http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gore/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:33:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417115/posts BISMARCK, N.D.—North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he expects the state to file a lawsuit against Minnesota over its plan to tax carbon dioxide created by electrical generation. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission wants to add a fee of $4 to $34 per ton of carbon dioxide to the cost of electrical generation starting in 2012. The majority of electricity in North Dakota is generated by coal-fired power plants, which emit carbon dioxide. North Dakota officials consider it an unfair tax on electricity produced in the state and say it would discourage its use by Minnesota utilities. Pioneer Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417115/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:33:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415494/posts In their unfortunately titled book Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale — self-described specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University in Wellington — charge that the carbon paw-print of a pet dog is double that of an SUV driving 6,200 miles a year, while a pet cat has an eco claw-print slightly less than driving a Volkswagen Golf for a year. Confirming these results, John Barrett of the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, Britain, said, “Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance.” Pets’ detrimental impact on the environment... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415494/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:54:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413140/posts New Poll from MSM.... Bush bashed, Obama praised, while Palin ranks higher than Gore or Biden...our Veep actually ties with "None". TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413140/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:23:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412449/posts For scientists to remain credible, they have to have a certain detachment from their work.  At the very least, they have to have no vested interests in any particular outcome, or they risk biasing their work to produce outcomes favorable to themselves.  On anthropogenic global warming, we already have advocates like Al Gore who stand to make billions of dollars by convincing governments to impose cap-and-trade systems that will rely on their businesses for the service — but advocates aren’t scientists.  However, the Telegraph reports today that Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412449/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:12:20 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-news/2411970/posts I do not know what motivates politicians and Al Gore. Based on the data over 40,0000 years, they really don't have a good argument for human induced climate change. I am not sure Gore, Reid, Obama, or Pelosi could pass a college physics course if they tried. It is unclear to me they have an engineers mind or sense of analytical integrity. they have to listen to other 100% because they can't do these calculations alone. It is unclear to me that the folks in the climate gate memos are still using scientific method. We could be going into some... 4yourCountry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411970/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411643/posts Not billions, but trillions of dollars will change hands. Government control like you’ve never even dreamed of will come to pass. Taxes will flow into incompetent government hands like never before. Energy will “necessarily skyrocket.” Of course, the real story is all of the money that will be made trading “carbon credits.” Al Gore, the Bernie Madoff of the climate change movement, has made hundreds of millions of dollars already off this scam, and stands to make billions. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411643/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:37:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411146/posts This particular planet, along with the entire universe, is God’s. He is Maker and Owner. He is the one in charge of sun, moon, stars, seasonal changes and everything else related to creation. God has His hand upon it all. His claim is tagged to every part of it. Zenithmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411146/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts Global Warming: Russian analysts accuse Britain's Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday's Washington Post that "stolen" e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit still don't alter the evidence for climate change. Mann, a creator of the discredited hockey-stick graph used in reports from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show man-made warming, attacks climate skeptics, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying they "confuse the public." Chutzpah has been... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:32:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410797/posts I am not making this up. Obama got his tuchis handed to him at Copenhagen. Large nations told him to get bent. "Developing nations" -- countries run by homicidal Marxist lunatics -- demanded hundreds of millions of dollars. Obama promised $100M a year -- he has no authority to do so. Next year's political ads should show taxpayers being forced to write checks that are seen being handed to foreign firing squads. China told him to go, ah, make love to himself. Delegation then flew home. Obama reported to be "angry." This has beenn a total disaster for Obama and... Fox News Special Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410797/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:23:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410113/posts THEME: Preserving Environment: Islamic Order "Introduction Whether we realize or not the environmental damage and pollution produced by humans, disrupt the natural balance of the earth. This slowly threatens the life of creatures on this earth. If the issue persists, it will be disastrous. This calls for good natural resource management based on the teachings of Islam. The main objective of this seminar is to sustain the nature which will benefit mankind and future generations." (UNISSA) Call for papers. Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410113/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:01:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409956/posts Click link to see the graphic. The text states: "The last 10 years have been the warmest decade on record." Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409956/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:16:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409529/posts President Chavez brought the house down. When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause. When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening. But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409529/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:42:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409645/posts The Institute of Economic Analysis, a Moscow-based independent economic think tank, alleged in a paper released Tuesday that climate change data involving Russia appears to have been tampered with. The claim was made based on an analysis of newly available data from the U.K.-based Hadley Center for Climate Change, which is affiliated with the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The latter is at the center of the recent “climategate” controversy. The IEA unfortunately does not offer English-language versions of its reports on its Web site. However, Andrei Illarionov, IEA founder and editor of the report, is... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409645/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:37:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409584/posts The London DailyExpress published 100 reasons why Global warming is a natural occurrence rather than a man-made occurrence, to which Michael Le Page from NewScientist responded by arguing 50 points in rebuttal. In La Page’s opening he writes: A British newspaper today published a list of "100 reasons why global warming is natural". Here we take a quick look at the first 50 of their claims - and debunk each one. Yet incredibly La Page had to concede the very first point... Creating Orwellian Worldview http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409584/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409184/posts Journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer, the maker of Not Evil, Just Wrong, has been doing a standup job of showing the hypocrisy inherent in not only the man-made global warming schizo's but the left side of the aisle as a whole. Here he is questioning the hypocrisy of those "representatives" to the Copenhagen climate change conference who have belittled and shamed people about the effects of flying a plane. Funny how the dismiss McAleer as not worth their trouble. How dare he question them on their "green" credentials. Right? The U.N. estimates 40,500 tons of carbon dioxide will be pumped... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409184/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:51:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408266/posts On St. Oprah’s Christmas Special with the Obamas at the Whitehouse on Sunday, 12/13/2009, the Community-Organizer-In-Chief gave himself a “good solid B+” on his first-year in office. While I would consider that proof of grade-inflation (as opposed to monetary inflation which he and Tiny Tim “The Tax-Cheat” Geithner are also cooking up), I am pleasantly surprised at The One’s humbleness in giving himself only a “B+” – I would have expected something like “A+++”; however, I am fully expecting the political mavens and propaganda shills, hacks and asundry blowhards on the network “news” programs (ABC, NBC and “See BS”) as... Justin Washington's Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408266/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:59:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408219/posts ...Yes, the climate-denier community, funded by big oil, has published all sorts of bogus science for years — and the world never made a fuss. ...This is not complicated. We know that our planet is enveloped in a blanket of greenhouse gases that keep the Earth at a comfortable temperature. As we pump more carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse gases into that blanket from cars, buildings, agriculture, forests and industry, more heat gets trapped. NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408219/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:45:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408212/posts ...As Alan I. Leshner, who heads the American Association for the Advancement of Science, wrote in The Washington Post recently: "It is wrong to suggest that apparently stolen e-mails ... somehow refute a century of evidence based on thousands of studies. ... Doubters insist that the Earth is not warming. This is in stark contrast to the consensus of 18 of the world's most respected scientific organizations, who strongly stated in an Oct. 21 letter to the U.S. Senate that human-induced climate change is real. Still, the doubters try to leverage any remaining points of scientific uncertainty about the details... The Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408212/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408040/posts We never saw this kind of violence at the Tea Parties or Town Halls!Glenn Beck compares the violence at Copenhagen to Nancy Pelosi’s tearful concern over “rhetoric” from the Tea Partiers! This is sure to send the Beck haters into fits!Video at FA Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408040/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:42:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407861/posts Climate Control Zealots want to force the U.S. into 3rd world status and forcibly reduce and control the population of earth...what they say: “My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” “Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” “The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.“ TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407861/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:59:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407693/posts Despite weather, 49ers are storming the Cards tonight. Too much AZ turnovers. Gore just scored a touchdown. SF 24, AZ 9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407693/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:28:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407785/posts WASHINGTON – More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It's a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama's economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill jobs. In an Associated Press-Stanford University poll, 40 percent said U.S. action to slow global warming in the future would create jobs. Slightly more, 46 percent, said it would boost the economy. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407785/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407557/posts Global Warming: The Alaskan governor who knew polar bears weren't endangered says the planet isn't either and challenges the oracle of climate change. Al Gore says despite the CRU e-mails, the situation is of the utmost gravity. In a Dec. 9 Washington Post op-ed, Sarah Palin noted that the Climate-gate e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia "reveal that leading climate 'experts' deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures and tried to silence their critics from publishing in peer-reviewed journals." This did not sit well with Gore. "The entire North... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407557/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:23:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407537/posts There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the... TimesOnline.com (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407537/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:55:18 GMT