Lord Monckton in St. Paul U.N. plans for a new ‘government’ are scary By Janet Albrechtsen We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current […]
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Coalition Forms to Combat Cap and Trade
No Cap And Trade Ad At a press conference this morning, a number of business and interest groups announced the formation of a new coalition to oppose cap-and-trade public policy. The No Cap-and-Trade Coalition says it will kick-off its campaign with a new advertisement and website (NoCapAndTrade.com). The website includes a petition that visitors can […]
Brown Says Less Than 50 Days to 'Save the Planet'
Yesterday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issue dire warnings about global catastrophes that are to come if world leaders fail to come to an agreement and sign the Climate Treaty in Copenhagen this December. His hyperbole sounds a lot like that of Al Gore in his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” It is interesting to note […]
Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?
On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. Lord Monckton served as a policy […]
Maldives Cabinet Signs Climate Change Document 20 Feet Under Sea
AP Video: Maldives Cabinet Underwater Members of the Maldives’ Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth. By Associated Press President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials submerged and took their seats at a table […]
Big Chill on Global Warming
From the Washington Examiner Something important is happening when even the BBC is compelled to ask, as it did this week, “What happened on global warming?” The British news organization has heretofore insisted that the scientific consensus was cemented long ago that global warming is real and is mainly caused by human use of carbon-based […]
Capping and Trading for Profit
By Jack Duckworth The Washington Times reports that three utilities and two manufactures, Nike Inc. and Apple Inc., resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber’s fight against the proposed “cap-and-trade” legislation (“Backers of climate bill quit chamber,” Page 1, Tuesday). I worked for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, […]
Free Premier of Climate Chains with Lord Monckton
The Minnesota Free Market Institute will be premiering the new documentary film, “Climate Chains†at an event featuring keynote speaker, Lord Christopher Monckton on Wednesday, October 14th. Monckton was an advisor to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, serves as the chief policy adviser to the Institute of Science and Public Policy and is known […]
Since Americans are Teenagers, They Won’t Understand Greenhouse Gases
By Nick Loris “The American public… just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.†In case you haven’t heard, that was Secretary of Energy Steven Chu discussing your ability to curb greenhouse gas emissions. […]
Climate Change Bill Gets Mixed Reviews
From Rasmussen Reports Since the flurry of activity surrounding its passage by the House in late June, little has been heard about the historic climate change bill aimed at curbing global warming. But the Senate will be tackling the controversial measure when it returns to Washington next week. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey […]
Waxman–Markey’s Gravy Train: Why the Electric Industry Got on Board (Getting favors, adding pages to H.R. 2454)
“I expect all the bad consequences from the chambers of Commerce and manufacturers establishing in different parts of this country, which your Grace seems to foresee…. The regulations of Commerce are commonly dictated by those who are most interested to deceive and impose upon the Public.†– Adam Smith, 1785 letter. In The Correspondence of […]
It's Getting Cold Out There
By Debra J. Saunders No wonder skeptics consider the left’s belief in man-made global warming as akin to a fad religion — last week in Italy, G8 leaders pledged to not allow the Earth’s temperature to rise more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. For its next act, the G8 can part the Red Sea. The worst […]
Small Businesses Irate Over Climate Change Bill
A growing number of business owners and taxpayers are mobilizing nationwide against the House-approved cap-and-trade energy bill, which would reduce energy consumption but could raise energy prices and harm small businesses By Joseph Abrams The revolution will not be televised: it’s been blinking along on a giant bakery sign in St. Louis, Mo., instead. Fed […]
Who Voted for Cap and Tax?
House Vote On Passage: H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (aka the single largest tax increase in American history) The complete roll call vote with contact info is provided at GlennBeck.com.
EPA's Game of Global Warming Hide-and-Seek
By Michelle Malkin The Obama administration doesn’t want to hear inconvenient truths about global warming. And they don’t want you to hear them, either. As Democrats rush on Friday to pass a $4 trillion, thousand-page “cap and trade” bill that no one has read, environmental bureaucrats are stifling voices that threaten their political agenda. The […]