http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/carboncult/ en-us Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:12:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040324/posts Due to pending disasters predicted because of global warming, government scientists are urging the creation of a new Earth Systems Science Agency -- by merging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey... 'The United States faces unprecedented environmental and economic challenges in the decades ahead,' the group warns. 'Foremost among them will be climate change, sea-level rise, altered weather patterns, declines in freshwater availability and quality and loss of biodiversity'... Developing... The Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040324/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:12:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040291/posts Pictured: The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees An architect has come up with an innovative answer to rising sea levels - a city that floats around the world. The self-contained 'Lilypad' city will be home to around 50,000 'climate refugees' from the worst hit areas - including London. {snip} The 'Lilypad' cities would be powered by renewable energy sources {snip} But now a visionary architect has found a solution which will see people in the affected cities making a new home for themselves on the futuristic-looking Lilypad. {snip} As land-based cities flood, the Lilypad will... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040291/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:53:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027261/posts Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global market for carbon credits has been uncovered by a BBC World Service investigation. The credits are generated by a United Nations-run scheme called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The mechanism gives firms in developing countries financial incentives to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But in some cases, carbon credits are paid to projects that would have been realised without external funding. The findings reinforce doubts that the CDM is leading to real emission cuts, which is not good news for the effort to combat climate change. And in one case a company... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027261/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:47:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026224/posts It's a staple of the glossy magazine: the eye-catching spread selling the latest Chelsea tractor or high-performance German road machine. But the luxury car advert looks likely to become much less attractive under green advertising rules being drafted by the EU. As a packet of cigarettes carries a mandatory health warning, a Mercedes C-class advert may be forced to carry a climate hazard alert within months. Manufacturers would be forced to stop supplying pollution information in barely readable small print at the bottom of ads. The European commission is believed to be considering a "traffic lights" system whereby red dots... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026224/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:40:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025682/posts Carbon Cult sickos are under fire for an interactive website that tells children they should die because they emit CO2. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Planet Slayer" site invites young children to take a "greenhouse gas quiz", asking them "how big a pig are you?". At the end of the quiz, the pig explodes, and ABC tells children at "what age you should die at so you don’t use more than your fair share of Earth’s resources!" It's one of a number of interactive features that "Get the dirt on greenhouse without the guilt trips. No lectures. No multinational-bashing (well, maybe... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025682/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:54:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022193/posts Take a look at this web page. Find out when you should DIE: http://www.abc.net.au/science/planetslayer/greenhouse_calc.htm Propaganda to brain wash Australian children. A questionnaire to calculate your carbon footprint and predict how long you will/should live on the planet. Web page, Planet Slayer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022193/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 00:30:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022689/posts Anyone who doubts that liberalism is a death cult needs to check out the taxpayer-funded Australia Broadcasting Corporation's kiddy-oriented Greenhouse Calculator, which helps little kids calculate how soon they should die so as to stop being a burden on the planet. Moonbattery http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022689/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 23:24:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020557/posts Stigma can be a powerful force in changing behavior. Just ask smokers, whose once accepted habit is now so marginalized that the prevalence of smoking has dropped to about 19 percent of U.S. adults from nearly 24 percent just a decade ago. A lot of factors figured into the decline since smoking's mid-20th-century peak, but the sense that smoking is disgusting as well as unhealthful and socially costly has certainly contributed to many people's decision to quit. Now that smokers have been taken care of, the obese are the new scapegoats for a lot of our ills. Last week, a... US News and World Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020557/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 02:17:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2018784/posts Iadmit it: I'm no environmentalist. But I like to think I'm something of a conservationist. No doubt for millions of Americans this is a distinction without a difference, as the two words are usually used interchangeably. But they're different things, and the country would be better off if we sharpened the distinctions between both word and concept. At its core, environmentalism is a kind of nature worship. It's a holistic ideology, shot through with religious sentiment. "If you look carefully," author Michael Crichton famously observed, "you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2018784/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 19:34:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016931/posts Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and climate change, experts say. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine calculated the obese consume 18% more calories than average. They are also responsible for using more fuel, which has an environmental impact and drives up food prices as transport and agriculture both use oil. The result is that the poor struggle to afford food and greenhouse gas emissions rise, the Lancet reported. It comes as the World Health Organization predicts the obese population will double by 2015 to 700m. In the UK, nearly a quarter of adults are... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016931/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 16:29:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016480/posts While no one knows who first uttered the sentiment "It’s better to say nothing and seem a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," Republican presidential hopeful John McCain’s speech this week on climate change certainly supports the phrase’s validity. McCain spoke at the facilities of Vestas Wind Technology, an Oregon-based firm that manufactures wind-power systems. The irony of the setting was rich given McCain’s outspoken opposition to pork-barrel spending. He even risked his presidential hopes by criticizing ethanol subsidies ahead of the all-important Iowa caucuses. Next to solar power, however, wind power is the most heavily... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016480/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 19:59:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012851/posts Decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores of the insecticide are now trickling out of melting Antarctic glaciers. The change means Adélie penguins have recently been exposed to the chemical, according to a new study. The trace levels found will not harm the birds, but the presence of the chemical could be an indication that other frozen pollutants will be released because of climate change, says Heidi Geisz, a marine biologist at Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester in the US. She led a team that sampled DDT levels in the penguins. She worries that glaciers could... NewScientist.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012851/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 04:23:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012548/posts You knew this was coming. Global Warming is to blame for everything these days, including Global Cooling. From The Guardian: Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida’s Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes. In the first four months of this year, there were four fatal shark attacks worldwide, compared with one in the whole of 2007, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Of course, these... Constitution Club http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012548/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 17:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008480/posts One of the many mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 calls for oil companies to increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline. President Bush said, during his 2006 State of the Union address, "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world." Let's look at some of the "wonders" of ethanol as a replacement for gasoline.Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove. As such, it can cause major damage to automobile engines not specifically designed to burn ethanol. The water content of ethanol also risks pipeline corrosion and thus must be... creators.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008480/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:53:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2007428/posts Emily Derke looked surprised when she was asked why she was attending church on Earth Day. In her mind, the question was not "why" but "why not?" "I see Earth Day as a spiritual thing," said Derke, who drove from her home in Coon Rapids to St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Minneapolis for an interfaith celebration. "God made the Earth, and now it's up to us to protect it. Everybody here [at the service] is here for the same purpose. It's all about the Earth." Indeed, the faith community has become one of the major players in environmental issues.... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2007428/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:06:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003772/posts Psychology: The alarms that environmental extremists have sounded have given rise to a market for therapists who treat eco-anxiety. What a concept! Scare the wits out of people, then make money off their fear.It's possible that none of the 100 or so "eco-therapists" practicing in the U.S. have been part of the environmentalist shock campaign. Or it could be that, at more than $100 an hour, these practitioners are simply taking advantage of others' weaknesses. But given that the treatments they're prescribing — taking shorter showers, turning off lights, making do with less — are scrawled on the stone tablet... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003772/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:48:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002493/posts Farewell the age of reason, welcome the idiocracy. Only George Orwell could have invented - and named - the government's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) that came into operation yesterday. It is the latest in a long line of measures intended to ease the conscience of the rich while keeping the poor miserable, in this case spectacularly so. The consequences of the RTFO have been much trumpeted on these pages. It says enough that one car tank of bio petrol needs as much grain as it takes to feed an African for a year, or that a reported one-third of... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002493/posts#comment Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:07:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000573/posts When it comes to all things "green", common sense seems to have been abandoned. Our failure to think clearly about such matters would be amusing if the potential consequences were not so serious. Consider the recent "lights out" campaign that supposedly should energise the world about the problems of climate change by urging citizens in 27 big cities to turn out their lights for an hour... -Nobody, it seemed, wanted to spoil the party by pointing that the event was immensely futile, that it highlighted a horrible metaphor, or that it caused much higher overall pollution. -Ironically, the lights-out campaign... http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000573/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:49:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998790/posts To fight global warming, a bill in Sacramento would enable Los Angeles County transit officials to increase taxes on motorists. It's a bad idea that may foreshadow even worse to come. Billed as a "climate change mitigation and adaptation fee," the measure would cost motorists either an additional 3 percent motor fuel tax, or up to a $90 annual flat fee, based on vehicle emissions. The new charges would be on top of taxes already paid at the pump. Either option requires a majority approval by a vote of the people. Climate has changed as long as the Earth has... The Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998790/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 02:39:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998568/posts Yesterday, Post readers were moved by the image of our Prime Minister, in Poland on April 5, kneeling at the Death Wall of Auschwitz, the worst of the Holocaust extermination camps. In the museum guest book he wrote, "Lord, bless the souls of those who suffered and perished here, and deliver us from evil." Prime Minister Stephen Harper pays tribute to Holocaust victim at Auschwitz.Peter Andrews/Reuters. Stephen Harper's prayerful posture and traditional words of commemoration for the lost souls of a barbaric era reveal a sensibility noticeably out of sync with the religion of environmentalism that presently dominates our culture.... The National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998568/posts#comment Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993479/posts Several dozen leading members of the Southern Baptist Convention, including its current President and several past Presidents, recently released a "Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change." I attended Liberty University, a school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and specifically affiliated with Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. Both the church and the University were founded and led by Jerry Falwell until his death last May. The school and church are now led by Rev. Falwell's two sons: Jerry Falwell, Jr. is the Chancellor and President of Liberty University, and Jonathan Falwell is the senior pastor of the... xjcsa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993479/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:10:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992612/posts COLLEGE STATION – The more you know the less you care – at least that seems to be the case with global warming. A telephone survey of 1,093 Americans by two Texas A&M University political scientists and a former colleague indicates that trend, as explained in their recent article in the peer-reviewed journal Risk Analysis. “More informed respondents both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming,” states the article, titled “Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the USA.” The study showed high levels of... Texas A&M University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992612/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:55:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983322/posts The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades. Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide. Using advanced computer models to... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983322/posts#comment Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:02:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978123/posts David Carlson, professor of oceanography from Oregon State University, will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Ramsey Auditorium. His free presentation, titled "Exploring the Polar Regions at a Critical Time," will offer the latest climate data from around the world. He will discuss tips on how to help slow warming. The presentation, partially sponsored by the Fermilab Friends for Science Education, is open to the public. Fermilab Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978123/posts#comment Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:15:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976486/posts Former Republican National Committee chairman — and the man who reportedly advised President Bush in early 2001 not to regulate carbon dioxide — has switched sides and is now being paid to lobby for greenhouse gas regulation on behalf of the eco-activist group Environmental Defense. According to Greenwire’s John Fialka (Feb. 21), ED board member and hedge fund tycoon Julian Robertson is putting up the cash to hire DC lobbying powerhouse Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Ken Mehlman and former Democratic congressman Vic Fazio will lead Akin Gump’s efforts. "Their first mission is to find the right political formula... Junk Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976486/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:51:28 GMT