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Friday, June 3rd, 2011Run for the Wall in Williams
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Williams–The Vietnam Veterans participating in the 2011 Run for the Wall arrived in Williams on May 18th to be greeted by a late winter storm. That did not damper their spirits and they conducted their traditional parade through downtown Williams on Route 66.
Mayor John Moore of Williams asked them to deliver a message to Al Gore, should they meet him, concerning global warming. It is suggested that John McCain, also a carbon taxer and believer in global warming, should check the weather forecast for northern Arizona.
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Arizona faults railroad tie burn in Kaibab
Thursday, May 5th, 2011May 5—The Kaibab National Forest should not have burned thousands of creosote-treated railroad ties this year before discarding them, a state agency has found.
The Twin Fires in October of 2009 was a Kaibab "prescribed burn" which got out of control.
It remains to be decided whether the agency will face fines or a revocation of the permit it needs to conduct prescribed burns.
The fire occurred on Feb. 28, when firefighters with the Kaibab National Forest burned an estimated tens of thousands of railroad ties southwest of Tusayan, off Forest Road 347.
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Rand Paul on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Monday, April 18th, 2011Fatal Attraction: Birds and Wind Turbines – KQED QUEST
Monday, April 11th, 2011Threat to Windsor over carbon debate
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011As the war of words ramps up over the carbon tax, key independent MP Tony Windsor has revealed he received a menacing phone message over his role in developing the policy.
Mr Windsor, whose vote will be crucial to passing laws bringing in the government’s emissions trading scheme, said he was disturbed by the phone message.
“You’re a f***ing liar, a dog, a rat … I hope you die, you bastard,” the caller said, in a message played on the Seven Network.
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Mr Windsor said there were some “points of commonality” to the debate over the rhetoric of the Tea Party movement in the United States.
In January a debate raged in the US over whether inflammatory right-wing rhetoric was to blame for a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona that targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and left six dead.
Mr Windsor feared something similar could happen in Australia.
“Just remember you could be responsible for driving someone that’s got a slight degree of mental illness to something that they wouldn’t normally do,” Mr Windsor said.
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Republicans Introduce Bills to Stop EPA-Led Cap and Trade
Saturday, February 5th, 2011By Matt Cover
(CNSNews.com) – Republicans in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would prevent the government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, staking out an early position on what will be an emerging issue in the newly minted Congress.
The bills – one from Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and another from Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) – would both prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from using its regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate industrial emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide.
The primary difference between the two bills is their scope. Barrasso’s bill, of which Inhofe is a cosponsor, would prohibit the entire federal government from regulating greenhouse gases in any way in addition to preventing lawsuits based on a company’s emission of greenhouse gases.
Read more at CNSNews.com
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Fears over bison lead to several more Montana bills
Friday, January 28th, 2011HELENA, MT - Growing fears that wild bison will be increasingly moved to new locations in the state – on both public and private land – are leading ranchers and others to ask the Legislature for more restrictions on the divisive animal.
Three bills heard in different legislative committees were all partly reacting to news the state and others may move Yellowstone National Park bison to other areas in the state.
Ranchers and others in rural areas have become increasingly worried about the bison plans. They fear the bison will transmit brucellosis to their cattle.
Bison supporters argue the animals need more places to roam than just Yellowstone National Park.
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Estimated 40 Percent of Scientists Doubt Manmade Global Warming
Sunday, January 9th, 2011PRINCETON, NJ (January 3, 2011)—S. Fred Singer said in an interview with the National Association of Scholars (NAS) that “the number of skeptical qualified scientists has been growing steadily; I would guess it is about 40% now.”
Singer, a leading scientific skeptic of anthropocentric global warming (AGW), is an atmospheric physicist, and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), an organization that began challenging the published findings of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s. SEPP established the Leipzig Declaration, a statement of dissent from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that has been signed by over one hundred scientists and meteorologists.
Asked what he would like to see happen in regard to public opinion and policy on climate change, Singer replied,
I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause. If mostly natural, as NIPCC concludes, then the public policies currently discussed are pointless, hugely expensive, and wasteful of resources that could better be applied to real societal problems.
The National Association of Scholars
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010By Richard Littlejohn
Created 9:55 PM on 27th December 2010
This is the season for quizzes. So fingers on buzzers, here’s your starter for ten. In percentage terms, how much electricity do Britain’s 3,150 wind turbines supply to the National Grid?
Is it: a) five per cent; b) ten per cent; or c) 20 per cent? Come on, I’m going to have to hurry you. No conferring.
Time’s up. The correct answer is: none of the above. Yesterday afternoon, the figure was just 1.6 per cent, according to the official website of the wholesale electricity market.
Over the past three weeks, with demand for power at record levels because of the freezing weather, there have been days when the contribution of our forests of wind turbines has been precisely nothing.
It gets better. As the temperature has plummeted, the turbines have had to be heated to prevent them seizing up. Consequently, they have been consuming more electricity than they generate.
Read more at the Daily Mail
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Time Mag Headline ‘Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming’
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010By Noel Sheppard | December 29, 2010 | 09:10
In today’s “Everything Is Caused By Climate Change” segment, the folks at Time magazine offer a howler destined to start your morning off right with a chuckle: “Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming.”
The contents were even more hysterical:
One theory is that a warmer Arctic may actually lead to colder and snowier winters in the northern mid-latitudes. Even as countries like Britain — suffering through the coldest December on record — deal with low temperatures and unusual snow, the Arctic has kept on warming, with Greenland and Arctic Canada experiencing the hottest year on record. Temperatures in that region have been 5.4°F to 7.2°F (3°C to 4°C) above normal in 2010. As a result, the Arctic sea-ice cover has continued to shrink; this September, the minimum summer sea-ice extent was more than 770,000 sq. mi. (2 million sq km) below the long-term average, and the third-smallest on record. Snow may be piling up in midtown Manhattan, but the Arctic is continuing its long-term meltdown.
Shhh, wait – there’s more…
Read it at NewsBusters
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Napolitano Says DHS to Begin Battling Climate Change as Homeland Security Issue
Friday, December 17th, 2010Did the article have to mention that she was the former Arizona governor? Aren’t we ashamed enough?
Janet Napolitano.
Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings of the department’s recently created “Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force.”
Napolitano explained that the task force was charged with “identifying and assessing the impact that climate change could have on the missions and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.”
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IEA Study Ranks Nations’ Subsidies to Fossil Fuel Consumption
Monday, November 29th, 2010by Scott A. Hodge, The Tax Foundation
Fiscal Fact No. 252
U.S. Governments Offer Little Support to Energy Firms
In advance of the G-20 meeting in Seoul, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its annual World Energy Outlook, a 738-page analysis of the global energy market. The report discusses the market for various types of energy and summarizes the energy policies of the world’s governments, devoting two chapters to raising the alarm about government subsidies for fossil fuel usage.
Just five months earlier the IEA had published in conjunction with OPEC, the OECD and the World Bank a stand-alone study of governmental subsidies to energy in advance of the G-20 meeting in Toronto. That joint report found that no systematic effort has been undertaken within the last decade to estimate subsidies to fossil-fuel production over a wide range of countries.
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Is HAARP responsible for recent worldwide Jellyfish Blooms?
Sunday, October 24th, 2010By Guy Cramer
(Vancouver, B.C., January 1, 2010)—In 2006, the U.S. Government High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) the world’s most powerful antenna array goes to full power; bee hives collapse and Jellyfish swarm. Is this new U.S. Defense program (currently used to communicate globally with the U.S. Submarine fleet) inadvertently causing unprecedented Jellyfish population explosions in the oceans?
On June 1, 2007 I posted a paper which discussed the association between the Honey Bee Disappearances (Colony Collapse Disorder – CCD) and the HAARP transmitted signals which are also strongest within the same region as the Colony Collapse Disorder. CCD is devastating the bee populations and crops which are dependent on their pollination.
Only in 2009 as other theories fell apart did my data begin to be picked up by leading researchers in bioengineering as a potential candidate for CCD.
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States of Emergency
Thursday, October 21st, 2010By Cassandra Anderson
October 21, 2010
MORPHcity
Thirty-two states are on the path to UN-inspired carbon reduction, Cap-and-Trade schemes and unconstitutional alliances; the supporting Governors must be held accountable. Carbon reduction and population reduction go hand in hand. The United Nations failed to impose their treaties from the top down (the Kyoto and Copenhagen Accords) and the federal government has abandoned its unpopular national Cap-and-Trade scheme for now. Cap-and-Trade is being pursued on the state level, and one region has even raised over $700 million in carbon auctions.
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