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Republicans boycott Boxer and Kerry climate change bill

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:19:31 -0800

From the page: "Tuesday's polls are thought to be a reflection of voters' fury over the healthcare bill and Democrats' job performance, and so Republicans are demanding, "a close analysis of the (climate change) bill's cost and impact on jobs." Republicans have insisted for months that the bill would amount to an enormous tax that would be destructive to families, many businesses, farmers, the transportation industry, churches, ministries, and others. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103002988.html

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02:55 -0800

From the page: "Supporters of the climate bill passed by the House and the similar bill under consideration in the Senate -- including President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders -- say that the cap-and-trade approach would guarantee greenhouse-gas reductions. But this claim ignores the flaws inherent in both bills that would undermine even their weak emissions-reduction targets and would lock in climate degradation.

We are speaking out as parents, citizens and attorneys, but our analysis is informed by more than 20 years each at the Environmental Protection Agency's San Francisco Regional Office, including Allan's extensive experience overseeing California's cap-and-trade and offsets programs for the EPA. "

It's official - climate change beliefs now have religious equality status & Watts Up With That?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:52:44 -0800

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion - Telegraph

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:51:53 -0800

From the page: "An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs. "

State lowballed cost of green tax breaks | Oregon Local News - - OregonLive.com

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:44:39 -0800

From the page: "State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were told, an investigation by The Oregonian shows.

Records also show that the program, a favorite of Kulongoski's known as the Business Energy Tax Credit, has given millions of dollars to failed companies while voters are being asked to raise income taxes because the state budget doesn't have enough to pay for schools and other programs."

Sen on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:27:53 -0700

Family Security Matters & Publications & Exclusive: Taking the Bull out of Global Warming

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:26:36 -0700

From the page: "Somebody call Al Gore, because the British found his crazy environmentalist uncle. Britain's Lord Stern, the country's climate czar, has some interesting solutions to the alleged global warming problem
. Would he like folks to conserve electricity? Does he want people to by a hybrid vehicle? Will he ask people to huddle near Alec Baldwin to share the warmth of his smugness?

Well, not exactly. One could say that Lord Stern is going "whole hog" on the situation. In a recent interview, he suggested that considering a vegetarian diet would save the planet - although it would be a death sentence for vegetables. (Broccoli was unavailable for comment.) Stern's plan is to declare war on the animal population and he expects people to terminate them with extreme prejudice, as long as they don't use a backyard grill or mouth-watering barbecue sauce."

Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up - WSJ.com

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:16:40 -0700

From the page: "Two years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man.

Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data suggested that Earth's temperature was beginning to drop.

Global climate models did not account for a drop in global temperatures since 2006, but climate scientists believe the lower temperatures are temporary.

That has reignited debate over what has become scientific consensus: that climate change is due not to nature, but to humans burning fossil fuels. Scientists who don't believe in man-made global warming cite the cooling as evidence for their case. Those who do believe in man-made warming dismiss the cooling as a blip triggered by fleeting changes in ocean currents; they predict greenhouse gases will produce rising temperatures again soon.

The reality is more complex. A few years of cooling doesn't mean that people aren't heating up the planet over the long term. But the cooling wasn't predicted by all the computer models that underlie climate science. That has led to one point of agreement: The models are imperfect."

Met Office: The decline in Arctic summer sea ice

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:41:28 -0700

From the page: "The extent of Arctic sea ice has been decreasing since the late 1970s. In 2007 it decreased dramatically in a single year, reaching an all-time low. At the time it was widely reported that this was caused by man-made climate change and that the rate of decline of summer sea ice was increasing.

Modelling of Arctic sea ice by the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model shows that ice invariably recovers from extreme events, and that the long-term trend of reduction is robust -- with the first ice-free summer expected to occur between 2060 and 2080. It is unlikely that the Arctic will experience ice-free summers by 2020.

Analysis of the 2007 summer sea-ice minimum has subsequently shown that this was due, in part, to unusual weather patterns. Arctic weather systems are highly variable year-on-year and the prevailing winds can enhance, or oppose, the southward flow of ice into the Atlantic. Consequently, the sea ice has not declined every year, but has shown considerable variability -- both in extent and thickness."

Green Subsidies Arent Working | Newsweek Environment | Newsweek.com

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:15:00 -0700

From the page: "Climate change is the greatest new public-spending project in decades. Each year as much as $100 billion is spent by governments and consumers around the world on green subsidies designed to encourage wind, solar, and other -renewable-energy markets. The goals are worthy: reduce emissions, promote new sources of energy, and help create jobs in a growing industry. Yet this epic effort of lawmaking and spending has, naturally, also created an epic scramble for subsidies and regulatory favors. "