
Is Global Warming a Sin?
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From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits
Why is the media in collective denial about overpopulation? Why do they avoid making connections when they sit in gridlock traffic, breathe polluted air and pay $3.00 for a gallon of gas?
"Free speech does not extend to misleading the public by making factually inaccurate statements," he said. "Somebody has to stand up for the public interest here." Durkin called the letter "loathsome."
Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 880 lb, add to evidence of sequoia-type trees and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.
Why do you think they're not building homes, condos and cities in Death Valley? Short answer: no water! No ability to sustain population other than a few cactus plants and lizards! It's called 'carrying capacity'.
Newt: "I am not automatically saying that coercion and bureaucracy is not an answer" - Not content with losing only a War on Drugs, Illiteracy, Poverty and Terror, bi partisan support is shaping up for a "War on Global Warming"
Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level.
Name one advantage to adding 100 million people to the United States by 2040? Can't? Hang on to your hats because they're comin' and their comin' fast!
Who drives this country toward our dangerous future? Who won't ask the hard questions about overloading the land, air and water? Top scientists give dire warning as to our future dilemmas with 100 million added.
Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2 is emitted during barbequing. Beginning June 2007, residents will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session. Plan to monitor compliance with helicopters. [Which don't pollute? HaHaHa]
Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, one of the few CEOs brave enough to challenge the militant climate control movement that threatens the future of America's economy. He regards Al Gore as the shaman of global doom and gloo
[It's far worse than that. She's a libertarian!] President Bush intends to bypass the Senate in order to name a "conservative academic" to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Environmentalists hailed a US Supreme Court ruling that the government has the power to regulate greenhouse gases, as a watershed decision in fighting global warming. [more power]
As we add 100 million, we will not be able escape the coming environmental and social consequences. Look at what we face!
All of us at one time or another have looked up into the sky and seen those beautiful, fluffy clouds floating by or some that just seem to hang there for our enjoyment. Some of them look as soft as a pillow. But, over the decade,...
Fifty ships back up waiting for days to unload their cargo. America's seaports receive not only goods, but enormous amounts of pollution from ships, trains, trucks and generating plants. Consequences increase as the US adds 100 million people b
(Don't you love this) A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-
As you read this sobering if not depressing series on America’s future as it adds 100 million people by 2040, do you feel alone? Lost? Hopeless?
Earth is heating up lately, but so are Mars, Pluto and other worlds in our solar system, leading some scientists to speculate that a change in the sun’s activity is the common thread linking all these baking events. Others argue that such claims a
While global warming is nothing to laugh at (hah!), an Australian company is providing some comic relief, selling carbon credits for flatulent pets and people.
"The Great Global Warming Scandal" says the sun, and not human-generated greenhouse gases, is to blame for the increase in the Earth's temperature, The Washington Times reported.
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
More than 100 million Americans breathe polluted air in major cities across America. Air pollution increases lung cancer, asthma and injects tiny particles coated with chemicals into human beings' bodies. Pregnant women breathe poison air
U.S. policy on global warming seems headed for a tipping point, with politicians, business leaders and economists joining environmentalists to call for new laws to limit greenhouse gases that spur climate change.
Today, California sloshes knee deep in its 37.5 million population overload. It grows by 1,650 people daily! Do the math. By 2050, if this immigration-driven population phenomenon continues, California explodes to 79.1 million people.
Environmental fundamentalism is making the lives of the poor even worse in Mexico after triggering a huge rise in the price of corn—the chief component of the tortilla—thanks to a government-induced demand for ethanol in the US. This constitutes po
When politicians and journalists declare the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. Treated to another dose recently when experts put the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on