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No More Green Guilt
July 1, 2009: By Keith Lockitch Every investment prospectus warns that “past performance is no guarantee of future results.” But suppose that an investment professional’s record contains nothing but losses, of failed prediction after failed prediction. Who would still entrust that investor with his money? Yet, in public policy there is one … © 2009, [...]
Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into ‘Suppressed’ Climate Change Report
Republicans are raising questions about why the EPA apparently dismissed an analyst’s report questioning the science behind global warming. By Judson Berger FOXNews Monday, June 29, 2009 A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. © 2009, Fact [...]
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps
THE INFLUENCE GAME: After ‘cow tax’ campaign, Congress and EPA steer clear of cattle burps Saturday June 20, 2009: Associated Press Writer: Dina Cappiello, WASHINGTON (AP) — One contributor to global warming — bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants — is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House [...]
Watchdog For The World’s Water
PEOPLEWATCH Watchdog For The World’s Water Neither the private sector, nor the market, should be determining water policy. Canadian activist Maude Barlow is a senior advisor on water issues to the president of the United Nations General Assembly and author of the 2007 book Blue Covenant detailing the world’s deepening water crisis. She is national [...]
Think twice about ‘green’ transport, say scientists
PARIS (AFP) – You worry a lot about the environment and do everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint — the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive dangerous climate change. So you always prefer to take the train or the bus rather than a plane, and avoid using a car whenever you can, faithful [...]
Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software
Al Gore’s venture capital firm has invested $6 million in a software company that stands to make billions of dollars from cap-and-trade regulation — further fueling controversy that Gore lied about his profiteering from cap-and-trade to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and the © 2009, Fact or Fiction. All rights reserved.
Report Shows Air Quality Improved During Bush Administration
A recent report from a Washington think tank shows that levels of numerous gases linked with air pollution, like carbon monoxide, have fallen off since 2001 and air quality in the U.S. has improved significantly over the last decade. FOXNews By James Osborne Wednesday, May 20, 2009 As the Obama administration considers further steps to [...]
Old Trees Growing in a CO2-Accreting Atmosphere
CO2 Science: In an enlightening analysis recently published in the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Phillips et al. (2008) note there is “a long held view,” as they describe it, that “old trees exhibit little potential for growth.” Hence, they say “it may seem reasonable to conclude that old trees are not responsive to increased [...]
Solar Influence on Climate
CO2 Science: The study of extraterrestrial climatic forcing factors is primarily a study of phenomena related to the sun. Historically, this field of inquiry began with the work of Milankovitch (1920, 1941), who linked the cyclical glaciations of the past million years to the receipt of solar radiation at the surface of the earth as [...]
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