets, Travolta still lectures on global warming. His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment. But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway.

'We're hypocrites over our huge carbon footprint,' confesses Sting's wife. Their claim to be eco-warriors has been met with cynicism in recent times. Sting, for instance, notched up an incredible number of air miles with his band's world tour. And it was revealed that his wife Trudie Styler travels between their seven homes in private jets or their fleet of cars, as well as importing farm produce hundreds of miles. Now the celebrity couple have been forced to admit that their record is less than clean.

Warming to debate the art of hypocrisy. The telling thing about the global warming faith is that it's preached almost entirely by hypocrites. ... You see, more often than not a global warming prophet is a frequent flyer who's just stepped out of business class to demand you cut the very gases he's just blasted out the back of his jet. Or her jet, of course. I'm thinking here of Laurie David, a producer of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, the indoctrination tape for the warming faithful which demands we Use Less to save the world from choking on our filthy emissions.

Unhand my patio heater, archbishop. The Archbishop of Canterbury told the faithful on Christmas Day that unless human beings abandon our greed, we will be responsible for the death of the planet. Hmm. I'm not sure that I can take a lecture on greed from a man who heads one of the western world's richest institutions. As we huddle under a patio heater to stay warm while having a cigarette in the rain, his bishops are living in palatial splendour with banqueting halls, wondering where to invest the next billion.

A Solution to Man-Made Global Warming: Instead of continuing to preach to the rest of us, the true believers need to step forward and set an example. I'm not talking about recycling Evian bottles; I'm talking about giving up cars and moving into smaller houses or apartments, or even forming communes where people can live simpler, more Earth-friendly lives. Yes, I'm talking about living the kinds of lives they want all of us to live.

'Algoreism' For the Masses. In the case of Global Warming, Algoreism has led to two rather incredible scenarios. First, we're seeing the elite proponents of the movement advocating a return to the horse-and-buggy days for the masses — while they, the rich and powerful, continue to live their jet-setting lives through the purchase of carbon credits. This is mind-numbing hypocrisy. Second, we're seeing the rhetoric ratcheted up on a near daily basis.

Survey shows eco-warriors are the worst polluters. A survey of travel habits has revealed that the most environmentally conscious people are also the biggest polluters. "Green" consumers have some of the biggest carbon footprints because they are still hooked on flying abroad or driving their cars while their adherence to the green cause is mostly limited to small gestures. Identified as "eco-adopters", they are most likely to be members of an environmental organisation, buy green products such as detergents, recycle and have a keen interest in green issues.

He's literally a "limousine liberal."
Barack Obama's car could fuel more problems. President-elect Obama has stressed the need for energy independence — but he'll be chauffeured around in a gas-guzzling Cadillac SUV limo that could pose a symbolism problem similar to the car controversy that dogged his friend and ally, Gov. Deval Patrick. Obama's presidential ride, dubbed "Cadillac One," will reportedly be a mammoth, custom-made Cadillac limo built like a GMC truck that sits on 19-inch wheels.

Green Obama's official limo is a gas guzzler. On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. His own new presidential limousine will be far from green, however. The Obamobile being prepared for the president-elect is said to be a monster gas-guzzler made by General Motors, the troubled car giant. It will look like a black Cadillac but is built like a tank.

Obama's Presidential Limo. The inauguration of Barack Obama will not only bring about a wholesale turnover in the political leadership of the country but it will also unveil the newest in a long line of Presidential limos. According to Presidential vehicle experts, the new limo is a beast-like General Motors truck-based Cadillac that is so tough it's like a 'rolling tank with windows.'

Obama's new 'Beast' unleashed. Nicknamed "the Beast", Barack Obama's new drive is a hulking, snazzed-up upgrade from previous presidential limousines, and will give him a better view of his inaugural parade than his predecessor. Photos of the unfinished Cadillac leaked on the internet showed a hefty customised behemoth, reportedly tough enough to withstand a rocket-propelled grenade — and some joked, even an asteroid.

New limo reflects a president's priorities. For most of the 20th century, presidential automobiles had to reconcile competing imperatives, the first for safety and the second for symbolism. It's a testament to a free and stable democracy that its leader can move with relative ease and visibility among its people. For the president to be transported in an obviously armored car suggests an unquiet nation, a place of putsches and lurking coups. Even at the height of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt frequently traveled in his open touring car, a 1939 Lincoln V12 tellingly nicknamed the "Sunshine Special."

Obama Motors: The Cars You Don't Want at a Price You Can't Afford. When President Obama took office, he got a new car -- an 8 mile-per-gallon custom Cadillac limousine. The reason his car gets such poor fuel economy is that it is designed to protect the Commander-in-Chief from multiple threats. ... Because the car's armor and accessories weigh so much, the car is powered by a 6.5 liter diesel engine. ... President Obama didn't have the luxury of choosing a fuel-efficient car. His car was chosen for him based on several factors, most importantly the need to protect the President of the United States. Unfortunately, with this new national fuel efficiency standard, President Obama is not giving Americans the ability to select the car of their choosing.

Gore Won't Ask Wealthy Hollywoodans to Alter Lifestyle to Save Planet. If you needed a better example of the hypocrisy involved in Nobel Laureate Al Gore's global warming hysteria, read this delicious segment from an article just published by the British Sun.

'Green' Stars Talk the Talk … But Do They Walk the Walk? John Buckley, managing director of Carbon Footprint, an eco-awareness non-profit group based in the U.K., says there are many stars who don't practice what they preach when it comes to saving the Earth. "At the moment it's kind of fashionable for pop stars or celebrities to look green," he told FOXNews.com. "We've got a term here in the U.K. called "greenwash," when someone's trying to look green but you dig deeper [and] you see there's a lot of marketing behind it relating to their image, but not so much substance in terms of reducing carbon footprints, carbon emissions or helping the environment.

Green Hypocrisy at 30,000 Feet. [Scroll down] While travelling their chief fear is that they will be found out. Who they are, what they preach — and expose their moralistic hypocritical behaviour. They are the Green Bigots, leading environmentalists, those at the vanguard of the fight to change our lifestyles, restrict our foreign flights, who insist we do our 'bit' to cut greenhouse gas emissions while they rack up thousands of airmiles on business and pleasure trips."

UN Climate Change Conference will produce enough CO2 to fill 150 buses. Representatives from 192 countries as well as environmental groups, aid agencies and industry groups have gathered in Poznan, Poland for the UN Climate Change Conference for talks on cutting carbon emissions. However, 13,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide will be produced by the conference. This is enough to fill 150 London buses or the new Wembley Stadium six times over, according to carbon offsetting group Climate Care.

The Editor says...
Hmmm... 150 / 6 = 25. Is the stadium only as large as 25 buses?

Debate Over; It's Freezing. The carbon footprint of Barack Obama's inauguration could exceed 575 million pounds of CO2. According to the Institute for Liberty, it would take the average U.S. household nearly 60,000 years of naughty ecological behavior to produce a carbon footprint equal to the largest self-congratulatory event in the history of humankind.

Obama Inaugural A CO2 Disaster About to Happen! Will Green Loving Media Report? It ain't easy being green, and in the case of Barack Obama's inaugural, it seems like he's not even trying to green it up. According to the Institute for Liberty, the Obamathon in Washington will produce about 575 million pounds of CO2 emissions.

Green Fakers: A few weeks ago, I wrote an item about Barbra Streisand, who was on tour in England. Though she's a big backer of environmental causes, and even offers tips for low-carbon living on her personal website, she was busted by the British press for touring in a private jet with a massive entourage that required 13 trucks and vast amounts of laundry — in other words, for sponsoring a traveling CO2 extravaganza.

The 'Guilty Green' don't always recycle. They drive SUVs, throw perfectly recyclable bottles and cans in the trash, clean their bathrooms with — gasp — bleach and think nothing of sometimes blasting the air conditioner or taking wickedly wasteful long, hot showers. You think you know the type: the ones who think global warming is a hoax and scarf up natural resources like candy. Think again.

The Hypocrisy of Celebrity Environmentalists: How does a Los Angeles resident like Mrs. [Laurie] David travel between her west coast home and her new east coast summer place? Answer: She charters a Gulfstream jet. Environmental journalist Gregg Easterbrook calculates that a midsized Gulfstream G200 burns as much fuel on one transcontinental flight as a Hummer monster SUV consumes in an entire year.

Environmental advocate arrived in private jet. The head of the UN's environmental program opted for one of the least environmentally friendly modes of transport to get to this week's conference in Tromsø. He claims he had no choice.

UN climate circus rolls in on CO2 cloud. It has been billed as the summit that could help save the planet, but the latest United Nations climate change conference on the paradise island of Bali has itself become a major contributor to global warming. Calculations suggest flying the 15,000 politicians, civil servants, green campaigners and television crews into Indonesia will generate the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes of extra CO2.

Global warming skeptic blasts Crow's campaign against toilet paper. A spokesman for a Senate panel on the environment says celebrities who are urging people to ration toilet paper to fight global warming are "appropriately being laughed at." … Mark Morano, communications director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, notes that the toilet paper dilemma is nothing new among global warming alarmists.

Greens all talk, no action on global-warming cuts. Surveys show that while Americans may vote for politicians who say they are concerned about the environment and patronize businesses that they believe are environmentally friendly, they do little to curb their own carbon emissions from driving and power use.

Bill Clinton says climate change is the world's biggest worry. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told corporate chieftains and political bigwigs Saturday [1/28/2006] that climate change was the world's biggest problem … [saying,] "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it …."

[He also stated that the second biggest problem is "global inequality", which is a thinly-disguised plug for world-wide socialism.]

Kerry: Gorier than Gore on Global Warming. One lesson in climate hype that Gore never learned (and which may have cost him the presidency) is that people can look up facts pretty quickly now. Gore lost normally Democratic West Virginia because of his hype on global warming and his resultant vitriol against the coal industry. Miners, who he would have put on unemployment, stayed home or voted for Bush. … So should Kerry beware.

Kerry's inconvenient truth. While running for eco-moralizer-in-chief in 2004, Kerry was asked by The Detroit News editorial board what car he drove. Without any hint of irony, he said: "Well, we have a couple of Chrysler minivans. We have a Jeep. ... and a PT Cruiser up in Boston. ... and we have some SUVs. ... and an old Dodge 600 that I keep in the Senate. ... and I also have a Chevy. A big Suburban."

Kerry Calls "Global Warming" Biggest Threat Since Cold War: "Global warming" is America's biggest threat since the Cold War, according to Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who addressed an environmental conference in Washington, D.C., Thursday [5/1/2003].

John McCain: Environmental Activist? Without question, environmental issues — some say environmental "extremism" — is definitely the domain of liberals and Democrats. But now, a noted Republican, known as a maverick at heart, says he's throwing his weight behind the so-called "global warming" movement.

McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming. A panel discussion on global climate change Tuesday found Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) staff agreeing with representatives for the leading Democratic presidential contenders. A cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, they agreed, is the most promising solution to "global warming."

Murdoch: I'm proud to be green. In one of the most unexpected conversions since Saul of Tarsus hit the road to Damascus, Rupert Murdoch is turning into a green campaigner. He is making the whole of his worldwide operations carbon neutral and setting out to "educate and engage" his readers and viewers about global warming.

Humans face extinction claims star. Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio sent out a message about global warming at the Cannes Film Festival. The heartthrob has made a film, the 11th Hour, warning that human beings face extinction as a result of the environmental crisis.

[This sounds like a promo for his movie rather than a statement of his deep convictions.]

'Warming' alarmists must be held to higher standard. Most of those grabbing the spotlight have little or no post-secondary training in science or technology, let alone climate change. What do climate campaigners like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ted Turner and Sen. Barbara Boxer know about climate science? Actors, business people and politicians untrained in the field are as entitled as anyone to express their opinions about climate, but we need to take what they say with a rather large grain of salt.

Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza. When you're the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do — even if that means flying a chef 860 miles. Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday [4/9/2009] with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff. He had apparently been handpicked after the President had tasted his pizzas on the campaign trail last autumn.

Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel. It happens every time a president leaves town to make an Earth Day speech. Reporters scramble to point out how much fuel was expended so the President could talk about conserving energy and using alternative fuels. In flying to and from Iowa today, President Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One.

U.N. Climate Summit Leaves Large Carbon Footprint. It happens every autumn: midtown Manhattan becomes the motorcade capital of the world. Each foreign leader in town has a convoy of vehicles. Some of them, like President Obama's motorcade, are 20-to-30 vehicles in length. It's so long — it seems that when the front of it reaches the U.N., the back end is still back at his hotel. Exacerbating the annual exercise in diplomatic gridlock are police actions, blocking intersections and closing streets for security to facilitate motorcade movements. It renders countless other vehicles immobile while waiting for motorcades to pass...

What's NASA and Team Alarmism so Afraid of? It turns out that Realclimate.org is owned by an outfit that is in essence a non-profit public relations firm called Environmental Media Services (EMS), "dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues", whose Pittsburgh office houses the RealClimate server. ActivistCash.com describes EMS as "the communications arm of leftist public relations firm Fenton Communications."

Green Meanies. For years we have been reading stories about "Gulfstream Liberals" who leave muddy carbon footprints the size of a small African nation all over our global living room floor. ... It turns out these are not organic cherry-picked examples of eco-hypocrisy.

Will Climate Change Cause Crop Shortfalls by 2020? Note: This story from Climatewire is informed, in part, by a press release that was subsequently retracted by the online news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The study itself has not been retracted.

Climate change study had 'significant error': experts. A climate change study that projected a 2.4 degree Celsius increase in temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, scientists said Wednesday [1/19/2011]. The study was posted on the website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was written about by numerous international news agencies, including AFP. But AAAS later retracted the study as experts cited numerous errors in its approach.

You can take his word for it — after all, he's a celebrity.
Jose Canseco: Titanic would still be here if we'd had global warming back then. Global warming could have saved the Titanic. So says no less an authority on climatological and maritime disasters than Jose Canseco, erstwhile baseball slugger, steroid whistle blower and latter-day Twitter savant.

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