Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Little Green Morons
BY ALAN CARUBA Michael Brune, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, holds degrees in economics and finance from West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of “Coming Clean—Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal”, published in 2008 by the Sierra Club. Recently, Brune bragged that he and the board had turned [...]
Agenda-driven “science” at EPA
Newly proposed air pollution rules impose exorbitant costs for illusory health benefits BY WILLIE SOON AND PAUL DRIESSEN In December 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency released new Clean Air Act “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants.” Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge [...]
That Jobs Thing Sure Didn’t Last Long
Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now? BY PAUL DRIESSEN President Obama “is focused like a laser on putting people back to work,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) assured us last fall – echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who “can’t [...]
Climate Change a Political Not Scientific Battle, Says Study
ENVIRONMENT, NEWSROOM AMERICA National political leaders influence how much Americans worry about the threat of climate change rather than extreme weather events, new research has found. In a study of public opinion from 2002 to 2010, researchers found that public belief that climate change was a threat peaked in 2006-2007 when Democrats and [...]
Signing Global Warming’s Certificate of Death
By Alan Caruba The sixteen names of the scientists who jointly signed the article in The Wall Street Journal, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” on January 27th are mostly unknown to the general public. Perhaps the best known would be Harrison H. Schmidt, a former Apollo 17 astronaut and U.S. Senator. Others might recognize Burt [...]
Global Warming Approved by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
COURTS/ENVIRONMENT, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is dominated by Democratic-appointed judges, and many of its decisions have been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Ninth Circuit is even more liberal than the Obama Administration. A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel struck down a plan by the U.S. Fish & [...]
Green Energy Irony: Obama’s 22-Vehicle Fossil Fuel Motorcade
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Yesterday, President Barack Obama rolled through Las Vegas to push for federal investment in clean energy vehicles, making his pitch at a UPS plant, escorted by a motorcade of 22 fossil fuel-burning vehicles. We haven’t seen anything this ironic since Al Gore hopped on a private jet to promote his global [...]
Do Fish Have More Rights Than People?
LIBERTY ALERTS, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Is an obscure fish more important than California farmers who need water? The Ninth Circuit sided with the “delta smelt,” a fish lacking in any commercial value which typically grows to only 2 to 3 inches in length. Water is scarce in parts of California, but water distribution has been limited out of [...]
A Bad Year for Obama’s Green Dream
MIKE BROWNFIELD, MORNING BELL For President Barack Obama, 2011 began with a bang -- a bold pronouncement that his green dream for America would bring forth a jobs explosion and a new economy fueled by alternative energy, a vision he likened to President John F. Kennedy's "moon shot" in the 1960s. Much to Obama's chagrin, the year has ended in a [...]
Imaginary Benefits, Extensive Harm—Craig Rucker
EPA mercury rules for electricity generating units are based on false science and economics By Craig Rucker The Environmental Protection Agency clams its “final proposed” Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules will eliminate toxic pollution from electrical generating units, bring up to $140 billion in annual health benefits, [...]
Breaking News: Light Bulb Ban at Center of Budget Debate
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Our sources on Capitol Hill tell us that efforts to overturn the ban on the incandescent light bulb are among the final sticking points in the negotiations over the Omnibus Appropriations bill going on right now. Republicans are fighting to repeal the ban on lightbulbs. If you haven't already signed our [...]
Scandal and Insanity at Penn State, Durban and the IPCC
By Paul Driessen In a repeat of Copenhagen, on the eve of the Durban climate change gabfest, someone released another horde of emails from alarmist climate researchers, including Dr. Michael Mann, whose infamous “hockey stick” was headlined in the 2001 IPCC report to justify the Kyoto agreement and demands that nations slash fossil fuel use [...]
The Green Agenda is Green with Envy
Cathy Adams, Eagle Forum Special Report A legally binding cap on greenhouse gas emissions to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012, and approval of a Green Climate Fund, a global tax scheme on carbon emitted by international aviation and shipping, are the two major objectives at the United Nations Climate Change meeting in [...]
Eco-Absurdity
By Alan Caruba There are no lengths and no depths to which Greens—environmentalists—will not go to advance the greatest hoax of the modern era. It used to be called “global warming”, but when that was exposed as based on falsified computer models put out by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the term “climate change” [...]
Sign the Petition to Save Our Lightbulbs!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Time is running out to save the Edison light bulb! Unless Congress takes action to repeal the so-called "efficiency standards" enacted under a liberal Congress, as of January 1, 2012, it will be illegal to sell the 100-watt incandescent light bulb. Click here to sign the petition urging Congress to repeal the ban [...]
Green Pillage and Plunder
By Alan Caruba To understand what is behind all the talk, the legislation, the protests in support of “global warming”, now commonly called “climate change”, you have to understand the millions, if not billions, at stake for the liars who dreamed up this greatest hoax of the modern era. The basics: There is no dramatic warming of [...]
Electricity, Parks, and Progress for Chile
By Paul Driessen Apply CSR standards to Doug Tompkins for honesty, transparency and concern for people Progress improves lives. It brings better, cleaner, more energy efficient technology. It reduces poverty and improves working conditions, health, nutrition, living standards and social equity. It generates revenues to pay employees, [...]
Reject EPA Boiler MACT Mandates
Liberty Alerts, JBS.Org The Environmental Protection Agency’s onerous regulations are the bane of many economically important industries such as lumber, oil, energy, manufacturing, paper, and even agriculture. With the current anti-regulatory political climate, an opportunity exists to address the unaccountable EPA’s issuance of rules known [...]
High Costs of Green Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly We are now beginning to grasp the definition and the scope of the words New World Order, an expression inserted into the U.S. political vocabulary by the first President Bush. He never defined it, leaving that task to his successors, and Barack Obama is only too glad to expand its meaning. Before Bush I left the White [...]
It’s official, NOAA shows the “Gore Effect” hitting America tonight
By Anthony Watts, WhatsUpWithThat.com You know, sometimes coincidences are just too strange and funny to ignore. Here’s the low temperature forecast map from NOAA produced today, for overnight low temperatures during the time that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project gets into its full swing. It starts at 8PM EST/5PM PST. Chill baby, [...]
Play Methane Madness On Gore’s Climate Progaganda Day
PUT A CORK IN GLOBAL WARMING HOT AIR (AND FLATULENCE) Liberty Alerts, Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) “Put a cork in it, Al!” That’s the message students are sending Al Gore, radical climate campaigners and assorted other bohemians, grant-seekers and profiteers seeking to cash in on the manmade global warming disaster [...]
Affordable Energy Is Essential for Jobs, Justice, and Better Health
EPA needs to address health and welfare issues it has thus far ignored, say minority coalition By Niger Innis The Environmental Protection Agency insists that its recent air quality initiatives will protect minority and poor Americans from pollution that “disproportionately affects” their health and impairs “environmental justice.” [...]
Our Least Sustainable Energy Option
From a land use, economic, environmental or raw materials perspective, wind is unsustainable By Paul Driessen President Obama and a chorus of environmentalists, politicians, corporate executives and bureaucrats are perennially bullish on wind power as the bellwether of our “clean energy economy of the future.” In reality, wind energy [...]
Mars Attacks: Scientists Say Aliens May Destroy Mankind Over Global Warming
By Selwyn Duke Three years after the release of the remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, a team of American researchers has made the film’s theme a scientific theory: They are suggesting that an alien race might destroy man to stop our release of greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming. Writes Fox News: The thought-provoking [...]
The Great Renewable Energy Scam Continues
By Alan Caruba I recently received a news release from The Council of State Governments headlined “New Report: Renewable Energy Worth Investment for Southern States” that touted “job creation, environment and public health” as benefits. It was filled with lies. I had never heard of the CSG before, but a visit to its website was [...]
Climate Prostitutes, Charlatans, and Comedians
Their “research” would be hilarious if it didn’t cost taxpayers and consumers so dearly By Paul Driessen Put these guys on Comedy Central. Put ‘em in an asylum … a mandatory restitution program … jail perhaps … or a witness protection program, if they turn state’s evidence on other perpetrators. But keep them away from our [...]
Obama’s “Green Jobs” Pipe Dream
President Barack Obama has a problem on his hands when even his stalwart allies at The New York Times have no choice but to admit to a glaring reality: The President’s “green jobs” promise has failed miserably. On Friday, the Times printed a harsh assessment of the state of the “green” economy—including a conclusion that the [...]
Irate Gore Accuses Global Warming Skeptics of Spreading Bull
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his high-profile global warming advocacy, engaged in a obscenity-laced rant last week, angered over growing skepticism about his cause. “Some of the exact same people – by name, I can go down a list of their names – are involved in [...]
First Ignored, Then Attacked: 6th International Climate Change Conference
By Alan Caruba In the words of Gandhi, “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.” Thursday, June 30, will mark the beginning of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a free market policy center headquartered in Chicago. The conference will be held [...]
Romney Joins The Fraudulent Global Warming Chorus
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change. "I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall [...]
Green Schools and Environmental Literacy Praised by Obama
School Days, EducationNews.org Next Earth Day, the Obama administration will select 50 schools around the country to be named the Green Ribbon Schools, CNSNews reports. This is part of a new program announced this April that will honor schools that focus on sustainability and teach their students about the environment. Although the [...]
Volcano heats high-mountain lake to 108 degrees
Now imagine what a few thousand underwater volcanoes could do By Robert W. Felix Last month, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) announced that the water temperature in the main crater of Taal volcano in the Philippines had risen from 86.9 degrees Fahrenheit to 88.7 degrees Fahrenheit (30.5C to 31.5C), a sign [...]
Agenda 21 Comes to Greenville, SC
By Henry Lamb Greenville, South Carolina is a great city in a great state. The area across Caesar’s Head Mountain to Brevard, North Carolina is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people in South Carolina are hard-working, down-to-earth folks who appreciate their freedom, and their private property rights. Few of the folks [...]
United Nations Green Climate Fund Fundamentally Transforms the Global Economy
Liberty Alerts, Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum Mexico City, Mexico. The design of a new $100 billion a year Green Climate Fund (GCF) to "enable developing countries to address climate change" is a facet of last December's Cancun Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty signed by President George H.W. Bush [...]
Wolves Among Us
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 13 The history of the wolf is the stuff of legend. Portrayed both as vicious predator and today often romanticized as a kind of saint in fur. Nevertheless, the wolf is a primitive relative of the domestic dog. Having once owned a wolf hybrid named Thorn, I appreciate the wolf. However, they have no [...]
Scaring Mothers and All Others – The BPA File, Part Four
By Alan Caruba In a revealing article in the April issue of The Atlantic, “Beyond BPA: Could ‘BPA-Free’ Products Be Just as Unsafe?” the effort to scare American consumers and others around the world comes full circle. In essence, the people and organizations behind campaigns to ban bisphenol-A (BPA) and anything made from plastic exist [...]
[U.S. Congress] Rep. Poe: Florescent Light Mandate: Unsafe, UnAmerican
![[U.S. Congress] Rep. Poe: Florescent Light Mandate: Unsafe, UnAmerican](http://www.themoralliberal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mr-Smith-Goes-To-Washington-150x150.jpg "[U.S. Congress] Rep. Poe: Florescent Light Mandate: Unsafe, UnAmerican")
Mr. Smith Award, Honoring Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, by Steve Farrell The Moral Liberal's next Mr. Smith Award goes to Representative Ted Poe of Texas (R) (see video below) for his spirited, on target defense of the Constitution against the wacko anti-American, anti-free enterprise, pro-China, E.P.A., and its ban (2014) of Thomas Edison's great [...]
Agenda 21 is in Your Community
By Henry Lamb Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21, and then reads their local comprehensive land use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even heard [...]
Are Starlings Chirping ? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, One of the advantages to being observant is knowing the difference between imagination and reality. My ears no longer function as they did in my youth. When the room should be quiet I hear Starlings chirping, lots of them; a cacophony of sound which never leaves. I suppose others hearing a similar noise would suspect a fan belt [...]
Greenwashing America
By Alan Caruba Every time you see some product being sold as “Green”, allegedly safer or beneficial for the environment, you can be sure that it is more expensive than a comparable product that does the same thing without making this claim. Everything you eat, drink, wear or use begins as a “natural” product. It is absurd to think that [...]
Can Government Save Us From Manmade Disasters?
By James L. Payne Please, folks, can’t we have a little more sophistication about what it takes to prevent environmental disasters? The politicians seem to be stuck on the idea that more government is the solution, and many journalists echo the theme. In discussing the BP spill and several other manmade environmental disasters last summer, [...]
Grateful for Thick Gloves — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, This past weekend was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church, gave a talk on Sunday about gratitude . After reminding us of the lepers who’d been healed by the Lord, only one of whom expressed gratitude, President Monson continued: “My brothers and [...]
Global Warming Editorial Gets It Wrong
By Alan Caruba It’s rare to come across a newspaper editorial in which virtually every assertion is false, but is absurdly titled “Face Facts.” Since 1988 the movement behind the global warming fraud has labored long and hard to mislead the citizens of the world to believe what is surely the greatest "science" hoax ever [...]
Two Crazy Greens
By Alan Caruba For a few hours on Wednesday the nation’s attention was on James J. Lee who took hostages at the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Negotiations failed to sway him from his mission or free his hostages. Lee was a Green zealot and police were left with no alternative than to shoot Lee [...]
Carbon Dioxide Riches Disappear
By Alan Caruba The headlines report the way the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been lying and some, myself included, are calling for an end to this snakes’ nest of global deception. I keep waiting for some environmental group to announce that the Earth is running out of oxygen. It’s the kind of huge lie that [...]
Red Flag Warning EPA Ammunition Ban — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There is yet another assault on an individual’s God given right to bear arms; this one coming from of all places, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). First let me give a tip of the hat to Say Uncle and by extension the National Shooting Sports Foundation where I first learned of an underhanded attempt to ban traditional [...]
Big Green Lies Are Imploding
By Alan Caruba As World War Two wound down, in 1945 Italian partisans found Benito Mussolini and his girlfriend trying to flee to Switzerland. They shot both of them and then hung them by their heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan. He had led the National Fascist Party and had been the 40th prime minister from 1922 until being deposed, jailed, and [...]
Will Green Policies Bankrupt America?
By Phyllis Schlafly You may have heard that environmental policies are camouflage for raising taxes and seizing political power. Christopher Horner presents the research to prove this in his new book called Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. Horner provides a relentless series of facts that [...]
Major Newspapers Urge an End to Ethanol Subsidy
By Alan Caruba On Friday, July 23, the Chicago Tribune published an editorial titled “Enough Ethanol” and on Saturday, July 24, The Washington Post editorial said, “It’s time to end the excessive subsidies for corn ethanol.” On Monday, July 26, The Wall Street Journal joined the chorus. “The best refutation of the theory of the [...]
The Union of Concerned Propagandists
By Alan Caruba On July 11, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced that it had launched “a national advertising campaign as part of a broader effort to showcase the dedication and personal histories of scientists studying climate change.” I know quite a few climatologists and meteorologists and the ones I know have been [...]
