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"...The charity was the Joyce Foundation on whose board of directors Obama served and which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” And that’s only the beginning of this tawdry tale, Mr. Barnes. The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong. For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known...

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” • Life Magazine,...

This is a statement that was read over the public address system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tenn., by school principal, Jody McLeod: "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the national anthem, to honor God and country. Due to a ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a prayer is a violation of federal law. "As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it 'an alternate...

The Iowa State Register praised Nebraska's innovation, calling Arbor Day a holiday "devoted to pleasurable business and happy usefulness." What a contrast to preachy Earth Day with its anti-business overtones and message of guilt and limits.

Long before he became one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate — and the target of Congressman Pat Toomey's GOP primary challenge — Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania demonstrated a knack for notoriety. In 1964, as a member of the Warren Commission, he invented the "single-bullet theory" to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy. Conspiracy junkies have obsessed over him ever since. (In Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Kevin Costner's character labels Specter "an ambitious junior counselor" behind "one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people.") Between serving on the Warren Commission and becoming a...

According to a CBS News article on April 22, President Obama’s flights on Earth Day — two on Air Force One and four on Marine One — consumed about 9,000 gallons of fuel. My first reaction to this news was that it was much ado about nothing, a scoop about as significant as the price tag on Sarah Palin’s campaign attire. But upon reflection, I realized these 9,000 gallons reflect a hypocrisy, endemic to globetrotting politicians and celebrities fighting climate change, more serious than what we generally expect from our public figures. What is 9,000 gallons of fuel? This quantity...

President Obama used more than 9,100 gallons of fuel to fly and drive to Iowa to promote energy conservation for Earth Day on Wednesday. That's a revealing example of tree-hugger logic. To mark the president's acknowledgment of the wonders of modern transportation, we would like to honor a few environmental heroes who made Mr. Obama's Earth Day travels possible - like Henry Ford. Mr. Ford mastered the art of mass production with the assembly line, which made automobiles available to the masses. Introduced in 1908, Mr. Ford's Model T sold more than 15 million units, opening the world to unimagined...

Thrift-driven Americans are fixing up, making do and reusing so much to cope with the recession that the drop in throwaways means less fill for landfills. To deal with the drop-off in dropoffs, landfills are laying off workers, reducing hours of operation and hiking disposal fees, with the increases passed along to cities, businesses and consumers. "You can look at waste and see what the economy is doing," said Tom Houck, manager at the Defiance County Landfill in northwest Ohio. He's watched the amount of trash arriving at the landfill plunge 30 percent in the past year. With consumers cutting...

According to an Earth Day survey, one third of schoolchildren between the ages of six and eleven think the earth will have been destroyed by the time they grow up. That’s great news, isn’t it? Not for the earth, I mean, but for “environmental awareness.” Congratulations to Al Gore, the Sierra Club, and the eco-propagandists of the public-education system in doing such a terrific job of traumatizing America’s moppets. Traditionally, most of the folks you see wandering the streets proclaiming the end of the world is nigh tend to be getting up there in years. It’s quite something to have...

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009. April 22, 2009, 4:00 am Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find it. For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza. Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be. Need proof? Here are some...

It’s hard to criticize Earth Day. It’s a day when literally ______ people get out there and celebrate Mother Nature. Yes, I said ______ people because we have no idea how many people actually attended. Why? Because none of the top media outlets bothered to ask. That spin has Earth Day supporters filling in the blanks with lots of touchy-feely stories and no numbers while the media had the tea parties down for the count despite claims of around 1 million attendees. The New York Times showed just how to avoid such an uncomfortable topic with its day-after story highlighting...

Have you ever wondered how all of these Democrats can drive around in their big cars, live in their huge homes and fly all around the world in private jets with no guilt? Up until now it’s been a closely guarded secret. Hi, Billy Mays here again -this time for the one product that will allow you too, to live the energy wasting lifestyle you’ve always dreamed about, but were too eco-conscious to pursue. Green is good and what could be more green than planting a tree, saving an endangered species’ habitat or building a windmill? Nothing! Nothing could be...

Strange-looking synthetic trees that suck carbon dioxide out of the air. Algae that can turn into gas. A candy factory fueled by methane from a local dump. At an Earth Day celebration in Newton, Iowa, today, President Obama said the United States must lead the world in renewable energy. He said his energy plan would simultaneously help the environment and the economy.

Add another name to the ever-growing list of environmental hypocrites: that of Barack Obama. The president celebrated the annual Earth Day festivities by jetting aboard Air Force One from Washington to Des Moines, Iowa, and from there he choppered over to the town of Newton -- delivering remarks at a plant that manufactures wind-turbine towers. There, he called for "a new era of energy exploration in America" (except for offshore oil drilling, no doubt). Now, Obama could have given this speech at the White House -- except that the background visuals probably wouldn't have been so, well, visual. And a...

Global warming alarmism is now a minority view, according to a survey released April 22, 2009 on the 39th anniversary of Earth Day.The poll by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion covered 1,118 United States residents, and was conducted on April 1-3, 2009.It found that 69% of respondents believe global warming is either a “minor problem” or “no problem at all.” Only 31% believed it was a “major problem.”Only 12% of Republicans, 28% of Independents, and 48% of Democrats think global warming is a major problem.This is the first poll to show that global warming alarmism is now...

As we all now, the infamous Earth Day Was yesterday April 22, at 9:00 PM. Apparently we were all supposed to turn of all of our lights for 1 minute, or that is what I heard. If you actually did this, All I can say is wow… Because If you participated in this useless “symbolic” minute of darkness, you probably did it so wouldn’t have to feel bad about all of the “bad” things you are doing to send this world into the apocalypse, because you know that just because you drive your car to work everyday, like 99% of...

happens every time a president leaves town to make an Earth Day speech. Reporters scramble to point out how much fuel was expended so the President could talk about conserving energy and using alternative fuels. In flying to and from Iowa today, President Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One.

What do President Obama and Rush Limbaugh have in common today? They’re both celebrating Earth Day. They just have different ways of expressing their celebrations. We told you earlier that while President Obama was scheduled to discuss the benefits of wind power at a green manufacturing facility in Iowa, Limbaugh was honoring the memory of the man who invented the plastic bag. Since that time, both have spoken and we can update you a bit on what they’re talking about. Obama At the Trinity Structural Towers wind energy plant in Newton, Iowa, President Obama announced that the legislation he’s pursuing...

CBS's Knoller: Obama Burned 9,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel for One Earth Day Speech By Ken Shepherd Created 2009-04-23 12:21 President Barack Obama burned roughly 9,000 of jet fuel yesterday, Earth Day, and that only to deliver one speech in Iowa, reports CBS News's Mark Knoller in an April 22 Political Hotsheet blog post [1]. As if that weren't amusing enough, Knoller notes that the Air Force and the White House wouldn't disclose to Knoller how much fuel the president's plane burns on an average flight, so he had to consult with the manufacturer of the 747, Boeing: In flying...

Last night my daughter recounted an event that happened in her classroom. Yesterday was Earth Day, a silly memorial observed by the media and people who need to feel guilt. I am only aware that it was because of the news cycle. The teacher, a substitute, was attempting to involve the children in a discussion about what hurts and what helps our environment. She wrote two columns on the board with the headings ‘HURT’ and ‘HELP.’ The children volunteered information on the topic and the teacher wrote each suggestion under the appropriate title. The last entry in the ‘HURT’ column...

An Earth Day Salute to Capitalists April 22, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: By the way, this is Earth Day, ladies and gentlemen. Well, what am I going to do for Earth Day? I'm going to have every one of my cars driven as much as possible today. I've got my airplane flying to Los Angeles and back. Let's see, all the lights are going to be on, the air-conditioning down to 68 degrees in four of the five houses. The property manager likes it at 65. We're gonna have all kinds of beef. I'm fixing Allen Brothers all weekend...

Claire Garden has lived a modest life. She once resided on a Kansas homestead that was off the grid. There, she lived in a house built of recycled materials and raised organic vegetables. Now, at 71, Garden is thinking about the end of her life and her desire to leave a minuscule footprint on this planet continues to dictate her choices. She wants to be buried on her property in Columbia, Mo., not in a casket, but a canvas shroud, like the one used to bury the character Nate in the television show "Six Feet Under." "I would happily give...

Global Warming is not melting the continental ice cap. Come to find out there’s some shrinkage on the west side, but it’s more than made up by the glacial growth on the east side. But the business of Big Green is already at hand. As the prophet Al Gore said, “The debate is over.” We’ve already pegged the death of the polar bear on the automobile. Public schools are showing children photos of these cute, cuddly, white bears clinging to shrunken ice floes. Now we get to choose which side of Antarctica to believe in. Are you an optimist...

Today, outspoken climate skeptic Sen. James Inhofe co-introduced legislation to direct the EPA to research how reducing the emission of “a dangerous pollutant” might “improve public health and reduce global warming.” What’s more -- the Oklahoma Republican’s partners in the bill include two of the Senate’s most alarming carbo-chondriacs -- Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA). No, it’s not a belated April Fools’ Day -- although you're close. It’s Earth Day, and the pollutant isn’t CO2 or even a gas for that matter -- although it is a form of carbon. It’s black carbon, an aerosol produced predominantly by...

The environment ministers of rich and emerging nations were looking Wednesday to Washington for new leadership at talks in Sicily on combatting global warming. "We are all encouraged by the new position of the United States," Italian host Stefania Prestigiacamo said as the three-day meeting kicked off. "It is an important signal on the issues of the environment and technology." The start of the talks coincided with Earth Day, an occasion US President Barack Obama used to launch a push for historic climate change legislation in the United States. "The American people are ready to be part of a mission,"...

Speaking in Iowa on “Earth Day” this afternoon, Pres. Obama decried the fact that only 3% of America’s electricity comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar. He held Denmark out as a model, mentioning that the Scandinavian country produces almost 20% of its electricity via wind. He also bragged about the new jobs being created in Iowa and elsewhere in the wind power industry. Does PBO think we don’t read? Does he really expect to pull the windy wool over our eyes? Can he really expect the facts about the failure of the Danish wind power experiment not...

Hinting at but not explicitly charging President Obama with eco-hypocrisy, CNN weatherman Rob Marciano chided the chief executive for flying out to Iowa and back just for one Earth Day speech. Marciano took to the camera shortly after 10 a.m. EDT for a weather report. His comments came on the heels of Heidi Collins describing Obama's agenda for marking Earth Day [audio available here]:

Washington—In an unprecedented act, the Environmental Protection Agency is now urging people to stop breathing. After ruling on Friday, April 17, 2009, that “carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydro fluorocarbons, per fluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride have now reached unprecedented levels,” they feel it necessary to protect as many citizens as possible from the dangers of greenhouse gases that affect public health. The agency also finds that climate change, created by these gases, have additional impacts on the environment, including but not limited to:

It’s Earth Day again – unless you’re celebrating Administrative Professionals Day (which is also today, but only for people who work). In honor of Earth Day, I offer the following tips to make your home less green and more comfortable. Just like Al Gore’s phat crib. Instead of being green, we’re going brown. Brown Tips 1. Make sure and hoard incandescent light bulbs before the government mandated CF bulbs are completely phased in. This is especially important if you own a historic home and wish to preserve period lighting. Nothing is uglier than a Victorian home with gulag like interrogation...

Links to some of the best, right-wing extremist Earth Day writing.

Just in time for Earth Day. An example of the most annoying aspects of environmentalism I experience in my daily life; flawed products. In the name of feel-good, arbitrary symbolism we are stuck with poor quality, ineffective junk like this paper coffee cup that leaked on my desk this morning.

Because Earth Day is intended to further the cause of environmentalism—and because environmentalism is an anti-human ideology—on April 22, those who care about human life should not celebrate Earth Day; they should celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day. Exploiting the Earth—using the raw materials of nature for one’s life-serving purposes—is a basic requirement of human life. Either man takes the Earth’s raw materials—such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and atoms—and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends; he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, electricity, and the like; he...

President Barack Obama walks with former President Bill Clinton after he planted a tree while participating in a national service project at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. At rear is Vice President Joe Biden President Barack Obama, who had finished planting his tree, walks over to watch first lady Michelle Obama plant a tree with volunteers as they participate in a national service project at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. President Barack Obama watches as former President Bill Clinton plants a tree as they participate in a national service project at Kenilworth...

The Environment: Wednesday's airwaves, print media, cable news shows and Webosphere will be filled with nonsense about the scourge of capitalism, corporations and humanity. All of it will ignore the real truth. Buried beneath all the badgering and fear-mongering about lavish Western lifestyles is a reality that the stuck-on-green left won't talk about and the average American isn't aware of: The world, especially in developed nations, is a cleaner — and greener — place than it was when the environmental movement began. Every year Steven Hayward, a scholar at the Pacific Research Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, compiles his...

Happy Earth Day: 25 Global Warming Debunking Videos Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See Poor Al Gore. He was flying high a couple years ago. OK, OK, so it was in a carbon spewing private jet, but how else is a guy supposed to get to Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize and then to Hollywood to pick up his Oscar? The last twelve months haven’t been so kind. Gore’s claim that “The debate is settled” is beginning to sound a little desperate. The only thing falling faster than temperatures is the former veep’s credibility. So let’s kick...

Earth Day Poseurs by The Daily Beast April 21, 2009 | 10:35pm As we fete all things green, The Daily Beast looks at six environmentally friendly faces who have some explaining to do to Mother Nature. (Simon, Barbra, Madonna—she’s listening.)Those who live in solar houses shouldn't throw stones, and yet an increasing number of celebrities are jumping on the green bandwagon before taking a look into their own public records. They're not exactly hypocrites, and most of the time Barbra Streisand and Al Gore (especially Al Gore) direct the public's attention to unsexy topics like climate change. But beneath...

NEWTON, IOWA -- President b. Hussein put the world in serious jeopardy today, blowing hot air during an Earth Day speech in Iowa about wind power. “Wind power is the most important invention to come along since I developed ‘hope and change,’” the president said. “We will stop all oil drilling, plans for nuclear power plants, and rational, intelligent energy policy in favor of wind power. I foresee a land dotted with stagnant wind turbines generating a mere pittance of the electricity this country needs. It’s the final part of my plan to bring the nation to a grinding halt.”

This year I decided to get into the spirit of Earth Day as a global event by encouraging people around the world to mark this important day in some meaningful fashion. After all, what could be more important than saving the world through rigid implementation of envirofascism? Certainly not our culture, our liberty, or our Constitution. In that spirit, Evil Conservative Radio is sponsoring tire-burnings across America, and around the world to tell the United Nations and the envirofascists that we hear them and we understand them. Indeed, as you see from the pictures sent in by enthusiastic revelers already......

Homo Sapiens, Get Lost Anti-humanism comes to Hollywood. By Wesley J. Smith When Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic 1932 novel, Brave New World, he envisioned a dystopian future in which mankind would become, in the words of bioethicist Leon Kass, “so dehumanized that he doesn’t even realize what has been lost.” Huxley believed we would evolve into a society steeped in radical hedonism — where drugs would be used to erase every negative emotion and promiscuity would be not just common but the norm. He also saw us as becoming profoundly utilitarian and eugenic, depicted in his novel by genetically...

From NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) [the very first] Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970. It was spectacularly successful, achieving grassroots concern for environmental problems facing the nation. More than 2,000 colleges and universities, over 10,000 high schools and grade schools, and 20 million citizens participated, nearly ten percent of the U.S. population at that time. American Heritage (October 1993) magazine referred to this first Earth Day as “one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy...” http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/events/earthday/welcome.html __________________________________________________________________________ From EarthDay.net... Earth Day -- April 22 -- each year marks the anniversary of the...

When I lived in Waterbury, Vermont, in the late 1980s I attended a bluegrass concert in the park one summer evening. The band (its name escapes me) had recently returned from a Vermont Arts Council/ State Department-type cultural exchange trip to the then Soviet Union. During a break in the music, a couple of the musicians told the assembled crowd of Boomer hippies about the trip; the bass player showing off a souvenir, which was a lapel pin fastened to his shirt pocket. It was small, gold-colored, and bore the likeness of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to history by the...

President Barack Obama is going on the road to pitch his energy plan — as well as environmentally friendly jobs production — in a hard-hit Iowa town... White House aides said the president would highlight his plans to create jobs and protect the environment.

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As Earth Day again brings forth disciples of the religion of inanimate matter, we would do well to examine just how little we know about our world. Doubtless a prominent theme in this Earth Day will be the great peril of global warming. Our planet is growing warmer because of sinful man, and if government does not take drastic steps to curb our activities, then our wicked ways will bring rising oceans, drowning cities, and countless other plagues upon us. Is the Earth warming? Any professor who wants tenure will say, "Yes!" now. Any bureaucrat who values his job will...

Environmentalist Loved Planet, Murdered Girlfriend Arrested Same Day as Three Mile Island http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/22/top_stories/doc49eebca59bdb3868756314.txt

Townhall.com's Mary Katharine Ham learns how to save the Earth and all the animals, lefty-activist-style. (Video at the source link)

WASHINGTON – As Congress begins to debate climate change in earnest, the science is taking a back seat to economics: How much will it cost to slow the Earth's warming because of man-made pollution — and what's the cost of doing nothing? With a key House committee starting four days of hearings, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., vowed to get a climate bill approved this year. Noting that Earth Day will be celebrated on Wednesday, she told reporters by the next Earth Day "we want to celebrate what we've done this year" to address climate change and clean energy. But the...

Celebration of Earth Day 2009 USDA Theme: The Green Generation All USDA employees are invited to attend a presentation of the Award-winning documentary film, " An Inconvenient Truth. " This film depicts the consequences of global warming and climate change on our planet. Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: Back of South Building Cafeteria Sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Office of Diversity and Outreach, Office of Outreach

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Hug a tree. Recycle. But don't forget the biodegradable "green" poop bags to ensure your dog has a small carbon pawprint. Yes, Earth Day has come to this.