[H/T to Gore Lied]  Network television and other media are using global warming to sell the news. I’ve been a television meteorologist for 29 years, and have been affiliated with CBS, ABC, NBC, and PBS. Over nearly three decades of weather forecasting on television, I have seen many changes. The least of these changes have been in the atmosphere. By far the greatest changes have been in the television industry itself.

The major television networks, newspapers, magazines, and other media are not in the truth business – they are in the news business. This is not to say they are in the lying business however, what they consider to be news and truth is blurred due to the need to produce a profit in a “climate” of shrinking revenues. There’s an old maxim in the business: “If it bleeds it leads.” If a story has blood and drama it will be the first one on the news. Global warming stories are now bleeding all over the headlines.

What I’m saying is this: all those stories you’ve seen about drowning polar bears, bigger hurricanes, more droughts, increased wildfires, and melting polar caps may not be true.

The liberal elite that continue to push the global warming myth on anyone who will listen, as I’ve explained in the past, are only out for for your money and control over your lives. 

Any possible technology that promises to solve the so-called cause of anthropogenic global warming, namely greenhouse gas emissions, are dismissed by the climate change alarmists even before they see the light of day. 

And as much as the alarmists blame big oil for a lack of real innovation in renewable energy, they too are just as dismissive and unable to accept alternatives to simply taxing the problem and requiring lifestyle changes to save the world.

The truly confusing paradox with global warming activists is their intent on saving humanity from the dire effects of climate change but maintaining their belief in evolution.  And it’s not so much the evolution myth of humans being a direct product of tree-swinging monkeys, but more so the adaptive elements of evolution.

West Greenland Warming: 1991-2004: How dramatic was it? ... and how unprecedented?

Winter Droughts of the Upper Rhine River Basin: How have they varied over the past four and a half centuries?

Winter Floods of the Vistula River: How have they varied over the past millennium?

Engineering Crops to Better Cope With Global Warming: Is it imminent reality? ... or is it merely wishful thinking?

We Live in a Complex World ... and so do Grasshoppers: How does the combination of anthropogenic-induced changes in three environmental factors influence the growth of grasshoppers?

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Obama surveying coal plant - If you build it, I will bankrupt you

A bipartisan coalition of business leaders is calling on Governors, state legislators and Members of Congress publicly express their opposition before tomorrow's election to proposals to "bankrupt" the U.S. coal industry and threaten to put out of work several hundred thousand Americans who work in coal-related industries.

The call was issued by the Western Business Roundtable following news reports that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama intends to make it so costly to build advanced clean coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration that it will "bankrupt" any company that tries to do so.

"We are calling upon Democrats, Republicans and Independents from coast to coast to publicly express their support for advanced clean coal power generation and to distance themselves from those who say that we should bankrupt the coal industry," said Britt Weygandt, Executive Director of the Western Business Roundtable. "A lot of Americans are going to be listening in the next 24 hours to see which elected leaders stand up for clean coal and which don't."

Coal plant in China

China has now destroyed Western hopes for a new global warming agreement, just weeks before global talks in Poland aimed at writing a successor for the Kyoto Protocol— which expires in 2012. China has attached a ransom not to its Polish meeting RSVP: They might go along with a new warming pact if the rich countries agree to hand over 1 percent of their GDP—about $300 billion per year—to finance the required non-fossil, higher-cost energy systems the West wants the developing countries to use.

Bad timing: The U.S. and Europe are trying to bail their financial systems out of Barney Frank’s Fanny Mae/Freddy Mac sub-prime mortgage adventure. “Climate change policies need a lot of money to be invested. However, developed countries have not made any substantive promises about how much they are going to spend on this,” said Gua Guangsheng, head of China’s Climate Change Office on Oct. 28. “And they did not fulfill some of the promises they made in the past very well either.”

T Boone Pickens has a simple business plan: convince the government to force Americans to buy his wind power and natural gas, so he can get rich.

Already in Texas, he benefits from a law that requires that Texans get 20% of the electricity from wind power—T Boone’s wind power. He even convinced the State to spend $5 billion in taxpayer money on transmission lines to deliver his wind power to consumers.

In California, he is spending millions on Prop 10, which would mandate that the Golden State use natural gas—T Boone’s natural gas—in public vehicles. If Prop 10 passes, the real windfall for T Boone would be the scores of millions that the State spends on a compressed natural gas (CNG) infrastructure (fuel trucks, fuel stations and the like), which could pave the way towards greater use of CNG—and greater profits for T Boone.

EVER since public computer networks burst onto the scene in the 1980’s, the subject of online content has been a controversial one, explained Mark Newton at e-journal On Line Opinion last week.   A few months ago, 30 July 2008, John Stewart on Australian ABC television’s Lateline described online blogs as one of the few places where the science of climate change is still debated.  Now, occasional blogger, Cohenite, has come up with the 10 worst climate blog posts on the basis, “they all represent a denial of not only the intrinsic transparency of the web but also the openness necessary for scientific debate and to this extent they reveal that at least part of this debate about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is not about science, but its suppression.”

Here goes, the ten worst, according to Cohenite:

I’m tying all of this together. Although William Ayers could have contributed to fellow travelers Maxine Waters, Ron Dellums, Barbara Lee and others, none of them ever met his test until Barack Obama on April 2, 2001. And for a guy he barely knew!

So, what was it about Obama? Well, the armchair shrink in me says it goes something like this: he hates these cans! Or, rather, he hates coal!

Ayers’ father was the CEO of coal-burning Commonwealth Edison, a utility headquartered in the (previously) coal state of Illinois. It is fair to say that Ayers’ youth was spent in, ah, rebellion against the horrors of his privileged upbringing.

As if to back up the many, many recent reports of the onset of global cooling from distinguished scientists around the world, Brazil, whose northern border touches the Equator and lies in the Southern Hemisphere where seasons are opposite of ours in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning that when we have warm temperature months the lower half of the earth is experiencing cold weather.  Equatorial countries rarely ever have weather cold enough to produce sleet and snow.  So Brazil experiencing these latter weather-produced phenomena is an almost positive sign that the ridiculous blusterings of Al Gore and his sycophants calling for measures to stop global warming are fallacious and unfounded in fact.

Here are the cold facts (pun intended) as reported by Newsmax.com; 9/14/2008, 10:00 a.m.; Snow and Near-Freezing Temperatures — in Brazil.

Alan Greenspan former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, a position touted as one of the most powerful unelected offices in the world, in a hearing before Rep. Henry Waxman’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said he got it wrong in answer to questions about his role in the recent financial meltdown. His extremely mobile face deadpanned that his economic models, which he had relied on for 40 years, were wrong.  He did not apologize; it was merely a statement of fact that portrayed no irrational exuberance.

He gave no hint of concern about the massive damage his reliance on the models had done.  Huge losses of money among those who exploited the situation his models allowed, garnered no sympathy. However, the dashing of hope at the bottom of the economic pyramid, the disaster of losing one’s home or job, the stress created by worrying about losing either, and a myriad other such stories in the US and across the world appeared to be dismissed with a wave of the academic and intellectual hand.