Uhhhhhh… Check your calendars, everybody. It’s not April fool’s day, right? Read this:
In one of the most unexpected conversions since Saul of Tarsus hit the road to Damascus, Rupert Murdoch is turning into a green campaigner. He is making the whole of his worldwide operations carbon neutral and setting out to “educate and engage” his […]
Earth Day was Sunday, April 23rd. How do Americans feel about global warming and who do they trust to solve the problem?
Here are the results of a new Washington Post/ABC poll on public attitudes towards the environment in chart format, provided exclusively by The Daily Background.
Today the Supreme Court rebuked the Bush Administration, deciding with the pro-regulation environmental side in saying that the EPA has the right to regulate harmful CO2 emissoins from cars and other vehicles. Here’s the Wapo:
The Supreme Court today ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, narrowly siding with […]
Chuck Missler, a fundamentalist Christian minister tries to debunk evolution and the scientific theory of “the big bang” by using a jar of peanut butter. This video is hilarious.
You can watch Al Gore’s opening statements from the Joint Hearing on climate change before the House Energy and Science Committees today over at Nancy Pelosi’s YouTube account. Part one here, part two here, and part three here. Gore also testifies before the Senate today, but there’s no video available for that yet. Evidently a […]
NYT this weekend:
The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.
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Kristen A. Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House on environmental […]
Washington Post today:
Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson and other conservative Christian leaders are calling for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence or fire an official who has urged evangelicals to take global warming seriously.
Boy, how sad is that sentence? By the way, the organization mention, NAE, is the group Reverend Ted […]
Oh man, I can’t stop laughing at this person:
“Global Warming is a Trojan Horse for Socialism –
FACT- Our world is getting hotter. FACT- the sun is also getting hotter. We know the sun is getting hotter because in the last year or two we can see the ice glaciers on Mars melting. If you look […]
John McCain on Ethanol in 1999:
“Ethanol is not worth it. It does not help the consumer. Those ethanol subsidies should be phased out. And everybody here on this stage, if it wasn’t for the fact that Iowa is the first caucus state, would share my view that we don’t need ethanol subsidies. It doesn’t help […]
A recent Harris Interactive poll that has gotten literally zero coverage in the United States asked respondents in five European countries, plus the those here in United States whether they thought that corporations should be taxed in accordance to the amount of pollution they create.
The results are quite something. 82% of Americans think that the […]
Okay, totally hypothetical situation here.
Let’s say you’re running for President as a Republican, and even though you used to be a socially liberal independent, you’re trying to really play up your conservative credentials to get past such critical events as the South Carolina primary. So you’re taking as conservative a stance as you possibly can, […]
This is a 2006 video of Al Gore giving a follow up talk to his more famous global warming presentation. Gore relates several funny anecdotes as well as some important facts about climate change. On the whole though, it’s very funny stuff.
Reuters reported this week that the British government will be distributing a “global warming information pack” to all of its secondary schools (high schools) soon:
The government will distribute Al Gore’s dramatic global warming film to all secondary schools in England in its fight to tackle the climate crisis, Environment Minister David Miliband said on Friday.
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With the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, news comes from The Guardian that scientists have been offered bribes to call the group’s findings- which are the most strongly worded ever on global warming- inaccurate.
The Guardian writes “Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one […]
For the second year in a row, ExxonMobil announced today that they had their best year ever. And, for the second year in a row, that best year ever was also the best year for any company in history.
The record haul? 39.5 billion dollars. With zeroes, that’s $39,500,000,000, or a profit of more than $338,000 […]
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