http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/environmentalism/ en-us Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:54:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385207/posts Control: The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the president extraordinary powers in the event of a "climate emergency." As chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. If you thought the House health care bill that nobody read has hidden passages that threaten our freedoms and liberty, take a peak at the "trigger" placed in the byzantine innards of both the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill and the Kerry-Boxer bill just passed by Democrats out of Sen. Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee. As Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation points... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385207/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386258/posts Senator Lindsey Graham’s leadership on climate change is a bold example of true conservatism that his fellow Republicans in Congress should follow, Republicans for Environmental Protection, a national grassroots organization, said today. "We are very pleased with the New York Times op-ed that Senator Graham co-authored with Senator Kerry. The most important thing that Congress must do to address climate change is to put a price on carbon emissions. That can only happen if there is conservative Republican input and buy-in. Thanks to Senator Graham’s leadership, the odds for passing an effective, balanced bill have improved greatly," David Jenkins, REP... Republicans for Environmental Protection http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386258/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:32:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385566/posts EC goes inside the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit and the proposed treaty, with the help of legal analysis by John Charlton. The more you dig into this proposed document and its implications on our economy, our culture, and our sovereignty, the more you realize that the grand scheme is to bring the United States, and our prosperity, under the thumb of an autocratic, tyrannical, world government. Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385566/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385565/posts EC goes inside the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit and the proposed treaty, with the help of legal analysis by John Charlton. The more you dig into this proposed document and its implications on our economy, our culture, and our sovereignty, the more you realize that the grand scheme is to bring the United States, and our prosperity, under the thumb of an autocratic, tyrannical, world government. Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385565/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:41:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385106/posts Brazilian authorities defended the reliability of the nation's electric grid after a massive power failure Tuesday darkened about half the country and revived concerns about Brazil's ability to provide energy infrastructure to match its surging economy. Blackouts hit about 800 Brazilian cities, including Rio de Janeiro and the economic hub of São Paulo, around 10 p.m. Tuesday night after three high-power transmission lines collapsed, triggering a domino effect that prompted a 14,000-megawatt hydroelectric plant to go offline, officials said. Paraguay, which shares the dam with Brazil, also suffered a major blackout. Energy Minister Edison Lobão said the outage was provoked... WSJ On-Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385106/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:33:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380340/posts Gorbachev and his ilk call for ‘new thinking,’ but really mean new ways to dictate how people should live This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the U.S. Congress that inaction on climate change amounted to a new “Berlin Wall” of “short- sighted self-interest.” Ms. Merkel’s claim was upside down. There is indeed a new threat to freedom in the offing, but it is the Green Wall that she is recommending. It will span the globe, and there will be no escape. What collapsed twenty years ago was Communism. What didn’t collapse was anti-capitalism, which remains the principle driver of... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380340/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:03:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378924/posts <p>Climate change belief given same legal status as religion An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378924/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378503/posts It’s official -- putting plastic bottles into the recycling bin or going on a Greenpeace demo is akin to having a religious experience. Rupert Dickinson, who was made redundant by a London property company, claimed that it had discriminated against him on account of his subscription to the theory of man-made global warming and other environmental issues which he said constituted a ‘philosophical’ belief. In any rational universe, he would be sent away with a flea in his ear for trying it on. But this is not such a world. At an Employment Appeal Tribunal Mr Justice Burton ruled that... Spectator Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378503/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:46:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378488/posts Behind Global Warming Alarms Allie Winegar Duzett, November 4, 2009 As the danger of global warming fades, the influence of those who would use it to expand government regulation grows. Neil Maghami of the Capital Research Center investigates those behind today’s climate of environmental alarmism in his October 2009 article, “The Triumph of Environmental Alarmism: Science ‘Czar’ John Holdren and the Woods Hole Research Center.” In the article, Maghami describes who John Holdren is and why he is significant. Holdren is today President Obama’s science “czar,” and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The OSTP... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378488/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:34:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377674/posts Al Gore stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars in "green" technology, and I don't begrudge him success. Capitalism works when you provide a needed product or service to the market. The problem is that Al Gore's success isn't coming from needed products or services, but rather from his political connection, as he connives, cajoles, and schemes to have his buddies in the government force us to use Al Gore-approved solutions to non-existent problems. That's not capitalism, it's shameless profiteering, and hypocritical to boot. I wonder if all those lefty enviromentalists who decry any opposition to their agenda as... ECR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377674/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372486/posts Tyranny: In his latest absurdity, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is dictating three-minute showers and no singing. Claiming it's to save water, his act is nothing but a "green" fig leaf to cover his socialist mismanagement. 'Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour," Chavez ranted on his Sunday TV show "Alo Presidente." "No, kids. Three minutes is more than enough. I've counted, three minutes and I don't stink." His words echo those of environmental extremists, blaming shopping malls, El Nino, tourists and sabotage. But the water and electricity shortages are his own doing, and the scope of... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372486/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:49:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371560/posts PARENTS have accused early childhood centres of "greenwashing" their children by burdening them with the responsibility of saving the world.Tots as young as three have sent letters to Kevin Rudd about their passion for green living and asked companies to reduce their packaging.Others are growing their own food, repairing toys and walking to preschool in an effort to reduce their toll on the environment.But experts have called for caution in teaching children about climate change because of the potential for fear, anxiety, frustration, anger and despair at catastrophic events.Mother Paula Driscoll, from Sydney, said environmental disaster was the new... News.com (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371560/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370129/posts From seabeds to mountaintops, people around the world were staging a day of demonstrations Saturday to call for urgent action on climate change. The events were being coordinated by a group called 350.org, whose name refers to the parts per million of carbon dioxide it considers the safe upper limit for our atmosphere. The group said it wants to "inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis" ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. Divers at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the ocean off the Maldives... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370129/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:55:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368760/posts Reporting from Seattle - In what would be the largest habitat zone ever established in the U.S. to protect a species from extinction, the federal government today proposed designating 200,541 square miles on the coast of Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears. Officials said the designation is not likely to further slow the pace of oil and gas development, and it crucially would not impose any controls to slow the biggest threat to polar bears, the melting of sea ice as a result of climate change. Those steps are crucial for polar bears but are being addressed separately in... Los Angeles Times online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368760/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:57:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366620/posts Bill McKibben '82 has founded 350.org, a worldwide action group that this weekend (Oct. 23-25) will promote demonstrations on every continent. McKibben was at Harvard's Memorial Church for a 90-minute "climate convocation" sponsored by 17 groups. Author and climate activist Bill McKibben '82 ascended into the pulpit of the Memorial Church at Harvard University on Oct. 18, a stage so grand that legend puts it "10 feet above contradiction." McKibben's message is that the Earth is warming rapidly, that climate change is too late to stop, but that it is not too late to act. Acting means getting humankind, with... Harvard Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366620/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365682/posts The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tough new measures to reduce the health toll from air pollution around the Great Lakes by forcing lake freighters to stop burning dirty bunker fuel. But the plan has an unusual opponent: The Canadian embassy in Washington has quietly asked the EPA to weaken the measures, arguing that they could harm trade. It wants ships to be allowed to continue using the high-polluting fuel and to instead install smokestack scrubbers that would clean up their emissions. The Canadian recommendation, if accepted, could delay the clean-air measure for years, because the technology for the... Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365682/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:52:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2365006/posts for example, from his rant against big bottled water: "... the huge soda companies decided to sell you bottled water which is from the same source as tap water, but guess what? when you sell it as natural and in a bottle, it's unregulated. at least tap water is regulated." this from a guy who is currently fined up to his eye balls as a result of pimping unregulated natural supplements for every disease imagineable, while blasting regulated big pharma. shameless. Fibomercials and Scams http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2365006/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:02:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363035/posts California, the nation's largest producer of fruits, nuts, vegetables, livestock and dairy products, ranks fifth in the world as a supplier of food and agricultural commodities. Cash receipts totaled more than $36.6 billion in 2007. By comparison, Coca Cola's 2008 revenue was $32 billion. The state provides more than half of the nation's fruits, nuts and vegetables using more than 25% of California's landmass for agricultural production. The Central Valley accounts for more than half of that area. A paragon of conservation and modern irrigation technology, California agriculture - comprised of many small and family-owned and operated farms - is... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363035/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:18:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362201/posts <p>Most everyone supports a clean environment.  But many environmentalists fail to recognize the need for balance.</p> <p>One of the latest examples of environmental extremism is the campaign to punish or even ban the use of plastic bags.   The Philadelphia City Council has turned down a proposal to ban plastic bags, but proponents promise to try again.  A bill pending before the state legislature would outlaw plastic bags statewide.</p> Exclusive to FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362201/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356472/posts Oct 5, 2009 — Three stories touching on philosophy of science were reported recently.  They show that simplistic ideas, and even terms deployed, can be misleading.  That’s why philosophers still have a role in curbing the pretensions of scientists, and clarifying scientific issues and terms lest policy-makers and the public get wrong ideas. Are all invasive species bad?:  We are taught to think that “alien” animals or plants introduced into another country pose a threat.  Often they do, but Mark Davis at New Scientist reminded readers that the honeybee was introduced into the Americas.  He said, “you may be surprised... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356472/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 03:38:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354753/posts The Arctic Ocean is becoming acidic so quickly that it will reach corrosive levels within 10 years, a leading scientist has warned. Waters around the North Pole are absorbing carbon dioxide at such a rate that they will soon start dissolving the shells of living sea creatures. The potentially disastrous consequences for the food chain have been highlighted by Professor Jean-Pierre Gattuso of the National Centre for Scientific Research in France. His team of oceanographers have produced startling predictions about the acidity of the Arctic Ocean after research carried out on the Svalbard archipelago, a group of islands half way... (London) Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354753/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:57:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354046/posts The radical environmentalist movement has wrapped its tentacles around almost every facet of our lives. It's so prohibitive of freedom and progress that even Native Americans want them near them. Whether Congress is imposing prosperity-crushing c(r)ap-and-trade regulations or the EPA is labeling the very gas that we exhale and which makes plants and trees grow as a pollutant, they are simply dangerous. Unfortunately, our own president is one of them. God help us. Here's Mark on Thursday's (October 1) first hour discussing the latest abominations brought to us by the environmentalist movement. Prepare to be infuriated: Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354046/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:19:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351796/posts The Anti-Defamation League, the country's leading group dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, is rightly sensitive to the offense of trivializing the Holocaust. Why, then, has the ADL said nothing in protest against the Darwinian biologist and bestselling atheist author Richard Dawkins and his comparison of Darwin doubters to Holocaust deniers?... beliefnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351796/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350047/posts Moose declining in Minnesota's northwoods, among their few strongholds in lower 48 states Researchers say such sightings of moose, an icon in Minnesota's northwoods, are likely to become more rare. A special advisory committee warned last month that climate change threatens moose. ... Minnesota has an estimated 7,600 moose, nearly all in the forests of northeastern Minnesota, where plentiful swamps, lakes and streams provide good habitat. Yet they're beleaguered by increasingly warm weather and parasites such as brainworms, ticks and liver flukes. "Almost without exception all of the indicators are that the population is declining," said Mark Lenarz, a moose... Minneapolis (Red) Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350047/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:25:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349892/posts The Obama administration has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct studies on the possibility of removing four hydroelectric dams on the Snake River in Washington state in order to “protect” 13 species of salmon on the federal endangered species list. The studies were part of a new “Adaptive Management Implementation Plan” created by a coalition of nine government agencies (which calls itself “the Federal Caucus”) that which manages the salmon population in the Columbia River basin. The plan aims at trying to reverse a decline in the salmon population... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349892/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:34:54 GMT