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Bear in the balance

Back burner

**Written by Doug Powers Given Gore’s enormous level of eco-hypocrisy, it’s possible he’s only opposed because the proposed pipeline wouldn’t run straight to his mansions, limos and private jets. From The Hill: Former Vice President Al Gore called on President Obama late Wednesday to reject a pending permit application for a controversial pipeline project, calling [...]

**Written by Doug Powers During President Obama’s upcoming job speech, if you do a shot whenever you hear the words “invest in clean energy” you’ll be asleep before the teleprompter’s internal cooling fan kicks into action. Not that it was necessary, but here’s yet another reason to be extremely wary of that repeated green clarion [...]

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama promised to present America with his jobs plan after his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. That was in 2010. This year he said the exact same thing before his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard (an administration that’s gone into reruns after only two and a half years is officially out of [...]

“NOOOOO!”

Thinning the herd?

**Written by Doug Powers Over two months ago, Mitt Romney told a New Hampshire audience, “I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that.” Al Gore offered praise and polar bears rejoiced. At some point between that early June day and now, Romney had a scientific or political [...]

**Written by Doug Powers And you thought the global warming loveseat was crowded before… From NJ.com: In case anyone had any doubts on where Gov. Chris Christie stands on climate change, he made his position crystal clear this afternoon: It’s real and it’s a problem. In vetoing a bill (S2946) that would have required New [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On Saturday I wrote a little about an Al Gore diatribe from a conference in Aspen that was quoted in an article in the Colorado Independent. The partial transcript suggests that Gore is becoming even more frustrated than he was during the Great Dimpled Chad Hunt of 2000. If you missed [...]

“Bulls*#t!”

Is it that hot in here, or are they crazy?

**Written by Doug Powers Stand down, Green Helmets! From Forbes by way of Yahoo News: NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. [...]

Spirited debate?

**Written by Doug Powers Because the world isn’t paying attention generously enough, Al Gore is leaving behind the “Alliance for Climate Protection” and replacing it with the Climate Reality Project: Former Vice President Al Gore launched a new campaign Tuesday aimed at exposing the “full truth, scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis.” The [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Australia is debuting a carbon tax much like the one Al Gore has proposed for the United States. A few details: In Australia, the federal government launched plans for a $23 per tonne tax on carbon, which will affect the country’s 500 largest polluters commencing July 1, 2012. “By 2020 our [...]

“That’s like saying ‘we want a kajillion-bajillion dollars!’”

**Written by Doug Powers It only stands to reason that if the 4th of July is more of a Republican holiday, it must be inherently bad for the environment. I mean, that’s what Republicans are all about, right? Fortunately, an op-ed in the New York Times is there to help “green” our Independence Day feast: [...]

Feel the burn

Emission Accomplished

Let the shames begin!

**Written by Doug Powers Thomas Friedman had a column in Wednesday’s New York Times entitled “The Earth is Full.” In the column, Friedman called for people to work less and own less in order to save the planet. Bla bla bla. There’s a common thread among many of the people who demand that everybody else [...]

More artificial resuscitation for Al Gore’s dream

You’re gonna need a bigger couch

**Written by Doug Powers While you were being encouraged to trade in your gas guzzler and buy an expensive electric golf cart, the size of the government’s limo fleet was almost doubling: The number of limousines owned by the U.S. government increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Because designing an economy around the assumption that we’re all about to die from man-made global warming is working out so well for commerce in Spain, let’s keep the ball rolling in the United States: (CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, [...]

Then more hot air won’t help matters

**Written by Doug Powers One of President Obama’s 2012 slogans should be “Drill, maybe, drill.” Obama knows that merely a call for drilling isn’t actually drilling, so publicly he can sound as drill-happy as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (as he did early last year and is starting to again). As long as [...]

Point/Counterpoint

**Written by Doug Powers Melting glaciers? Eh. More hurricanes? Shrug. Collapsing bridges? Pfft. It’ll screw up your Internet access? Everybody panic! At least that’s the hope this time: Wi-fi internet access and other communications are at risk from global warming unless measures are taken to protect them from rising temperatures and stormier weather, a government [...]