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Slar cars sooner than you think

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:47:25 GMT

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Solar cars have been around for a while, but with recent developments in solar car design and the measurement of photovoltaic cells becoming smaller, the dream of a truly efficient solar cars is more reality than fantasy.

It’s a staggering fact, and an exciting one: Since the energy from the sun is responsible for renewable resources such as wind, tides, and heat, solar energy seems to offer the brightest future for not only solar cars, but for the entire energy crisis. Despite the appearance that solar energy may be the least feasible among the current crop of alternative fuel propositions, new solar powered devices and more specifically solar powered cars are beginning to be developed. These future solar cars are only hybrids at this point, employing electricity along with solar power for use as propulsion, yet as the years progress so too will solar technology.

Tags: solar car, alternative fuel, environmentalism

Husband and wife team create Doc on "global warming hysteria"

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:06:48 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: looks good

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Husband and wife team in $1m bid to release film that turns focus on the effects of banning DDT

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are under artistic attack again — this time from two Irish film-makers. Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, producers of a controversial mining documentary that portrayed environmentalists as oppressors, have started an online campaign to raise $3.5m (€2.2m) to secure a cinema release for their latest film, which accuses Al Gore of scaremongering.

The husband and wife team spent 18 months and $1m (€600,000) making Not Evil Just Wrong. It looks at the effects of banning DDT, a chemical used to stop the spread of malaria in the third world, because it was found to be poisonous to wildlife and the environment.

McAleer described environmentalism as something middle-class people did to keep poorer members of society in their place and said their documentary shows the true cost of “global warming hysteria”.

Tags: global warming hoax, film, docs, irish

Environmentalism killing the Gulf of Mexico

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:22:48 GMT

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Clip Source: thefastreport.com

Today the Washington Post reported the compelling story of an ever growing ”Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico; however, only something akin to journalistic malpractice could have kept them from reporting all the facts. Those facts put environmentalists and over-zealous DC regulators squarely in the middle of a widening blight of “dead” water in the gulf off of America’s southern coast.

He said a major factor is intensified corn production, which relies heavily on fertilizer.

Perhaps this item will help you understand

Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market
The expanding U.S. ethanol sector is stimulating demand for corn, …

you can also confirm here.

The United States fuel ethanol industry is based largely on corn.

The fact is, well-meaning enviromnentalists who purport to know the Earth so much better than the average citizen teamed up with over-zealous DC regulators to create a situation that has several negative implications for America

Tags: gulf of mexico, environment, politics, msm, bias

tony Juniper

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:43:27 GMT

clipped by: Stuart S-W
clipper's remarks: A useful quote on the need for new environmentalism.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The first shift is to adopt frank, credible and positive solutions. Pressure for change could in the past be mobilised by targeting environmental "baddies". That often worked to build public support for regulation on polluters or landowners. Aside from agreeing with new laws, most people didn't need to lift a finger. Now it's different. The climate, biodiversity and resource crunch cannot be solved by any one sector - all of us must play a part, including in how we live. People generally don't vote for things they believe will hurt them, and if we are to get buy-in for changes that will affect the majority of people, then the changes advocated will need to be positive.

Tags: environment

Global Warming Hoax Videos 1

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:32:03 GMT

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Clip Source: globalwarminghoax.com

CEI's "Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore"

Pollution (read the script)

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Hurricane Catarina (read the script)

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Warming Rate(read the script)

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Moulins(read the script)

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Clip Source: globalwarminghoax.com

CBC: Documentary "Doomsday Called Off"

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Part II of VI (7:12 minutes)

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Part III of VI (4:32 minutes)

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Part IV of VI (7:54 minutes)

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Part V of VI (6:27 minutes)

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Part VI of VI (10:02 minutes)

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Clip Source: globalwarminghoax.com

Myth: Corn Ethanol is Great

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Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion

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Tags: global warming, scam, science

Somebody should tell him...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:54:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Senator McCain, Roosevelt was not a Republican.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

McCain sees himself in Teddy Roosevelt mold

By Adam Nagourney and Michael Cooper

Published: July 13, 2008

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HUDSON, Wisconsin: Senator John McCain, in a wide-ranging interview, called for a government that was frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change, regulating campaign finance and taking care of "those in America who cannot take care of themselves."

"I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said, referring to Roosevelt's reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.

How The Greens Captured Energy Policy

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:57:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Other aspects of the Green argument have also collapsed. New discoveries off Brazil and in the Gulf of Mexico have nearly doubled international oil reserves, pushing backwards from the "peak oil" date. And global warming, that notorious by-product of "oil addiction," has faded to the point that its advocates are now reduced to threatening dissenters with prison.

It has gone almost completely unacknowledged that with oil shale, offshore deposits, and new resources such as the hydrocarbon sludge deposits off B.C. and Alaska, the OPEC of the late 21st century is going to be right here. That's a goal worth working toward. Breaking the power of the Greens is yet another possible benefit.

Energy reform is an egg and rock situation for the Democrats. From the old Irish proverb: "When the rock hits the egg, alas for the egg. When the egg hits the rock, alas for the egg."

Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

The Democrats -- Obama chief among them -- can neither adequately defend it nor abandon it, as is clearly shown by their refusal to even consider loosening drilling restrictions. The GOP holds all the cards on this one, and all they need to do is keep building the pressure. (Always granted, of course, that they play it better than their last few runs of hands.) No better electoral tool will be found during this cycle. We just can't expect results immediately - this will be a long and drawn-out battle, requiring maximum, sustained effort from all involved.

Environmentalism is a luxury, and like all such, is best taken in moderation. The environment requires protection, but that's all. Primitive panthiesm has no place in this millennium. Nature is not an utterly benign continuum, and human beings are not a disease. Pseudo-religious environmentalism has long outlived its welcome. It's time to bring down the curtain.

Tags: environmentalism, oil exploration, democrats, gop

Michael Pollan on What's Wrong with Environmentalism

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:20:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Michael Pollan on What's Wrong with Environmentalism

Michael Pollan talks about biofuels and the food crisis, the glories of grass-fed beef, and how environmentalists should think about sustainability.

It's easy to think of Michael Pollan as a food writer. After all, his most successful books-- including his most recent, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto-- focus on food and the implications of the choices we make about what we eat. But Pollan's work also delves deeply into the environmental effects of those choices-- from the impact of America's corn-based agriculture on its ecosystems to the carbon impact of industrial-scale farming. And Pollan, who serves as Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, has emerged as a staunch advocate of buying local food, growing one's own produce, and generally making the kind of individual lifestyle choices that could lead to society-wide change in consumption habits.

Abusing Freedom In The Name Of The Planet

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:37:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: … But to argue, as it is done by many contemporary environmentalists, that these questions have already been answered with a consensual yes and that there is an unchallenged scientific consensus about this, is unjustified. And not only unjustified, it is also morally and intellec itual deceptive, and this is bureaucrasomething that I can’t live with.

Like their predecessors [Communist ideologues], they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality.

In the past, it was in the nature of the masses or of the proletariat, this time in the name of the planet. Structurally, it is very similar. The current danger, as I see it, is environmentalism, and especially its strongest version, climate alarmism...
[in the hands of its of national, and more often international institutions, who try to maximize their budgets and years of careers as well, regardless of the cost, truth and rationality.]

Clip Source: www.humanevents.com

I have to say that the basic questions of the current climate change debate are sufficiently known and well-structured. Four of them are crucial:

Question number one: Do we live in are era of statistically significant, non-accidental, and non-cyclical climate change?

Question number two: If so, is it dominantly manmade?

Question number three: If so, should such a moderate temperature increase bother us more than many other pressing problems we face, and should it receive our extraordinary attention?

And the final question: If we want to change the climate, can it be done, and are current attempts to do so the best allocation of our scarce resources?....

I would say that my answers to all these questions is no. No, but with a difference in emphasis.

I am not, myself, fighting about the first question. I don’t aspire to measure the global temperature or to correct the measurements of climatologists. And I even do not estimate the relative importance of effectors which influence it.

Tags: vaclav klaus, environmentalism, climate alarmism, national and international bureaucrats, budgets, careers

Eco and Animal Friendly?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:12:06 GMT

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Clip Source: myitthings.com

I love companies that don't test their products on animals. To me, it's part of my goal of living a green lifestyle. I feel that acting in their best interest coincides with my ideas about environmentalism. Not to mention, many of the companies that refuse animal testing are also eco-advocates.

Instead of wondering, I check Caring Consumer (owned by PETA), a site that lists animal-friendly companies.

I was pleased to see how many companies I have to choose from and relieved to find that some of my old favorites like Almay and Bobbi Brown adhere to ethical means of production.

Check out the list if you're curious!

Tags: green, animal-friendly, products, cosmetics, production, animal testing

From “Green Conservatism” To Black Gold

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:36:50 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: In his book, sounding like Al Gore, Gingrich maintains that “global climate change” is one
of several “worldwide challenges.” Unlike Gore, he seems to reject any involvement by “international bureaucrats” in such a scheme.

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.

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.]

It’s good that Gingrich now seems to have jettisoned this approach. “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” He should go further and recall copies of his books.

We need an American Vaclav Klaus to lead the way back to freedom.

Clip Source: www.aim.org

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

However, there is hope. Vaclav Klaus, 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.

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

His book is titled, Blue Planet in Green Shackles.

Tags: president vaclav klaus, czech republic, al gore, global warming, co2, carbon tax, mccain, newt gengrich, david frum

Environmentalism as the New Face of Communism

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:25:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My vote is for Klaus. He sees right through these phony "sky is falling" environmental wackos.

Clip Source: www.worldtribune.com

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, who survived the communist system and now leads a country that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet empire, is warning of a new form of communism threatening human freedom and progress.

"Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history,"

"I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom,"

Fred L. Smith Jr., president of CEI, warns about the attraction that the "intellectual class" continues to have for "statism" or "collectivism," which are other names for the threats we face. Today, Smith says, we are witnessing "cultural warfare against economic liberty" that requires "pro-freedom voices" to prevent the slide into totalitarianism.

Klaus writes that "The environmentalists' attitude toward nature is analogous to the Marxist approach to economics.

Tags: global warming, loony left

Warming up to socialism

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:32:03 GMT

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Clip Source: townhall.com

Environmentalists Pick Up Where Communists Left Off

For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class -- social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies -- arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in its more benign form, by virtue of their superior expertise in achieving the highest social progress by means of state planning (socialism).

Just as the ash heap of history beckoned, the intellectual left was handed the ultimate salvation: environmentalism. Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but -- even better -- in the name of Earth itself.

Environmentalists are Gaia's priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. (See Newsweek above.) And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment -- carbon chastity -

Czech President calls 'environmentalism' the new communism

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:59:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's painfully obvious.

Clip Source: www.washingtontimes.com

May 30

Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history.

The provocative Mr. Klaus, an economist by training and former prime minister, said in an interview that today's global warming activists are the direct descendants of the old Marxists who trampled on individual freedoms and undermined free markets in pursuit of a greater good.

"I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom," he told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "It is used to justify an enormous scope for government intervention vis-a-vis the markets and personal freedom."

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Tags: environment, politics, global warming

Flock Eco -A Green Alternative to Firefox?

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:38:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Looks good.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

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