Archive for Category: "Global Warming & Environment"

July 21, 2011 05:49

Four Big Lies about “Carbon Pollution”

The slogan “carbon pollution” is political propaganda resting on four big lies.

July 18, 2011 06:41

Lights Out! Big Government’s Insidious Creep Inside Your Home

Dishwashers that don’t clean dishes, toilets that barely flush and showers that sprinkle—all are the result of government mandates that supposedly will save the environment. Now government is back with more mandates that essentially ban the incandescent light bulb and the next target of federal regulators could well be the television cable box.

July 15, 2011 07:39

More false hope – The Green Economy Withers

Even after fudging numbers and ignoring the huge subsidies, a liberal think tank reports that growth in the alternative-energy sector lags the rest of the economy. – IBD Editorials

July 12, 2011 06:29

Who Controls the Price of Oil?

“Liberals believe that supplies should be rationed through deliberate higher prices in order to protect the planet”

July 8, 2011 04:55

Outrage of the Year – Obama’s EPA Sending Grant Money to China

Sen. Inhofe points out the widespread corruption at the EPA in doling out grant money to left wing groups that then sue the EPA and win funds. In one case grants went to a lobbying group and have even gone to Thailand and China.

July 7, 2011 07:30

EPA Funds Green Groups That Sue The Agency To Expand

The EPA even tacitly encourages such suits, going so far as to pay for and promote a “Citizen’s Guide” that, among other things, explains how to sue the agency under “citizen suit” provisions in environmental laws. The guide’s author — the Environmental Law Institute — has received $9.9 million in EPA grants over the past decade. – IBD

July 6, 2011 04:20

British MEP: Climate change bills don’t do anything except raise costs

The less it does the more the greens want it. British MEP Daniel Hannan speaking in Parliament lays out why climate bills are useless and taxpayers should not have to foot the bill.

July 1, 2011 06:57

Progressivism Masquerading as Education

The battle for the nation’s soul is not going in in state houses across the country, nor is it occurring in Washington, D.C. or Hollywood. It is occurring in the thousands of public schools around the nation, where the bankrupt ideology of progressivism is being foisting on impressionable children, masquerading itself as education.

June 30, 2011 09:35

A Nutshell History of Climate-Change Hysteria

In the 1970s, besides Vietnam, society was sensitized to a worldwide cooling trend. In addition to cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and other popular magazines of the era, the cover of books like The Cooling by Lowell Ponte teased, “Has the next ice age already begun? Can we survive it?”

June 28, 2011 07:03

Supreme Court rules “no consensus” on warming

The justices of the United States Supreme Court [last] week became the world’s most august global warming skeptics.