Outrageous Claims and Actions  by Roger King  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Government's Crazy Ideas
3. Environmental Activist Extremes
4. Outrageous Claims

Introduction

Science should be a place where politics don't come into play.  Science should encourage skepticism or many of our major discoveries may not have occurred.  This could and has resulted in a loss of a great deal of money and life.   We will cover this in other subjects like DDT or Asbestos.   If the following statements don't bother you, then you're likely a Man-Made Global Warming believer and likely not religious.  It should be noted I am not religious.  As you read the following statements assume they are talking about an undisputed view of God existing, God should be the only thing taught in school, 95% of the media talks about God deniers and all the other statements you have hear about Global Warmer.  Hopefully, this will put into perspective the danger of the mass hysteria we are currently experiencing.

Governments Crazy Ideas

Obama plan: Paint roofs white to save world at WorldNetDaily  May 26, 2009  Suggests light colors would reduce global warming  Steven Chu the U.S. Energy Secretary has told the London Times  that by making paved surfaces and roofs lighter in color, the world would reduce carbon emissions by as much as parking all the cars in the world for 11 years.

Boxer Claims Recession is Best Time to Raise Energy Costs   by Marc Morano   June 2, 2008   Cap and Trade Bill

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, declared in her opening floor speech today that a “recession is the precise time to" enact the Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill because it “brings us hope.”

The Lieberman-Warner global warming bill would have many consequences, but “hope” is not among them. The Cleveland Plain Dealer editorialized on June 1, that the bill "will just bore new holes into an already battered economy."

1. Various analyses show that Lieberman-Warner would result in higher prices at the gas pump, between 41 cents and $1 per gallon by 2030.

2. The bill would represent the largest tax increase in U.S. history. (LINK)

3. The bill would be the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways.

4. Science Applications International Corporation SAIC shows that up to 4 million jobs will be lost by 2030 in the U.S. (LINK)

5. Manufacturing jobs will be one of the hardest hit sectors as the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that manufacturing output will decline by up to 9.5% in 2030.  This country has already lost 19% of its manufacturing since 2000.  (LINK)

6. EIA estimates that this bill will result in the loss of nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs by 2020.

7. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that “most of that cost would ultimately be passed on to consumers.”  (LINK)

8. CBO says Lieberman-Warner would effectively raise taxes on Americans by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. (LINK)

9. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), warned last week that Lieberman-Warner “could result in the most massive bureaucratic intrusion into the lives of Americans since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service.” (LINK)

10. The bill would not have a detectable impact on the climate. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own analysis, by 2050 Lieberman-Warner would only lower global CO2 concentrations by less than 1.4% without additional international action.

11. The Wall Street Journal calls it "the most extensive government reorganization of the American economy since the 1930s." (LINK)

12. The bill would hinder U.S. competitiveness. It will transfer American jobs overseas where environmental regulations are much more lenient.

A Good Time to Tax Energy?   by Noel Sheppard   June 3, 2008   The Lieberman-Warner bill is a Cap and Trade bill for limiting CO2 emissions but would be terribly expensive fix to an unknown problem.

1.  In her opening remarks Monday, Committee chairperson Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said to her Senate colleagues, “Why do [Lieberman-Warner] now? We’re in a recession. Precisely because we’re in a recession is why we should be doing this. This bill is the first thing that brings us hope.”

2. Countering Boxer’s “feelings” on this issue with some actual numbers pertaining to the subject at hand ,was Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in an op-ed published in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (emphasis added):

   Various analyses show that Lieberman-Warner would result in higher prices at the gas pump, between 41 cents and $1 per gallon by 2030. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says Lieberman-Warner would effectively raise taxes on Americans by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. The federal Energy Information Administration says the bill would result in a 9.5% drop in manufacturing output and higher energy costs.    

The Californication of the Economy  by Alan Caruba 

1. When oil prices spiked after the temporary impact Hurricane Katrina had on oil from the Gulf of Mexico, two Democrat Senators, Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT) were calling for a “windfall profits tax” that would have imposed an excise tax when the price of a barrel is more than $40.00. What better way to deprive oil companies of the profits they need to explore for and extract much-needed new sources of oil or to build new refineries? These enterprises cost billions, but some legislators would rather that money go into government coffers.
2. The new Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has announced that Democrats intend to move toward greater energy independence “by rolling back the multibillion dollar subsidies for Big Oil.” This is utter nonsense. The government provides a plethora of subsidies for every kind of industry in the nation. How much energy independence does Rep. Pelosi, another Californian, think the U.S. will achieve if Congress attacks energy companies?     

World Must Cut Carbon Emissions to Zero by 2050 or Face Disaster, Studies Find by Larry West  The U.S. Senate is poised to vote on a bill that would reduce U.S. emissions 70 percent by 2050, and all three presidential candidates favor cuts ranging from 60 percent (McCain) to 80 percent (Obama and Clinton) by mid-century.   This would destroy the economy, take many trillions of dollars, create hugh controls by the national and world government and create mass starvation all for little or no effect.   I am curious what level of CO2 is the right level?   Does this mean that level is where the world has always been.

Assessing the Supreme Court’s CO2 Ruling  by William O’Keefe  CEO, The Marshall Institute  April 1, the day that the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from automobiles, was a day of bitter triumph. A triumph of judicial activism over factual and dispassionate analysis, a triumph of ideology over objective analysis and legal precedent, a triumph of political science—the blend of science, hypothesis and orthodoxy—over science and facts, and a triumph of image over reality.   ...   In finding for the plaintiffs, the majority ignored legislative history that clearly demonstrated that Congress did not grant authority to EPA to regulate CO2. The Court’s own review of the legislative history of the Clean Air Act reveals this point. The majority acknowledges that the original Act did not consider carbon dioxide, noting that “when Congress enacted these provisions, the study of climate change was in its infancy.”       

Will SEC make utilities like American Electric Power (AEP) disclose climate risks?  by Peter Cohan  September 18th 2007   The Washington Post reports that pension fund managers representing $1 trillion have petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to required public companies to disclose the impact of global warming on their business prospects. If the SEC agrees, the change could threaten investors in utility stocks -- which are among the biggest private sources of carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming.      This is just another step to control of our lives through CO2 emissions and severe regulation of our industry.

Global Carbon Tax Urged at UN Climate Conference  by Marc Morano  December 13, 2007

1. The environmental group Friends of the Earth, in attendance in Bali, also advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations on Wednesday.  A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.
2. In 2000, then French President Jacques Chirac said the UN’s Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of an authentic global governance."
3. Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom said, "Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide." 
4. Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed Kyoto as a “socialist scheme.”
5. MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen warned about these types of carbon regulations earlier this year. "Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life," Lindzen said in March 2007.

UN Panel's Global Warming Report May Win U.S. Support  by Alex Morales Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- American officials are planning to back a new United Nations document that says governments and businesses will have to spend billions of dollars a year to reduce global warming and adapt to its effects.   

Stop Global Warming? California's Dreaming  by Jerry Taylor  July 1, 2004  California's newly released regulatory initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new cars sold in that state represents the triumph of symbolism over substance. It's an ill-considered gesture that ought to annoy partisans on both sides of the global warming fence.How much will these new emission rules help in the fight against global warming? "Not much" would be a charitable answer.Back-of-the envelope calculations derived from computer simulations performed by climatologist Tom Wigley (who, by the way, supports aggressive action to address the threat of global warming) suggest that even if every state in the union adopted California's new program, global temperatures would drop by something less (actually, probably far less) than one-tenth of 1 degree Fahrenheit by 2050. What everyone in the scientific community understands but few want to discuss publicly is that stopping global warming - or even slowing it down appreciably - requires the near total abandonment of fossil fuels.  

Debunking Portland: The City That Doesn't Work  by Randal O'Toole  To halt urban sprawl and reduce people's dependence on the automobile, Portland's plans use an urban–growth boundary to greatly increase the area's population density, spend most of the region's transportation funds on various rail transit projects, and promote construction of scores of high–density, mixed–use developments. When judged by the results rather than the intentions, the costs of Portland's planning far outweigh the benefits. Planners made housing unaffordable to force more people to live in multifamily housing or in homes on tiny lots. They allowed congestion to increase to near–gridlock levels to force more people to ride the region's expensive rail transit lines. They diverted billions of dollars of taxes from schools, fire, public health, and other essential services to subsidize the construction of transit and high–density housing projects.  Those high costs have not produced the utopia planners promised. Far from curbing sprawl, high housing prices led tens of thousands of families to move to Vancouver, Washington, and other cities outside the region's authority.    

Hollywood Execs Call for 'Subliminal' Green Messages  by Nathan Burchfiel  at BMI December 12, 2007    How do you solve the problem that the American public seems uninterested in television shows and movies that preach about global warming and other environmental issues? Hide it from them!

     That's the approach proposed on December 11 at the Hollywood Goes Green conference by Paula Silver, founder of Beyond The Box Productions, which markets independent films.    

Leaders warn on biofuels and food  Bolivian President Evo Morales   by  BBC News April 22, 2008   Opening a UN forum on the global impact of climate change on indigenous peoples, Mr Morales said that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change.  "If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system," he said. Bolivia's left-wing president said unbridled industrial development was responsible for the pillaging of natural resources.     

Estonian farmers face flatulence tax on cattle   by Tallinn,   May 8, 2008   Estonian farmers have received tax notices for methane emissions from their cattle, the country's opposition party, the People's Union of Estonia, said on Thursday. 

Mpls. limits vehicle idling to 3 minutes    by Nicole Muehlhausen   June 8, 2008   The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor R.T. Rybak approved changes Friday, to the city’s vehicle idling ordinance that aims to reduce air pollution. The ordinance limits most vehicle idling to three minutes, except in traffic.

Global Warming calling ET home   by Judi McLeod  June 20, 2008   It was only last February when a former Canadian defence minister said he believes advanced technology from extraterrestrial civilizations offers the best hope to “save our planet” from the perils of climate change.    “Paul Hellyer, 83, is calling for a public disclosure of alien technology obtained during alleged UFO crashes—such as the mysterious 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico—because he believes alien species can provide humanity with a viable alternative to fossil fuels.” (The Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 28, 2007).  

Lights Out In Georgia  by Investor's Business Daily   July 01, 2008   A state judge has blocked construction of a power plant on grounds that its emissions permit does not set a cap on carbon dioxide. Global warming alarmism wins another round. 

Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore of the Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court invalidated on Tuesday a government permit issued in 2007 for construction of a coal-fired plant in the southwestern part of the state.

She based her decision on last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that forced the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, even though it is harmless to humans and animals and is necessary to plant life.

Naturally, environmental groups are thrilled that another energy-producing project has been shut down. "We will be taking this decision and making the same arguments to push for an end to conventional coal," said Bruce Nilles of the Sierra Club, which is involved in legal challenges to the construction of about 30 coal-fired plants  

Fossil Fool   by Investor's Business Daily   July 01, 2008    The Dr. No of the drill-nothing Congress tried to deflect the issue of rising gas prices Monday by telling Fox Business News that there are costs we should worry about besides those stemming from Democratic inaction. Our guilt is supposed to replace our anger. "Coal makes us sick," Reid said, "oil makes us sick, it's global warming, it's ruining our country, it's ruining our world, we've got to stop using fossil fuel . . . ."    

Environmental Activist Extremes

One million species extinct by 2050: scientists  January 8, 2004  A quarter of all land animals and plants will not survive the onslaught of climate change, an international group of scientists has predicted.  Their alarming findings, published in the scientific journal Nature today, show more than a million existing species could be extinct by 2050 as human-induced climate change heats up the earth.

Chris Thomas, the study's lead author and professor of conservation biology at England's University of Leeds, has called for urgent government action on greenhouse gases to reduce the number of predicted extinctions.  The research, on 1103 species in six biodiversity-rich regions including Australia, used computer models to work out how animals and plants will react as the climate changes. 

Humanity is the greatest challenge by John Feeney    November 5, 2007   We humans face two problems of desperate importance. The first is our global ecological plight. The second is our difficulty acknowledging the first.   Despite increasing climate change coverage, environmental writers remain reluctant to discuss the full scope and severity of the global dilemma we've created. Many fear sounding alarmist, but there is an alarm to sound and the time for reticence is over.

We've outgrown the planet and need radical action to avert unspeakable consequences. This - by a huge margin - has become humanity's greatest challenge.   If we've altered the climate, it should come as no surprise that we have damaged other natural systems. From deforestation to collapsing fisheries, desertification, the global spread of chemical toxins, ocean dead zones, and the death of coral reefs, an array of interrelated declines is evidence of the breadth of our impact.  

Earth Forum Hears Dire Warnings Of Environmental Collapse  by Giles Hewitt  New York (AFP) Mar 29, 2006   The astonishing pace of economic growth in Asia and the increasing demands of development in the industrialised world will in a matter of decades, Sachs argued, impose a burden far beyond that which the world is already woefully failing to carry.  "It is the central challenge we face on the planet," he said. "Every single major ecological system we have is already under profound stress."

While highlighting climate change, deforestation, oceanic degradation and population growth, Sachs, who is also director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, warned against viewing the problems associated with unsustainable development as an esoteric issue for scientists.

...   "Our political leaders do not have the training to understand these issues," he said, citing the crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur which Sachs argued was primarily the result of water shortages that had prompted conflict.   "We view these crises first as political crises when we should view them as ecological crises," he said.  

‘Medieval Environmentalists’ attack CO2 in their efforts to derail civilization  by Dr. Tim Ball & Tom Harris  Monday, January 21, 2008   David Graber, a research biologist with the U.S. National Park Service, said:  “Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. Somewhere along the line – at about a billion years ago – we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.”  

How the world was misled about global warming and now climate change  by Dr. Tim Ball April 21, 2008  Environmentalist,  Maurice Strong who said in 1990 “What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?...In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”   

Global warming ethics, pork and profits  by Paul Driessen  Tuesday, February 6, 2007
 Environmental Defense is collaborating with Morgan Stanley, to promote emission trading systems and other climate change initiatives – giving ED direct monetary and policy stakes in the banking, investment and political arenas, and in any carbon allowance or cap-and-trade programs Congress might enact. Other environmental groups, companies and Wall Street firms will no doubt follow their lead.

ED designed and led the disingenuous campaign that persuaded many healthcare agencies to ban DDT, resulting in millions of deaths from malaria. Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, ED and other groups still post deceitful claims about DDT on their websites, further delaying progress against this killer disease. By blaming climate change for malaria, they deflect criticism for their vile actions.  

Bush Sells Out America at U.N. Conference   by Cliff Kincaid   December 19, 2007    The Medical Journal of Australia has published an article advocating a carbon tax on a family having more than two children because every baby “represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions…” The author, a medical doctor, says that, as “citizens of the world,” populations need to be controlled “to ensure the survival of the environment.” He suggests “carbon credits” for those who are sterilized so they can’t have children.   This is where the global warming crusade is leading: an emerging world government with control over the most intimate details of our personal and family lives.      

Are reported to be spending 100 to 150 million a year for the Global Warming cause.

Lifting the global warming gag order   Spreading the global warming gospel with unified voice are 12,000 environmental groups controlling about $20 billion in assets," the Tucson-based Doctors for Disaster Preparedness reported last month. In comparison, "Truth seekers have at most a few million, lack the support of the press or Hollywood, and are generally shut out of government-funded schools and universities."   

Flannery says sky may need to change color to fight climate change by ABC News  May 19, 2008  Former Australian of the Year and climate change activist Tim Flannery has come up with a novel solution to climate change, which he says could change the color of the sky.  Professor Flannery, who has written extensively on environmental issues, spoke at a business and sustainability conference in Parliament House today and suggested a plan to pump sulphur into the atmosphere in order to repel the sun's rays.   Wow, talk about some that would likely have unintended consequences. 

Chevron: 'Environmental Con Men' Behind Big Oil Lawsuit  by Penny Starr  CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer  April 17, 2008  Chevron is guilty of "environmental sins" for polluting the Amazon rain forest, said two Ecuadoran activists who are suing the U.S. oil company for billions of dollars. Chevron says they are targeting the wrong company. 
Speaking through a translator, Ecuadoran attorney Pablo Fajardo and activist Louis Yanza told reporters gathered at the National Press Club on Tuesday how Texaco -- purchased in 2001 by Chevron -- polluted their land and water, making people sick.Chevron has never operated in Ecuador.  After two earlier suits were dismissed in U.S. courts, the case is now being litigated in Ecuador.

When 'green' is shorthand for environmental idiocy by Bjorn Lomborg April 16, 2008   Unfortunately, the lights-out campaign also implies much greater energy inefficiency and dramatically higher levels of air pollution. When asked to extinguish electric lights, most people around the world would turn to candlelight instead. Candles are cozy and seem oh-so-natural. Yet, when measured by the light they generate, candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights.

Big investors seek stricter climate laws  by Rachelle Younglai  WASHINGTON (Reuters)    May 20, 2008  Investors managing more than $2.3 trillion urged the government on Tuesday to enact strict laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying lax regulation could hurt the competitiveness of U.S. companies.

The group of some 50 investors, including the world's biggest listed hedge fund firm, Man Group Plc and influential venture capitalist John Doerr, want U.S. lawmakers to pass laws to reduce climate-warming emissions by at least 60 to 90 percent by 2050. 

Groups Seek Oil Drilling Ban Near Sage Grouse Habitat  by Matthew Brown, Associated Press   July 01, 2008   Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline.  Scientists contend sage grouse breeding areas are suffering in the face of accelerating oil and gas exploration in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah and other Western states.   West Nile virus, drought and residential development also have taken a toll on the bird, which is being considered for the endangered species list.    

Asking kids to spy on their parents (again)   by Ed Lasky   August 08, 2008  In the days of Stalin and Mao, school children were encouraged to rat out their parents for politically incorrect thoughts expressed at home. Now it is the turn of the greenies in Europe to ape the totalitarians. David Pryce-Jones reports at National Review Online: 

 The latest comes from a German-owned energy company called npower - all in fashionable lower-case letters. This company invites children to "save the planet" by becoming "climate cops." Children are supposed to spy on their parents, relations and neighbors, and catch them out for such "crimes" as leaving the TV on standby, putting hot food in the fridge or failing to use low-energy light bulbs.  

Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming, say scientists  by David Adams  September 1, 2008   Political inaction on global warming has become so dire that nations must now consider extreme technical solutions - such as blocking out the sun - to address catastrophic temperature rises, scientists from around the world warn today.   
 

Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law   by Michael McCarthy  September 11, 2008   The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.   

Outrageous Claims

Claimed Causes of Global Warming Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, runs a website called numberwatch. He has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming.     I have included a snapshot below but view Dr. Bringnell's site for an up to date list.

Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, Africa devastated, African aid threatened,  Africa in conflict, aggressive weeds, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, Agulhas current moves, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end,  amphibians breeding earlier (or not),  anaphylactic reactions to bee stings,  ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk,   anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra to burn, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty,   atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,  Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water,  bananas grow, barbarisation, beer shortage, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000,  better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird loss accelerating, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds return early, birds driven north, bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, blizzards, blue mussels return, bluetongue, brains shrink, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain Siberian, British gardens change, brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened,  building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks,  butterflies move north, camel deaths,  cancer deaths in England, cannibalism,  cataracts, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened,  childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping,   cockroach migration,  coffee threatened, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia,  consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , coral reefs twilight,  cost of trillions, cougar attacks,  cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, curriculum change,  cyclones (Australia),   danger to kid's health, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague,  death rate increase (US), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance,  desert retreat,  destruction of the environment,  disappearance of coastal cities,  diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought,   ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season,  Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down,  Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down,  Earth wobbling, earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing,  eutrophication, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation,  logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds,  pikas, polar bears,  gorillas,   walrus, whales, frogs, toads,  plants, salmon, trout,  wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species,  not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, tropical insects) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, fainting,  famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost,  fashion disaster, fever,figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fish catches drop, fish downsize,  fish catches rise, fish deaf, fish get lost, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flood patterns change, floods,  floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food security threat (SA),  footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frog with extra heads, frostbite, frost damage increased,  frosts, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, giant oysters invade,  giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat,  glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, god melts, golf Masters wrecked, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop,  great tits cope, greening of the North,  Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,  harmful algae,  harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation affected,   hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, HIV epidemic, homeless 50 million, hornets, high court debates, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, human race oblivion, hurricanes,  hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes not,  hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, ice shelf collapse, illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada),  industry threatened, infectious diseases,  inflation in China, insect explosion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of cats,  invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of midges,  island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, jets fall from sky, jet stream drifts north, Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas under threat, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful,  lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!),  lives saved, Loch Ness monster dead, lush growth in rain forests,   Malaria,   mammoth dung melt, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), migratory birds huge losses, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, minorities hit, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days,   more research needed, mortality increased, mountain (Everest) shrinking,  mountains break up, mountains green and flowering, mountains melting,  mountains taller, mortality lower,  Myanmar cyclone, narwhals at risk, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters  quadruple, new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying,  oaks move north,  ocean acidification, ocean deserts expand, ocean waves speed up, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened,   ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts,  plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, plants move uphill,  polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic,  polar bears drowning, polar bears starve,  polar tours scrapped, popcorn rise, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness,   puffin decline,  railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rape wave, refugees,  release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash,  rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war,   river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, robins rampant,   rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease,  ruins ruined, salinity reduction, salinity increase,  Salmonella,  satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered,  shrinking ponds, shrinking shrine, ski resorts threatened, skin cancer, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snowfall reduction,  soaring food prices, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spectacular orchids, spiders invade Scotland, squid aggressive giants, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, stingray invasion, storms wetter, stormwater drains stressed, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate movement, teenage drinking, terrorism, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams,  transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK),   tree growth slowed,, trees could return to Antarctic, trees in trouble, trees less colourful,  trees more colourful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage,  turtles crash, turtles lay earlier, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions,  walrus pups orphaned,  walrus stampede, war, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out,  West Nile fever, whales move north, whales wiped out, wheat yields crushed in Australia,  wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced,  wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California),  wine industry disaster (US),  wine - more English, wine -  England too hot, wine -German boon, wine - no more French ,  wine passé (Napa), wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World at war, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever.

and all on 0.006 deg C per year!    

Olympics-2016 Games could be the last, says Tokyo governor  By Karolos Grohmann  Sep 30, 2009  COPENHAGEN, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.

The Road Kill Diaries December 16, 2007   Hillman, senior fellow emeritus at the Policy Studies Institute, says carbon rationing is the only way to ensure that the world avoids the worst effects of climate change. And he says that the problems caused by burning fossil fuels are so serious that governments might have to implement rationing against the will of the people.   When the chips are down I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it," he says. "This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not."   

Climate Refugees The Human Toll of Global Warming   by Teresita Perez | December 7, 2006    Greenhouse gas emissions are changing the Earth’s climate, which causes natural disasters to grow more severe and more frequent, often creating a new wave of refugees fleeing climate change.  ...   According to the International Federation of Red Cross, however, climate change disasters are currently a bigger cause of population displacement than war and persecution. Estimates of climate refugees currently range from 25 to 50 million, compared to the official refugee population of 20.8 million.   ...   The climate refugee problem will intensify as global warming increases, potentially yielding between 150 million and 200 million refugees as early as 2010.     

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-:

1. The U.N.'s War On Global Warming  by William M. Reilly  March 05, 2007   "Global warming has profound implications for jobs, growth and poverty. It affects agricultural output, the spread of disease and migration patterns," Ban said. "It determines the ferocity and frequency of natural disasters. It can prompt water shortages, degrade land and lead to the loss of biodiversity."    ...   "These issues transcend borders. That is why protecting the world's environment is largely beyond the capacity of individual countries," he said, arguing the need for concerted and coordinated international action will mean "the natural arena for such action is the United Nations."   
2. UN chief warns on climate change at BBC News  March 2, 2007  Said global warming presents as great a threat to the world as war. He then urged the United States to lead the fight against global warming. …The danger posed by war to all of humanity and to our planet is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming….In coming decades, changes in our environment and the resulting upheavals from droughts to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable land are likely to become a major driver of war and conflict.    
3. UN chief visits Antarctica to see global warming effects   at CBC News  November 10, 2007  Ban Ki-moon has become the first secretary general of the United Nations to visit Antarctica to see firsthand the impact of climate change on the continent's melting glaciers.  "I'm not here as a tourist. I'm here as a messenger. We have resources, we have technology and we have financing," he said.  "This is an emergency and for emergency situations we need emergency action," Ban said during Friday's visit to three scientific bases. 

Fuzzy facts on the climate  from the Sun Speak Up  August 8, 2007  The United States Historical Climate Network reports that from 1940 to today, the average temperature in the US rose about 0.6¼C. It seems a stunning indictment of man’s contribution to global warming.  That it, until you take a closer look at how the researchers arrive at this figure. It turns out that they took the recorded average temperature rise of 0.1¼C and added 0.5¼C for “adjustments” and “corrections” from various “factors”.  Amazing! Not only is the actual recorded rise of 0.1¼C probably due to the urbanisation described above, the scientists see fit to arbitrarily increase the “real warming” by 500%! And what are the “factors” that they believe warrant such a large tweaking of the data? Of course, they do not say.  

More Global Warming Nonsense   by Paul Reiter and Roger Bate  April 10, 2008   Dr. Patz, the World Health Organization (WHO) and others claim that global warming is now spreading disease and may be the cause of some 160,000 deaths a year.    

 In 2007, for example, WHO pointed to rising temperatures in an outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus, Chikungunya, in Italy. Yet WHO misdiagnosed the problem. Modern transportation, not climate change, caused the outbreak.  In that case, the transmitter of the disease, or vector, was the Asian Tiger mosquito. It is native to Asia, but exported world-wide in shipments of used tires.  ,,,  Of course, temperature is a factor in the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, and future incidence may be affected if the world's climate continues to warm. But throughout history the most critical factors in the spread or eradication of disease has been human behavior (shifting population centers, changing farming methods and the like) and living standards. Poverty has been and remains the world's greatest killer.

Seattle mayor warns kids   by Michelle Malkin  November 28, 2007   Mayor Greg Nickels’ Christmas holiday tree-lighting ceremony. All religious references are discouraged by the local government–except if the religion is environmentalism. So Nickels used the event to preach the evils of global warming to the kids in attendance. He warned the children that if they don’t use energy-efficient light bulbs (Gore bulbs), Santa and the reindeer will perish amid melting icecaps.  

Proposal to fix Pacific with 'urea' dump  by Charles Clover, Environment Editor  05/11/2007   Proposals to dump large quantities of nitrogen-rich chemical in the Pacific as a quick fix for climate change have emerged at a UN treaty meeting in London.   …  The idea is to pump the urea into barren areas of the ocean on the edge of the continental shelf to stimulate the growth of plant plankton.  Phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide from sea water. Fish eat them and when they die some fall to the bottom, potentially removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  …   The proposed release of urea follows controversy over plans by Planktos, a San Francisco-based company to dump thousands of tons of iron in the Pacific off the Galapagos Islands in an experiment also designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.   

Whites more to blame for 'global warming'?  by Joe Kovacs   July 22, 2004    A new study released by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation suggests rising temperatures will kill more black citizens than whites in the U.S., while claiming African-Americans are less responsible than others for causing so-called "global warming."    

Environmentalists may use Endangered Species Act to pressure gov't on global warming  at mongabay.com  September 7, 2007    Endangered Species Act due to threats from climbing ocean temperatures, may be environmentalists' best weapon for levering the U.S. government into action on global warming, writes Mark Clayton of The Christian Science Monitor.  "We think this victory on coral critical habitat actually moves the entire Endangered Species Act [ESA] onto a firm legal foundation for challenging global-warming pollution," says Kieran Suckling, policy director of the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that filed both coral suits, told Clayton.  "It's pretty exciting to find that a lowly marine invertebrate might actually someday be the legal catalyst for rulings against greenhouse-gas emissions," Andrew Baker, a University of Miami marine biologist, told Clayton. "It's like getting Al Capone for tax evasion."    Examples of the hysteria.

The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming   from the Center for American Progress Action Fund's  This piece references outrageous articles to claim everything possibly including the kitchen sink will disappear.   This is the setup for   

Global Warming: Be Worried. Be Very Worried by Time Magazine April 3, 2006  The cover of Time magazine’s April 3, 2006 issue tells readers to “be very worried” about climate change. The issue features a “special report” on global warming. The cover shows a polar bear on a patch of ice amidst much water and many smaller patches, conveying the impression that the bear’s habitat is literally melting away.   Link

Environmental Activist Failures Highlight Earth Day  by James M. Taylor at Heartland Institute  April 23, 2008   Environmental activist groups have also lost credibility regarding plastic grocery bags. For years activist groups have worked hard to ban plastic grocery bags, asserting the bags cause more than 100,000 marine animal deaths each year. In response to such assertions, cities and towns such as Annapolis, Maryland, New Haven, Connecticut, and San Francisco and Oakland, California passed bans on plastic bags. Similar bans are also being considered in many state legislatures.

Earlier this year, however, scientists reported that plastic bags are having virtually no impact on marine life or other animals.  ...

The manufacture of plastic grocery bags uses less energy than the manufacture of paper bags, cutting down on pollution and greenhouse gas emissions during the manufacturing process. Plastic bags, unlike paper bags, do not require cutting down trees.  

Environmental Activist Failures Highlight Earth Day  by: James M. Taylor at Heartland Institute  April 23, 2008  Environmental activist groups are also catching heat regarding bottled water. Activists groups have long asserted alleged health threats from trace chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride in tap water.   ...  Yet the asserted health benefits of bottled water are nonsense. The Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration require more frequent and comprehensive testing of tap water than bottled water.

The manufacture of water bottles and the shipment of large quantities of bottled water all over the world require a tremendous amount of energy and release a substantial amount of air pollutants and greenhouse gases.  

Environmentalists sue over wind farms   December 05, 2007   Groups, including King Ranch, want to require extensive environmental review of wind projects. …  The famed King Ranch and a coalition of environmental groups sued Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson in federal court Tuesday, seeking to require extensive environmental review and public comment on two planned wind power projects along the Gulf Coast in Kenedy County.   The coalition, the Coastal Habitat Alliance, also sued over the wind project in state District Court in Travis County. That suit claims that the state's Public Utility Commission illegally denied the alliance's request to participate in permit hearings for the wind project's transmission line.  …   The federal suit, filed in U.S. Western District Court in Austin, said the turbines could kill untold numbers of migratory birds and damage the bay.    Link   Link 2

Climate Debate Rejects Science For Ideology  by Charles Krauthammer   May 29, 2008    Just Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your yearly carbon ration to be drawn down with every purchase, every trip, every swipe.

There's no greater social power than the power to ration. And, other than rationing food, there is no greater instrument of social control than rationing energy, the currency of just about everything one does and uses in an advanced society.   

Gulf Stream Stopping 

Two More Global Warming False Alarms by Dennis T. Avery at the CFP Blog  December 16, 2006   In 2004, researchers had moored 19 new buoyant, instrument-laden cables from West Africa to the Bahamas, to get better long-term data on the conveyor currents. In the process, they also took a “snapshot” of north-south current flows and compared them with similar “snapshots” dating back to 1957. Horrors, the snapshot showed a 30 percent drop in the northward flow of the Atlantic currents over 47 years!  That conclusion was headlined, along with the scary scenario of a Gulf Stream collapse like the one that threw the world back into Ice Age temperatures 12,000 years ago. Now, however, several years of data from the instrument-laden floating cables are telling us that the 30 percent drop in current flow is within the conveyor's normal variability. Oops. As Science said, “False alarm.”

Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert  by Jen Kelly  December 10, 2007  A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus "baby levy" at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. … Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and "greenhouse-friendly" services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits.  … "Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society," he wrote. 

EPA must regulate CO2

Will Big Brother Restrict Travel To “Save the Planet?”   by David Vance   November 25, 2007  The UK Government is not just interested in using global warming to raise new green taxes and to further hike fuel costs, but it is also contemplating allocating “personal carbon allowances.” The way these work is that you will be granted a fixed amount of carbon to use each year. Each time you travel in a plane, buy petrol, go shopping or eat out would be recorded on a plastic card. The more frugal could sell spare carbon allowances to those who want to “indulge” themselves. But if you were to run out of your carbon allowance, you could be barred from flying or driving.  For the first time in history we face the real prospect of having the fundamental right to travel prohibited by government.  

Friends of the Earth are Nobody’s Friends  by Alan Caruba  November 4, 2007   A news release told of “a coalition of environmental advocates (who) filed a petition today with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, asking the agency to set pollution rules for large, ocean-going marine vessels. These vessels include cargo and cruise ships.”  ...  FOE doesn’t care what kind of energy resource it attacks because these Green loonies are opposed to all forms with the exception of wind and solar power, two of the most inefficient and inadequate ways of providing energy anywhere other than isolated places like the Poles, deserts, or jungles.  ...  For three decades FOE and other Greens have successfully thwarted efforts to introduce nuclear power more widely throughout the nation while loudly decrying the use of coal and other resources used to generate electrical power. “Many of you know why nuclear power isn’t an answer to global warming: in stark contrast to solutions like wind power and increased efficiency, nuclear power involves too much time, money and risk.”

Call on Britons to stop breeding, save planet  at News.com.au   July 12, 2007   The Optimum Population Trust, a UK-based think tank, made the call in a new report unveiled today, saying record growth in Britain's birth rate was having an adverse impact on the environment.  The report's author, Professor John Guillebaud, said the Government should introduce “stop at two children” or “have one less” policies.  “Each new UK birth, through the inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates, is responsible for about 160 times as much climate-related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia, or 35 times as much as a new birth in Bangladesh,” Prof Guillebaud's report says.    

Climate Extremism: the Real Threat to Civilization  by Dr. Timothy Ball and Tom Harris  July 20, 2007  

1.  Philosophy Professor Paul Taylor, City University of New York in "Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics", p. 115): "Given the total, absolute, and final disappearance of Homo Sapiens, not only would the Earth's community of life continue to exist, but in all probability, its well-being would be enhanced. Our presence, in short, is not needed. And if we were to take the standpoint of that Life Community and give voice to its true interests, the ending of the human epoch on Earth would most likely be greeted with a hearty "Good riddance|"
2. Earth First! Journal editor John Daily: "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."
3.  Politicians in Canada have started to ban inexpensive and convenient technologies such as light bulbs, coal fired electricity generation and used oil heating to "stop climate change."  They can't show how the alternatives being promoted will actually help the environment – we are expected to simply believe that such sacrifices for the climate will benefit us all, even if real pollution levels rise, food prices increase as agricultural land is converted to biofuels production and millions of birds are cut to pieces by wind turbines.  'Believe' is the key word here, not 'think'.
4. Philosophy Professor Paul Taylor, City University of New York in "Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics", p. 115): "Given the total, absolute, and final disappearance of Homo Sapiens, not only would the Earth's community of life continue to exist, but in all probability, its well-being would be enhanced. Our presence, in short, is not needed. And if we were to take the standpoint of that Life Community and give voice to its true interests, the ending of the human epoch on Earth would most likely be greeted with a hearty "Good riddance!"
5. An equally extreme case is Peter Singer, a 'bioethicist' at Princeton University. He maintains that the suffering of a crippled ant deserves equal consideration to that of a crippled human child. If we could only save one, he says, we should decide by the flip a coin or else we would be "speciests". 
6. And of course the macabre " Voluntary Human Extinction Movement " is apparently alive and well with its "volunteer" class members agreeing that, "All of us should voluntarily refrain from reproducing further, bringing about the eventual extinction of Homo sapiens."  Asserting that "Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health", the group's motto is "May we live long and die out." 
7. Stéphane Dion, the Canadian environment minister,  told the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on October 4, 2005, "Climate change is a new phenomenon, a very worrying one, but a new phenomenon." 

Fashion warms to reality of climate change  by Rachel Wells  October 7, 2007   Leading international fashion designers and industry experts say unpredictable and typically warmer weather worldwide is wreaking havoc on the industry.  It is forcing fashion houses to ditch traditional seasonal collections for transeasonal garments that may lead to a drastic overhaul of fashion show schedules and retail delivery dates.  

Plasma TV ban?   at Sound and Image October 10, 2007  A government-commissioned document proposes mandatory energy requirements for TVs that are so aggressive that, if applied to 2006/7 TV models, would exclude all but a handful of plasma televisions from the Australian market.     

James Lovelock's plan to pump ocean water to stop climate change  by Roger Highfield, Science Editor   September 26, 2007  Lovelock, of Green College, Oxford University has a plan to save our world from extreme climate change by pumping cold water from the depths of the oceans.  They propose that vertical pipes some 10 meters across be placed in the ocean, such that wave motion would pump up cool water from 100-200 meters depth to the surface, moving nutrient-rich waters in the depths to mix with the relatively barren warm waters at the ocean surface. 

Some obligatory envirofascist quotes:  at Free Republic

1. The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
   --Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)

2. We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion--guilt-free at last!
   --Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).

3. Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.... Capitalism is destroying the earth.
   --Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

4. We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.... We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.
   --David Foreman, Earth First!

5. Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
   --Pentti Linkola

6. If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
   --Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22

7. The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
   --John Shuttleworth

8. What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
   --Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

9. I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
   --John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

10. Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.
    --John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

11. The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.
    --Economist editorial

12. We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
    --David Foreman, Earth First!

13. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
    --Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!

14. If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS
    --Earth First! Newsletter

15. Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
    --Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

16. To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.
    --Lamont Cole

17. The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.
    --Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

18. The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.
    --Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

19. The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.
    --Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)

20. I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
    --Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

21. In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
    --Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

22. Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity...in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
    --Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

23. This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.
    --Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

24. There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production--with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
    --Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

25. This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
    --Lowell Ponte in "The Cooling", 1976

26. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. ... This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.
    --Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970) 

Scientists unite to push Bush on climate  at Is It Getting Warmer  February 28, 2007  The Times - February 20, 2007 - It is the first time that the AAAS, which represents 262 societies and scientific academies, has published a statement of consensus on climate change.  The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society.  The pace of change and the evidence of harm have increased markedly over the last five years. The time to control greenhouse gas emissions is now.  The statement reflects growing frustration among US scientists with the White House’s reluctance to tackle climate change.  The AAAS said that concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, were higher than they had been for at least 650,000 years and that temperatures were heading to “levels not experienced for millions of years”.  The association said that the result of burning fossil fuels and deforestation was already being observed in the intensification of droughts, heat waves, floods, wildfires and severe storms. 

On the Run from Global Warming   at the Center for American Progress March 1, 2007   Sixty million people lived at elevations of three feet above sea level or less in 1995, and since then the coastal population has grown at twice the average rate of the global population. The predicted rise in sea level could displace all 60 million of these people, as well as the 215 million more people who live within 15 feet of sea level.

Floods, mudslides, droughts, coastal erosion, and other disasters linked to global warming will add millions more. Governments worldwide may need to cope with as many as 50 million displaced persons as early as 2010  

Basic Science at the Pew Center   The past decade was the hottest of the past 150 years and perhaps the past millennium. The hottest 22 years on record have occurred since 1980, and 2005 was the hottest on record.  ...   The growing scientific consensus is that this warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities including industrial processes, fossil fuel combustion, and changes in land use, such as deforestation. Projections of future warming suggest a global increase of 2.5ºF (1.4ºC) to 10.4ºF (5.8ºC) by 2100, with warming in the United States is expected to be even highter    

The denial industry  by David Roberts at  Grist Magazine September 19, 2006  When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.

Energy Policy Update   at Energy and Environmental News   October 9, 2007   Toronto, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Quebec province slapped the country's first carbon tax on energy firms on Monday, as Canadian business leaders urged "environmental taxation" to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions.   Link  Link 2

Analysis: U.N. calls climate debate 'over'   by William M Reilly May 10, 2007   Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's three new special envoys on climate change, also headed up the 1987 U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development where the concept of sustainable development was first floated.  "This discussion is behind us. It's over," she told reporters. "The diagnosis is clear, the science is unequivocal -- it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues."  

Geo-engineering to save planet   by Klaus Rohrich   December 27, 2006     Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, which calls for the annual injection of over a million tons of sulfur into earth's upper atmosphere over the next decade, which he claims will reverse the warming trend allegedly caused by so-called “greenhouse gases”.   "Our calculations using the best models available have shown that injecting 1 million tons of sulfur a year would cool down the climate so the greenhouse effect is wiped out," Crutzen is quoted in the Reuters story.  Crutzen believes this added layer of sulfates would reflect sunlight back into space, thus permanently reversing the current effects of global warming. A possible down side of Professor Crutzen's plan is a dramatic increase in acid rain, which the good doctor pooh-poohs by saying the amount he advocates injecting into the upper atmosphere is only a small percentage of what already exists at ground level.  

Eating less meat may slow climate change   by Maria Cheng at AP September 13, 2007    In a special energy and health series of the medical journal The Lancet, experts said people should eat fewer steaks and hamburgers. Reducing global red meat consumption by 10 percent, they said, would cut the gases emitted by cows, sheep and goats that contribute to global warming. 

The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth?  by Paul Watson  May 4, 2007  ,

1. We are presently living in what conservation biologists refer to as the Holocene extinction event. This is the sixth global mass extinction event in last 439 million years.  The previous five extinction events wiped out between 50 to 95 percent of species each time.
2. I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the “AIDS of the Earth.” I make no apologies for that statement.
3. Today, escalating human populations have vastly exceeded global carrying capacity and now produce massive quantities of solid, liquid, and gaseous waste. Biological diversity is being threatened by over-exploitation, toxic pollution, agricultural mono-culture, invasive species, competition, habitat destruction, urban sprawl, oceanic acidification, ozone depletion, global warming, and climate change. It’s a runaway train of ecological calamities.
4. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
5. Sea transportation should be by sail.
6. We need to remove and destroy all fences and barriers that bar wildlife from moving freely across the land. We need to lower populations of domestic housecats and dogs.
7. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. The Mennonites survive without cars and so can the rest of us.
8. Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans.  

So, where the term 'global warming' come from.......? We made it up!  by Bud Clydesdale  May 8, 2007   Paul Watson [co-founder of Greenpeace], in a moment of rare  when asked by a reporter what made Greenpeace so successful, he replied:   "It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.... You are what the media define you to be. Greenpeace became a myth and fund generating machine." ("Forbes", Nov. 1991

The Truth About Tuvalu   by Dr Vincent Gray  June 15, 2006    Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake at last month's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting where he announced Tuvalu, its neighbor Kiribati and the Maldives are planning legal action against Western nations that they say are creating the global warming that is rising the Pacific's level.

"Flooding is already coming right into the middle of the islands, destroying food crops and trees, which were there when I was born 60 years ago. These things are gone.  Somebody has taken them and global warming is the culprit," Talake said.

NTF, which has a network of tide gauges across the Pacific, says absolutely not so.  The Pacific shows no signs, anywhere, of rising.    

Climate Refugees The Human Toll of Global Warming  by Teresita Perez    December 7, 2006   A one-meter rise in sea level—a widely predicted consequence of global warming due to an increase in the average temperatures by 2.5 to 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 40-50 years—will, in turn, inundate three million hectares in Bangladesh, and displace another 15–20 million people.  ...   The inhabitants of the Carteret Islands were the first climate refugees forced to relocate due to sea level rise attributed to global warming. The Papua New Guinean government authorized a total evacuation of the islands in 2005—the evacuation is expected to be complete by 2007. Estimates show that by 2015 Carteret will be largely submerged and entirely uninhabitable.  

Senator Inhofe Speaks at CPAC on Global Warming   by Marc Morano  March 2, 2007 

1. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. blamed Hurricane Katrina on the Bush Administration’s failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. "As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2."
2. Barbra Streisand predicted dire Hurricanes for 2006: "This summer's back to back superstorms are proof positive we have entered a new period of global warming emergency… We are in a global warming emergency state, and that these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense… There could be more droughts, dust bowls."
3. Liberal Environmental activist Ross Gelbspan: "The Hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming." August 30, 2005- Boston Globe 
4. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio in October 2005: "We are the biggest contributor to global warming in the entire world, and if we don't make a difference, we don't change our ways, a lot of things will go terribly wrong. It is one of the single most important issues facing the entire world."

GREEN FUNERALS: Putting aside embalming and tombs  by John Richardson   October 28, 2007   Some believe that services at home and simple caskets gradually will change how society deals with death.  The home funeral is part of an emerging trend that some believe will change the way Americans deal with death. These funerals are called "green" funerals because they avoid preservative chemicals and steel and concrete tombs, all designed to keep a body from decomposing naturally.    

Bicycles & Bear Skins   by Investor's Business Daily   November 02, 2007    Last month we took note of a "Lights Out" event held in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Intended to raise awareness about man-made carbon dioxide emissions that supposedly contribute to global warming, "Lights Out" asked residents to turn off all nonessential lights off for an hour.  A similar event, called "Earth Hour," had been held in Sydney, Australia, with the result being a reduction of 25 tons of CO2, or the equivalent of taking 49,000 cars off the road for 60 minutes.  Although "Lights Out" lasted only a hour, the impression it made was intended to be permanent. As we said then, voluntary cooperation in such projects is the first step to compulsory participation, a way of inuring the public to government-enforced rationing. Another lifestyle-change campaign has since emerged in Great Britain. There, according to the London Independent, Environment Minister Joan Ruddock is asking Britons to do their part in "averting climate change" by swapping their "wasteful habits with food" by "buying less and eating leftovers."  

Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots  by Brent Baker | April 2, 2008   Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that  ...  We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -- like Somalia or Sudan -- and living conditions will be intolerable. 

Lifting the global warming gag order by Vin Suprynowicz Feb. 25, 2007   According to U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe's own Web site, she and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, sent a letter to ExxonMobil Chairman Rex Tillerson in October demanding the firm stop funding "a small cadre of scientists" who question global warming dogma, instead insisting the heavily regulated oil company "publicly acknowledge both the reality of climate change and the role of humans in causing or exacerbating it." 

ExxonMobil, whose executives presumably know where gasoline taxes and offshore oil leases come from, cut off its funding for the Competitive Enterprise Institute last year.

But when it comes to intimidating the opposition, the senators are pikers. The British foreign secretary "has said that skeptics should be treated like advocates of Islamic terror and denied access to the media," Doctors for Disaster Preparedness report in their January newsletter. George Monbiot wrote in England's "Guardian" that, "Every time someone drowns as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned."

Grist magazine has called for Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for those who deny the internal combustion engine is about to cause a global climate disaster. Heidi Cullen, host of the weekly global warming TV show "Climate Code," has called for the American Meteorological Society to strip its certification from any weatherman (or gal) who publicly questions anthropogenic global warming.

Meantime, European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas tells the BBC that people should view the battle against climate change as a war -- accepting the privations of a wartime economy and expecting millions of casualties.

And we were wondering why we only seem to hear one side of the story, these days? Isn't that kind of like asking why no one ever stood up in church in early 16th century Europe and started explaining how unlikely it was that these witches were really flying around at night, causing other people's cows to go dry?   

Any fat goose fretting over tax can boo this lot off course by Polly Townbee  at The Guardian   June 3, 2008   "Taxes designed to change behaviour are always unfair ... That's how it must be if you seriously want people to stop ...  gas guzzling. Inequality has to be fixed in other ways, through tax redistribution, fair pay or fuel-hardship handouts. High food prices too will need more tax redistribution to protect the poor. A serious green policy would fix energy prices at a guaranteed constant high to make everyone use less and to make green technologies economically enticing for investors - and make incomes fairer."   Link  Link 2

People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns.  The report... also says total food consumption should be reduced, especially "low nutritional value" treats such as alcohol, sweets and chocolates.