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		<title>Government-Mandated Hysteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop panicking over Ebola. Start panicking over Global Warming.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cdc1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243876" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cdc1-450x251.jpg" alt="cdc" width="238" height="133" /></a>The media starts hysterical panics the way that Burger King makes burgers, but now it’s bemoaning “hysteria” and “panic” over Ebola. It’s silly for Americans to be worried about a lethal virus that has killed thousands, the self-proclaimed experts insist. It’s time to get over our irrational Ebolaphobic fear of a deadly epidemic.</p>
<p>Being concerned about Ebola is almost as silly as the other target of the media’s lectures about “hysteria” and “panic”… Islamic terrorism. Ebolaphobia and Islamophobia are the real threats.</p>
<p>Both Ebola and Jihad are transnational crises that can be stopped at the airport. That’s why the media swarm is breeding articles shrieking that you can’t stop Ebola from coming to America by preventing people with Ebola from coming to America. They tell us that it has to be stopped in Africa at the source.</p>
<p>Considering that Africa has hundreds of millions of Malaria cases, accounts for around half the cholera cases in the world and has seen the return of the Bubonic Plague; it’s safe to say that no disease can be stopped at the source in Africa. The White House claims that we shouldn’t protect America if we can’t save Africa. If we follow that transnational logic, how long until we’re starving ourselves to feed Africa?</p>
<p>It’s leftwing hysteria that is the major problem when it comes to Ebola. Instead of having a rational conversation about a travel ban, we’re forced to cope with shrieking leftists insisting that it can’t possibly work because it wouldn’t be perfect and therefore we shouldn’t do it at all.</p>
<p>And, they insist hysterically, we’re being hysterical by even worrying about Ebola.</p>
<p>The same diseased logic dictates their opposition to the War on Terror. We can either prevent Muslims from being radicalized or fight terrorism, they insist. If we fight terrorism, we’ll radicalize Muslims. The only thing to do is to stop fighting terrorism and hope that Muslims stop killing us.</p>
<p>If we fight Muslim terrorism, terrorism wins. If we quarantine Ebola, Ebola wins.</p>
<p>Today we’re getting lectured on how many more people die of the flu in America than of Ebola. After 9/11 we were told incessantly how many more people died in car accidents than in the World Trade Center. Both of these statistics have as much relevance as telling a drowning man that more people die in skiing accidents. But the panicking leftwing media can’t stop the distractions for even a minute.</p>
<p>Why should Americans be worried when their government waves ISIS Jihadists and Ebola patients through the airport? You have to be a hysterically panicking nut to be concerned about two deadly phenomena that have already killed thousands of people within recent memory entering the country.</p>
<p>The same talking heads shaking their heads over those wacky Americans worried that they’ll die just because the man sitting in the seat next to them is vomiting Ebola into a paper bag or reading the bloodiest parts of the Koran while adjusting a wire that leads to his shoe, are not immune to panic.</p>
<p>Throw something serious at them like Global Warming or Gamergate, the Redskins, Voter ID or children praying in school and they will hysterically panic so hard that the chyrons scrolling under their sweating faces will turn red. Forget silly old Ebola, somewhere a high school still has an Indian mascot. Terrorism? Don’t make me laugh. Not when a 5-year-old is biting his pop tart into the shape of an assault rifle. MSNBC spent more time on Christie’s bridge than on Ebola because he scares them more than Ebola.</p>
<p>Americans and Canadians concerned about Ebola or Jihad are accused of hysterically panicking, but that’s just because they’re not engaging in the approved government mandated forms of hysteria.</p>
<p>It’s silly to be worried about a deadly infectious disease. The sensible thing to do is dress up in a polar bear costume and stagger around in the People’s Climate March which claims that the Statue of Liberty will be underwater if we don’t all pay higher taxes in tribute to the Flying Global Warming Monster.</p>
<p>It’s ridiculous to panic over terrorism. The right thing to do is panic over a warming trend that statistically doesn’t actually exist while trying to ban everything from shopping bags to cars.</p>
<p>When Al Gore said that the North Pole’s ice cap would disappear by 2013, after claiming the year before that it might disappear in 2014, no one accused him of panic or hysteria. The media mocks televangelists who wrongly predict the end of the world, but doesn’t point the same smarmy smile at Warmists who keep getting the date when their Global Warming Monster is supposed to devour us all wrong.</p>
<p>You won’t find “Climate Change” and “Hysteria” in the same paragraph in the media because hysterics who are hysterically panicking over something silly never think that they’re the ones who need a good slap and a sizable dose of pills. They just wish everyone would stop wasting time worrying about planes flying into buildings, put on a costume and march with them while screaming that the sky is falling.</p>
<p>Unfortunately those same lunatics are not only running the media, they’re also running the country.</p>
<p>Instead of fighting Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were focusing on Global Warming with a “Climate-Ready-States” program. None of this insane gibberish about tropical cyclones and rising seas accompanied by a picture of lightning striking the ocean had anything to do with infectious diseases.</p>
<p>It was government mandated hysteria.</p>
<p>The National Institutes of Health was also neglecting Ebola while focusing on the health effects of Global Warming. Meanwhile an Ebola vaccine was sitting on the shelf because it wasn’t nearly as exciting as preparing for an imaginary apocalypse.</p>
<p>The CDC had even found the time to roll out a Zombie preparedness site. It just couldn’t find the time to warn hospitals that there should be no skin contact with an Ebola patient. But Ebola isn’t nearly as interesting as zombies. It’s much less interesting than the Global Warming Monster.</p>
<p>You can’t expect a leftist government run by former campaign staffers with the attention span of fruit flies to care about a problem that only appeared in a Dustin Hoffman movie in 1995 back when they were in diapers. Not when there are so many new imaginary problems to lose their minds over.</p>
<p>Ideologues make good screamers and bad leaders. The media-government complex is dominated by ideologues whose only skill is telling crazy lies to paper over the gap between reality and ideology.</p>
<p>Leftists have already chosen Global Warming as their crisis because it serves their larger agenda of controlling every aspect of human behavior. Aside from claiming that Ebola and Islamic terrorism are caused by the Global Warming Monster, they refuse to address them in any meaningful way.</p>
<p>Ebola and Islamic terrorism are isolationist crises that can be defended against by closing our borders. And that’s exactly what the left does not want. Their preferred crises are transnational crises that require Americans to accept some part in a global infrastructure for an unworkable holistic solution.</p>
<p>When leftists are forced to address Ebola or Jihad, they do so through the transnational framework, exposing Americans to more risk while handing over more American rights and revenues to a global infrastructure. Anything other than the sacrifice of sovereignty, they deem hysteria and panic.</p>
<p>Government mandated hysteria occurs in the service of collectivist crises that require us to give up our freedom and autonomy. These are the crises that the media will blare through its billion screens. Real problems are deflated, their critics are ridiculed and the body count is blamed on someone else.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t public hysteria; it’s hysterical governments and their panicking propaganda operations that call their own people hysterics for noticing how badly their leaders have screwed up.</p>
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		<title>Kerry: Global Warming World&#8217;s &#8216;Most Fearsome&#8217; Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of Ebola and ISIS, the Obama administration reveals its real priorities. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n1-402x350.jpg" alt="132156075_21n" width="291" height="253" /></a>Speaking at the Wind Technology Testing Center in Boston Massachusetts on October 9<sup>th</sup>, the windsurfer and windbag-in-chief himself, Secretary of State John Kerry, pronounced that climate change, if left unaddressed, will result in the end of times: “Life as you know it on Earth ends,” Kerry said. Last February, Kerry claimed that climate change was the world’s &#8220;most fearsome&#8221; weapon of mass destruction. Not nuclear arms in the hands of the terrorist sponsoring regime of Iran or in the hands of ISIS or al Qaeda. Climate change is the real number #1 national security threat, according to Kerry.</p>
<p>Perhaps Kerry should take his head out of the clouds and take a hard look at the stark reality on earth that we are facing today. Think Ebola and global jihad for starts.</p>
<p>The World Health Organization called the Ebola outbreak &#8220;the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.&#8221; The Ebola epidemic has already killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in the West Africa. But the Ebola virus has spread to other parts of the world, including the United States. A Liberian man who had traveled to the U.S. has already died of Ebola in a Texas hospital. Now we learn that a nurse who treated him at the hospital is infected herself with the virus.</p>
<p>As usual, the Obama administration is scrambling to deal with the crisis by holding lots of meetings and taking half-hearted measures. It has refused to heed calls by an increasing number of people, including a leading epidemiologist, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/06/epidemiologist-stop-the-flights-now/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">David Dausey</span></a>, who works on controlling pandemics and said that we must do “whatever it takes to keep infected people from coming here.” This should include an immediate ban on travel from the countries with the largest rates of infection to the United States. A majority of Americans agree, according to an NBC News online survey. Instead, the Obama administration is more worried about such bans being seen as racist and disrupting the economies of the affected countries in West Africa than protecting the American people and easing their fears.</p>
<p>“We don&#8217;t want to isolate parts of the world,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, earlier this month. John Kerry said that “we need borders to remain open,” while calling as usual for multilateral action by African nations to deal with the crisis. They are wrong. Except for vital medical supplies transported on military aircraft to help stem the further spread of the disease in West Africa, the borders should be closed. The breeding ground in West Africa for Ebola must be fully isolated lest the deadly disease turn into a global pandemic. To paraphrase John Kerry, an unchecked Ebola contagion will bring an end to many lives including possibly in the United States &#8211; a lot sooner than climate change.</p>
<p>ISIS is on the outskirts of Baghdad. It is also on the verge of capturing the key city of Kobani near the Turkish border. While apoplectic and apocalyptic all at the same time about climate change, Kerry sees the jihadist conquests as just part of the “ups” and “downs” there are “in any kind of conflict.” He has talked about so-called &#8220;climate refugees.&#8221; However, despite the threat of imminent ISIS conquest of Kobani and the flood of real refugees attempting to escape slaughter at the hands of the jihadists in Syria, Kerry said that the U.S. has other strategic objectives. “As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,” he remarked. Exactly what that strategic objective is, neither Kerry nor President Obama have been able to clearly explain.</p>
<p>Last month at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Kerry told reporters that the U.S. was getting all that it needed in the way of support from Turkey. But that was not true. Turkey has been dragging its feet ever since Kerry made that remark. Only in just the last several days has Turkey finally agreed to allow the use of its bases by coalition forces fighting against ISIS. Turkey still is preventing Kurds living in Turkey from joining their besieged Kurdish colleagues in Syria to save Kobani. And although Turkey is the NATO member most directly threatened on its border by ISIS, its Islamist government has not been willing to date to contribute any of its own ground troops to fight ISIS and prevent an invasion across its border. If Turkey is invaded by ISIS, will it expect the U.S. and other NATO members to come to its aid with air and ground combat forces under the collective security provisions of the NATO treaty?  What good is Turkey as a member of NATO and purported “ally” of the United States anyway so long as it is led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who shares ISIS’s supremacist Islamist ideology, if not its methods, and has his own caliphate ambitions?</p>
<p>As for what is happening in Iraq – a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of the country in 2011 against the advice of military and policy advisers – Kerry said that it is up to the Iraqis to deal with what Kerry himself acknowledged was “an existential threat” to their country. U.S. airstrikes remain too little too late. And military supplies for the Kurds in Iraq to use in serving as the boots in the ground against ISIS in Iraq continue to be supplied through Baghdad rather than directly to the Kurds themselves.</p>
<p>During this past week’s international donor conference in Cairo concerning Gaza reconstruction, Kerry said casually that “There will be ups and there will be downs over the next days as there are in any kind of conflict.” But the conflict with ISIS is not just “any kind of conflict.” And ISIS and its jihadist cohorts are no ordinary combatants with local territorial, political or economic grievances. They are the carriers of the global ideology of Islamic supremacism that threatens, again to paraphrase Kerry, to end life as we know it in a civilized world.</p>
<p>Next to the immediate threats posed by Ebola and global jihad, climate change pales by comparison.</p>
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		<title>Was the Koran Caused by Global Warming?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covering up Islamic terrorism for fun and profit.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bookofdeath.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242101" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bookofdeath.jpg" alt="bookofdeath" width="302" height="242" /></a>If the weather is too hot or too cold, if there is a natural disaster, if a plane crashes, if crime increases, if crime decreases, if the Ebola virus rampages across of Africa or stays home to read a good book instead, if the price of coffee goes up or if a war breaks out… it will eventually be connected to Global Warming</p>
<p>Even the rise of ISIS has been blamed not on the Koran, but on Global Warming.</p>
<p>Meanwhile a Muslim terrorist can blow himself up at Ground Zero on September 11 while screaming, “I am doing this because I am a Muslim and I hate you all” and those same experts will tell us that it had nothing to do with Islam, but it was caused by the impact of Global Warming on the molecules of his brain.</p>
<p>It’s all a matter of how you connect the dots.</p>
<p>Democrats think that Global Warming is a bigger threat to America than Al Qaeda. That’s the profitable notion that Al Gore has been selling for some time. When ISIS began making headlines, lefty publications scurried to explain how ISIS had been caused by Global Warming. If you can’t get rid of ISIS, you can always promise to make it go away with another few billion for Bay Area Green Tech liberal donors.</p>
<p>That’s why Homeland Security is focusing on Global Warming. Why bother with Islam when the root cause of Islamic terrorism turns out to be neither Islam nor terrorism, but your failure to buy recycled toilet paper and pay much higher prices for energy. Instead of droning ISIS, we will drone on about sustainable sustainability and how eagles would rather be killed by wind turbines than by oil spills.</p>
<p>Ideas are roads to conclusion and conclusions lead to policies. If you want to control the policy, you have to control where the roads go. The media narratives are roads. If you take them, you can never reach the right conclusions because they just don’t go there. The media’s map of America has highways going from climate change to marriage equality to death panels. The policies we end up with are based on that map and the policies determine where all the money and the power end up.</p>
<p>If Islamic terrorism is a major threat then the money will go to defense contractors and security consultants, to building more drones and bombs. That means guys named Earl and Amos who wear sunglasses and have a background in the Agency and the Mossad are suddenly in demand. Transguys named Meaghan and Tad who wear retro eyeglasses ironically and did their thesis on using non-linear histrionic narratives to educate inner city children about climate change suddenly have to get real jobs.</p>
<p>But if Global Warming is a major threat, then money goes to environmental consultancies and non-profits, to propaganda for education and the arts, to Green Tech companies and Wall Street. And the consultants, bureaucrats and regulators gain a vast suite of expanded domestic and international powers. Meaghan and Tad are back and running every aspect of your life through their gigs at some non-profit you never heard of funded by a family foundation with Ford or Rockefeller in its name.</p>
<p>The War on Terror expanded the powers of domestic law enforcement, but it’s nothing compared to what the War for the Environment has done to the power of every bureaucrat large and small to raise your heating bill, outlaw your washing machine, eliminate your water supply and root through your trash. If you thought the TSA was bad, the carbon regime puts a carbon footprint value on everything you do from driving to the grocery store to buying a beer to viewing this website.</p>
<p>And then it decides which of your behaviors have to be changed and how.</p>
<p>Global Warming and the War on Terror empower different parts of the government and the assorted consultants and contractors who plug into them. Those people not only have political differences, but also major cultural differences. It’s no wonder that the media, whose writers, producers and talent are culturally a lot closer to Meaghan and Tad than to Earl and Amos, favors their narrative.</p>
<p>The Warmist side of government is also the more liberal side. The side that bombs ISIS doesn’t even understand why anyone would stand on line for two hours to buy fair trade artisanal pancakes.</p>
<p>A shift to the terror side of the dial means restrictions on immigration, more strong male role models and more domestic oil drilling. Tilt to the Warmist side and the emphasis is on letting Meaghan and Tad decide what you can buy, where you can live and whether you can live.</p>
<p>However only one of these crises is real and it isn’t the one that involves the planet burning up, the polar bears riding surfboards to San Francisco and Al Gore revealing that he was sent as a messenger from a distant alien civilization to convince us to change our ways. But that has never mattered before.</p>
<p>The left has a long history of diverting attention from real problems by inventing urgent crises. Liberals rarely go two decades without declaring a major crisis in education. They were doing it throughout the twentieth century with invariably disastrous results. Common Core is only their latest effort at imposing a reviled educational reform plan funded by corporate giants and opposed by parents and teachers.</p>
<p>Liberals did their best to divert attention from the Cold War with a poverty crisis. The Cold War was won, while the War on Poverty made a lot of sociologists very rich and enabled the transformation of the country without actually ever being won. That war has morphed into the obesity crisis, the equality crisis and a dozen other smaller crises which all add up to power and wealth tilting to the left.</p>
<p>Then there was the crisis of the uninsured which couldn’t wait to be solved until someone in Congress actually read the bill meant to solve the problem or until anyone at HHS learned how to write code. It still isn’t solved, but ObamaCare has driven a lot of money and power to all the right parts of Maryland.</p>
<p>The Global Warming crisis is only the latest incarnation of a range of environmental alarmism about everything from a coming ice age to worldwide famines. Eventually another term and another threat will replace Climate Change, but schoolchildren will still be coloring in posters crying out, “Save the Planet.”</p>
<p>These crises divert attention from a real crisis that would weaken the power base of the left while inflating an imaginary crisis that will put cash and power in their pockets. The left accused the right of inventing foreign enemies to justify wars of profit. But Communism and Islam were and are real threats. It’s the left that invents phony threats and fights phony wars for money and power.</p>
<p>We aren’t being allowed to recognize the threat of Islamic terrorism because the left wouldn’t profit from it. At least not until someone finally proves that the Koran was caused by Global Warming.</p>
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		<title>A President&#8217;s Global Warming Treaty Tyranny</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitting the U.S. to the international community's will -- without the consent of Congress. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Politics_1114_Obama_ClimateChange_480x360.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239682" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Politics_1114_Obama_ClimateChange_480x360-450x337.jpg" alt="Politics_1114_Obama_ClimateChange_480x360" width="312" height="234" /></a>In yet another demonstration of contempt for the Constitution, President Obama and his administration are pursuing what the <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/us/politics/obama-pursuing-climate-accord-in-lieu-of-treaty.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">characterizes</span></a> as a &#8220;sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions” &#8212; absent any input from Congress.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Constitution requires a two-thirds majority approval by the Senate to ratify any legally binding treaty. The Obama administration plans to sidestep that requirement by calling the agreement a “politically binding” deal that would substitute for an actual treaty. It would consist of voluntary pledges, combined with obligations from a 1992 U.N. treaty known as the <a href="https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?&amp;src=TREATY&amp;mtdsg_no=XXVII~7&amp;chapter=27&amp;Temp=mtdsg3&amp;lang=en"><span style="color: #1255cc;">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Control</span></a>. That 22-year-old agreement was reached at the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The U.S. Senate <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=j57VaLBSGogC&amp;pg=PA58&amp;lpg=PA58&amp;dq=climate+change+treaty+1992,+Senate+ratification&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=I3UtYpHb3n&amp;sig=5YqN6K8eGpJTNZ_tEyG202v7vfM&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=l_r9U4DJHtTmoAS574GwBA&amp;ved=0CE4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&amp;q=climate%20change%20treaty%201992,%20Senate%20ratification&amp;f=false"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ratified</span></a> the agreement on October 7, 1992, and President Bush Sr. signed it six days later, making it legally binding.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Obama administration contends that simply adding the additional voluntary pledges to the agreement obviates the need for another ratification process. “There’s some legal and political magic to this,” said Jake Schmidt, an expert in global climate negotiations with the <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Natural Resources Defense Council</span></a>, a leftist advocacy group. “They’re trying to move this as far as possible without having to reach the 67-vote threshold.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not magic. Just another attempt by the Obama administration to kick Congress to the curb in pursuit of an agenda that has absolutely no chance of getting majority approval in Congress, much less a two-thirds vote of approval in the Senate. In 1997, the Kyoto climate control treaty was rocketed into oblivion with a 96-0 bipartisan vote. Another effort was undertaken in Copenhagen in 2009, but once again the attempt to forge a legally binding agreement failed. Obama attended that conference, hoping to put America in alignment with the global community, but he did so with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/weekinreview/13broder.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">no support</span></a> whatsoever from Republicans, along with opposition from several Democrats representing states that rely heavily on coal power for energy and jobs. Democrats made it clear they wouldn’t accept any treaty or agreement threatening that status quo. In 2010, “cap and trade” legislation <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/henninger-obamas-troublesome-congress-1404342045"><span style="color: #1255cc;">failed</span></a> in the Senate for the same reason.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Obama administration is undeterred by such inconvenient realities. In June, once again absent any input from Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <a href="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/dem-senator-epa-will-come-for-natural-gas-next.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">proposed</span></a> regulations aimed at cutting existing greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants 30 percent by 2030. The move has <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-epa-lawsuit-20140805-story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">engendered</span></a> lawsuits in the in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia from at least a dozen coal-reliant states. It has also engendered a <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/209186-heitkamp-to-gas-industry-when-coal-is-dead-they-will-come-for-you"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warning</span></a> from North Dakota Democrat Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, whose state relies on coal-generated electricity for a whopping 80 percent of its power needs. &#8220;When that is done, and the stake is through the heart of coal, they will come for you next,” Heitkamp told representatives from the natural gas industry. She also added a dose of reality to the mix. &#8220;In my lifetime we will not transition away from coal,” she contended.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That remains to be seen, given the Obama administration’s penchant for “transitioning” away from the rule of law. Yet even this patchwork quilt of an agreement will suffer the same affliction that bedevils many of the administration’s efforts, as in a disconnect from geopolitical reality. The premise behind this pact is to “name and shame” countries who do not meet their reduction requirements. Thus the administration is relying on the idea that “embarrassed” nations will fall back in line, regardless of the economic consequences for doing so.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s not going to happen. As the <i>Washington Times</i> correctly <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/26/obama-seeks-bypass-congress-un-climate-change-deal/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a>, &#8220;China and India, each with more than a billion people and swathes of horrific poverty of a sort not seen in the West, have been particularly outspoken in their refusal to agree to any mandatory carbon-emission cuts, which would limit their development and prosperity.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In addition, the poorer nations of the world are also unlikely to abide by any agreement that does not bind richer nations to a massive wealth transfer aimed at assisting their development of dams and levees to guard against coastal flooding from rising seas, or provide food aid during droughts that are invariably attributed to global warming.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Global warming itself has been subjected to a series of “readjustments” in recent years. In 2009, there was the “Climategate” scandal in which the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit was found to have <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/18555-global-warming-hoax-unraveling-someone-tell-obama"><span style="color: #1255cc;">suppressed</span></a> data contradicting their assessment of global warming. Last year, a series of leaked emails revealed that scientists working on a U.N. climate change report were <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/20/warming-lull-since-18-haunts-climate-change-authors/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">struggling</span></a> to explain why global warming has decreased over the last 15 years, even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. That same year, a paper asserting that there was a 97-percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming<b> </b>was revealed to have been <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/30/global-warming-alarmists-caught-doctoring-97-percent-consensus-claims/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">doctored</span></a> by warming alarmists and their media allies. In June, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) quietly <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/30/noaa-quietly-reinstates-july-1936-as-the-hottest-month-on-record/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reinstated</span></a> data showing July 1936 as the hottest month on record, after insisting in 2012 that July of that year was the &#8220;all-time warmest month on record for the nation in a period of record that dates back to 1895.” And last week in Australia, scientists with the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) were <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/australian-met-office-accused-of-manipulating-temperature-records/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> of manipulating data to create an artificial warming trend, using a process called “homogenization” that ostensibly corrects anomalies in raw temperature data. The BOM insisted that it was “very unlikely” that such homogenization affected overall outlooks.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Countering such realities requires a certain level of hysteria. The so-called paper of record was more than up to the task. &#8220;The strategy comes as scientists warn that the earth is already experiencing the first signs of human-caused global warming — more severe drought and stronger wildfires, rising sea levels and more devastating storms — and the United Nations heads toward what many say is the body’s last chance to avert more catastrophic results in the coming century,” the <i>New York Times</i> reports.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A U.N. report to be released in early November is equally dire, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/science/earth/greenhouse-gas-emissions-are-growing-and-growing-more-dangerous-draft-of-un-report-says.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">noting</span></a> that the world is on the cusp of “irreversible change” due to global warming.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hence the “last chance” efforts continue. Last year, dozens of countries <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/191264-climate-negotiators-strike-last-minute-deal"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reached</span></a> a deal in Warsaw that allow them to make “contributions” to reducing global warming, as opposed to “commitments&#8221; for doing so. Thus countries like China and India won more lenient guidelines for reducing emissions than desired by the United States and Europe. This deal was seen as a springboard for the upcoming one, to be hammered out next year in Paris, following a December meeting in Lima, Peru to draft the agreement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Republicans have little use for a pact that ignores the rule of law and tramples the concept of national sovereignty in the process. “Unfortunately, this would be just another of many examples of the Obama administration’s tendency to abide by laws that it likes and to disregard laws it doesn’t like&#8211;and to ignore the elected representatives of the people when they don’t agree,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in a statement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When there’s a planet to save—and an American economy to ruin in the process—such “banal&#8221; considerations must be cast aside. Obama and his administration are determined to fulfill his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?Source=GovD&amp;v=CNSZ62xiD4M"><span style="color: #1255cc;">promise</span></a> of “skyrocketing” electricity prices, along with his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4"><span style="color: #1255cc;">one</span></a> to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” Delivering the nation into the clutches of UN bureaucrats, while kicking Congress and the Constitution to the curb, is the latest effort to fulfill that agenda. It won’t be the last.</p>
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		<title>Obama Plotting to Bypass Senate with Global Warming Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Congress stand up for working Americans?]]></description>
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<p>Accountability? The rule of law? The Constitution? Those are for lesser men.</p>
<p>If Obama feels like bombing a country, he bombs it. If he feels like creating a massive border crisis with illegal alien amnesty, he does it. And if he feels like signing on to a treaty, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/197796-imperial-president-to-try-and-bypass-congress-to-enact-u-n-climate-change-rules/">he just ignores the Senate</a>.</p>
<p>Warmunism is more important than the rule of law.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wasn&#8217;t it nice when we had three branches of government? Also we had a Constitution and some sort of mechanism for removing power-mad tyrants from power. I believe it sounded something like &#8220;impeachment.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.</p>
<p>To sidestep that requirement, President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal that would “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions&#8230;</p>
<p>“There’s a strong understanding of the difficulties of the U.S. situation, and a willingness to work with the U.S. to get out of this impasse,” said Laurence Tubiana, the French ambassador for climate change to the United Nations. “There is an implicit understanding that this not require ratification by the Senate.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It figures that it would be the French. They&#8217;ve always liked kings and emperors.</p>
<blockquote><p>American negotiators are instead homing in on a hybrid agreement — a proposal to blend legally binding conditions from an existing 1992 treaty with new voluntary pledges. The mix would create a deal that would update the treaty, and thus, negotiators say, not require a new vote of ratification.</p>
<p>Countries would be legally required to enact domestic climate change policies — but would voluntarily pledge to specific levels of emissions cuts and to channel money to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change. Countries might then be legally obligated to report their progress toward meeting those pledges at meetings held to identify those nations that did not meet their cuts.</p>
<p>“There’s some legal and political magic to this,” said Jake Schmidt, an expert in global climate negotiations with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group. “They’re trying to move this as far as possible without having to reach the 67-vote threshold” in the Senate.</p>
<p>In seeking to go around Congress to push his international climate change agenda, Mr. Obama is echoing his domestic climate strategy. In June, he bypassed Congress and used his executive authority to order a far-reaching regulation forcing American coal-fired power plants to curb their carbon emissions. That regulation, which would not be final until next year, already faces legal challenges, including a lawsuit filed on behalf of a dozen states.</p>
<p>The Obama administration’s international climate strategy is likely to infuriate Republican lawmakers who already say the president is abusing his executive authority by pushing through major policies without congressional approval.</p></blockquote>
<p>The question is will Congress stand up for working Americans, for jobs and the Constitution or will it let Obama&#8217;s Green billionaire backers steamroll this through?</p>
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		<title>Global Warmists Use More Energy Than Warming Skeptics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmentalism has always been the real class warfare ]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/193167-study-people-who-say-they-worry-about-global-warming-use-the-most-electricity/">study mentions age, but not income</a>. I <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/10965887/People-who-claim-to-worry-about-climate-change-use-more-electricity.html">suspect this is in part a class issue</a> with wealthy leftists once again not practicing what they preach.</p>
<p>Think about Al Gore jetting around the world.</p>
<blockquote><p>People who claim to worry about climate change use more electricity than those who do not, a Government study has found.</p>
<p>Those who say they are concerned about the prospect of climate change consume more energy than those who say it is “too far into the future to worry about,” the study commissioned by the Department for Energy and Climate Change found&#8230;</p>
<p>The findings will strengthen the case of those who argue that more coercive methods are needed if people’s energy consumption is to be reduced.</p></blockquote>
<p>Coercive is always the endgame and coercive hits the poor harder than the wealthy left.</p>
<p>Environmentalism has always been the real class warfare denying affordable food, products and jobs to the working and middle classes while shoving money into the pockets of Green Tycoons and environmental consultants.</p>
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		<title>Apollo Astronaut Says Global Warming Alarmists are Committing Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 16:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It's the biggest fraud in the field of science, certainly in my lifetime."]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/apollo-astronaut-climate-alarmism-biggest-fraud-field-science">Once upon time we reached for the stars</a>. Now we have no more space program, thanks to Obama, but we have recycling programs everywhere while grants are given to any scientist willing to claim that the sky is falling.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important sometimes to look back and consider what the environmentalists have taken away from us with their massive ecoscam.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since about 2000, I looked farther and farther into it,&#8221; Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham said. &#8220;I found that not one of the claims that the alarmists were making out there had any bearings, whatsoever. And, so, it was kind of a no-brainer to come to the conclusion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cunningham rejects the notion of man-made climate, not only as fact &#8211; but also as even qualifying as an actual &#8220;theory&#8221;:</p>
<p>&#8220;In the media, it was being called a theory. Obviously, they didn&#8217;t know what it means to be a theory.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If we go back to the warmist hypothesis &#8211; not a theory, but, a hypothesis &#8211; they&#8217;ve been saying from the very beginning that carbon dioxide levels are abnormally high, that higher levels of carbon dioxide are bad for humans, and they thought warmer temperatures are bad for our world, and they thought we were able to override natural forces to control the earth&#8217;s temperature. So, as I&#8217;ve looked into those, that&#8217;s the problem that I&#8217;ve found, because I didn&#8217;t find any of those to be correct &#8211; and, they certainly were not a theory, it was just their guess at what they wanted to see in the data they were looking at.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cunningham urges Americans to look at the data and decide for themselves, instead of taking anyone else&#8217;s word for it:</p>
<p>&#8220;You go out and take a look at it and you find out that a lot of it is pure nonsense and wishful thinking on the part of the alarmists who are looking for more and more money to fall into their hands.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If you go back and you look at the data that has been well-documented over the years, you can look and see, for example, that right now both carbon dioxide and temperature are simultaneously at one of the lowest levels in at least the last 600-800 million years. The last time they were both together at this low a level, more or less, was 300 million years ago, and if you go back go back about 500-600 million years ago, carbon dioxide was 15 times higher than what it is now. So, what I&#8217;m getting at is this, the history shows you that most of this is just plain nonsensical today.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;To me, it&#8217;s almost laughable, it&#8217;s the biggest fraud in the field of science, certainly in my lifetime, maybe the biggest one in centuries.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s certainly the most ambitious.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: The Fake Crisis of Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: #8f8f8f;"><p>I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p>It’s time to take an hysterical and panicky look at fake global warming.  Fake global warming is one of the most serious fake problems not actually facing our nation today.  According to smarmy billionaire Al Gore, we must take useless and expensive actions immediately or the polar ice caps will be completely melted by two thousand and thirteen&#8230; which will be catastrophic when last year arrives.</p>
<p>And the polar bears — oh, the polar bears!  Studies reveal that over the last twenty years, as computer models of the climate have progressively damaged computer models of their habitat, the polar bear population has steadily increased.  But that’s only in real life! In the computer models, the poor creatures are dropping like flies.</p>
<p>Let’s examine the distorted facts. Between the years 1950 and 2000, the earth’s temperature increased approximately nine tenths of a degree Centigrade. Over the exact same period, the price of butter in Morris County New Jersey rose from 77 cents a pound to nearly four dollars.  According to climate change logic, this means that if we give government the power to lower the price of butter in Morris County, the temperature should once again sink back to the levels of the 1950’s.  And weren’t the 50‘s a fine old time!  Who wouldn’t want those temperatures back again?</p>
<p>I realize there are some superstitious troglodytes who don’t believe in science.  They insist we have to go on powering our country with oil and gas instead of using sustainable energy from the holy Vitraya Ramunong tree from that great, great movie Avatar.  We’ve explained to them that 97 percent of scientists believe in global warming, but it means nothing to them, even though the number 97 percent has been scientifically selected as the most panic-inducing random number available.</p>
<p>But fake global warming is not just a fake problem for a computer generated future. Even as we speak, it’s creating a pervasive and irritating whining noise that sounds almost exactly like the President of the United States. This must be stopped.</p>
<p>I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Environmentalist Attack on America</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The devastating consequences of the president's unilateral enactment of cap-and-trade. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/obama-speaking-angry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226849" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/obama-speaking-angry-443x350.jpg" alt="obama-speaking-angry" width="294" height="232" /></a>Apparently the reality that America’s economic output <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/05/29/u-s-gdp-dropped-1-in-the-first-quarter-2014-down-from-first-estimate/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">declined</span></a> by 1 percent in the first quarter, retail and home sales are <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-30/has-next-recession-already-begun-americas-middle-class"><span style="color: #1255cc;">plummeting</span></a>, and a record-setting <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/1-8-american-men-between-ages-25-54-are-not-working_793938.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">1 in 8</span></a> (or 10 million) American men in their prime working years between ages 25–54 aren&#8217;t working or looking for work will be no impediment for a president determined to impose a radical environmentalist agenda on the nation. On Monday, the Obama administration <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/02/obama-to-announce-rule-to-limit-emissions-from-fossil-burning-plants-part-his/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">announced</span></a> the first-of-their-kind national limits on carbon emissions from the nation’s more than 600 coal-fired power plants. The proposed regulation, implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will demand a 30 percent cut in emissions by 2030.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At a Feb. 11, 2014 hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations related to the status of clean coal programs, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/Hearings/OI/20140211/HHRG-113-IF02-MState-M001151-20140211.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">spelled out</span></a> the real-world consequences of such a plan, explaining that Americans could expect an increase in electricity costs ranging from 40 percent at a coal gasification facility, to as much as 80 percent at a pulverized coal power plant, according to the Department of Energy’s own documentation. The reliably leftist <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/politics/epa-to-seek-30-percent-cut-in-carbon-emissions.html?emc=edit_na_20140601&amp;nlid=62431058&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">illuminates</span></a> the implications, noting that the regulations could lead to the closing of “hundreds” of such facilities.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unsurprisingly, the effort completely bypasses Congress, undoubtedly because it would be as DOA as it was when the Democratically-controlled legislative branch <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-25/cap-and-trade-failure-aided-u-s-to-cut-carbon-emissions.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">failed</span></a> to pass such cap-and-trade legislation in 2010. Thus our constitutionally-comtemptuous president has rendered members of Congress superfluous, even as the EPA becomes their de facto replacement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The administration offers a degree of flexibility in achieving these goals. They include allowing states to reduce emissions by installing solar, wind or other energy-efficiency technology, and by creating or joining cap-and-trade programs at the state or regional level that allow such entities to cap emissions, and then buy and sell permits that allow plants to continue to emit greenhouse gases—as long as they pay a suitable fee for doing so. That fee that will inevitably be passed down to consumers. Yet in keeping with the administration’s imperialist impulses, if such state- or regionally-imposed rules do not satisfy the EPA’s guidelines the agency will act unilaterally to <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/01/Obama-to-Slam-Power-Plants-With-More-Stifling-Regulations"><span style="color: #1255cc;">force</span></a> such entities into compliance.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those affected are planning to sue. “Clearly, it is designed to materially damage the ability of conventional energy sources to provide reliable and affordable power, which in turn can inflict serious damage on everything from household budgets to industrial jobs,” said Scott Segal, a lawyer with Bracewell &amp; Giuliani, a firm representing coal companies in anticipated litigation. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt also plans to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/29/ag-epas-cap-and-trade-scheme-would-violate-the-clean-air-act/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">challenge</span></a> the regulations in court. “The Clean Air Act clearly sets out a role for EPA to suggest guidelines, while granting states authority to develop and implement specific proposals to achieve the goals of the Clean Air Act,” he told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Should the EPA’s proposed regulation force states to adopt a ‘cap and trade’ scheme or any other specific proposal, it would violate the law and likely be challenged in court.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Such challenges, as well as litigation anticipated by other industry groups and other states such as West Virginia, North Dakota, Alaska and Texas <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/epas-approach-on-carbon-limits-to-spark-court-challenges-1401406854"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revolve</span></a> around the EPA’s use of a little-used section of the Clean Air Act to create its new regulations. The implementation of section 111 (d) of the Act is necessitated by the reality that carbon dioxide isn&#8217;t regulated under major Clean Air Act programs that address air pollutants. The EPA claims it has used that section to previously regulate five sources of air pollutants, but none of those approach the magnitude of their attempt to regulate carbon dioxide.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> explains, the relatively rare instances in which section 111 (d) has been invoked, creates the &#8220;unusual circumstance in which potential challengers to the carbon rules would be litigating largely on a blank slate against the EPA,” thus testing &#8220;how far a president can go in using the long-standing air-pollution law to try to address climate change.” The paper further notes that such a blank slate accrues to the EPA’s advantage, because courts generally give deference to administrative agencies, provided they are not imposing regulations in an &#8220;arbitrary and capricious manner.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Moreover, the courts have an already-established track record of siding with the EPA. Recent decisions include the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that allowed the EPA to curb power-plant emissions blowing across state lines, while appeals courts have upheld the right of the EPA to regulate mercury emissions from power plants, rules on auto emissions, and the agency’s 2009 contention that CO2 and other greenhouse gases posed a threat to public health. Washington environmental lawyer Sean Donahue spelled out the implications. &#8220;There&#8217;s more room to make legal arguments because the courts haven&#8217;t specified what the statute means and doesn&#8217;t mean, but it also leaves more room for the agency&#8217;s judgment,” he explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a judgement completely aligned with global warming alarmism, irrespective of two realities. First, even if one buys the notion of global warming, the key word is “global.” According to the International Energy Agency, by 2012 the United States had cut CO2 emissions <a href="http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/news/2012/may/name,27216,en.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">more than</span></a> any nation on earth since 2006, due in large part to the already occurring shift from coal to gas in the nation’s power sector. The world&#8217;s leading polluter is now China, which <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/obamas-carbon-curbs-nullified-by-expanding-china-india-20140602-zrumd.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">emitted</span></a> 9.0 billion tons in 2012, compared to only 5.3 billion metric tons released by the U.S. By 2020 that total is expected to top 11.5 billion metric tons, while we remain flat, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Moreover, China and India will be constructing three-quarters of the 1,200 coal-fired plants being proposed globally, according to the World Resources Institute in Washington. As Robert Stavins, director of Harvard University&#8217;s Environmental Economics Program explained to Bloomberg News, even if America reduced its carbon emissions to <i>zero</i>, &#8220;global emissions would continue to increase. So, the direct impacts of the new power plant rules on atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations will be small.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The reasons for the increases are blindingly obvious: underdeveloped nations wish to raise their standard of living, and no amount of hectoring by the nation with one of the highest standard of living on the planet is likely to alter those ambitions in any substantial way. Nonetheless the administration remains tethered to the notion that cutting emissions will give American climate change negotiators a stronger hand at the United Nations General Assembly next fall, when governments engage in the attempt to hammer out a worldwide treaty by 2015. “I fully expect action by the United States to spur others in taking concrete action,” said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, such &#8220;concrete action&#8221; by the United States will do serious damage to an already damaged economy. &#8220;The administration has set out to kill coal and its 800,000 jobs,&#8221; Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) <a href="http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/epa-seeks-cuts-in-power-plant-carbon-emissions/26281348"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> in the GOP weekly address Saturday. &#8220;If it succeeds in death by regulation, we&#8217;ll all be paying a lot more money for electricity &#8212; if we can get it.” The Chamber of Commerce <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/press-release/energy-institute-report-finds-potential-new-epa-carbon-regulations-will-damage-us"><span style="color: #1255cc;">contends</span></a> the new regulations will cost the economy $50 billion per year, and the loss of 3.5 million jobs over 15 years, while the National Center for Public Policy Research asserts that they will &#8220;disproportionately hurt lower income people and minorities.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The EPA counters that the cost will be “only&#8221; $8.8 billion annually in 2030, but &#8220;will lead to climate and health benefits worth an estimated $55 billion to $93 billion per year in 2030.” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/politics/epa-carbon-emissions/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">dismissed</span></a> the jobs losses as a &#8220;doomsday scenario,&#8221; and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy claimed the nation will need &#8220;thousands of American workers in construction, transmission and more to make cleaner power a reality.” President Obama asserted that carbon-dioxide emissions—which humans exhale with every breath&#8211;are a national health crisis. “We don’t have to choose between the health of our economy and the health of our children,” Obama said in his weekly address Saturday. “As president and as a parent, I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">So who’s right? As always, progressives ignore real world evidence that doesn’t accrue to their agenda. In Spain 2.2 jobs were <a href="http://www.aei.org/outlook/energy-and-the-environment/the-myth-of-green-energy-jobs-the-european-experience/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">destroyed</span></a> for every green job created. In Italy, the capital needed to create one green job could create five in the general economy. In Denmark, the commitment to wind power generated the highest electricity rates in the EU. And in Germany, the green energy job creation myth is currently <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/germanys-green-jobs-miracle-collapses/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">collapsing</span></a>, as seven-out-of-ten green jobs will be lost without continuing government subsidies. Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, acknowledged inconvenient reality. &#8220;A few years ago the renewable sector was the job miracle in Germany, now nothing is left of all of that,” he conceded.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nothing is a relative term, and the real agenda here may be a familiar one: the Obama administration’s desire to have government determine the nation’s “winners” and “losers” by executive fiat. &#8220;Given the facts, we must consider the possibility that this is not about global warming at all but is instead simply another tax, and a relatively large one, that will be used to underwrite favors for Democratic interest groups while creating corporate subsidies for politically connected businesses — namely, those liberal financiers who have large financial positions in so-called clean-energy technologies and stand to make a hefty profit from government mandates for renewables,” <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379293/epa-super-legislature-editors"><span style="color: #1255cc;">writes</span></a> the editors of the National Review. &#8220;Come for the feel-good greenwashing, stay for the corporate welfare.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The EPA plan is slated to go into effect in June 2016, following a one-year comment period—and a likely plethora of lawsuits. In the meantime, Americans already beset by the weakest recovery since the Great Depression can anticipate what they will shortly endure as the result of what the <i>Times</i> characterizes as Obama&#8217;s &#8220;legacy-making global deal.” <i>America’s</i> legacy, which now <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/business/the-middle-class-is-steadily-eroding-just-ask-the-business-world.html?hp&amp;_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">includes</span></a> the reality that the middle class may be headed for <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/28-signs-that-the-middle-class-is-heading-toward-extinction"><span style="color: #1255cc;">extinction</span></a>, is somehow lost in the mix. For progressives, destroying the economy is a small price to pay for “saving the planet.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>72% of Adulterers Blame Actions on Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>It&#8217;s a 96% consensus of 72% of adulterers who blame Global Warming. If you were wondering whether there is anything in the world that can&#8217;t be blamed on Global Warming, the answer is no there isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Global Warming is the deity of a secular left that is forever angry at the world and responsible for everything. If there&#8217;s a flood or forest fires, if it&#8217;s hot or it&#8217;s cold, if crime is rising or falling,<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/28/climate-craziness-of-the-week-another-one-for-the-list-global-warming-makes-couples-cheat/"> if there&#8217;s a civil war in Syria or adultery in Berkeley.</a>..</p>
<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s all Global Warming&#8217;s fault.</p>
<blockquote><p>Victoria Milan, a dating website for people looking to cheat on their significant other, surveyed 5,000 of its members, both men and women. A shocking 72% of them responded that yes, their own Al Gore-esque stress about unpredictable weather is the cause of their extra-marital dalliances. Guess the fact of their existing committed relationships was just an inconvenient truth.</p></blockquote>
<p>A few centuries ago they would have said the devil made them do it. Now it&#8217;s the Global Warming devil that made them do it.</p>
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		<title>97% Consensus: Scientists Admit Guessing Size of Polar Bear Population</title>
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<p>Science isn&#8217;t magic. It&#8217;s not the product of a higher power <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=237658">or some absolute truth machine</a>. It&#8217;s trained professionals who occasionally put the data together correctly, but sometimes are responding to various pressures, from the financial to the political.</p>
<p>Researchers are people. They&#8217;re better qualified to put together a picture of what is going on in their particular neck of the woods. It doesn&#8217;t mean that they always get it right. Like everyone else, sometimes <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/30/scientists-admit-polar-bear-numbers-were-made-up-to-satisfy-public-demand/">they&#8217;re just giving their bosses what they want.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Researchers with the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) recently admitted to experienced zoologist and polar bear specialist Susan Crockford that the estimate given for the total number of polar bars in the Arctic was “simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand.”</p>
<p>Crockford has been critical of official polar bear population estimates because they fail to include five large subpopulations of polar bears. Due to the uncertainty of the populations in these areas, PBSG did not include them in their official estimate — but the polar bear group did include other subpopulation estimates.</p>
<p>PBSG has for years said that global polar bear populations were between 20,000 and 25,000, but these estimates are likely much lower than how many polar bears are actually living in the world.</p>
<p>“As part of past status reports, the PBSG has traditionally estimated a range for the total number of polar bears in the circumpolar Arctic,” PBSG says in its proposed footnote. “Since 2005, this range has been 20-25,000. It is important to realize that this range never has been an estimate of total abundance in a scientific sense, but simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand.”</p>
<p>“It is also important to note that even though we have scientifically valid estimates for a majority of the subpopulations, some are dated,” PBSG continues. “Furthermore, there are no abundance estimates for the Arctic Basin, East Greenland, and the Russian subpopulations.”</p></blockquote>
<p>All this is a complicated way of saying that there is no true assessment of the current number of polar bears and that any discussion about population numbers is more pseudoscience than science.</p>
<p>Now the number of polar bears is a lot easier to quantify than some of the claims that Global Warmists make. If we can&#8217;t get a good read on the number of polar bears, how good is our understanding of the overall climate?</p>
<p>Not very good. The last winter was supposed to be warm. It wasn&#8217;t. Now revisionism is explaining why Global Warming was responsible for a cold winter, but that kind of revisionism isn&#8217;t science, it&#8217;s an attempt to fit incompatible data in to support a discredited theory.</p>
<p>When the numbers for Warmists don&#8217;t add up, they manipulate them so more. They&#8217;re so certain that their overall idea is right that they massage every piece of data until it fits. But that&#8217;s not good enough for impoverishing a billion people, for making it harder for families to afford to buy food or heat their homes. It&#8217;s not a consensus. It&#8217;s a bunch of politically correct guesses.</p>
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		<title>Companies that Sell Global Warming Prevention Tech Write Pentagon Report Warning About Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a smidgen of corruption.]]></description>
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<p>It was bad enough when the Pentagon did this sort of thing when it was buying weapons systems. It&#8217;s <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/sponsors-of-pentagons-alarm-raising-climate-study-/">much worse when the things</a> <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=237171">at issue are complete useless,</a> surplus to its mission and also weapons of mass economic destruction.</p>
<blockquote><p>Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.</p></blockquote>
<p>Manufacturers of rubber dinghies warn of importance of preparing for flooding.</p>
<blockquote><p>The report, which the Obama administration immediately hailed as a call to action, was issued not by a private advocacy group but by a Pentagon-financed think tank that trumpets “absolute objectivity.” The research was funded by a climate change group that is also one of the think tank’s main customers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not a smidgen of corruption. Not even a smidgen.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Center for Naval Analyses’ motto is “high quality, impartial information.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Its real motto is &#8220;So long suckers.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the CNA panel’s vice chairmen, retired Navy Vice Adm. Lee Gunn, is president of a private think tank, the American Security Project, whose prime issue is warning about climate change.</p>
<p>The other vice chairman, retired Army Brig. Gen. Gerald E. Galloway Jr., is a prominent adviser to the Center for Climate and Security, a climate change group.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re noticing that there&#8217;s an entire industry of retired generals cashing in on Chicken Littleism, welcome to D.C.</p>
<blockquote><p>In all, four CNA board members sit on the panel of advisers to the Center for Climate and Security, whose statements on climate change are similar to those found in the CNA report.</p></blockquote>
<p>So predictably we have think tanks backed by special interests issuing impartial reports that become government policy.</p>
<blockquote><p>The CNA advisory panel is headed by retired four-star Army Gen. Paul Kern, who sits on the board of directors of a company that sells climate-detection products to the Pentagon and other government agencies. At least two other board members are employed in businesses that sell climate change expertise and products.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the story wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a dirty money trial from a certain Nazi collaborator and wannabe James Bond villain.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Center for Climate and Security has taken donations from the Tides Foundation, which gets money from Democratic Party financier and liberal billionaire George Soros.</p></blockquote>
<p>There we go.</p>
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		<title>First &#8220;Global Warming&#8221;, Then it&#8217;s &#8220;Climate Change&#8221;, Now it&#8217;s &#8220;Global Climate Disruption&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 15:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Warming has more aliases than mob bosses in witness protection. ]]></description>
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<p>Global Warming has more aliases than most mob bosses in witness protection.</p>
<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/185090-obamas-science-adviser-calls-for-dumping-term-climate-change-and-replacing-it-with-global-climate-disruption/">Apparently the problem is with the name</a>. Once they figure out the perfect brand for it, then everyone will finally hop on their bikes made out of recycled aluminum cans and pedal back to their artisinal caves.</p>
<blockquote><p>First there was “global warming.” Then many researchers suggested “climate change” was a better term. Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into Earth’s atmosphere: “global climate disruption.”</p>
<p>“I’ve always thought that the phrase ‘global warming’ was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it’s all about temperature, and that it’s gradual,” Holdren said yesterday.</p></blockquote>
<p>Okay guys, forget all that stuff we said about temperatures gradually rising around the world. We fudged the numbers and it&#8217;s still not happening.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s spin it like it&#8217;s an action movie. We need a splashy title that suggests that any second now the world could freeze or catch on fire.</p>
<p>How about &#8220;Man-Caused Disasters?&#8221; Sorry. That&#8217;s Islamophobic. Okay then, Global Climate Disruption. That sounds scary? Right?</p>
<blockquote><p>Holdren has made similar calls before, apparently with limited effect on the public’s vocabulary. This time, the remarks came in the context of a brief preview Holdren gave of a new climate report that the Obama administration is scheduled to release next week.</p></blockquote>
<p>Come on guys, let&#8217;s help Holdren find a new name for his scam.</p>
<p>Man-Caused Massive Climate Global Disaster</p>
<p>Super-Mega Climate Catastrophe</p>
<p>Give Al Gore Money or the World Blows Up</p>
<p>Climatenado</p>
<p>Attack of the Temperatures that Sometimes Rise and then Fall</p>
<p>If You Make Fun of Our Name, You&#8217;re Racist</p>
<p>&#8230;one of these has got to work.</p>
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		<title>White House Warns of Floods, Wildfires, Swarms of Killer Bees, Cats and Dogs Living Together in Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 17:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those are some of the alarming predictions in a White House climate change report]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_224932" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hayhoe.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-224932" alt="hayhoe" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hayhoe-450x282.jpg" width="450" height="282" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Here&#8217;s your super-scientific Global Warming report lead author.</p></div>
<p>Does it require urgent and unconstitutional action? Does a bear use non-biodegradable tissue and a non-regulation low flow toilet as specified by the Energy Policy Act of 1992?</p>
<p>Climate change will kill you. Then it will your neighbors. It will sweep away everyone you love in a torrent of long summers and then laugh.</p>
<p>Prepare to die.</p>
<blockquote><p>Flooded rail lines. Bigger, more frequent droughts. A rash of wildfires.</p>
<p>Those are some of the alarming predictions in a White House climate change report released Tuesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;People have this perception of this being an issue that affects our kids but not us, or affects polar bears in the Arctic but not us, and what this report really brings home is the fact that climate change is affecting us right here, today,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a lead author of National Climate Assessment report.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://junkscience.com/2013/09/25/evangelical-warmist-katharine-hayhoe-15-year-global-warming-bust-gives-ipcc-more-confidence-in-future-projections/">Katharine Hayhoe</a> is not only the lead author of this Chicken Little report, she&#8217;s also an associate professor of political science at Texas Tech University.</p>
<p>Yes you read that correctly. Political science.</p>
<p>Hayhoe is a Canadian who is mostly known for making videos where she pitches the Global Warming Ecoscam from an &#8220;Evangelical Christian&#8221; &#8220;faith-based&#8221; perspective.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why Warmists keep pushing her into the limelight to try and split the evangelical consensus.</p>
<p>Hayhoe is a self-promoting clown who tries to blend religion with eco-religion, but since Warmists are desperate to convince Middle America, they keep promoting her a great communicator.</p>
<p>And yes, <a href="http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/28/katherine-hayhoe-cashing-in-on-the-climate-scare-ceo-of-climate-consulting-and-fortune-telling-fir/">she stands to benefit in more ways than one</a>. <a href="http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/katharine-and-the-missing-rain/">Her &#8220;work&#8221; has</a> been <a href="http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/report-debunks-alarmist-claptrap-from.html">repeatedly debunked</a>. But that doesn&#8217;t slow down her promoters.</p>
<p>The White House report threatening rain rehashes <a href="http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/katharine-and-the-missing-rain/">much of the same already debunked</a> Warmist propaganda.</p>
<blockquote><p>She also told us “our weather is becoming much more extreme, where it’s either feast or famine. I’ve been here ( in Lubbock, Texas) for five years and in five years ………………….. we’ve had two 100-year rain events”</p>
<p>(even though precipitation records for nearby USHCN stations showed nothing unusual happening).</p></blockquote>
<p>Cats and dogs living together in sin.</p>
<p>Watts Up With That has more comprehensive d<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/06/some-advance-copy-on-the-national-climate-assessment-report/">ebunkings of the eco-evangelist&#8217;s</a> scaremongering report.</p>
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		<title>EPA Chief: Global Warming Holding Back Millions of African-Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black people are being held back by affordable food and gasoline.]]></description>
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<p>Meet the new EPA chief. Even crazier than the old EPA chief. And the old EPA chief set up a separate identity for herself and gave it awards. And then left with an official very expensive portrait of her urinating into a brook.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/184400-obama-epa-chief-pushes-environmental-justice-says-pollution-is-holding-back-millions-of-blacks/">Gina McCarthy is showing promising signs</a> of craziness.</p>
<blockquote><p>Administrator Gina McCarthy attended an event Thursday at Clark Atlanta University hosted by the Hip Hop Caucus.</p>
<p>Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, “argues often that climate change is the ‘lunch counter moment’ for the younger generation.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s more like his 5-star restaurant moment.</p>
<blockquote><p>The EPA chief  encouraged black students, who are “most vulnerable to climate change,” to become “champion climate justice advocates” by supporting some of the FDA rules currently being pushed by environmental activists. McCarthy mentioned “greenhouse gas emission standards for new power plants that the agency released last fall, and the rules for existing plants” that are set to be released on June 1.</p>
<p>“Pollution is holding back millions of African Americans fighting for middle class security.” She continues, “Environmental justice is social justice.” McCarthy also says, “We have a moral obligation to act now.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure. Black people are being held back by affordable food and gasoline. If only a carbon tax were to make these and many other things much more expensive, it would really move black people forward.</p>
<p>We have a moral obligation to make Al Gore richer and millions of Americans poorer. Anything else is racism.</p>
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		<title>Lead Author of UN Climate Report: Government Officials, Not Scientists, Rewrote It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not science. It's politics. Power and profit.]]></description>
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<p>Warmists claim that they&#8217;re on the side of science and that their magic 97 percent consensus is universal. Here&#8217;s what the consensus actually looks like behind the scenes.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not science. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/04/27/Lead-author-claims-U-N-climate-change-report-was-rewritten-for-political-reasons">It&#8217;s politics. Power and profit.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>It was already known that the summary of the latest U.N. climate report was substantially edited by political interests.</p>
<p>In this case, the summary wasn&#8217;t merely &#8220;sexed up&#8221; to fool gullible reporters and politicians; it actually direct contradicts the full U.N report in places.</p>
<p>For example, media reports of the summary yelled that global warming was going to cause more wars; the actual report summary says global warming might increase the chances of violent conflict; the report itself says there&#8217;s no reason to believe climate change has much to do with violent conflict.  It&#8217;s more likely that sustained conflict leads to poor environmental stewardship than the reverse.</p>
<p>These hijinks already led one of the report&#8217;s contributors, Professor Richard Tol of Sussex University, to refuse to sign the final product, because he was uncomfortable with the tone of hysteria in the report summary.</p>
<p>Now the UK Daily Mail reports on an online letter published by lead author Robert Stavins, in which he alleges an astonishing three quarters of the original document were deleted or revised after a late-night meeting in Berlin:</p>
<p>Prof Stavins claimed the intervention amounted to a serious ‘conflict of interest’ between scientists and governments. His revelation is significant because it is rare for climate change experts to publicly question the process behind the compilation of reports on the subject.</p>
<p>Prof Stavins told The Mail on Sunday yesterday that he had been especially concerned by what happened at a special ‘contact group’. He was one of only two scientists present, surrounded by ‘45 or 50’ government officials.</p>
<p>He said almost all of them made clear that ‘any text that was considered inconsistent with their interests and positions in multilateral negotiations was treated as unacceptable.’<br />
Many of the officials were themselves climate negotiators, facing the task of devising a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol in negotiations set to conclude next year.</p>
<p>Prof Stavins said: ‘This created an irreconcilable conflict of interest. It has got to the point where it would be reasonable to call the document a summary by policymakers, not a summary for them, and it certainly affects the credibility of the IPCC. The process ought to be reformed.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s a bit too late to reform a scam. Isn&#8217;t it? Warmunism serves the interests of politicians, not people, individual bribed scientists, not science.</p>
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		<title>Why the Left Will Never Abandon &#8216;Global Warming’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the mother of all issues for the lovers of Big Government.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ClimateChange.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224037" alt="ClimateChange" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ClimateChange-450x318.jpg" width="315" height="223" /></a>It won’t surprise readers of this column to learn that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCG) insists that unless “global warming” is addressed, the planet promises to suffer all manner of evil.   Courtesy of “coastal flooding” and “storm surges,” “urban populations” especially are susceptible to “the risk of death, injury, and disrupted livelihoods [.]”</p>
<p>To a <i>far </i>greater extent than any other issue, that of Global Warming reveals what makes the leftist mind tick.</p>
<p>That the leftist aches from the very marrow of his being for the consolidation of power and authority in a central government is a no-brainer.  While there are <i>ways</i> in which governments <i>use</i> their power to which he objects, the leftist has never known a limit on <i>the amount</i> of power at a government’s disposal with which he could rest comfortably.</p>
<p>So, the leftist has always wanted Big Government.  And this insatiable lust for unlimited government is inseparable from his disdain for the nation-state and its concomitant “nationalism”: national boundaries impose a <i>limit </i>on the extent to which government can expand.  The logic of Big Government has a life all of its own, pointing beyond the nations in which it takes root toward the rest of the planet.  It is self-perpetuating, much like a disease that can’t desist from moving from host to host until it dies.</p>
<p>There is no issue short of a conflict with an extraterrestrial race that better serves the global aspirations of Big Government than that of Global Warming.</p>
<p>The conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott contrasts two fundamentally different models of a modern (“nation”) state.  On the one hand, modern states have been looked upon as “civil associations,” associations of human beings doing their own thing and bound together by nothing more or less than the law.  The latter, in turn, doesn’t tell associates <i>what </i>they must do, but only <i>how </i>they must do, or refrain from doing, whatever it is that they <i>choose </i>to do.  Since laws are not policies designed to bring to fruition some grand master plan or vision for the nation, government, from this perspective, is not visionary or activist.</p>
<p>Rather, government serves the function of an umpire or a referee: it exists solely to ensure that the rules (laws) of the association are observed by all of its members.</p>
<p>Modern states have also been thought of as “<i>enterprise</i> associations.”  The government of an enterprise association is visionary, activist.  It <i>leads</i> by <i>policy; </i>it doesn’t <i>rule </i>by <i>law.  </i>The members of an enterprise association are not related to one another as one law-abider to another, but as “joint-enterprisers,” comrades-in-arms, fellow-travelers.</p>
<p>“Global Warming” is made for the idea of the state-as-enterprise association.</p>
<p>Even <i>war</i>, the stuff of which collectivist dreams are made, isn’t quite as amenable to the lover of Big Government as is Global Warming.  War insures the centralization of power and the transformation of government into an agent of activism.  However, from the perspective of the leftist, the zealot of Big Government, war—because it always pits one actor <i>against</i> another—exacerbates “nationalism” and, thus, actually <i>limits </i>the growth of government.</p>
<p>Global Warming is another proposition altogether.  The term “Global Warming,” far from being descriptive, is chock-full of imagery of death and destruction of epic proportions.  The term is what logicians since Aristotle have referred to as an “appeal to force,” a rhetorical device designed to at once circumvent rational argumentation and <i>coerce</i> people into bending to the will of its apologists.  It is the secular equivalent of Hell or Armageddon in both the images that it calls to mind as well as the uses (i.e. the instillation of fear and the consolidation of power) to which it is put.  Like Hell or Armageddon, there is no one that is safe from its clutches—unless they turn to, not Almighty <i>God, </i>but Almighty <i>Government. </i></p>
<p>And since Global Warming is, well, global, it provides the golden opportunity for the governments of the world to either join forces or synthesize with one another.</p>
<p>In the process, national sovereignty and individual liberty will be relegated to the dustbin of history.</p>
<p>Global Warming is the gift that keeps on giving to the leftist.  This is why he will never give it up.</p>
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		<title>Gaia Inventor, Ex-NASA Researcher, Environmentalism has &#8220;Become a Religion&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer”]]></description>
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<p>James Lovelock says this sort of thing now and again. The man behind the Gaia hypothesis is one of the biggest influences of the Warmist movement and at 94 he insists on being surprisingly rational and apolitical&#8230; and unpredictable.</p>
<p>Lovelock does with his ideas what few Warmist researchers do, he logically thinks through the consequences, rather than just skipping to the part where everyone gives the government, Al Gore, etc&#8230; money. That&#8217;s why he embraces nuclear power, which follows rationally and scientifically from his conclusions, but is toxic to environmentalists.</p>
<p><a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/category/links-and-news/">And it&#8217;s why he says things </a>like this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Environmentalism has &#8220;become a religion&#8221; and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.</p>
<p>The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that &#8220;it’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer” and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.</p></blockquote>
<p>The believer line has to be hurtful, because it&#8217;s true. Science isn&#8217;t about that sort of thing.</p>
<blockquote><p>Speaking to the Guardian for an interview ahead of a landmark UN climate science report on Monday on the impacts of climate change, Lovelock said of the warnings of climate catastrophe in his 2006 book, Revenge of Gaia: &#8220;I was a little too certain in that book. You just can’t tell what’s going to happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked if his remarks would give ammunition to climate change sceptics, he said: &#8220;It’s just as silly to be a denier as it is to be a believer. You can’t be certain.&#8221;</p>
<p>Talking about the environmental movement, Lovelock says: &#8220;It’s become a religion, and religions don’t worry too much about facts.&#8221; The retired scientist, who worked at the Medical Research Council, describes himself as an &#8220;old-fashioned green.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lovelock reiterated his support for fracking for shale gas, which has been strongly backed by David Cameron and the government but vigorously opposed by anti-fracking activists and local people at sites from Salford to Balcombe in West Sussex.</p>
<p>“The government is too frightened to use nuclear, renewables won’t work –because we don’t have enough sun – and we can’t go on burning coal because it produces so much CO2, so that leaves fracking. It produces only a fraction of the amount of CO2 that coal does, and will make Britain secure in energy for quite a few years. We don’t have much choice,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course environmentalism has little to do with science, but some emotional notion of a pristine landscape, and windmills and solar panels fit that emotional need, while fracking and nuclear power plants clash with it.</p>
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		<title>Obama PAC to Protest Global Warming Skepticism During April 1st Snowstorm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizing for America might want to rethink who the fools will be.]]></description>
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<p>OFA, the Obama SuperPAC, thinks it&#8217;s making one point. But it <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/181066-ofa-goons-plan-to-visit-climate-change-deniers-on-april-fools-day-to-show-them-how-foolish-being-a-denier-really-is/">might be making a whole other one</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be releasing a 5-year study on climate impacts at the end of March. We will be visiting climate change deniers on April Fools Day to show them how foolish being a denier really is.</p>
<p>In front of Rep. Paulsen&#8217;s Office (Eden Prairie, MN)</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail2/55344">April 1st in Eden Prairie </a>is projected to be snowy. So there are going to be liberal protesters standing outside Congressman Paulsen&#8217;s office on April Fool&#8217;s Day screaming about Global Warming while snow falls on them.</p>
<p>Organizing for America might want to rethink who the fools in this little protest will be.</p>
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		<title>Obama Inc. Spent $700,000 on Global Warming Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Didn't someone make a Chicken Little musical already?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_222144" style="width: 440px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/700k.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-222144 " alt="That's what $700K buys you" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/700k.jpg" width="430" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">That&#8217;s what $700K buys you</p></div>
<p>I<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/26/feds-spent-700000-on-a-climate-change-musical/">t&#8217;s not a joke</a>, <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=230243/">but this administration is</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith questioned White House science czar John Holdren in a Thursday hearing over whether or not the National Science Foundation (NSF) should have to justify its use of taxpayer dollars to fund projects. Smith pointed out some examples of questionable projects the NSF has funded.</p>
<p>$700,000 on a climate change musical</p>
<p>The $700,000 went to the play “The Great Immensity,” which is being put on by an investigative theater group called The Civilians. The play is set to premiere next month in New York City.</p>
<p>The play’s plot is summarized as follows: “Through her search, Phyllis uncovers a mysterious plot surrounding the upcoming international climate summit in Auckland. As the days count down to the Auckland Summit, Phyllis must decipher the plan and possibly stop it in time. With arresting projected film and video and a wide-ranging score of songs, The Great Immensity is a highly theatrical look into one of the most vital questions of our time: how can we change ourselves and our society in time to solve the enormous environmental challenges that confront us?”</p></blockquote>
<p>So it&#8217;s like a bad thriller, except set to equally bad music. And it&#8217;ll be put on in New York City, a place where it&#8217;s vitally necessary to convince people that the sky is falling because they don&#8217;t believe in Warmunism yet. But now that Obama insists on cutting the military further, there&#8217;ll be plenty of money for cowboy poetry and Global Warming musicals.</p>
<p>But didn&#8217;t someone make a Chicken Little musical already?</p>
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