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Population control has always been behind the green agenda:
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.
The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: [...]

Inconvenient truth.

Hey, there, lonely girl.

Welcome to the era of “bipartisanship.” Republican participation be damned. Welcome to the most deliberative body in the world. Full deliberation be damned, too:
Six ranking Republican U.S. senators Monday warned the head of the environment committee that pushing ahead with a vote on a landmark climate bill this week would “severely damage” the chances of [...]

GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe meticulously deconstructs John Kerry’s eco-hysteria. Must-read here and must-watch:

Unfortunately, this is the naked state of the climate change “debate:”

Soon to be the new mascot of the Democrats’ cap-and-tax push, Disney’s Tinker Bell was tapped by the United Nations this week to serve as an “Honorary Ambassador of Green.”
This is not an Onion parody:
The United Nations Monday named Disney character Tinker Bell an “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help raise children’s environmental awareness.
The announcement [...]

“What is the truth?”

I hate to say “I told you so.”
But, well, I told you so.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has signed on to the Democrats’ massive green redistribution scheme masquerading as a planet-saving, national security-enhancing “energy independence” scheme.
Can John McCain and the rest of the Climate Change Republicans be far behind?
First, a quick trip down GOP eco-sellout memory [...]

I said it last month and it bears repeating: Beware the Climate Change Republicans.
Are you ready for the latest signs of capitulation by GOP global warming preacher Sen. John McCain and company?
1) Senate Dems opening to nuclear as a path to GOP support, 60 votes
Key Senate Democrats signaled yesterday they are willing to [...]

Via Marc Morano at Climate Depot comes word that Stanford University is trying to cover for one of its leading eco-extremists:
Stanford University has banned a skeptical documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider. After legal threats from Stanford University — apparently on behalf of [...]

Stanky.

Uggghh. I love my iPhone, iMac, and Macbook Pro, but I can’t stand the enviro-nitwittery of Apple management.
WaPo reports that Apple has withdrawn from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to cap-and-tax:
Apple is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the organization’s strident criticism of plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas [...]

Expensive eco-hysterics take to the Senate floor today. Democrat Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry are set to unveil their “climate change” plan this morning.
The Institute for Energy Research has posted the two advance drafts of the bill and provides helpful analysis.
Except, of course, for the parts where Boxer and Kerry have inserted numerous placeholders [...]

Left high and dry.

The Energy Secretary is going to take away your car keys or something if you keep acting like unruly “teenage kids” and oppose the cap-and-tax agenda.
Read the whole thing, and note this:
Asked if he expected a town-hall style pushback, Dr. Chu said he was optimistic the public would buy the administration’s arguments that energy efficiency [...]

Gird your loins, taxpayers and ratepayers.
Sen. Barbara Boxer is readying her cap-and-tax monstrosity, and she is hoping to soften opposition among Climate Change Republicans. E&E News reports on the latest maneuvering, via Matt Dempsey at the US Senate Cmte on Environment and Public Works:

The Senate climate debate has largely been in standby mode since June, [...]

I didn’t think GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Rep. Mark Kirk, who is running for Barack Obama’s Senate seat in Illinois, could be any lamer on the issue than he already was.
I was wrong.

Aw, Van Jones has a new fan club.
Via The Hill:
The Green Party invited President Barack Obama’s green-jobs czar to join their ranks, possibly as a future presidential candidate, after he stepped down last Sunday following controversial statements and activities…“Like the Greens, Van Jones sees green jobs and a healthy environment as interconnected pillars of a [...]

Since my days at the Seattle Times, I’ve tracked the increasingly destructive crimes of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front.
The left-wingers in the media who are so concerned with domestic terrorism conveniently omit the arsons, threats, sabotage, and violent campaigns waged by anarchic saviors of the planet.
Which is why you didn’t hear much [...]

“I got to know him really well.”

California authorities believe the wildfires ravaging southern California may have been caused by arson, not global warming.
In other words, it looks to be what Janet Napolitano calls a “man-made disaster.”
Not that fear-mongerers like Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez will care.
She’s never let past arson-related blazes stand in the way of a good eco-apocalypse claim.

Yes, it was inevitable:
Rep. Linda Sanchez, the Democratic congresswoman from California’s 39th Congressional District, appeared on MSNBC’s Sept. 1 “Andrea Mitchell Reports” and did just that. She told the show’s fill-in host Tamron Hall that these wildfires have increased in “magnitude” over the years. And she knew why.
“Yeah, it’s really interesting because I’m a native [...]

Take a look at a new print ad produced by DDB Brazil for the World Wildlife Fund (click for full-size):

The appalling tagline states: “The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”
Translation: Forget about those puny jihadists. The planet is the real terrorist threat.
According to AdFreak, [...]

Your daily dose of Democrat alarmism just got delivered to my email box from Democrats.com and the League of Conservation Voters.
Sarah Palin-bashing? Check.
Rush Limbaugh-bashing? Check.
Ironic Newt Gingrich-demonizing? Check.
Ironic Big Oil-bashing? Check.
Politics of fear? What politics of fear? Ohhhh, yeah, that politics of fear:
Dear Friend,
We’re about to face the most important global warming vote in years [...]

According David Letterman’s website, wackjob science czar Dr. John Holdren is scheduled to appear Wednesday night, September 2.
Holdren has been a guest on Letterman before. He visited in April 2008 to ply global warming scare propaganda.
Not a peep from Letterman about Holdren’s spectacularly wrong predictions and irresponsible alarmism.
And we certainly won’t expect a peep from [...]

War on watchdogs.

Sean Paige explains how Obama’s environmental bureaucrats are exploiting Endangered Species Act listings to destroy jobs, drive up energy costs and thwart progress.
Scary.

Yes, it’s true.
Barack Obama has chipped in $2 billion in loans to exploit offshore oil resources in hopes of extracting a major new source of petroleum…in South America.
And yes, it’s true.
There is a Soros link.
Ed Morrissey has a round-up and notes:
Is it a coincidence that Obama backer George Soros repositioned himself in Petrobras to get [...]

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