February 17, 2008
* A response to Al
Gore
* Predictable: Global
warming worse than predicted, top scientist says
* Not Predictable: Climate
Predictions
* Ahh, that dispassionate
rhetoric: Global-warming fearmonger Hansen says “The trains carrying coal to power plants are
death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.” (good thing NASA will get $400
million for global-warming research)
* Newsbusters:
‘Climate Scientist’ Ratchets Up Global Warming Alarmism in Face of Record Cold
Weather
* Chris Horner at Planet
Gore: Al Gore encouraged scientists “Keep your day jobs, but get involved in the
debate.”
* Massive desert solar
‘colonies’ hope to solve energy crisis
* Sen. Bernie Sanders will
serve as chairman to the recently formed Green Jobs and New Economy Subcommittee, according to the
senator’s staff.
* NYT editorial page warns:
Unless global warming is mitigated, bird migratory patterns will continue to shift north —
putting many species at risk of extinction.
And there’s this funny little picture
over at Global Warming: Fact or Fiction, titled Hundreds Attend Global Warming Protest…
Heh:
Prince Charles was accused
of hypocrisy last night for using a private jet on an ‘environmental’ tour of South
America.
The prince will travel to
the region next month in a visit costing an estimated £300,000 as part of his crusade against
global warming.
He will use a luxury
airliner to transport himself, the Duchess of Cornwall and a 14-strong entourage to Chile, Brazil
and Ecuador on a 16,400-mile round trip.
The toll from a major brushfire in Australia is
staggering: 2,000 homes have been lost, displacing 7,000 people. 180 are dead. Could
well-intentioned environmental policy have made matters worse? This pretty much says it all:
In an interview with
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bushfire expert David Packham at Melbourne’s Monash
University put the blame on the a green movement that opposes controlled clearance in forests.
Fire management has been
taking place in Australia for centuries but present policies have changed those practices, Packham
said. “If you can reduce your fuels by one-tenth, you actually reduce your fire intensity by
one-hundredth.”
Ray Nias from the
environmental group the WWF told the broadcaster that the recent fires should inspire discussion
about whether it is safe to live in some areas of heavy bush-land at all.
There are two lessons here: First, it seems
that a lot of policies intended to help the environment can do a lot more harm than good. Second,
people are dead and the enviros are using the opportunity to push their eco-zealot message. Stay
classy, guys.
From IBD:
Corn ethanol plants
“are shutting down virtually every week.” An alternative energy trade group says at
least 10 of the nation’s 150 ethanol firms have closed some 24 plants in three months, with a
dozen other companies in distress.
Little more than a year
after the Democratic Congress passed legislation launching a massive national effort to convert farm
crops and agricultural wastes into auto fuel, it’s become clear that the production deadlines
aimed at greenifying your local gas station can’t and won’t be met.
A new great ad comes from the non-profit
Americans For Prosperity. Check it out here…
