http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/manbearpig/ en-us Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:50:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048168/posts WASHINGTON -- On the issue of gasoline prices, Republicans think they have a winner in their call for new drilling and Democrats are playing defense. Democrats need -- this is a technical term -- a lot more oomph. Al Gore wants to help them. In a speech here on Thursday and in an interview, Gore played his usual role as unpaid party visionary by arguing that we can ease the climate crisis, the economic crisis and the crisis of dependence on foreign energy all at once. "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn... Madistan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048168/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:50:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048127/posts Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq In a surprise appearance at Netroots Nation — which apparently was the worst-kept secret in Austin, Texas — former Vice President Al Gore followed up a speech by Nancy Pelosi by laying out a narrative on climate change and the energy crisis that seems ready-made for the Obama campaign to download. “If you look at the seriousness of the climate crisis, you see how it ties to the economic crisis and the national security threat that we face,” he said. “200 billion dollars are being sent overseas just from oil.” “The idea... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048127/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:07:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047979/posts In his speech in Constitution Hall this week, former Vice President and renewable energy investor Al Gore extolled a stretch goal challenging America to achieve 100% renewable power within 10 years. The quote: "Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years." And my favorite part: "When President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon and bring him back safely in 10 years, many people doubted we could accomplish that goal. But 8 years and 2 months later,... cnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047979/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:19:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047042/posts Former U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore delivers a speech on America's future energy needs in Washington July 17, 2008. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047042/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039406/posts In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former vice president’s home energy use surged more than 10 percent, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.” In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh)... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039406/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:03:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027600/posts MINNEAPOLIS -- A new ordinance in Minneapolis limits vehicle idling at three minutes. Mayor R.T. Rybak says the idea is to reduce air pollution. City Council member Sandy Colvin Roy says cars don't need more than one minute to warm up, even in the winter. The ordinance limits most vehicles idling to three minutes, except in traffic. Fox9 News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027600/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:45:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027185/posts "99% of investors need to focus less on the big picture and more on what their stocks are doing," says fund manager Howard Lindzon. But Lindzon does have some thoughts about the "big picture," particularly the endless debate about oil. Here, he gives the rationale for why $200 oil would be a good thing, because it might finally force America to get serious about alternative energy and get U.S. automakers to really innovate. "Maybe it's important oil finally goes to $200 so we do something else," he says. From an investor's perspective, "you can't be ashamed to be making money... YooHoo! Finance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027185/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:50:35 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/2015471/posts Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached a record high, according to new figures. The shockingly high concentration of the gas has fuelled fears that climate change could begin to slide out of control. Green campaigners are today claiming that building new airports and coal-fired power stations was an "unpardonable folly" as the figures were revealed. Scientists at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii said atmospheric levels of the climate change gas had hit 387 parts per million (ppm), the highest rate for 650,000 years. The figures published by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in the US also showed... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015471/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 21:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015111/posts RNC website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015111/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 04:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011329/posts Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd.  And reports that the cooling appears to follow a period of dormant solar activity aren't likely to ease their anxieties. Indeed, without an immediate alarmist course correction, years of "the science is settled" campaigning could prove for naught, as prolonged temperature dips decimate the primary anthropogenic argument.  After all, Lord Gore has shouted the IPCC's proclamation of a 0.3°C warming over the next decade from virtually every rooftop.  Given new data projecting the contrary, he and his green hordes... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011329/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 07:21:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005935/posts Will Media Remember Gore's 1994 Tie-breaking Vote Mandating Ethanol? By Noel Sheppard As the international disaster of ethanol begins taking its toll on the planet -- and, maybe more important, as press outlet after press outlet finally begins recognizing it -- will media remember that Vice President Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate requiring this oxygenate be added to gasoline? After all, regardless of recent reports blaming ethanol for world hunger problems, rising food costs, and increased greenhouse gases, it seems highly unlikely green media will want to tie any of these problems to Nobel Laureate Gore.... newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005935/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:05:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005297/posts It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria. On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow." Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005297/posts#comment Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:34:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002600/posts Vice President, Environmental Leader to Address Carnegie Mellon Grads Former U.S. Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will address Carnegie Mellon's 2008 graduates at the university's 111th commencement ceremony this May. "We are very pleased that Al Gore, the nation's leading advocate for the environment, will speak to our graduates at commencement," said Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon. "He is an inspiring and committed leader, whose beliefs fit well with our university, an institution committed to sustainable, green practices. His impassioned campaigns have led him to some of the world's greatest honors. And we are... Carnegie Mellon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002600/posts#comment Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:17:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004017/posts The low temperature at SeaTac Airport last night was 34 degrees. The record low for this date was 33 degrees, set in 1961. The forecast high today is 46 degrees. The lowest high temperature for this date at SeaTac was 47 degrees, set in 1975. The Puget Sound region, especially north of Seattle, had 2-6 inches of snow, with some eastern areas reporting 10 inches. Although NOAA reports the fourth lowest March snow cover in North America, snow cover in the Cascades has been well above average since November. zeestephen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004017/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003319/posts A new plan from US President George Bush which aims to cap greenhouse gases by 2025 has been dismissed as "disastrous" and "Neanderthal" by a group of ministers at a climate change meeting in Paris. This week Mr Bush said he wanted to stop the growth of US emissions by 2025, taking a stronger stance on the issue than in the past. However his plan, announced at a ministerial-level meeting of major carbon emitters, has drawn criticism from delegates from Australia, the European Union and some US participants. Germany says Mr Bush has taken climate change policy back in time,... abc.net.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003319/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:05:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2002958/posts n this photo provided by the EPFL, former US vice president Al Gore delivers his speech at the EPFL, Ecole polytechnic federale de Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Gore received an Honorary Doctor degree for his commitment to increase public awareness about global warming and climate change from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2002958/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:44:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002579/posts Yet with Mr. Ehrlich, as with Mr. Miller, it is the psychology of the duped disciples that raises the most questions. Ms. Mills, at least, demonstrates exactly the same ideological frenzy and moral vanity, the hatred of elders and the past, as a Red Guard denouncing his teachers in the Cultural Revolution. Even today, her speech has the power to frighten with its self-righteous malice. For while Ms. Mills is talking about the end of civilization, she is no more able than a Mao or a Savonarola to disguise her satisfaction at the prospect. NY Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002579/posts#comment Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:30:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999343/posts WHO Director-General warns vulnerable populations at greatest risk of projected impacts7 APRIL 2008 | GENEVA -- Scientists tell us that the evidence the Earth is warming is "unequivocal." Increases in global average air and sea temperature, ice melting and rising global sea levels all help us understand and prepare for the coming challenges. In addition to these observed changes, climate-sensitive impacts on human health are occurring today. They are attacking the pillars of public health. And they are providing a glimpse of the challenges public health will have to confront on a large scale, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan warned... UNITED NATIONS WHO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999343/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:44:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995638/posts Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995638/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 20:08:30 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/1991485/posts That there is a mismatch between model prediction and 2007 climate reality is again unsurprising. For as IPCC senior scientist Kevin Trenberth noted recently: “. . . there are no (climate) predictions by IPCC at all. And there never have been”; instead there are only “what if” projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios. Trenberth continues, “None of the models used by IPCC is initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models corresponds even remotely to the current observed climate”. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991485/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:36:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990399/posts It’s not a script for the next science-fiction thriller, but renowned British scientist James Lovelock is giving human civilization less than 32 years before all hell breaks loose because of the effects of global warming. Lovelock said the impact of climate change is irreversible regardless of what mankind does. “By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine,” Business and Media Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990399/posts#comment Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979876/posts The University of Pennsylvania marketing professor who has publicly challenged Al Gore to a $10,000 bet over global warming is coming to New York - and he still wants a showdown with the former vice president. Scott Armstrong will be in town for a climate change conference that he hopes will sway public opinion away from Gore's well-known views on the perils of global warming. "He claims to be interested in science," Armstrong, an expert on mathematical forecasting at the Wharton School, told the Daily News. "It would be a good place for him to go." Armstrong first engaged Gore... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979876/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967989/posts There have been a number of indications that January 2008 has been an exceptional month for winter weather in not only North America, but the entire Northern Hemisphere...... Now to add to this, we have images and reports from NOAA and Rutgers University of large anomalies of snow cover extent for the northern hemisphere in January 2008. [[[[see link: http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/jan08-northern-hemisphere-snow-cover-largest-since-1966/ Watts Up With That? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967989/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:02:58 GMT