http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/algore/ en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:30:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415790/posts A Rhinebeck (NY)High School sophomore is urging the school district to require alternative views be presented by teachers on controversial topics like climate change. Michelle Dewkett said the global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was being shown in science and English classes without equal weight being given to other positions on the topic. “As of now, the teaching of controversial topics is out of control,” Dewkett told members of the Board of Education on Tuesday. She also said the district is not following its own policy of providing students with a wide range of materials. Dewkett cited a class on... DailyFreeman (Hudson Valley, NY) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415790/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:30:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415775/posts The investigation into the so-called Warmergate emails - the leaked data from the University of East Anglia’s climate change department - took a new twist last night when The Mail on Sunday tracked the stolen messages to a suspect computer which provides internet access to China. The address used to post the emails is also on an international ‘black list’ which highlights suspicious behaviour on the internet. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415775/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415693/posts February 24, 2009, NASA's 280 million dollar Orbiting Carbon Observatory fell into the Antarctic after it failed to make orbit. Now, I'm not a Truther who believes 9/11 was an inside job produced by George Bush, nor am I certain BO is a U.S. citizen, but where there's smoke, there's fire from a burning birth certificate somewhere . . . NASA's carbon checking satellite was launched with the intention of definitively mapping the amount and effects of that evil atom, carbon, on the earth, which has alone been responsible for loading western universities with a non diversity of well funded... JoeClarke.Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415693/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415285/posts Al Gore strides on stage and cracks his trademark joke about how he used to be the next president of the United States. The fact we all know what we are doing to our planet is largely due to one man. He failed to become US president, but now Al Gore is the world’s unlikeliest eco-warror. Peter Gorrie reports. After more homespun tales delivered in his Virginia drawl, a giant screen glows with depictions of Earth from space, melting glaciers, dessicated farmland, flooded cities and all manner of graphs and charts, accompanied by Gore’s darkly impassioned narration. This is the... The National http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415285/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:27:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415111/posts The scientific evidence is everywhere we look -- in our vanishing polar ice caps, in our melting greasepaint, in the way our lapel flowers struggle to squirt. Man-made climate change is upon us, and if we do not act at once Earth itself faces an immediate catastrophic ecological pie in the face. iowahawk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415111/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:15:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts Climate Change: A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming — perhaps for the next 50 years. Much of the nation got a white Christmas this year, some in unprecedented quantities. A record-breaking storm deposited 12 to 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Many places set records for the most snow in a single December day as more than 50% of the U.S. was covered by the white stuff. Scientists (and here we use the word... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414414/posts December 24, 2009 Santa’s Village, North Pole - Handing victory to a coalition of environmental groups, a judge in the Northern District today issued an emergency injunction against the traditional Christmas Eve flight of Santa’s reindeer herd. The temporary restraining order cites a “substantial likelihood of irreparable atmospheric harm” arising from “high altitude carbon emissions” and bans further reindeer flights until full environmental impact studies can be completed, a process that could take up to five years. Green leaders praised the ruling off the record, but few were willing to make public statements. “We understand the potential backlash,” said one... Is There a Lawyer in the Church? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414414/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:46:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414018/posts During the 70 years that the communists controlled the Soviet Union, they had a peculiar way of teaching history to the people. They would teach things as historical fact that never happened. If you were one of those who took umbrage with their revisionist history lessons, you would soon find yourself living in a tiny apartment in a part of the country where they laugh at anyone who claims the world is getting warmer. In a communist country this is the only way to convince the masses that they are actually better off than anyone in the history of... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414018/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413567/posts When Will Global Warming Expert Al Gore Stop Eating Animal Flesh? TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND AL GORE!! YOU MUST HAVE 20/20 VISION IN 2010 Together you have the power and worldwide influence to save the lives of billions of animals, subsequently creating a multitude of everlasting monumental benefits for humans, the earth, and the earth’s atmosphere. Together your revolutionary profound efforts could be responsible for shutting down most or all animal factory farms and slaughterhouses in the world. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide together cause the vast majority of global warming. Raising... Congress.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413567/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:49:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413436/posts Albert the Green Nosed Reindeer, had a growing bank account And if you ever saw it, you would even wonder how All of the other watermelons, used to scheme in smoke filled rooms But now because of Albert, they will gain control of you Then one smoky kwanzaa eve, Barack came to say Albert with your friends on high, won't you skew the truth tonight Then all the watermelons loved him, as they shouted out with glee Albert the green nosed reindeer, you'll go down in infamy! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413436/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:25:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413335/posts Al Gore must be working as a consultant at Build-A-Bear Workshop®. Evident in the company's three "Build-A-Bearville®" videos below is an unhealthy dose of the junk science-laden, polar-bears-are-dying propaganda on which the former vice president has made hundreds of millions of dollars since leaving public office. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413335/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413216/posts In his paper, Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, shows how CFCs – compounds once widely used as refrigerants – and cosmic rays – energy particles originating in outer space – are mostly to blame for climate change, rather than carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. His paper, derived from observations of satellite, ground-based and balloon measurements as well as an innovative use of an established mechanism, was published online in the prestigious journal Physics Reports. “My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global... wuwt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413216/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:47:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413183/posts One to 3 feet of snow fell in the western Plains yesterday, while up to 1/2 inch of freezing rain fell in the central Plains. The precipitation was in response to a potent upper low in the Southern Plains and an associated surface low, which caused upslope flow conditions. The heaviest snowfall amounts were observed in the Colorado Front Range and in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico. Strong surface winds in these areas caused much blowing and drifting snow. Most of the snowpack across the West and western Plains is cool, with cold conditions at the lower... Watts up with that? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413183/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412488/posts Do As I Say proves that Al Gore is a phony and a fraud that does not practice what he preaches, as well as uncovering blatant hypocrisy and double standards of so many other leading liberals. Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar warning us about the catastrophe we will cause if we don't reduce our carbon footprints - but he travels the world in his private jet and racks up $30,000 in energy bills every year at his Nashville mansion. Al Gore parades around the globe condemning humans for causing global warming and destroying the earth. He... Do As I Say Movie http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412488/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412389/posts Without a scintilla of evidence that rising temperatures threaten the extinction of life on the planet, anyone who expresses common sense doubts about the Doomsday prophecies of climate alarmists is dismissed as a "skeptic," an "extremist," or a heretic in the religion of environmentalism. No one needs to apologize for being a scientific ignoramus on climate change when the world's leading publicist for global warming, Al Gore, is not a scientist either. Yet some blindly accept Gore's claim in An Inconvenient Truth that melting ice caps and rising sea levels will drown New York City and Shanghai under 15 feet... The Beijing Global Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412389/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412358/posts No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr. Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr. Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412358/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:15:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412357/posts UN IPCC Head Not Qualified for Post; Has Huge Conflict of Interest Issue The London Telegraph No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr. Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all. What... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412357/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:14:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412344/posts Prices drop as European Union sticks to 2020 emissions targetLONDON (MarketWatch) -- The price of European carbon emission permits dropped nearly 9% Monday after climate talks in Copenhagen resulted in an accord that fell short of initial expectations.Emission allowances for December 2010 delivery fell to 12.77 euros a ton Monday, from Friday's settlement price of 13.58 euros. The contract earlier dropped as much as 8.7% to 12.40 euros a ton. Emission allowances haven't traded that low in more than six months. The decline came after the United Nation's Copenhagen summit acknowledged a U.S.-led accord to combat climate change and prevent... MarketWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412344/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412063/posts The Northeast began digging out on Sunday from a massive snowstorm that buried cities from Washington to Boston under as much as 2 feet of snow, creating travel chaos and hampering Christmas shopping.Nearly 2 feet of snow piled up in the Baltimore-Washington area on Saturday in the largest snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, while New York City saw totals of up to a foot before the monster storm churned into New England. Boston, Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts areas saw as much as 2 feet of snow before the storm moved out to sea. Areas of eastern... Khaleej Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412063/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:18:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411746/posts I have to admit it. I am jealous of former Vice President Al Gore. I want what he's got, at least in a generalized way. It isn't that I envy him for having been vice president. The number two spot has traditionally been one not well regarded and only a few VPs have made the position an important one, if only in a fleeting way. Thomas Jefferson did some excellent work fashioning the procedure of the Senate while he was the veep, Nixon became an important part of Ike's foreign policy team, and Dick Cheney became, well, Dick Cheney! But... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411746/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:09:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411743/posts One is a former vice presidential candidate who has been vilified in much of the press. The other is a former two-term vice president who has been celebrated in much of the press. So which is more respected by the public at large? In the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released a few days ago, pollsters Peter Hart and Bill McInturff asked, "I'm going to mention some people who have served in public life at some point in the past decade. Please tell me which one or two of these people, if any, you have the most regard and respect for."... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411743/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:59:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2411401/posts In a late night posting on her Twitter feed, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to blast climate change believers Friday, calling the talks in Copenhagen, Denmark a representation of man's "arrogance," for believing people have an impact on nature. "Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature," Palin tweeted. "Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng," the former Republican vice presidential nominee wrote. Palin's latest comments come after weeks of tangling over climate change with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former vice president Al Gore, and President Obama. In an op-ed in the Washington... CNN Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2411401/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:05:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411297/posts Earlier Friday afternoon, scientists funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation released video of an underwater volcano eruption. This eruption is the deepest erupting volcano ever discovered and recorded. The video of this eruption is more than awesome, it is spectacular. In an area near Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, the West Mata volcano was discovered in May. The volcano lies almost 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. This link will take you to a longer version of the explosive deep ocean volcanic eruption video, that was released to the media, then you will find anywhere else.... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411297/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:12:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411237/posts Earlier Friday afternoon, scientists funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation released video of an underwater volcano eruption.  This eruption is the deepest erupting volcano ever discovered and recorded. The video of this eruption is more than awesome, it is spectacular.  In an area near Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, the West Mata volcano was discovered in May.  The volcano lies almost 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The scientists say they found a type of lava they have never seen erupting from an active volcano before.  They also witnessed molten lava flowing across the deep-ocean seafloor... Interesting, Weird, and Educational Videos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411237/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:18:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411087/posts The best summation of the U.N. climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen — not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the ‘solution.’” Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a moving account of the speech by Ian Fry, lead negotiator for Tuvalu, the beleaguered Pacific island nation soon to be underwater because of a planet-devastating combination of your SUV and unsustainable bovine flatulence from Vermont farms. “The fate of my country rests in your hands,” Fry told the meeting. “I make this as a strong and... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411087/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:33:44 GMT