If you do the crime, then you'll do the time. I'm busy saving the world!

Gore epitomizes what I suspect future generations will call “The Great Global Warming Hoax”, but in the meantime, he is able to generate the bogus science and anti-energy propaganda that is at the core of environmental ideology.

If it is possible, Great Britain is infected even worse with this idiocy. In early September, a jury hearing a case in which thousands of dollars of damage had been perpetrated against a coal-fired power station decided that the six people involved had a “lawful excuse” to vandalize the Kingsnorth power station in Kent because global warming posed an even greater threat and the plant was contributing to it.

Author Michael Crichton

“DDT is not a carcinogen…the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people…”

“Second hand smoke is not a health hazard and never was.” 

“The evidence for global warming is far weaker than its proponents would ever admit.”

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley replies to a True Believer in the Canadian Civil Service.

Dear Sir Humphrey -

The "Abundance of scientific statements" that you mention as justification of your belief in 'global warming' is no sound or logical basis for deciding or believing anything. The question is whether the scientific statements have any rational justification, and whether those making them are in effect making statements that are political rather than scientific, rent-seeking rather than objective. After all, this is the age of reason (or it was). Therefore, one should not accord to "scientists" the status of infallible high priests merely because they mumble a hieratic language with which one is unfamiliar. There is clear, compelling evidence that many of the major conclusions of the IPCC, your new religion's constantly-changing Holy Book, are based on evidence that has been fabricated. The "hockey stick" graph that purported to abolish the mediaeval warm period is just one example. So let me try to lure you away from feeble-minded, religious belief in the Church of "Global Warming" and back towards the use of the faculty of reason.

That white stuff you see is water vapor. CO2 is odorless, colorless, and invisible.

Power plant owners and speculators yesterday bid for the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO₂) as part of a new multistate government program designed to reduce global warming pollution. Interested parties during an online auction offered at least $1.86 per ton of CO₂ emitted; there were 12 million allowances (one per ton) to emit climate change–inducing CO₂ from power plants in eastern seaboard states from Maine to Maryland available in a market known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced "Reggie.")

"When your job can provide some social benefit it's exciting and it makes me proud. My kids are saying 'Dad, you've done something about global warming,'" says Phil Adams, president of Worcester, Mass.–based World Energy, Inc., the company that ran the auction. "RGGI is taking a historic step."

Why didn't Gore join the 14 protesters in Wise County, Va., blocking construction of a coal-fired plant? No runway landings for his private jet?

Here’s what he said, according to Reuters :

Mainlining oil will have serious consequences to your health

The reason is contained in the very text of the ad.  It opens with a child playing with building blocks, and says, “The solution to our climate crisis seems simple; repower America with wind and solar.”  (Emphasis mine)  “Seems” is a great word for Mr. Gore’s message.  It does seem quite simple to think that all we need to do is build more solar collectors and wind farms, and viola!  Energy independence!  That seems wonderfully simple.  And the “we/me” simply has to demand it, and it will be so.

I used Global Warming to create new taxes, and now I want more money for the big freeze. Ha ha!

Patrick met with members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation to discuss energy assistance and other issues. He also testified before a House panel on the need for heating aid in cold-weather states.

"What's at stake is the real possibility that many citizens in the colder regions of this country will be at risk of freezing to death without federal help," the governor told a hearing of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Patrick said uncertainty about how cold this winter will be makes it harder to predict how much fuel aid will be needed.

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The AP covers the new reports of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere:

The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists’ projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said Thursday.

The new numbers, called “scary” by some, were a surprise because scientists thought an economic downturn would slow energy use. Instead, carbon dioxide output jumped 3 percent from 2006 to 2007.

That’s an amount that exceeds the most dire outlook for emissions from burning coal and oil and related activities as projected by a Nobel Prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007.

As I drive through rural Orange County, I like to soak up the beauty and serenity of the dairy and beef cattle that graze the farmland's rolling hills. Now and then I pull over to relax and enjoy the view.

Imagine my shock at learning I've been admiring a way of life that some believe is killing the planet. That's the conclusion of the Livestock, Environment, and Development Initiative (LEAD), an organization supported by groups such as the World Bank, the European Union, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In its report, "Livestock's Long Shadow," LEAD concludes livestock farming and farmers are making a "very substantial contribution" to, among other things, climate change and air pollution. The report warns about estimates that over the next 40 years, global production of meat will double, and production of milk will increase substantially as well.

Environment: The solar wind is slowing, but Al Gore is still spewing hot air. The Oscar winner is promoting civil disobedience to stop energy and economic growth as the first U.S. emissions cap-and-trade program begins.

Speaking before Bill Clinton's Global Initiative, junk science advocate Gore called on young people to take the law into their own hands because the climate, he claims, is a-changin'. He told the gathering in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis" and the time for action is now.

"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore said to loud applause.

His comments come two weeks after a British jury acquitted six Greenpeace activists accused of causing property damage at a power plant. The jury felt the "protest" was acceptable because the "protesters" feared the plant would contribute to global warming.

This is a great video. Highly recommended viewing.

One of the subjects covered are the ideas of Julian Simon (one of our heroes), which Bjorn Lomborg enthusiastically agrees with and inspired him in his research which resulted in his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. For those unfamiliar with Simon, his grand idea was: