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Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)

Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference.   Read more here. (2)

Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)

Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time …  Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)

Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness.  Read more here. (1)

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Archive for January 12th, 2009

New US Energy Boss a Socialist & Warmaholic

The biography of New White House coordinator of climate and energy policies, Carol M. Browner, has been removed from the Socialist International’s Web page where she was listed as a Commissioner.  Read more here.

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Coal is King in China

China is aiming to increase its coal production by about 30 percent by 2015 to meet its energy needs, the government has announced, in a move likely to fuel concerns over global warming.  Read more here.

‘Climate Porn’ & Other New Words

The big trend for [last] year was the growth of environmental language: of ecocentrism, referring to the philosophy in which the ecosphere is more important than an organism or human activity … of climate porn, referring to alarmist predictions about the progress of global warming.  Read more here.

Comedian George Carlin on ‘Saving the Planet’

Here’s a video for those tired of the righteous and what Bob Carter calls hubris: Click to play.