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Justice Dept. Asked For News Sites Visitor Lists - Taking Liberties - CBS News

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:50:02 -0800

From the page: "In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization. "

Holman Jenkins: The Economic Uses of Al Gore - WSJ.com

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:04:38 -0800

Wall Street Journal

From the page: "Here are a couple questions: When so much of his position and prestige are invested in a predicted climate crisis, is Mr. Gore likely to be open to contrary evidence? Is he likely to be particularly fastidious about whether proposed steps will actually have an effect on global warming if they also happen to benefit his investments?

....All policy salesmanship naturally defaults toward the proposition of huge benefits and negligible costs (i.e., free lunchism). Isn't that where Al Gore is today?"

Global Bully Rudd fights for foreign committee, against citizens &171; JoNova

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:32 -0800

From the page: "Rudd throws baseless innuendo when he claims vested interests are at work. The truth is the exact opposite. Exxon spent $23 million on sceptics, but the US government spent $79 billion on the climate industry. Big Government outspent big-oil 3000 to 1. Worse, carbon trading last year was $126 billion dollars. That's for just one year. The real vested interests stand in the open like signposted black holes hidden in plain view by a legal disclaimer. The singularities at the centre of the climate change galaxy have names like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, ABN Amro, Deutche Bank, and HSBC.

The singularities at the centre of the climate change galaxy have names like Goldman Sachs...

The banks... want us to trade carbon."

Clouds hang over the global-warming alarmists | Paul Mulshine - NJ.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:04:34 -0800

From the page: "President Obama's headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. Al Gore's headed toward profits that could make him the world's first "carbon billionaire." But where's global temperature headed?

Nowhere, it seems. The most reliable readings of the Earth's temperature show that it peaked back in 1998. This was not widely reported in America, where the state of science reporting is dismal. But over in England, where they take that sort of thing more seriously, the British Broadcasting Corp. created quite a stir with an article headlined "What Happened to Global Warming?" In it, BBC climate correspondent Paul Hudson gave a summary of the problems facing the alarmists: "For the last 11 years, we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.""

Switzerland Interlaken on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:30:35 -0800

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."