Global-warming PSA can cause tears, guilt, and unexpected phone calls to Mommy

Taking a page from the Bambi's-mother-getting-shot playbook of manipulative animation, advertising agency McCann commissioned a global-warming PSA for Portugal's nature and conservation association, Quercus. The spot features cute animals rendered with high-quality computer animation, all preparing to off themselves because of global warming. You might want to get out the hankie for this one:

Outsiders familiar with the proper workings of science have long known that modern Climate Science is dysfunctional. Now a prominent insider, MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions used Stalinist tactics to subvert, suborn and corrupt a whole branch of science, citing chapter and verse in his report entitled  "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?"  His answer:  A resounding "NO!"

Detailing the corruption, he names a series of names.  Until reading this I did not know that

"For example, the primary spokesman for the American Meteorological Society in Washington is Anthony Socci who is neither an elected official of the AMS nor a contributor to climate science. Rather, he is a former staffer for Al Gore." Page 5

I recently read an article over at the Duke Chronicle that discussed the link between global warming and hurricanes and, more importantly, the inability to link global warming and hurricanes.  The article says that Hurricane Ike reignited the debate of whether or not a link exists between hurricanes and climate change.  Having done my own study on the connection between tropical systems and temperature, I can tell you that I didn’t see any connection.  Activists, however, see things differently.  Al Gore recently tried to link the two, citing higher temperatures that cause more ocean water to evaporate, leading to stronger storms.

I’ve written many posts in the past that outlined the debate over hurricanes and global warming.  From insurance rates going up for those living along the coast because of global warming to genuine debates over the impact of climate change on tropical storms.  It comes as no surprise to skeptics of climate change that no one really knows whether or not hurricanes and global warming can be linked.  It’s a big guessing game as computer models just don’t possess the ability to model every single element of the atmosphere and derive accurate results.

Aged hippy and professional agitator David Suzuki was in Alberta yesterday.  He only goes to Alberta to shout at them for being successful; the province doggedly refuses to drink the AGW kool-aid and continues to enjoy booming economic times.

Suzuki would far rather Alberta decimate its economy by closing up the tar sands and clubbing its citizens into green submission with carbon taxes.

The worst part of Suzuki's latest rant was his rank hypocrisy over the green shift.  He said this of PM Harper's dismissal of the Liberal policy:

“You don’t dismiss a major proposal like the carbon tax and just say, ‘That’s crazy.’ What kind of discussion is that? At least it should be on the table so the public can begin to understand what it is.”

With the clock ticking down to what some are calling “Energy Freedom Day” — October 1, 2008, when the congressional bans on offshore oil drilling and onshore oil-shale development are set to expire — anti-drilling Democrats have backed down from a high-stakes stand-off that could have caused a government shutdown and will now result in the complete demise of the drilling bans. This is a stunning victory for grassroots activists over environmental special interests and business-as-usual in Washington. If not derailed, it also will be great news for all American consumers.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the pro-drilling victory transpired.

Senator Harry Reid

But the legislative process works in strange and mysterious ways sometimes, and final enactment is not assured before Congress adjourns in the coming days. House Democrats have reservations about the tax bill, saying they don’t want to add to the national debt, so the big bill may be in jeopardy.

If an agreement is not worked out on the tax bill, House members could extend the tax credits for wind and solar anyway in a separate bill, and then go back on the campaign trail and say they supported clean energy. But unless the Senate also breaks out the energy provisions in a separate bill, that would not be enough.

Wind energy might be the simplest renewable energy to understand. Yet there are misconceptions about what makes the wind industry turn.

The United States now has nearly 17,000 megawatts of wind power installed, which can supply about 1.2 percent of the nation's demand for electricity, according to a recent report from the Department of Energy (DOE).

With these numbers projected to grow in the coming years, it might be good to be aware of a few myths that are blowing in the wind.

1. Wind is cheap

No one owns the wind, so it might seem like wind energy should cost less than other technologies that require costly fuel, such as coal or natural gas, to operate.

With the “meltdown” on Wall Street, it looks like global warming is striking the financial markets.

Don’t laugh. It must have gone somewhere because it’s not doing as the left and the media had warned. Just a few months ago, supposedly responsible journalists were telling us that the Arctic could be ice free this summer because of the dreaded realties of warming.

There are 1.74 million reasons why that didn’t happen. That’s how many square miles of ice are still standing after Arctic ice hit its low point for the season.

On July 28, NBC’s Anne Thompson was the one on ice patrol. “But this summer, some scientists say that ice could retreat so dramatically that open water covers the North Pole, so much so that you could sail across it.”

If you’re a young person, I believe we’ve reached a point of civil disobedience.

—Al Gore, at the Sept. 24, 2008, Clinton Global Initiative, saying that we are at a point in our world's history where today's youth need to take coal plants down. Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize.