You might remember this post about how the ruling BC Liberal party awarded huge pay hikes to senior staffers, at a time when most people in the province are trying make ends meet under the weight of the new carbon tax.

A new Angus Reid poll suggests that voters in BC have noticed that they are getting royally screwed, and for the first time in a long time the Liberal's have lost their poll lead to the NDP.

According to the poll, 50% of BC residents opinion of Premier Campbell have worsened in the past two months.  You will remember that the carbon tax was introduced July 1st, about two months ago.  Coincidence?  I think not.  The poll also revealed that only 8% of voters in BC considered the environment the most important issue.  So much for pandering to the global warming hoax.

The groups representing the oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing industries say the rule discriminates against business activities in Alaska that might harm the bear, which was recently designated as a threatened species.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington by the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Mining Association and the American Iron and Steel Institute.

The groups want a judge to block government plans to review projects in Alaska that might harm the polar bear by contributing to global warming.

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Never mind petitions, Greenpeace wants PICTURES. The organization's asking community members to submit photos of dearly-loved things being threatened by global warming. Users are also invited to write a tear-jerking message explaining the photo. All photos and notes will be sent to the Representative for your district.

There were only a couple of submitted photos when I clicked on the link above, and at the time it seemed like it would be hilarious if a bunch of people got together and deluged the site with shots of their ice trays. Then I choked on some tea, and I'm over it now.

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I STAGGERED into my local hospital's emergency department last Thursday and found out just how sick the global warming alarmists really are.

Not a single bed to be had. Not there, or anywhere near, either, I was told.

No, I'm not saying the beds were all filled with people sick with "climate change delusion" -- described by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry as a condition that gives victims "visions of apocalyptic events", that leaves them too scared to drink a glass of water for fear "that, due to climate change, (their) own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people".

The people in the trolleys around me didn't have eyes bulging from fear or crazed lips cracked from dehydration.

They seemed just the usual emergency cases, plus a few extra old folk pole-axed by the wheezes and diseases they tend to get in winter.

The hospitals were always this full at this chill time of year, the nurses told me. It was the cold.

Cast from Scorched

This is the plot synopsis for the Nine Network's new tele-feature experiment called Scorched, which will screen nationally in prime time on Sunday night. Promoters have hailed the production a "major television event" with an all-star cast, fake news broadcasts from authentic Nine newsreaders and a comprehensive supporting website.

'It's armageddon'

"Mother nature is on the warpath. It's armageddon," the publicity kit modestly proclaims. Media previews have described the plot as "scarily plausible". Director Tony Tilse claims the idea of a city running out of water is "basically a true story, but it just hasn't happened yet".

The commercial [below], which aired in the D.C. and Baltimore markets in June (notably during the NBA playoffs)…was produced by Alexandria-based MRB Films. Senior Producer there Tracy Sacks says that before filming, OC Mayor Rick Meehan watched an STD-warning spot from the ’40s or ’50s (”Men: Be careful when you go out”…) so that he could strike the right tone. It also aired on radio, where it took on a War of the Worlds feel. 

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Inhofe, R-Okla., once predicted that McCain could not win the GOP nomination, reasoning that his background on some issues would not sit well with activist conservatives.

"If you remember, I was saying that he couldn't win a primary, that's how smart I was," Inhofe said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.

"I felt that way and I was shocked the way things rolled around," the Oklahoma senator said.

He quipped that his own candidate — former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson — "never woke up" during the GOP primaries.

Inhofe said he and McCain are friends, despite their differences, but McCain has three "very, very close friends" in the Senate and one of them is first-term Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

Gary Yohe

Gary Yohe claims that I misrepresent and deliberately distort his findings. Curiously, the only example he submits is one in which I quote him correctly.

While debating with Oliver Tickell in these pages, I referred to Yohe's paper. I said that "global warming will continue to be a net benefit until about 2070". Yohe finds that this is a "deliberate distortion of our conclusions". However, the paper he prepared for Copenhagen Consensus 2008 indeed shows that until about 2070, the net effect of climate change on global GDP is positive (see Figure 4.1, p25). It is – according to Yohe's own estimates – not until after 2070 that the net impact of climate change becomes negative. It is surprising that Yohe takes issue with my repetition of his own findings.

I know. I know. He is speaking Thursday night at the DNC. What I mean is, where are his troops? Where are the protestors to stop Man Made Global Warming? Where are the posters? They are not on the streets of Denver.

On my second day in Denver it occurred to me that something was missing. Finding something that is absent is just about as hard as proving a negative. I started looking for what wasn't there. Late on that second day it struck me: There were no signs of the coming apocalypse (MMGW style) in Denver. None, nichts, nada.

I sent Brett Olson, a retired Green Beret who has been my bodyguard and photographer here in Denver, out to get a picture, any picture, of someone, anyone, protesting the coming meltdown of the planet. He came back with this:

Which of these is the biggest threat today: anthropogenic (man-made) starvation, or anthropogenic global warming (AGW)?

Unfortunately it's the former, in large part because of the inflated fear-mongering promoted by leaders of the latter.

Global Warming believers pretend that there is no downside to implementing solutions to solve global warming. That we should do these things even if there is no warming.  But all actions have consequences, and unfortunately for the world's poor, the actions of the green movement already has a high body count.

I've heard believers say that unless we act now the climate will kill many millions sometime in the distant future.  But by investing in ethanol, rejecting genetically modified crops and strangling innovation with taxes we are condemning millions to die in the very near future.

I think we should forget Al's hoax and get back to trying to do the most basic things first, like feeding the world.

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