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[State of Fear, by Michael Crichton. 603 pages. Published December 7, 2004, by HarperCollins Publishers. Hardcover, $27.95. Available at www.Amazon.com.] Michael Crichton, the author of The Andromeda Strain, Rising Sun, Jurassic Park and other block-buster thrillers, has penned a novel that could profoundly change the national and even international debate over global warming. It's long overdue. Crichton's State of Fear, with a reported first print run of 1.7 million copies, is an action thriller that doubles as a scientific primer on global warming and other environmental topics. Crichton's protagonists -- a scientist, a lawyer, a philanthropist and two remarkably athletic...

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The global warming treaty known as the Kyoto protocol is politically dead in the U.S. But the treaty's left-leaning environmental extremist supporters haven't given up their fantasy of creating a socialist global economy through controls on energy use. Rather, they've merely switched tactics to achieve that dubious aim -- and I'm not referring to making dopey movies like "The Day After Tomorrow". The new tactic is to pressure publicly owned corporations into taking steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions -- essentially committing to private Kyoto protocols on a corporation-by-corporation basis. The sort of pressure employed by the global warming activists...

Looks like a new movie is coming out next season for weather fanatics. Hope this one is better than twister http://www5.wright-weather.com/bb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15793 Prob blaming global warming...no less :)

MOSCOW – It will be hard for Russia to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions this year, because Russia has a lot of questions about how it would work in practice, Russia’s Deputy Economic Development and Trade Ministry Mukhamed Tsikanov said Monday. The protocol is the first ever agreement that envisages using market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse-gases emissions. Under the protocol, countries able to reduce carbon emissions below the quota levels will be able to sell parts of their quotas to other countries, which fail to do so. The protocol will only have an economic effect...

Canadian Firm Prints Harry Potter on Green Pages VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 19, 2003 (ENS) - Fans of the Harry Potter (news - web sites) books probably do not associate the little wizard with rainforests or recycling, but that will change for at least 935,000 readers of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." The Canadian edition of the eagerly anticipated book--all 935,000 copies--has been printed by Canadian publisher Raincoast Books on 100 percent recycled, endangered forest free paper, a move that many believe represents a landmark event for environmentally friendly publishing. • Sierra Club of Canada - British...

<p>SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Researchers at a government-funded science organization are investigating the possibility of burying up to 1 million metric tons (1.1 million tons) of carbon dioxide to help solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.</p> <p>Carbon dioxide is among the gasses emitted by burning fossil fuels that are blamed for global warming.</p>

  THE U.N. PLAN FOR GLOBAL CONTROL The Habitat II Agenda by Berit Kjos Bicycles instead of cars? Dense apartment clusters instead of single homes? Community rituals instead of churches? "Human rights" instead of religious freedom? The UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) which met June 3-14 in Istanbul, painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways-free speech, individualism, travel, and Christianity-are out. A new set of economic, environmental, and social guidelines are in. Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Handpicked civil leaders will implement UN "laws", bypassing state and national representatives to work...

Clinton talks on the global economy at N.Y.U. Former President Bill Clinton called on an audience of students to prepare for a future when America will no longer be "the biggest dog on the street" at the keynote address Tuesday of a New York University forum on globalization. The current globalized world is not sustainable economically, politically or from a security vantage point, Clinton said at the second annual conference co-sponsored by New York University and the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. Clinton spoke to an audience of about 450 students and guests. "On Sept. 11, 2001, members of...

Bush administration ready to approve drilling inside national park... Developing...

<p>Knowledge may be power in most places, but cold, hard data rule in Washington.</p> <p>In the arduous process of creating a federal regulation, the bricks and mortar are the data underlying the rule -- the scientific studies, the surveys, the risk assessments, morbidity estimates, the economic analysis. Regulators at federal agencies are the final arbiters in what goes into the mix and whether it's reliable. Challenges to their judgment usually end up in court years after the rule is conceived.</p>

Black carbon soot from coal burning, diesel engines, open fires and other sources is contributing to global warming ( news - web sites) and climate change in China and India, researchers report. A study appearing in Friday's issue of the Science magazine is based on computer modeling at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies by researchers Surabi Menon and James Hansen. "If our interpretation is correct, then reducing the amount of black carbon or soot may help diminish the intensity of floods in the south and droughts in the northern areas of China, in addition to having human health...

Article exposes the machinations of America's most active traitor and anthrax hoaxer, Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, aka Dr. Strangelove, who has just begun yet another of her periodic agitprop campaigns.

DAMAGE In a stunning U-turn for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing "specific and far-reaching effects" that it says "global warming will inflict" on the American environment. MORE Also for the first time -- the White House places "most of the blame for recent global warming on human actions -- mainly the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Monday Page Ones, according to publishing sources.

B ad policy ideas never die; they just get recycled. Like the monsters in old B horror films, big-government schemes keep coming back, remake after remake, with nary a change in plot line. Witness the recent re-return of the Son of Kyoto. "Kyoto" is, of course, the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations-sponsored climate treaty that would cost industrialized nations over $900 billion annually by the year 2050 — all to reduce global warming by a hypothetical and undetectable .07 degrees C. What then is the Son of Kyoto? Read on and find out.The U.S. Senate preemptively rejected the Kyoto...

Russia may delay ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming until after this autumn if Japan does not agree to buy emission credits, high-ranking Russian government officials said Tuesday. The officials asked that Japan and European Union countries promise to buy carbon dioxide emission credits from Russia as a condition for its ratification of the treaty, suggesting Russia's concern it will not be able to sell its emission credits to the United States, as that country has already dropped out of the agreement. The possible delay of Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol will likely make it impossible...

<p>So many federal agencies have been exposed falsifying environmental data that you have to wonder how many other frauds remain undetected. First came the December revelation that employees of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service had planted fake wild lynx hair in states where there were no lynx, so that the areas could be labeled critical habitat, and thus off limits to human use.</p>

Denmark likely to block Kyoto ratification The Kyoto agreement may not be ratified by the EU because of Danish insistence on higher CO2 emission quotas. Even if the EU-Parliament has just recommended the Kyoto Agreement, Denmark may block the ratification, according to Danish WWF representative Lars Georg Jensen. He fears that the new Danish government will insist on Denmark having higher emissions than other EU countries, writes Danish paper Information. In 1990, Denmark imported great quantities of CO2-free hydraulic power from Scandinavia, and consequently Denmark obtained an additional declaration that the country would not have to reduce its emissions to ...

WASHINGTON -- New measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing earlier estimates that the sheet was melting. Scientists concerned about global warming had worried that higher temperatures could melt the massive ice sheet, causing a rise in sea levels worldwide. But new flow measurements for the Ross ice streams, using special satellite-based radars, show that movement of some of the ice streams has slowed or halted, allowing the ice to thicken, according to a paper in today's issue of the journal Science. If the thickening is not merely part of some short-term fluctuation, it represents a reversal ...

To: CSE Members and friends From: Carol Jones Re: Projected 35 Billion charged to taxpayers if Kyoto implemented in Texas Action Item: 1. If you have not sent your electronic letter to Commissioner Huston at the TNRCC, please do so by clicking here We believe that Commissioner Marquez at the TNRCC needs to hear from you too. Please call his office at 512-239-5515 and just tell the person who answers the phone that you are opposed to implementing staff recommendations on the global warming petition. You may want to review the message points below but also be sure to tell ...