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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. 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. 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. 'Intelligence' committee threatens national security. Led by U.S. Rep. Sylvestre Reyes of Texas, a coalition of D.C. Democrats say national security will be better served if CIA cash is used for global warming research — because apparently there just aren't enough people studying the issue out there. It's also an odd necessity because if you adhere to the notion that the "science is settled," which the Democrats almost universally believe, then why even bother studying it anymore? 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. Drowning in drivel. You might think the moral of this farce is not to trust even million-hit websites such as WorldNetDaily … But the real moral is that global warming fear-mongering is now so shameless and grotesque that otherwise sane people are prepared to believe half [of Australia] is about to head for the boats. You might also think Bell must be on his nutty lonesome to fall for a story so wild. But don't admired global warming cultists say things just as extreme, to huge applause? Rising Oil Prices and Global Warming: Connecting the Facts. Global warming activists and politicians want to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing the energy derived from fossil fuels such as gasoline and coal. … Because 86% of our current energy use comes from fossil fuels (those energy sources that emit the largest amount of greenhouse gasses), these policies will raise the price of gasoline, home heating and cooling, and the myriad of other energy products we consume in our daily lives. From a "global warming perspective", such reductions are the desired outcome. California to be home to $600 million global warming research center. California will establish a high-profile, $600 million research center to devise solutions for global warming, the Public Utilities Commission decided in a 5-0 vote Thursday [4/10/2008]. The California Institute for Climate Solutions will have a $60 million budget each year for 10 years. The money will come from ratepayers of the state's major utilities, including Pacific Gas & Electric, which serves much of Northern California. Global Warming as Mass Neurosis. If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn't evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn't mean God doesn't exist, or that global warming isn't happening. It does mean it isn't science. Live Earth: useful as a green bracelet. And now we're asked to put our hands in the air like we really care about the environment at Live Earth, a multinational phantasmagoric series of stadium concerts on July 7, with the grand aim of "raising awareness of global warming". Our $99 concert tickets, which I am sure will be printed on recycled paper, do not go towards any concrete measures to halt global warming, or to repair any damage done to the Earth. The proceeds don't go directly to purchasing solar batteries for anyone or subsidising public transport anywhere. The event just goes to raising awareness. 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. A Convenient Fiction: Steve Hayward's rebuttal to "An Inconvenient Truth" won't thrill either the environmental crowd or Hollywood's liberal elite. … Hayward, as a global warming skeptic, has an advantage over [Al] Gore. Unlike Gore, he is calm and reasonable, avoids hyperbole, and sticks to the facts, some of which are confusing or contradictory. The result is that he is closer to what he calls "the general consensus" among scientists about global warming than Gore is. UN Says Global Warming is Confusing Birds and Whales. During meetings on climate change among representatives from over 100 countries, specialists said global warming is confusing the biological clocks of birds and whales — disrupting their migration patterns. In case you have just tuned in, the pace of global warming is about one degree per century. The air warms and cools 20 or 30 degrees every day, and a lot more than that over the course of a year. The global warming (or cooling) slope is way down in the "noise floor" of temperature change. Birds and whales are just not that fragile. We're Not Going to Melt. Don't invest your life's savings in windmills and solar-powered air conditioners just yet. While the earth does seem to have warmed slightly over the past century, the causes and implications are anything but clear. Moreover, the last ten years have seen a global plateau in temperature change. Those who claim that we're racing towards a fiery apocalypse are simply not basing their views on science. In fact, some scientists are now hypothesizing that we'll see a cooling period in the near future, as we saw from 1940 to 1975. 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary. Accepted theories about man causing global warming are "lies" claims a controversial new TV documentary. 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' — backed by eminent scientists — is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. The programme ... will see a series of respected scientists attack the "propaganda" that they claim is killing the world's poor. How Global Warming Activism Hurts the Poor: The National Religious Partnership on the Environment (NRPE) organized Mainline Protestants, Roman Catholics, Evangelicals and Jews in a special statement to the U.S. Congress pleading for a joint crusade against Global Warming and poverty. The Religious Left prefers to deny that reducing global economic growth, even if it could affect the climate, is no way to help the poor. Instead, the Religious Left wraps its Global Warming agenda in the mantle of caring for the poor. The Hedonistic Left and Global Warming: The elitists who make the most noise about the "purity" of nature never apply that concern to human nature: they have made careers out of corrupting it. The self-appointed prophets of an environmental apocalypse from Hollywood and New York are the forces most responsible for engineering a secularist culture which is remarkable in the history of all cultures for its moral obliviousness and its utter indifference to the future, much less the moral welfare of children. Global Warming Equals Socialism. For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior. Unmasking Global Warming: The Case of Mikhail Gorbachev. The most remarkable aspect of the man-made global warming claim is the lack of solid scientific evidence for it. Yet there are those whose apparent goal it is to advance this theory at all costs. Blatant in their disregard of the facts, they try to convince as many as would believe of the real nature of this alleged danger. But since this activism does not rest on scientific evidence or hard facts, it must be driven by motives other than those publicly stated. 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. This obscuranticity came from www.akdart.com. Climate of Fear: Over the years, the alarmists have veered from an obsession with lethal global cooling around the turn of the 20th century to lethal global warming a generation later, back to cooling in the 1970s and now to warming once again. You don't have to be a scientist to realize that all these competing narratives of doom can't be true. Or to wonder whether any of them are. Perhaps that is why most Americans discount the climate-change fear-mongering that is so fashionable among journalists and politicians. The vanity of global warming: Human beings are vain creatures, given to imagining we are able to influence events far beyond our control. … Queensland university student Sarah Bishop believes she can influence the weather. The 22-year-old will walk 1000km from Brisbane to Sydney next month in a bold bid to adjust the planet's temperature. 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. Time Magazine Commits Criminal Journalism: The cover of the April 9th issue of Time magazine was nothing less than an act of criminal journalism. It wasn't merely inaccurate; it was a deliberate act of deception. Against the background of a frying pan in which there was an egg whose yoke depicts the globe, the headline blared "Global Warming" with subtitles that claimed, "Climbing temperatures. Melting glaciers. Rising Seas. All over the earth we're feeling the heat. Why isn't Washington?" 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." The UN Climate Change Conference in Bali This whole subsection has moved here. 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. Back to the Global Warming Page Back to the Environmental Issues Page Back to the Home page |
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