Archive | September, 2008

GAO Faults 'Credibility' of Carbon Offset Market

By Steven Power  WASHINGTON — The growing U.S. market for carbon offsets — vouchers that let companies and individuals project an environmentally friendly image by paying others to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions — is so opaque and loosely regulated that it offers consumers “limited assurance of credibility,” according to a federal audit. The report, expected […]

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Bill Carmichael: Labour – the Leading Lights

By Bill Carmichael  THIS may sound perverse, but as the country seemingly writes off Gordon Brown as a dead loss, I’m finding strong reasons why his beleaguered administration deserves our support. Why? Simply because Labour is the only major political party to take seriously one of the gravest problems facing the UK over the next […]

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Global cooling? An Inconvenient Truth

From Stock & Land Australia – The sudden change of focus from global warming to global cooling by leading environment group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) demonstrates the lack of substance to the argument that manmade carbon emissions are responsible for global warming, according to Senator Boswell. The prominent NP senator for Qld says, […]

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Old Farmers Almanac: Global Cooling may be Underway

By David Tirrell-Wysocki, Associated Press Writer DUBLIN, N.H. — The Old Farmer’s Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but looking ahead decades to suggest we are in for global cooling, not warming. Based on the same time-honored, complex calculations it uses to predict […]

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A Spotless Sun

By Alan Caruba There’s a wonderful irony in the fact that, back in the 1970s, the Greens were issuing warnings and even writing books about the coming Ice Age. They would abandon this issue, based in well-known and accepted solar science, in favor of a vast international hoax alleging man-made global warming. As the global […]

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Japan Sweats for Global Warming

Japanese office workers are being forced to sweat in the name of global warming. But before Americans consume too much “Green” Kool-Aid and suffer a similar fate, they may want to consider this week’s global warming developments. By Steven Milloy The Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page story (Sep. 11) that Japanese offices are […]

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Corn-Based Ethanol a Case Study in Law of Unintended Consequences

Corn prices have more than doubled in the past two years, contributing to sharp rises in the price of virtually everything in the American economy. Obvious products like corn flakes and meat aren’t the only commodities affected. Soda, beer, motor vehicle fuel, medicines and even car parts rely on corn-based substances in their production. Ethanol-based […]

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Free GlobalClimateScam.com Yard Signs and Bumper Stickers

Saturday, September 20th from 10:00 to 4:00, free GlobalClimateScam.com bumper stickers and yard signs will be available at the Conservative Issues Fair in Bloomington, Minnesota. The fair takes place at the Bloomington Airport Hilton, near the Mall of America. Stop by the Minnesota Majority booth to pick up free your sign, stickers, and Minnesota Majority […]

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Global Warming Not to Blame for Gustav

These days, everything under the sun is caused by global warming. If it’s hot, it’s because of global warming. If it’s cold, it’s because of global warming. If it’s dry, it’s because of global warming, and if it’s rainy, it’s because of global warming. Naturally, if a hurricane develops and makes landfall, that’s because of […]

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