Archive | May, 2010

Congress Must Stop EPA Power Grab

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to seize new power to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide unless Congress acts to stop them.  Carbon dioxide is neither a pollutant nor a threat to human life or the environment. Despite new predictions that the Earth is entering a new cooling phase, the EPA intends to cap carbon […]

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Time to Fight Back Against the EPA's Power Grab

By Phil Kerpen President Obama has been very made clear that his top domestic priorities are health care and global warming. We all know what happened on health care. Now the date is set for the key Senate showdown on global warming: June 10. That’s when the Senate will vote on a resolution introduced by […]

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Pro Global Warming Camps May War With Each Other

90 top global warming scientists have turned their sights on the biomass energy industry, until recently seen as allies, warning that biofuels sometimes increases rather than decreases greenhouse gas emissions. By Lawrence Solomon “There may be a public perception that all biofuels and bioenergy are equally good for the environment and are all lower in […]

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Kerry-Lieberman Bill Generates Power for Government, Special Interests

By Mike Carey With months of closed doors meeting and cutting deals with industry, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) finally unveiled their cap-and-trade bill. After helping to craft the bill, this bill contains many giveaways to industry and the end result is this bill that will increase the cost of every aspect […]

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800 Virginia scientists and professors sign letter asking Cuccinelli to drop inquiry

By Rosalind Helderman University professors aren’t known to be the most organized bunch, but in Virginia they do seem to have found a cause in opposition to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s subpoena to the University of Virginia seeking documents related to the work of climate scientist Michael Mann. The Union of Concerned Scientists today released […]

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Global Cooling Is Coming — and Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns

By Gene J. Koprowski Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer-reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon. The hottest new trend in climate change may be global cooling, some researchers say. Contrary to […]

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Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say

By Sindya Bhanoo To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving would simply have to increase, […]

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Geologist Declares 'global warming is over' — Warns U.S. Climate Conference of 'Looming Threat of Global Cooling'

‘Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been’ By Marc Morano A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun. Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook’s warning came in the form of a new scientific […]

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Details of New Senate Climate Bill Emerge

By Reuters Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) are scheduled to formally unveil on Wednesday a compromise U.S. climate change bill they want passed this year. Besides bringing down emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, it would expand offshore oil drilling and nuclear-power production in a move […]

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Tree Ring Circus

Global Warming Hysteria Might be a Crime By Steve Milloy Are academics some special subspecies of humans who are beyond suspicion and above the law? That’s the question being played out in a drama between Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the dead-end defenders of global warming’s poster junk scientist, Michael Mann. Mr. Cuccinelli is under […]

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Europe's Carbon Mafia, And Ours

Investors Business Daily Editorial Corruption: The carbon trading system being pushed here has spawned crime and fraud across the pond. Cap-and-trade is not about saving the planet. It’s about money and power, and absolute power corrupting absolutely. All across Europe authorities have been conducting raids, rounding up individuals involved in a new version of Climate-gate. […]

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