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ndia’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has indicated that he will not submit to Western pressure on cutting CO2 emissions. In the lengthy run up to the international climate conference (‘COP21’) in Paris later this year, Modi’s comments will be sure to cause consternation amongst climate campaigners. Indeed, since his investiture last May last year, the Guardian has expressed concern that he might be (gasp!) a climate sceptic. As the third largest CO2 emitter behind China (1st) and the U.S. (2nd), climate negotiators are keen to secure some kind of meaningful agreement to reductions from India at the Paris negotiations. However,...

Oddly, Bella Pelosi's consiglieres in the Drive-By Media forgot to mention that it was a COLD day in Ilulissat, Greenland when Her Majesty stayed overnight there on Saturday, "observing the global warming". Actually, it was a pretty cold day for May 26 in that part of Greenland ANY year. But I guess it will be a cold day when the MSM actually shares with the peasantry any facts that might throw a monkeywrench in the agenda... May 26 Temperatures for Ilulissat, Greenland high low year 36 30 2007 42 37 2006 35 31 2005 59 41 2004 39 28 2003...

Climate hysteria now invading our homes and businesses By Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, www.nrsp.com Saturday, May 26, 2007 Ontario environment minister Broten's ban of used oil heating just the latest example of an increasing intrusion into daily life by governments that ignore science "That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the...

First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year. "I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last name not be used). "I've spoken to the principal about it, and he said that teachers are instructed to present it as a debate. But every time we've seen it, well, one...

Carson's toxic legacy Her book Silent Spring is a case study in the tragedy of good intentions Margaret Wente Toronto Globe and Mail Thursday, May 24, 2007 I was 12 when I read Rachel Carson's newly published book, Silent Spring, in 1962. Although I'd never heard the term "environmentalist," she turned me into one. I didn't understand the complicated science in it. But I was horrified by her evocation of a natural world whose creatures were being wiped out by man-made poisons - the silent spring, where no birds sang. In school, I wrote an essay praising Silent Spring,...