We’ve documented before how countries around the world are setting a break neck pace developing their own natural resources, while the United States, crippled by the environmental left, is failing to add energy production. Just this weekend, Jordan announced it was in talks with Royal Dutch Shell on an agreement to extract oil from the desert kingdom’s 40 billion ton oil shale reserves. Jordan’s Natural Resources Authority head Maher Hjazin told AFP, “If our plans succeed, it would be one of the country’s largest projects to help the Jordan become energy self-sufficient, with a possibility to export oil in the future.”

As impressive as Jordan’s oil shale deposit sounds, the U.S. has the world’s largest oil shale deposits. A recent RAND Corp. study estimates that there are 1.5 trillion to 1.8 trillion barrels worth of oil shale in Green River Formation, which goes through Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. That is three times the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.

I just learned that I am exterminating the orangutans. Wiping them off the face of the earth.

That’s right folks, the butter substitute (Smart Balance) that I dearly love is made from palm oil and is such a great product and so healthy for humans that it is causing the conversion of jungle land to productive palm crop land.

Is that horrible or what? That land conversion is, according to the eco-freaks, going to exterminate the orangutans in 10 years.

So by 2018, these “gentle creatures” (blah blah blah), who “share so much of our DNA” (blah blah blah), are all going to die.

Once again I must choose between my lifestyle and the survival of the endangered species du jour.

So far this week, I am killing off the orangutans by eating my butter substitute, I am killing off the polar bears by driving my truck, thereby causing global warming, and I am killing off all the fish in the ocean.

That global warming has continued to captivate the media, car companies, energy companies and so many more demonstrates how enormously brainwashed Americans are.

Still convinced that "the entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming," like Al Gore purported?

Please.

For starters, in November 2005, Swiss researchers from the journal Quaternary Science Reviews overtly stated, "Whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure." 

Today’s Boston Globe has an op-ed on climate “skeptics.” The author, Harvard’s John Holdren, writes:

THE FEW climate-change "skeptics" with any sort of scientific credentials continue to receive attention in the media out of all proportion to their numbers, their qualifications, or the merit of their arguments. And this muddying of the waters of public discourse is being magnified by the parroting of these arguments by a larger population of amateur skeptics with no scientific credentials at all.

. . . they have not come up with any plausible alternative culprit for the disruption of global climate that is being observed, for example, a culprit other than the greenhouse-gas buildups in the atmosphere that have been measured and tied beyond doubt to human activities.