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<?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.css" type="text/css" media="screen" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Clipmarks | merrie's 'co2' clips</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/tag/co2/</link><feedUrl>http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/tag/co2/</feedUrl><ttl>15</ttl><description>Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Global Warming Consensus Rejected By Scientists</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4F371A9F-A742-4CB8-B07B-9382BE4370A5/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  the world continues to cool. That is leading to increasing scepticism that the call to sacrifice living standards in order to "save the planet" is just political spin designed to persuade the public to accept green taxes."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Syun-Ichi Akasofu&lt;br/&gt;"There are so many times the Earth was warmer than now, or colder than now.  We are not affecting the climate change."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Lord Nigel Lawson &lt;br/&gt;The consensus is breaking down because no matter how much the global warming agenda-setters may want us to be, people are not sheep, to be led around and told what to think and what to say.  You can only lie to us for so long before the truth exposes your movement for what it is; a dogma based on faulty science and ulterior motives.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We've heard prediction after prediction after prediction about how the polar ice caps were absolutely inevitably going to melt away into nothingness this summer.  Of course, they haven't.  Not even close.  You'd think that would put some humility into these Chicken Littles. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:22952.1227506210/rid:66788684a8c582580be9a4560412ac22" title="http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:22952.1227506210/rid:66788684a8c582580be9a4560412ac22"&gt;app.e2ma.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;A  href="http://e2ma.net/go/1227506210/1117271/40790417/goto:http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080722jk.html"&gt;Professor Kunihiko Takeda&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;"Global warming has nothing to do with how much CO2 is produced or what
	we do here on Earth. For millions of years, solar activity has been
	controlling temperatures on Earth and even now, the sun controls how
	high the mercury goes. CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one
	way or another. Soon it will cool down anyhow, once again, regardless
	of what we do. Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say
	so. What makes a whole lot of economic and political sense is to blame
	global warming on humans and create laws that keep the status quo and
	prevent up-and-coming nations from developing. Global warming, as a
	political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver's seat and developing
	nations walking barefoot."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://e2ma.net/go/1227506210/1117271/40790416/goto:http://www.nzcpr.com/weekly140.htm"&gt;Dr. Muriel
New&lt;/A&gt;&lt;A linkid:1="" target="_blank" href="http://e2ma.net/go/1227506210/1117271/40790416/goto:http://www.nzcpr.com/weekly140.htm"&gt;man&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;In
	fact, in a bizarre twist of fate, at a time when advocates of
	man-made global warming continue to push government policies
	to restrict energy use and the burning of fossil fuels in
	order to prevent 'catastrophic' warming,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/%22global+warming%22/" rel="tag"&gt;"global warming"&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2/" rel="tag"&gt;co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/%22save+the+planet%22/" rel="tag"&gt;"save the planet"&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/green+taxes/" rel="tag"&gt;green taxes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ulterior+motives/" rel="tag"&gt;ulterior motives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:22952.1227506210/rid:66788684a8c582580be9a4560412ac22</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:32:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dr. David Evans: Australian Greenhouse Office - 1999 to 2005</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/16497955-D3F4-4840-9BC6-4D26A0BC3601/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report),&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html" title="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html"&gt;www.theaustralian.news.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/carbon+emissions/" rel="tag"&gt;carbon emissions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/radiosondes+thermometers/" rel="tag"&gt;radiosondes thermometers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/weather+balloons/" rel="tag"&gt;weather balloons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/greenhouse+signature/" rel="tag"&gt;greenhouse signature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:57:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Myth Of Consensus Explodes: American Physical Society Opens Debate</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/CD0090FA-7DB1-468F-94CF-E7B8170DB959/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.  The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science.  The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12403" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12403&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/18/scientists-reverse-position-on-climate-change-citing-considerable-presence-of-skeptics/" title="http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/18/scientists-reverse-position-on-climate-change-citing-considerable-presence-of-skeptics/"&gt;www.floppingaces.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming “incontrovertible.”&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,”There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.”&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;An inconvenient truth for the left, its leaders, its parrots, its talkingheads, and of course…for the Heatmeiser&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/american+physical+society/" rel="tag"&gt;american physical society&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/larry+gould/" rel="tag"&gt;larry gould&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/monckton's+paper/" rel="tag"&gt;monckton's paper&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ipcc/" rel="tag"&gt;ipcc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/exaggerations+and+%22extensive+errors%22/" rel="tag"&gt;exaggerations and "extensive errors"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/18/scientists-reverse-position-on-climate-change-citing-considerable-presence-of-skeptics/</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:16:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saturday Funnies: 'Imagine There's No Global Warming'</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9D18EF9B-29C8-4161-BF9D-061FAA5DB43F/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Lyrics to tune "Imagine There's No Global Warming" to John Lennon's "Imagine" &lt;br/&gt;video 3:17 &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/12/saturday-funnies-imagine-theres-no-global-warming" title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/12/saturday-funnies-imagine-theres-no-global-warming"&gt;newsbusters.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Our friends at &lt;A href="http://www.m4gw.com:2005/m4gw/"&gt;Minnesotans for Global Warming&lt;/A&gt; -- the folks who brought us the fabulous video "&lt;A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM"&gt;If We Had Some Global Warming&lt;/A&gt;" -- have just released a new number deliciously set to John Lennon's "Imagine."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Imagine there's no warming&lt;BR /&gt;It's all just been a lie &lt;BR /&gt;CO2 is not a  pollutant&lt;BR /&gt;The Polar Bears aren’t gonna die&lt;BR /&gt;Imagine if all the people  &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Livin' another day&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Imagine there's no Kyoto&lt;BR /&gt;It isn't hard to do  &lt;BR /&gt;Gas at 99 cents a gallon &lt;BR /&gt;And no carbon taxes too &lt;BR /&gt;Imagine all the  people &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Driving SUVs&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;You may say I'm a denier&lt;BR /&gt;But I'm not the only  one &lt;BR /&gt;31,000 scientists&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Say the world’s climate follows the  sun&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Imagine no politicians&lt;BR /&gt;I wonder if you can &lt;BR /&gt;No one to fear  monger&lt;BR /&gt;No need to eliminate man &lt;BR /&gt;Imagine all the people &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Drilling all  over the world&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;You may say I'm a dreamer&lt;BR /&gt;But I'm not the only one  &lt;BR /&gt;I hope someday you'll join us &lt;BR /&gt;And the world will be more fun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/john+lennon's+%22imagine%22/" rel="tag"&gt;john lennon's "imagine"&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/global+warming/" rel="tag"&gt;global warming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/satire/" rel="tag"&gt;satire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/12/saturday-funnies-imagine-theres-no-global-warming</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:57:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CO2, A Breath Of Fresh Air</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C5BA53BE-21F3-4172-BE56-7F5EFF987926/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;b&gt;CO2 is being labelled a pollutant but is it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Climate alarmism depends on catastrophe. In itself CO2 is a life giver. As a combination of Oxygen and Carbon it represents life itself. We are built from carbon as is every other life form and again like every other life form Oxygen is the fuel we must have to survive. How can the very elements that build us and fuel us and every other life form be a pollutant?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The main case being made against our fossil fuel habit is that we are releasing carbon stored over millennia into the atmosphere in a relatively short period of time.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Is that necessarily a bad thing in itself? We certainly need to conserve natural resources but the fact is that after several billion years of life on Earth the Earth’s crust is simply awash with carbon in one form or another.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;However, the demonisation of fossil fuels and CO2 before the globe has removed poverty and allowed less developed nations to share in worldwide prosperity is an obscenity. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/200807101399/energy-and-environment/c02-a-breath-of-fresh-air.html" title="http://www.rightsidenews.com/200807101399/energy-and-environment/c02-a-breath-of-fresh-air.html"&gt;www.rightsidenews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;
I’ve set out elsewhere the reasons for my reservations about CO2 being the cause but let’s put that aside for a while and consider whether our production of CO2 is blameworthy in any moral sense.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;
We are told that everything we do to make life worth living is an aggressive, nay obscene, act of aggression against Nature, Gaia or whatever.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;
Our entire societies are built on energy use. If we change the pattern of such use every part of our society will be upturned into chaos.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/FFF7A756-642E-4016-BA99-8383E3A72768.jpg" alt="a_breath_of_fresh_air__1215074503.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;
So let as look at the truth&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;
Every aspect of what we call progress over the past 500 years has been due to activities that inevitably produce CO2 emissions. Thus average age for humans has increased in the developed world from 40 or so to 75 plus. Additionally we have been able to cope with a total global population that would have been deemed impossible only 100 years ago. We are now being told that all that must stop&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/climate+alarmism/" rel="tag"&gt;climate alarmism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gaia/" rel="tag"&gt;gaia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2/" rel="tag"&gt;co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/pollutant/" rel="tag"&gt;pollutant&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fossil+fuels/" rel="tag"&gt;fossil fuels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.rightsidenews.com/200807101399/energy-and-environment/c02-a-breath-of-fresh-air.html</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:40:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title> From “Green Conservatism” To Black Gold</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A1BEEF0F-B873-4E33-8902-993CCE04E390/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  In his book, sounding like Al Gore, Gingrich maintains that “global climate change” is one &lt;br/&gt;of several “worldwide challenges.” Unlike Gore, he seems to reject any involvement by “international bureaucrats” in such a scheme.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So-called “green conservatism” also surfaced in former Bush speechwriter David Frum’s book. Incredibly, however, Frum advocates a carbon tax as a winning conservative idea.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This kind of doubletalk helps explain why the Republican Party is in disarray. Rather than advocate the production of more energy of all kinds, they have an incoherent message that looks insincere and hypocritical because they want to appear to be as “green” as the Democrats, [but only makes the Republicans look even more ridiculous.]&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It’s good that Gingrich now seems to have jettisoned this approach. &lt;i&gt;“Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” &lt;/i&gt;He should go further and recall copies of his books. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We need an American Vaclav Klaus to lead the way back to freedom. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/from-green-conservatism-to-black-gold/" title="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/from-green-conservatism-to-black-gold/"&gt;www.aim.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Senator John McCain buys into the man-made global warming theory and his bashing of the oil companies, which are actually doing something concrete to put oil in gas tanks&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;However, there is hope. &lt;A href="http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-new-communism/"&gt;Vaclav Klaus&lt;/A&gt;, president of the Czech Republic, was recently in Washington, speaking at a dinner sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and telling us the truth about radical environmentalism. It’s socialism, he said, or worse. It’s an effort to control your life by claiming that your lifestyle is damaging the environment, he added. The promoters of this insidious ideology are dressing it up in “green” garments in order to fool us into giving up our freedom and independence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;But in order to accept his analysis, we have to conclude that “Green conservatism” is an oxymoron that not only spells the death of the conservative movement but human freedom and progress in America&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;His book is titled, &lt;EM&gt;Blue Planet in Green Shackles&lt;/EM&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/president+vaclav+klaus/" rel="tag"&gt;president vaclav klaus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/czech+republic/" rel="tag"&gt;czech republic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/al+gore/" rel="tag"&gt;al gore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/global+warming/" rel="tag"&gt;global warming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2/" rel="tag"&gt;co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/carbon+tax/" rel="tag"&gt;carbon tax&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mccain/" rel="tag"&gt;mccain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/newt+gengrich/" rel="tag"&gt;newt gengrich&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/david+frum/" rel="tag"&gt;david frum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/from-green-conservatism-to-black-gold/</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:36:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain/Obama:  No Light Carbon Footprint For Them</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/B901D91D-BE19-41D8-8855-AA299325169C/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  But cap-and-trade lets politicians decide which lobbyists get permits for their clients, and which are so ungrateful that they do not. Best of all, politicians get to decide how to employ the trillions that will be paid for permits.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This undercover raid on energy consumers and plan to enhance government power is not the only energy policy that has the approval of both presidential candidates. Both promise "energy independence;" let's hope they are bright enough to know they are being economical with the truth. Both want to keep the ban on drilling in Alaska; Obama wants to maintain the ban on drilling off-shore, and by leaving it to the governors of those states, McCain effectively favors the same ban. Both fear that the globe is warming. &lt;i&gt;So it seems that we have a choice between two candidates who have drunk deeply of Al Gore's global warming potion while zooming around the country in private jets and racing to meetings in the large SUVs favored by them and their entourages.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/204kvwri.asp?pg=2" title="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/204kvwri.asp?pg=2"&gt;www.weeklystandard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Americans will become more like Europeans--a description for which I am indebted to Professor William Hogan of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, a long-time observer of energy markets. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;In short, economics works, if consumers are left free to adjust to higher prices in ways they find most agreeable and efficient. But politicians prefer "solutions" that not unsurprisingly confer more power on them and less on markets. Republicans, backed with the threat of a presidential veto, managed to stall the drive to introduce a cap-and-trade system for reducing carbon emissions, but since both Barack Obama and John McCain favor it, cap-and-trade is in our future. Carbon taxes would be more efficient, and allow individuals and businesses to decide how to adjust their energy use to cut emissions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mccain/" rel="tag"&gt;mccain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag"&gt;obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/energy+supply/" rel="tag"&gt;energy supply&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/economics/" rel="tag"&gt;economics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/government+power/" rel="tag"&gt;government power&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/cap-and-trade/" rel="tag"&gt;cap-and-trade&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/reducing+co2/" rel="tag"&gt;reducing co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/al+gore%26co./" rel="tag"&gt;al gore&amp;co.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/204kvwri.asp?pg=2</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:49:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Personal Carbon Ration Card For Every Citizen</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F839245E-3352-4C29-91E2-BABEA72C57AE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  of tar-and-feathering anyone who dares question climate alarmism -- a key tactic in their effort to dupe the nation into consuming the green Kool-Aid.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;One event is an indisputable historical fact of hideous dimensions; the prophesied specter of catastrophic global warming, however, is just a politically driven fear scenario based on unreliable computer models and the wishful bending of the laws of climate physics.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;There is no comparison.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Can anyone reasonably equate, say, the 31,000 U.S. scientists, engineers and physicians who recently signed a petition against global warming alarmism -- including Princeton theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson and Massachusetts Institute of Technology climatologist Richard Lindzen -- with the likes of neo-Nazis and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who constantly calls for Israel's destruction? &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;But Krauthammer's adoption of the greens' most effective word weaponry nonetheless plays into their thought-shaping rhetoric. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080605.html" title="http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080605.html"&gt;www.junkscience.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;In Charles Krauthammer's May 30 must-read column, "&lt;A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903266.html"&gt;Carbon 
    Chastity&lt;/A&gt;," he rightly lambastes environmentalists as resurrected communists/socialists who have latched on 
    to the environment and climate change as a means to advance their anti-people social agenda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The specific occasion for his justifiable outrage is a recent proposal by a British parliamentary committee to 
    institute a personal carbon ration card for every citizen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The plan would place limits on food and energy consumption in the form of credits not to be exceeded -- except 
    through the potential for heavy-carbon users, often the wealthy, to purchase credits from lower-carbon users, often 
    the less wealthy. In other words, their answer to global warming is wealth redistribution.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;In trying to position his agnosticism on whether man-made CO2 emissions are actually cause for concern, his 
    column begins: "I am not a global warming believer. I am not a global warming denier."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The term "denier" is the environmentalists' preferred means &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/charles+krauthammer/" rel="tag"&gt;charles krauthammer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/personal+carbon+ration+card/" rel="tag"&gt;personal carbon ration card&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/communists%2fsocialists/" rel="tag"&gt;communists/socialists&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/food%2fenergy+consumption/" rel="tag"&gt;food/energy consumption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/purchase+credits/" rel="tag"&gt;purchase credits&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wealth+redistribution/" rel="tag"&gt;wealth redistribution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080605.html</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:56:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Five Myths About The LW Global Warming Legislation</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A89C3A5B-8EB9-4E06-B41E-A4FBE9A3455E/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  For example, the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report estimates 7 to 23 inches of sea level rise by the end of the century--far less than the widely popularized claims of 18 to 20 feet and little more than ongoing trends over the past several centuries.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Myth #4: LW effectively addresses the threat of climate change.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Fact: Even assuming the worst of global warming, LW reduces the threat by a minuscule amount. The bill reduces emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the United States only. China has overtaken America as the world's largest emitter, and its emissions growth is several times greater than that of the U.S. India and other fast-developing nations are on a similar trajectory. Thus, the unilateral impact of the bill on global emissions would be inconsequential. At most, it would reduce the earth's future temperature by one or two tenths of a degree Celsius--too small to even verify.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1940.cfm" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1940.cfm"&gt;www.heritage.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;On June 2, the United States Senate will begin debate on America's Climate Security Act (S. 2191), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). The Lieberman-Warner bill (LW) would restrict energy use to combat global warming.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Myth #1:&lt;/B&gt; LW would not be expensive.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;Fact:&lt;/B&gt; Simply put, LW works like a massive energy tax. By restricting carbon dioxide emissions from coal, oil, and natural gas--with a freeze at 2005 levels beginning in 2012, to a 70 percent reduction in 2050--the bill forces down supply and thus boosts the price of energy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Myth #2:&lt;/B&gt; The costs fall on industry, not consumers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;Fact:&lt;/B&gt; Virtually all the burden imposed by LW falls upon consumers. The bill will spur net job losses well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly nearing one million&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Myth #3:&lt;/B&gt; Global warming is a crisis that must be addressed at all costs.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;Fact:&lt;/B&gt; Global warming is a concern, not a crisis. Both the seriousness and the imminence of the threat are overstated&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/energy/" rel="tag"&gt;energy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/global+warming/" rel="tag"&gt;global warming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2/" rel="tag"&gt;co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/massive+energy+tax/" rel="tag"&gt;massive energy tax&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/job+loss/" rel="tag"&gt;job loss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1940.cfm</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:02:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Look To Mars For The Truth On Global Warming</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C0847A9A-0A05-41E5-86B2-1D2D3E40A58C/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  [continued] lasting some 50 years, after which temperatures will go up again.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Because of the scientific significance of this period of global cooling that we're about to enter, the Russian and Ukrainian space agencies, under Dr. Abdussamatov's leadership, have launched a joint project to determine the time and extent of the global cooling at mid-century. The project will marshal the resources of spacecraft manufacturer Energia, several Russian research and production centers, and the main observatory of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. By late next year, scientific equipment will have been installed in a space-station module and by early 2009, the space team will be conducting a regular survey of the sun.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;With the data, the project will help mankind cope with a century of falling temperatures, during which we will enter a mini ice age.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"A global freeze will come about regardless of whether or not industrialized countries put a cap on their greenhouse- gas emissions."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723&amp;k=0" title="http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723&amp;k=0"&gt;www.nationalpost.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;The sun's increased irradiance over the last century, not C02 emissions, is responsible for the global warming we're seeing, says the celebrated scientist, and this solar irradiance also explains the great volume of C02 emissions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;"It is no secret that increased solar irradiance warms Earth's oceans, which then triggers the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The real news from Saint Petersburg -- demonstrated by cooling that is occurring on the upper layers of the world's oceans -- is that Earth has hit its temperature ceiling. Solar irradiance has begun to fall, ushering in a protracted cooling period beginning in 2012 to 2015. The depth of the decline in solar irradiance reaching Earth will occur around 2040, and "will inevitably lead to a deep freeze around 2055-60" &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ukraine%2frussia/" rel="tag"&gt;ukraine/russia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/space+station/" rel="tag"&gt;space station&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/increased+irradiance/" rel="tag"&gt;increased irradiance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/earth's+oceans/" rel="tag"&gt;earth's oceans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2+emission/" rel="tag"&gt;co2 emission&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/cause+and+effect/" rel="tag"&gt;cause and effect&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/oceans+cooling/" rel="tag"&gt;oceans cooling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mini+ice+age/" rel="tag"&gt;mini ice age&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723&amp;k=0</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:03:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain’s Assault On Reason: Dr. Roy W. Spencer</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/344E4397-DF81-49AF-854A-35C16DE8DDBB/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  So, here we are with bad science ready to support bad policy decisions that will lead to bad economic times ahead, and no presidential candidate who is willing to ask the hard questions. While we hate to be pandered to by politicians, in this case I can only hope that they really are pandering — that this is hot air and not prospective policy. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTUzNWUzYTA4ZTkwMTVhZmM3M2NkZDc5NDhmOTRkMzA=" title="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTUzNWUzYTA4ZTkwMTVhZmM3M2NkZDc5NDhmOTRkMzA="&gt;article.nationalreview.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;McCain has made it clear that the science really does not matter anyway because, even if humans are not to blame for global warming, stopping carbon-dioxide emissions is the right thing to do&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;But carbon dioxide is necessary for life on Earth, and I have a difficult time calling something so fundamentally important a “pollutant.” Maybe the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is higher now than it has been in hundreds of thousands of years. So what? I am increasingly convinced that its influence on climate pales in comparison to the influence that natural climate events like El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation have on regional climate. Indeed, most of the warming we’ve seen in the last century might well be due to these natural modes of climate variability alone.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The trouble is that no one has been funded by the government to investigate such a possibility, and the mandate for the U.N.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;(IPCC) is to address manmade climate change — not natural climate change.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mccain/" rel="tag"&gt;mccain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2/" rel="tag"&gt;co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/%22pollutant%22/" rel="tag"&gt;"pollutant"&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/el+nino/" rel="tag"&gt;el nino&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/pacific+decadal+oscillation/" rel="tag"&gt;pacific decadal oscillation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/natural+cllimate+change/" rel="tag"&gt;natural cllimate change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTUzNWUzYTA4ZTkwMTVhZmM3M2NkZDc5NDhmOTRkMzA=</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:36:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>University Research Labs Produces Too Much CO2</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/0E0465BF-9A31-4B46-86FF-5F4B45C922E5/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, is a committed environmentalist who found that his own research produces 44 tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tonnes.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hervé Philippe“I did my PhD on nucleotide sequencing in the hope of advancing our knowledge of biodiversity, but I never thought that the research itself could have a negative impact on biodiversity,” he said, during a recent biology department symposium.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He doesn’t believe in one magical solution, but rather in transformations adapted to each area. For universities, he recommends having less frequent international conferences, increasing the use of videoconferences, avoiding research on well explored topics, reducing publications and evaluating the amount of CO2 produced by research projects.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;On the web:&lt;br/&gt;About the Université de Montréal: &lt;a href="http://www.umontreal.ca/english/index.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.umontreal.ca/english/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uom-urc050708.php" title="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uom-urc050708.php"&gt;www.eurekalert.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Add university research to the long list of human activities contributing to global warming. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Philippe has a well-established international reputation for his work on phylogeny and according to his calculations his computers produce 19 tonnes of CO2 per year, the air conditioning in the laboratory produces 10 tonnes of CO2 per year, and transport from one meeting to another produces 15 tonnes of CO2 per year.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Philippe doesn’t believe in the myth that technology is the solution. “In 1973, that type of rhetoric already existed,” he says. “But environmental problems have gone from bad to worse. In Canada, for instance, oil consumption is 1.7 times greater despite better technology.”&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;It will have taken 200 years of oil exploitation to dry up the reserves that took 200 million years to build. “This fact has been known for 50 years but we’ve done nothing about it. By viewing oil as an unlimited resource we are making a tremendous mistake.”&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/universit%c3%a9+de+montr%c3%a9al/" rel="tag"&gt;université de montréal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/professor+herv%c3%a9+philippe/" rel="tag"&gt;professor hervé philippe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/biochemistry/" rel="tag"&gt;biochemistry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/environmental+problems/" rel="tag"&gt;environmental problems&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/canada/" rel="tag"&gt;canada&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/technology/" rel="tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/oil/" rel="tag"&gt;oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uom-urc050708.php</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:45:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Weather Or Not, We're Still Doomed.....Whatever</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/56329FCB-0331-4132-9040-CD7E734333B5/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  James Overland of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claims that an ozone hole over the Antarctic is masking conditions there, keeping temperatures low. Later the ozone hole will close up, so we're still doomed.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Gareth Marshall of the British Antarctic Survey floats this one: climate change causes Antarctic winds to blow harder, trapping colder air. But this will decrease at an undisclosed future date, so we're still doomed.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Gabbles Marshall:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    The tea leaves point to a minimal amount of sea ice next September, that would be the same as we had last summer, 40 percent loss compared to 20 years ago.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At least tea leaves are an improvement over the phony computer models they've been using to find their predetermined results.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;On a tip from hiram13pm.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Posted by Van Helsing  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.moonbattery.com/" title="http://www.moonbattery.com/"&gt;www.moonbattery.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H3 id="a006175"&gt;Rent-a-Sucker&lt;/H3&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Great news for guilt-ridden neurotics: driving a car can now alleviate the nonexistent global warming crisis. Of course, you'll have to &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354064,00.html"&gt;pay more&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Customers of Enterprise, Alamo, and National are now asked to pay $1.25 extra for an eco-indulgence to make up for driving the car they rent. The money will allegedly be matched and then handed over to the brazen enviroswindlers at &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/02/terrapass_sinea.html"&gt;TerraPass&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Fortunately for the plant life that requires CO2 for photosynthesis, the greedy scam is unlikely to have any measurable effect on carbon emissions.&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;On tips from Wiggins and Matt L.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H3 id="a006173"&gt;Hoaxers Examine Their Tea Leaves&lt;/H3&gt;

&lt;P&gt;Ninety percent of the world's ice is in Antarctica, where it has been thickening. Global warming hoaxers have been &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_sc/on_thin_ice"&gt;twisting themselves into pretzels&lt;/A&gt;, attempting to reconcile this fact with their hysterical lies about melting ice spelling doom for the planet.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/global+warming+crisis/" rel="tag"&gt;global warming crisis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/enterprise/" rel="tag"&gt;enterprise&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/alamo/" rel="tag"&gt;alamo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/national/" rel="tag"&gt;national&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/eco-fee/" rel="tag"&gt;eco-fee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/noaa/" rel="tag"&gt;noaa&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ozone+hole/" rel="tag"&gt;ozone hole&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/british+antarctic+survey/" rel="tag"&gt;british antarctic survey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sea+ice/" rel="tag"&gt;sea ice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.moonbattery.com/</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:22:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are Global Warmists Pulling A Cool Fast One?</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F99FCF04-6C5E-40DE-8871-64680BCCA700/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  The New York Times rolled out Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, CO. Tremberth told them that "the global climate will continue to be influenced in any particular decade by a mix of natural variability and the building greenhouse effect" and that "a cool phase does not mean the overall theory of dangerous human-driven warming is flawed."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And then added what appears to be the latest greenie talking point:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    "Too many think global warming means monotonic relentless warming everywhere year after year. It does not happen that way."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Is anyone else noticing a trend developing here, beyond the "we never said that warming patterns would be steady" shuffle?  Each explanation, whether by Willis, Keenlyside and Latif, Wood, or Trenberth implies that some climate forces natural are more formidable than those anthropogenic. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/are_global_warmists_pulling_a.html" title="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/are_global_warmists_pulling_a.html"&gt;www.americanthinker.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT size="3" face="times new roman,times"&gt;Now consider this --  it remains an alarmist imperative to disassociate falling global temperatures and speculation of a possible impending "little ice age" with the yellow dwarf star we orbit in general and the &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/02/sun_days_will_never_be_the_sam.html"&gt;&lt;FONT size="3" face="times new roman,times"&gt;late start of Solar Cycle 24&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size="3" face="times new roman,times"&gt; specifically.  For indeed, if we &lt;EM&gt;are&lt;/EM&gt; moving into another solar minimum cycle and global temperatures continue to plummet while atmospheric CO&lt;SUB&gt;2&lt;/SUB&gt; levels continue to rise, attendance at Al Gore's Scare-Story-Slide-Shows would quickly drop to close friends and family only.  And with boat loads of very bad wealth-redistribution "climate change" legislation to pass in coming the years, a sympathetically alarmed press and populace remain essential during that time.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;So what better way to buy time than to cloud the obvious solar connection by sacrificing their argument against a less threatening naturally occurring force?  And then attributing &lt;EM&gt;that&lt;/EM&gt; force to occasional periods of cooling by collectively admitting to its mitigating impact upon AGW forces? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/solar+cycle+24/" rel="tag"&gt;solar cycle 24&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/agw/" rel="tag"&gt;agw&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/national+ctr+atmospheric+research/" rel="tag"&gt;national ctr atmospheric research&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/co2/" rel="tag"&gt;co2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/al+gore/" rel="tag"&gt;al gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/are_global_warmists_pulling_a.html</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:14:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al Gore Is Bad For The Planet</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/B02C8BD8-14ED-4091-A3FA-68B2C7ABE65D/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Iain Murray's rollicking exposé of environmental blowhards who waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people, than the environmental villains they finger. Did you know that estrogen from birth control and"morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs? Funny how "pro-choice" and "environmentalist" liberals never talk about that. Or how about this: the Live Earth concert to "save the planet" released more CO2 into the atmosphere than a fleet of 2,000 Humvees emit in a year? We hear a lot about AIDS in Africa, but the number one killer of children in much of Africa is malaria-and guess who was responsible for banning the pesticide that used to have malaria under control? Iain Murray, a sprightly conservative environmental analyst with a long record of skewering liberal hypocrisy, has dug up seven of the environmental catastrophes caused by the Left and exposed them in The Really Inconvenient Truths.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Real-Inconvenient-Truths/Iain-Murray/e/9781596980549/?itm=1" title="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Real-Inconvenient-Truths/Iain-Murray/e/9781596980549/?itm=1"&gt;search.barnesandnoble.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/8F1399F1-3343-4BB3-AFEE-7D64B761AF05.jpg" alt="Cover Image" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;* How ethanol, the liberals' favorite fuel, is destroying the world's rainforests-and could cause global food shortages&lt;BR /&gt;* How Al Gore's hero Rachel Carson cost the lives of millions of Africans through her efforts to ban DDT&lt;BR /&gt;* How the environmentalists have covered up the polluting effects of contraceptive and chemical abortion drugs&lt;BR /&gt;* How the Endangered Species Act actually endangers species&lt;BR /&gt;* How Gore's vision of greater state control over the economy has already produced some of the greatest environmental disasters in history&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;All ofus want a planet with clean air and clean water, vibrant forests, healthy animal populations, and glorious open space. But liberal environmentalists aren't the ones to deliver it. In fact, they've made the planet worse, while old-fashioned property rights, unpopular hunters, and the innovative engine of capitalism have made it better. The facts are all here, in a book that Al Gore would rather burn than read.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/inconvenient+truths/" rel="tag"&gt;inconvenient truths&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iain+murray/" rel="tag"&gt;iain murray&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/liberal+hypocrasy/" rel="tag"&gt;liberal hypocrasy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/environmental+catastrophes/" rel="tag"&gt;environmental catastrophes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Real-Inconvenient-Truths/Iain-Murray/e/9781596980549/?itm=1</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:03:31 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>