Ten Personal Solutions to Global Warming

Individual choices can have an impact on global climate change. Reducing your family's heat-trapping emissions does not mean forgoing modern conveniences; it means making smart choices and using energy-efficient products, which may require an additional investment up front, but often pay you back in energy savings within a couple of years.

Since Americans' per capita emissions of heat-trapping gases is 5.6 tons—more than double the amount of western Europeans—we can all make choices that will greatly reduce our families' global warming impact.

The car you drive: the most important personal climate decision.
When you buy your next car, look for the one with the best fuel economy in its class. Each gallon of gas you use is responsible for 25 pounds of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. Better gas mileage not only reduces global warming, but will also save you thousands of dollars at the pump over the life of the vehicle. Compare the fuel economy of the cars you're considering and look for new technologies like hybrid engines.
Choose clean power. More than half the electricity in the United States comes from polluting coal-fired power plants. And power plants are the single largest source of heat-trapping gas. None of us can live without electricity, but in some states, you can switch to electricity companies that provide 50 to 100 percent renewable energy. (For more information go to Green-e.org.)
Look for Energy Star. When it comes time to replace appliances, look for the Energy Star label on new appliances (refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, air conditioners, and water heaters use the most energy). These items may cost a bit more initially, but the energy savings will pay back the extra investment within a couple of years. Household energy savings really can make a difference: If each household in the United States replaced its existing appliances with the most efficient models available, we would save $15 billion in energy costs and eliminate 175 million tons of heat-trapping gases.

Unplug a freezer.
One of the quickest ways to reduce your global warming impact is to unplug the extra refrigerator or freezer you rarely use (except when you need it for holidays and parties). This can reduce the typical family's carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 10 percent.

Get a home energy audit.
Take advantage of the free home energy audits offered by many utilities. Simple measures, such as installing a programmable thermostat to replace your old dial unit or sealing and insulating heating and cooling ducts, can each reduce a typical family's carbon dioxide emissions by about 5 percent.
Light bulbs matter.
If every household in the United States replaced one regular light bulb with an energy-saving model, we could reduce global warming pollution by more than 90 billion pounds over the life of the bulbs; the same as taking 6.3 million cars off the road. So, replace your incandescent bulbs with more efficient compact fluorescents, which now come in all shapes and sizes. You'll be doing your share to cut back on heat-trapping pollution and you'll save money on your electric bills and light bulbs.

Think before you drive.
If you own more than one vehicle, use the less fuel-efficient one only when you can fill it with passengers. Driving a full minivan may be kinder to the environment than two midsize cars. Whenever possible, join a carpool or take mass transit.

Buy good wood.
When buying wood products, check for labels that indicate the source of the timber. Supporting forests that are managed in a sustainable fashion makes sense for biodiversity, and it may make sense for the climate too. Forests that are well managed are more likely to store carbon effectively because more trees are left standing and carbon-storing soils are less disturbed.

Plant a tree.
You can also make a difference in your own backyard. Get a group in your neighborhood together and contact your local arborist or urban forester about planting trees on private property and public land. In addition to storing carbon, trees planted in and around urban areas and residences can provide much-needed shade in the summer, reducing energy bills and fossil fuel use.

Let policymakers know you are concerned about global warming.
Our elected officials and business leaders need to hear from concerned citizens. Sign up for the Union of Concerned Scientists Action Network to ensure that policymakers get the timely, accurate information they need to make informed decisions about global warming solutions.

What is global warming? Think of a blanket, covering the Earth.

When CO2 and other heat-trapping emissions are released into the air, they act like a blanket, holding heat in our atmosphere and warming the planet.

Overloading our atmosphere with carbon has far-reaching effects for people all around the world—more extreme storms, more severe droughts, deadly heat waves, rising sea levels, and more acidic oceans, which can affect the very base of the food chain.
What causes global warming? We do.

The primary cause of global warming is human activity, most significantly the burning of fossil fuels to drive cars, generate electricity, and operate our homes and businesses.

Tropical deforestation, also by human hands, is another major contributor. When these forests are burned, they release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and because the forests no longer exist, they are no longer available to absorb CO2.
Who can reduce global warming? We can.

To address global warming, we need to significantly reduce the amount of heat-trapping emissions. As individuals, we can help by being mindful of our electricity use, driving more efficient cars, reducing the number of miles we drive, and taking other steps to reduce our own consumption of fossil fuels (Read Ten Personal Solutions to Global Warming for more great suggestions).

But we can also help by calling for government and corporate decision makers to reduce the threat of global warming by:

Placing limits on the amount of carbon that polluters are allowed to emit.
Investing in clean and efficient energy technologies, industries, and approaches;
Expanding the use of renewable energy;
Increasing the efficiency of the cars we drive ;
Reducing tropical deforestation and wildfire risks; and
Taking other steps to transform our energy system to one that is cleaner and less dependent on oil, coal, and other fossil fuels.

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Global Warming - The Earth is warming

The Earth is warming and human activity is the primary cause. Climate disruptions put our food and water supply at risk, endanger our health, jeopardize our national security, and threaten other basic human needs. Some impacts—such as record high temperatures, melting glaciers, and severe flooding and droughts—are already becoming increasingly common across the country and around the world. So far, our national leaders are failing to act quickly to reduce heat-trapping emissions.

However, there is much we can do to protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations from the consequences of the heat-trapping emissions caused when we burn coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity, drive our cars, and fuel our businesses.

Our country is at a crossroads: the United States can act responsibly and seize the opportunity to lead by developing new, innovative solutions, as well as immediately putting to use the many practical solutions we have at our disposal today; or we can choose to do nothing and deal with severe consequences later. At UCS we believe the choice is clear. It is time to push forward toward a brighter, cleaner future.
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What is Global Warming?

When CO2 and other heat-trapping emissions are released into the air, they act like a blanket, holding heat in our atmosphere and warming the planet. Overloading our atmosphere with carbon has far-reaching effects for people everywhere.

CIA classified global warming as top secret

Global warming is simply not happening, folks, and if it is, then it's classified information that must be kept secret by the CIA at all costs.

The top secrecy of the world's weather system was revealed when a well-meaning National Security Archive scholar by the name of Jeffrey Richelson attempted to use the Freedom of Information Act to delve into the CIA's natural disaster center.

CIA classified global warming as top secretThe center, set up two years ago with the sketchy aim to keep its beady eye on phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources," has maintained near radio silence since launch and Richelson wanted to know what was going on.

The answer he received, however, is not much of an answer at all, which begs the question why climate change should be seen as something so confidential by America's watch dogs?

"We completed a thorough search for records responsive to your request and located material that we determined is currently and properly classified and must be denied in its entirety," was the official response from the agency's information and privacy coordinator Susan Viscuso, as quoted in Wired.

The statement seems odd in light of the center's scientific focus and early goals to become "a powerful asset recognized throughout our government, and beyond, for its knowledge and insight."

Perhaps we mere mortals couldn't handle that knowledge. Perhaps Al Gore was merely sugar coating his "Inconvenient Truth" and we're all really in for "The Day After Tomorrow" by the day after tomorrow?

Or perhaps someone at the CIA hasn't been recycling the plastic water cooler bottles and is afraid of being found out and hounded by a nation passionate about going green. Oh, wait, no, that can't be it.

Whatever secrets the center harbors, however, we may never get the chance to find out, what with budget cuts quickly closing in and eco-political scapegoats up for financial slaughter.

Better start building that hurricane resistant bunker, folks, because when weather strikes, not a one of us will have seen it coming.

Global warming’s CO2 culprit jumps 45% since 1990

Global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, jumped 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tons last year, the European Commission reports.

The emission cuts in some industrialized countries that are relying more on energy efficiency and renewable power are not enough to offset the escalating demand for energy, especially in developing countries, according to the new report by the EC’s Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

The report, based on the latest data, shows large national differences. The 27 member nations of the European Union (EU-27) cut CO2 emissions 7% during the 1990-2010 peri0d and Russia slashed them 28%. In contrast, U.S. emissions increased 5% and Japanese emissions remained fairly constant.

Continued growth in developing countries and economic recovery in the industrialized world account largely for the record 5.8% hike in global CO2 emissions between 2009 and 2010, according to the report. Major economies contributed to this upswing, led by China, the U.S., India and the EU-27 with increases of 10%, 4%, 9% and 3% respectively. The report says the U.S. emits 16.9 tons of CO2 per capita per year, more than twice that of the EU-27′s 8.1 tons and China’s 6.8 tons.

Global warming 'past the point of no return'

A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.

They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the region is beginning to absorb more heat from the sun, causing the ice to melt still further and so reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a "tipping point" beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically.
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Satellites monitoring the Arctic have found that the extent of the sea ice this August has reached its lowest monthly point on record, dipping an unprecedented 18.2 per cent below the long-term average.

Experts believe that such a loss of Arctic sea ice in summer has not occurred in hundreds and possibly thousands of years. It is the fourth year in a row that the sea ice in August has fallen below the monthly downward trend - a clear sign that melting has accelerated.

Scientists are now preparing to report a record loss of Arctic sea ice for September, when the surface area covered by the ice traditionally reaches its minimum extent at the end of the summer melting period.

Sea ice naturally melts in summer and reforms in winter but for the first time on record this annual rebound did not occur last winter when the ice of the Arctic failed to recover significantly.

Arctic specialists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre at Colorado University, who have documented the gradual loss of polar sea ice since 1978, believe that a more dramatic melt began about four years ago.

In September 2002 the sea ice coverage of the Arctic reached its lowest level in recorded history. Such lows have normally been followed the next year by a rebound to more normal levels, but this did not occur in the summers of either 2003 or 2004. This summer has been even worse. The surface area covered by sea ice was at a record monthly minimum for each of the summer months - June, July and now August.

Scientists analysing the latest satellite data for September - the traditional minimum extent for each summer - are preparing to announce a significant shift in the stability of the Arctic sea ice, the northern hemisphere's major "heat sink" that moderates climatic extremes.

"The changes we've seen in the Arctic over the past few decades are nothing short of remarkable," said Mark Serreze, one of the scientists at the Snow and Ice Data Centre who monitor Arctic sea ice.

Scientists at the data centre are bracing themselves for the 2005 annual minimum, which is expected to be reached in mid-September, when another record loss is forecast. A major announcement is scheduled for 20 September. "It looks like we're going to exceed it or be real close one way or the other. It is probably going to be at least as comparable to September 2002," Dr Serreze said.

"This will be four Septembers in a row that we've seen a downward trend. The feeling is we are reaching a tipping point or threshold beyond which sea ice will not recover."

The extent of the sea ice in September is the most valuable indicator of its health. This year's record melt means that more of the long-term ice formed over many winters - so called multi-year ice - has disappeared than at any time in recorded history.

Sea ice floats on the surface of the Arctic Ocean and its neighbouring seas and normally covers an area of some 7 million square kilometres (2.4 million square miles) during September - about the size of Australia. However, in September 2002, this dwindled to about 2 million square miles - 16 per cent below average.

Sea ice data for August closely mirrors that for September and last month's record low - 18.2 per cent below the monthly average - strongly suggests that this September will see the smallest coverage of Arctic sea ice ever recorded.

As more and more sea ice is lost during the summer, greater expanses of open ocean are exposed to the sun which increases the rate at which heat is absorbed in the Arctic region, Dr Serreze said.

Sea ice reflects up to 80 per cent of sunlight hitting it but this "albedo effect" is mostly lost when the sea is uncovered. "We've exposed all this dark ocean to the sun's heat so that the overall heat content increases," he explained.

Current computer models suggest that the Arctic will be entirely ice-free during summer by the year 2070 but some scientists now believe that even this dire prediction may be over-optimistic, said Professor Peter Wadhams, an Arctic ice specialist at Cambridge University.

"When the ice becomes so thin it breaks up mechanically rather than thermodynamically. So these predictions may well be on the over-optimistic side," he said.

As the sea ice melts, and more of the sun's energy is absorbed by the exposed ocean, a positive feedback is created leading to the loss of yet more ice, Professor Wadhams said.

"If anything we may be underestimating the dangers. The computer models may not take into account collaborative positive feedback," he said.

Sea ice keeps a cap on frigid water, keeping it cold and protecting it from heating up. Losing the sea ice of the Arctic is likely to have major repercussions for the climate, he said. "There could be dramatic changes to the climate of the northern region due to the creation of a vast expanse of open water where there was once effectively land," Professor Wadhams said. "You're essentially changing land into ocean and the creation of a huge area of open ocean where there was once land will have a very big impact on other climate parameters," he said.

Arctic sea ice melts to 2nd-lowest level on record

More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic is happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its second lowest level since satellite observations began.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the U.S. state of Colorado reported that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic is down to 2.03 million square miles. The lowest point since 1979 is 1.65 million square miles set last September.

With about three weeks left in the Arctic summer, this year could wind up breaking the previous record, scientists said.

Arctic ice always melts in summer and refreezes in winter. But over the years, more and more of the ice is lost to the sea and not recovered in winter. That is important because the Arctic acts as a refrigerator for the globe.

Sea ice also serves as primary habitat for threatened polar bears.

"We could very well be in that quick slide downward in terms of passing a tipping point," said center senior scientist Mark Serreze. "It's tipping now. We're seeing it happen now."

Within a few years — "five to less than 10 years" — the Arctic could be free of sea ice in the summer, said NASA ice scientist Jay Zwally.

"It also means that climate warming is also coming larger and faster than the models are predicting and nobody's really taken into account that change yet," he said.

Other scientists, including James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies in the state of New York, agreed. Hansen in a Wednesday e-mail said the sea ice "is the best current example of a tipping point."

Last year was an unusual year when wind currents and other weather conditions coincided with global warming to worsen sea ice melt, Serreze said. Scientists wondered if last year's melt was an unusual event or the start of a new and disturbing trend.

This year's results suggest the latter because the ice had recovered a bit more than usual thanks to a somewhat cooler winter, Serreze said. Then this month, when the melting rate usually slows, it sped up, he said.

And the melt in sea ice has kicked in another effect, long predicted, called "Arctic amplification," Serreze said.

That's when the warming up north is increased in a feedback mechanism and the effects spill southward starting in autumn, he said. Over the last few years, the bigger melt has meant more warm water that releases more heat into the air during fall cooling, making the atmosphere warmer than normal.

The data center has been tracking Arctic sea ice levels since 1979. According to scientists at the data center, sea ice is in a state of ongoing decline that is greater than natural causes could account for.

Global Warming Tipping Point

If climate change is irreversible, does that mean it could take all cars off the road and it would never have an effect?

It's not quite that dire. According to the 2009 study, we could be looking at a thousand years of warmer temperatures even if we make dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions right now. So technically, it's not "irreversible" -- any of our descendants born after the year 3000 will be able to reap the benefits of our CO2 cuts (whew!).

We have apparently made it to the point of no timely return.

In terms of sea ice, that point became apparent years ago when Arctic ice stopped replenishing itself. Usually, ice melts to a certain level in summer months and freezes back to a certain level in winter months. Starting around 2003, the ice stopped recovering [source: Connor]. For that year and each year since, the ice melted more than usual in summer, and froze less than usual in winter, resulting in an overall loss of "permanent" ice. For September, the average sea ice coverage has typically been 2.4 million square miles (7 million square kilometers); in September 2007, sea ice covered only 1.65 million square miles (4.27 square kilometers) of the Arctic Ocean, the lowest point on record [source: USA Today]. Some experts believe there may be no summer ice in the Arctic within 10 years [source: USA Today].

The atmospheric CO2 situation isn't much better. We currently have 385 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in our air; scientists are pushing for CO2 caps that will get us stabilized at 450 ppm in the next few decades [source: New Scientist]. Many people believe this goal isn't politically feasible, and have set 550 ppm as a more reasonable target [source: New Scientist]. But new research suggests it may not even matter. That 2009 NOAA-led study states that at 450 ppm, we're still looking at severe, unavoidable drought conditions in Africa, southern Europe, western Australia and the American southwest. And if we reach 600 ppm, expanding warm waters could make ocean levels rise by 3 feet (1 meter) in the next thousand years [source: Modine]. That number gets even higher if you take into account melting glaciers.

Scientists aren't proposing we stop buying hybrid cars, though. The faster we act to make huge cuts in CO2, the better the prognosis. If we can make dramatic changes right now, perhaps we could get the atmosphere stabilized at 400 ppm instead of 550 ppm. That would at least increase the chances that the U.S. West Coast will still be above water in 3000. Probably.

An Irreversible State of Global Warming: The Cycle

A study published in 2009, led by a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows that climate change may in fact be irreversible. Instead of it taking a couple hundred years to reverse global warming if we cut emissions right now, it looks like it could take more like a millennium. The issue is the oceans' absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The world's oceans play a central role in climate control. It's not just plants that absorb CO2; oceans absorb even more of it. Ocean waters absorb CO2 from the air, effectively cooling the atmosphere. The ocean also emits heat from the sunlight it absorbs, warming the atmosphere. This constant cycle of cooling and warming keeps the Earth at a stable temperature. Or at least, that's how it's supposed to work.

The system starts to break down when the amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere rises exponentially, as it has in the last couple of centuries. The ocean can only absorb so much CO2 in a period of time: The upper layers of water absorb CO2, and then, as currents move, lower layers of water replace those saturated surface waters, offering new absorption surfaces. The snail-like turnover pace means any actions we take now to curb CO2 emissions won't have any effect for a long, long time.

There are other cycles involved in the problem, too. The loss of sea ice in the Arctic due to global warming creates further warming conditions that are difficult to undo. Sea ice and glacial mass are another big part of the Earth's climate-control system. While water absorbs sunlight, ice reflects it. Glaciers help keep ocean waters at a stable temperature. When glaciers melt, as they've been doing steadily since the United States started recording their levels in 1978, there's less ice to reflect sunlight and more water to absorb it. With more sunlight absorption, ocean temperatures increase. When ocean temperatures increase, more heat is released into the atmosphere, and overall temperatures increase, leading to more melting.

The end result of these combined cycles could be what some experts are calling an irreversible state of global warming. But are we really at that tipping point where there's no turning back climate change?

Is global warming irreversible?

By the time Al Gore's award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" hit theaters in 2006, most of the world had accepted the fact of global warming, if not humanity's causative role in it. But over the last few years, as more and more scientific organizations have backed up the claim that human activity is to blame for rising temperatures, including a United Nations science panel in 2007, government actions attempting to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions have gained even more supporters. Most of the developed world is now onboard in the fight to save the world from warm, certain doom -- but suddenly, it appears all the effort might be futile.

The situation is indeed dire. As factories, cars and power plants emit tons of gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides into the atmosphere, and all the while deforestation activities remove the plant life that absorbs carbon dioxide, lots of those "greenhouse gases" build up in the atmosphere. There, they act like the glass of a greenhouse, allowing sunlight in but trapping it once it's there.

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So far, in the last century, Earth's average temperature has increased about 1 degree F (0.6 degrees C) [source: New York Times]. That may not seem like much, but it can have profound effects, like altering weather systems and changing the balance of sea life. Polar bears are looking at possible extinction in the next few decades [source: NGN]. Experts predict that by 2100, sea levels could rise by up to 2 feet (61 centimeters), leaving major coastal areas underwater [source: New York Times].

Most scientists say that an increase of more than 3.3 degrees F (2 degrees C) would be catastrophic [source: SFS].

The world is taking action to curb the danger, like setting limits on industrial CO2 pollution and developing alternative energy sources. But some new research could throw a wrench in the works of ecological optimism: It seems all our efforts may be for naught.

In this article, we'll look at some newer research suggesting that global warming might be irreversible. We'll find out why we may not be able to undo the damage and see if we might as well just emit to our hearts' content.

What causes global warming?

Many things cause global warming. One thing that causes global warming is electrical pollution. Electricity causes pollution in many ways, some worse than others. In most cases, fossil fuels are burned to create electricity. Fossil fuels are made of dead plants and animals. Some examples of fossil fuels are oil and petroleum. Many pollutants (chemicals that pollute the air, water, and land) are sent into the air when fossil fuels are burned. Some of these chemicals are called greenhouse gasses.

We use these sources of energy much more than the sources that give off less pollution. Petroleum, one of the sources of energy, is used a lot. It is used for transportation, making electricity, and making many other things. Although this source of energy gives off a lot of pollution, it is used for 38% of the United States’ energy.

What are greenhouse gasses?

Greenhouse gasses are gasses are in the earth’s atmosphere that collect heat and light from the sun. With too many greenhouse gasses in the air, the earth’s atmosphere will trap too much heat and the earth will get too hot. As a result people, animals, and plants would die because the heat would be too strong.

What is global warming doing to the environment?

Global warming is affecting many parts of the world. Global warming makes the sea rise, and when the sea rises, the water covers many low land islands. This is a big problem for many of the plants, animals, and people on islands. The water covers the plants and causes some of them to die. When they die, the animals lose a source of food, along with their habitat. Although animals have a better ability to adapt to what happens than plants do, they may die also. When the plants and animals die, people lose two sources of food, plant food and animal food. They may also lose their homes. As a result, they would also have to leave the area or die. This would be called a break in the food chain, or a chain reaction, one thing happening that leads to another and so on.

The oceans are affected by global warming in other ways, as well. Many things that are happening to the ocean are linked to global warming. One thing that is happening is warm water, caused from global warming, is harming and killing algae in the ocean.

Algae is a producer that you can see floating on the top of the water. (A producer is something that makes food for other animals through photosynthesis, like grass.) This floating green algae is food to many consumers in the ocean. (A consumer is something that eats the producers.) One kind of a consumer is small fish. There are many others like crabs, some whales, and many other animals. Fewer algae is a problem because there is less food for us and many animals in the sea.

Global warming is doing many things to people as well as animals and plants. It is killing algae, but it is also destroying many huge forests. The pollution that causes global warming is linked to acid rain. Acid rain gradually destroys almost everything it touches. Global warming is also causing many more fires that wipe out whole forests. This happens because global warming can make the earth very hot. In forests, some plants and trees leaves can be so dry that they catch on fire.

What is global warming?

Global warming is when the earth heats up (the temperature rises). It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. Many cannot take the change, so they die.

What is the greenhouse effect?

The greenhouse effect is when the temperature rises because the sun’s heat and light is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere. This is like when heat is trapped in a car. On a very hot day, the car gets hotter when it is out in the parking lot. This is because the heat and light from the sun can get into the car, by going through the windows, but it can’t get back out. This is what the greenhouse effect does to the earth. The heat and light can get through the atmosphere, but it can’t get out. As a result, the temperature rises.

The squiggle lines coming from the sun are visible light and the lines and arrows inside the car are infrared light.

The sun’s heat can get into the car through the windows but is then trapped. This makes what ever the place might be, a greenhouse, a car, a building, or the earth’s atmosphere, hotter. This diagram shows the heat coming into a car as visible light (light you can see) and infrared light (heat). Once the light is inside the car, it is trapped and the heat builds up, just like it does in the earth’s atmosphere.

Sometimes the temperature can change in a way that helps us. The greenhouse effect makes the earth appropriate for people to live on. Without it, the earth would be freezing, or on the other hand it would be burning hot. It would be freezing at night because the sun would be down. We would not get the sun’s heat and light to make the night somewhat warm. During the day, especially during the summer, it would be burning because the sun would be up with no atmosphere to filter it, so people, plants, and animals would be exposed to all the light and heat.

Although the greenhouse effect makes the earth able to have people living on it, if there gets to be too many gases, the earth can get unusually warmer, and many plants, animals, and people will die. They would die because there would be less food (plants like corn, wheat, and other vegetables and fruits). This would happen because the plants would not be able to take the heat. This would cause us to have less food to eat, but it would also limit the food that animals have. With less food, like grass, for the animals that we need to survive (like cows) we would even have less food. Gradually, people, plants, and animals would all die of hunger.

Stop Global Warming

Problem----We are all personally responsible for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels for transportation (driving and flying) and home energy (electricity, heating, and cooling). This leads to global warming, which is destroying Earth's biodiversity and native ecosystems.

Solutions

1.Reduce your use of fossil fuels
2.Protect native forests as "carbon storehouses"
3.Help plant native trees in urban and deforested areas
4.Volunteer for NWP
5.Donate to NWP. Based on NWP total program costs and conservation project accomplishments since 1999, every $10 donation allows us to sponsor one Apprentice Ecologist and plant 3.1 native trees.
Benefits of planting native trees

1.They help stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gases
2.They reduce soil erosion and water pollution
3.They provide habitat for native wildlife (including songbirds)
4.They improve human health by producing oxygen and improving air quality
5.They reduce home energy needs by providing shade in summer and a windbreak in winter
Facts about the benefits provided by planting one tree

1.Absorbs over a ton of harmful greenhouse gases over its lifetime (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
2.Produces enough oxygen for four people every day (Tree Canada Foundation)
3.Provides the equivalent cooling effect of ten room-size air conditioners operating 20 hours a day (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
4.Provides an estimated $273 of environmental benefits in every year of its life (American Forests)
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Global Warming Fast Facts 2

The report, based on the work of some 2,500 scientists in more than 130 countries, concluded that humans have caused all or most of the current planetary warming. Human-caused global warming is often called anthropogenic climate change.

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Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon? Global Warming Can Be Stopped, World Climate Experts Say Global Warming Interactive: Learn About Its Causes and Effects • Industrialization, deforestation, and pollution have greatly increased atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, all greenhouse gases that help trap heat near Earth's surface. (See an interactive feature on how global warming works.)

• Humans are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than plants and oceans can absorb it.

• These gases persist in the atmosphere for years, meaning that even if such emissions were eliminated today, it would not immediately stop global warming.

• Some experts point out that natural cycles in Earth's orbit can alter the planet's exposure to sunlight, which may explain the current trend. Earth has indeed experienced warming and cooling cycles roughly every hundred thousand years due to these orbital shifts, but such changes have occurred over the span of several centuries. Today's changes have taken place over the past hundred years or less.

• Other recent research has suggested that the effects of variations in the sun's output are "negligible" as a factor in warming, but other, more complicated solar mechanisms could possibly play a role.

What's Going to Happen?

A follow-up report by the IPCC released in April 2007 warned that global warming could lead to large-scale food and water shortages and have catastrophic effects on wildlife.

• Sea level could rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by century's end, the IPCC's February 2007 report projects. Rises of just 4 inches (10 centimeters) could flood many South Seas islands and swamp large parts of Southeast Asia.

• Some hundred million people live within 3 feet (1 meter) of mean sea level, and much of the world's population is concentrated in vulnerable coastal cities. In the U.S., Louisiana and Florida are especially at risk.

• Glaciers around the world could melt, causing sea levels to rise while creating water shortages in regions dependent on runoff for fresh water.

• Strong hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and other natural disasters may become commonplace in many parts of the world. The growth of deserts may also cause food shortages in many places.

• More than a million species face extinction from disappearing habitat, changing ecosystems, and acidifying oceans.

• The ocean's circulation system, known as the ocean conveyor belt, could be permanently altered, causing a mini-ice age in Western Europe and other rapid changes.

• At some point in the future, warming could become uncontrollable by creating a so-called positive feedback effect. Rising temperatures could release additional greenhouse gases by unlocking methane in permafrost and undersea deposits, freeing carbon trapped in sea ice, and causing increased evaporation of water.

What is Climategate?

In late November 2009, hackers unearthed hundreds of emails at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia that exposed private conversations among top-level British and U.S. climate scientists discussing whether certain data should be released to the public. [Do we know who the hackers were? Were they skeptics? Might be worth noting]

The email exchanges also refer to statistical tricks used to illustrate climate change? trends, and call climate skeptics idiots, according to the New York Times.

One such trick was used to create the well-known hockey-stick graph, which shows a sharp uptick in temperature increases during the 20th century. Former U.S vice president Al Gore relied heavily on the graph as evidence of human-caused climate change in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

The data used for this graph come from two sources: thermostat readings and tree-ring samples.

While thermostat readings have consistently shown a temperature rise over the past hundred years, tree-ring samples show temperature increases stalling around 1960.

On the hockey-stick graph, thermostat-only data is grafted onto data that incorporates both thermostat and tree-ring readings, essentially presenting a seamless picture of two different data sets, the hacked emails revealed.

But scientists argue that dropping the tree-ring data was no secret and has been written about in the scientific literature for years.

Climate change skeptics have heralded the emails as an attempt to fool the public, according to the Times.

Yet climate scientists maintain that these controversial points are small blips that are inevitable in scientific research, and that the evidence for human-induced climate change is much broader and still widely accepted.

Global Warming Fast Facts 1

Global warming, or climate change, is a subject that shows no sign of cooling down.

Here's the lowdown on why it's happening, what's causing it, and how it might change the planet.

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Yes. Earth is already showing many signs of worldwide climate change.

• Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

• The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850.

• The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.

• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.

• Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana's Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come a week earlier in spring and freezes begin a week later.

• Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in response to stress—ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent. Experts expect these sorts of events to increase in frequency and intensity in the next 50 years as sea temperatures rise.

• An upsurge in the amount of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, heat waves, and strong tropical storms, is also attributed in part to climate change by some experts.

Divining Perry’s Meaning in ‘Galileo’ Remark

In one of the more curious moments in the Republican debate on Wednesday night, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas invoked 17th-century science in discussing his doubts about climate change. He cited the astronomer and philosopher Galileo Galilei — often called the father of modern science — in suggesting that the current thinking that climate change is a result of human activity could be overturned. “Galileo got outvoted for a spell,” he said.

On the surface, though, his example seemed to illustrate the opposite of the point that Mr. Perry might have been trying to make. Galileo, whose astronomical observations confirmed the Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun, was basing his assertions on empirical knowledge and faced opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, which supported the Ptolemaic view of an Earth-centered universe.

Mr. Perry, by contrast, has said repeatedly that he does not believe the empirical evidence compiled by scientists in support of climate change, but that he does adhere to faith-based principles.

Was Mr. Perry trying to depict Galileo as a maverick among scientific thinkers of his time? If so, the governor was wrong, says one historian who has studied the trial of Galileo.

“If Perry means to say that at some point some body of scientists said Galileo was wrong, that didn’t happen,” said the historian, Thomas F. Mayer, who teaches at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.

Galileo and Copernicus were long ago proved right, but even in Galileo’s day there were scientists who supported him, Dr. Mayer said. “His notions about science were not that far out there,” he said. “There were a lot of other scientists, especially in Rome, who more or less agreed with his scientific observations.”

Perhaps, then, Mr. Perry was referring to the church’s condemnation of Galileo for his views, in 1616, and its trial of him on charges of heresy, in 1633, in which Galileo was convicted and sentenced to house arrest. In that case he was “outvoted” not by other scientists but by church leaders.

But even the 1633 trial was not really about science, many historians say.

“I think it was motivated primarily by disobedience on Galileo’s part,” Dr. Mayer said. “That’s how the trial was construed by the people who conducted it.”
Mark Miner, a spokesman for the Perry campaign, said, “The governor was referring to vetting policies before implementing ideas that will result in job losses.” Mr. Miner did not elaborate.

In 1616, Galileo had been ordered to abandon his Copernican ideas. He violated the order in 1632 by publishing a book comparing the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems and laying out his case against the Earth-centered view. In October of that year he was ordered to appear before the Roman Inquisition.

Galileo’s disobedience also cost him a lot of scientific support, Dr. Mayer said, but again the objections had to do more with religion.

“The problems arose when he tried to fit his new observations and construction of them into interpretations of the Bible,” he said. “As a layman, he wasn’t allowed to do that. That cost him a lot of support from scientists who would ordinarily have backed him.”

More on Tar, Oil, Pipelines and Presidents

I sought reactions to my post on President Obama and the “Alberta tar pit” from a variety of analysts and campaigners examining the economics and environmental impacts of a proposed pipeline linking that Canadian source of oil with American refiners.

I argued that the pipeline issue, which will confront President Obama later this year as he decides whether to approve the project, is a distraction from the core issues involving our energy future and is largely insignificant if your concern is averting a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

(You also may be interested in Canada’s response to a series of Times editorials opposing the project. It’s important to note that the oil is almost assuredly going to continue being produced, whether or not this particular route is approved.)

Here are the reactions to my post, starting with a note from Bill McKibben, who was among more than 1,200 people who were arrested in a White House protest aimed at convincing the president to reject the plan:

Bill McKibben:

Here’s what I would say, and I think I speak with many of the people arrested over the last two weeks, in the largest display of civil disobedience for four decades in this country.

1—The tar sands are the second biggest pool of carbon on earth. Of course this pipeline—the first really big one into the tarsands—won’t by itself kill the climate, any more than the first pipeline into Saudi Arabia raised the atmospheric concentration of CO2 to 393 ppm all by itself. It will just make it that much easier to build the next and the next and the next. What we’re trying to do is send a message to stop exploitation of unconventional fossil fuels—which extends to new aggressive coal mining, and also to fracking the planet for shale gas. We’re fighting back against the rise of this new energy paradigm, and this is the clearest place to make the fight. As (NASA’s Jim) Hansen said, so you can’t distort his quote: “Phase out of emissions from coal is itself an enormous challenge. However, if the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over.”

2—The moral stakes are very clear. Consider Brazil, which a quarter century ago the world decided controlled a biological treasure the planet couldn’t do without. It has—fitfully, but with increasing success, slowed deforestation enough that it has reduced its carbon emissions more than any nation on earth. North America has a unique geological treasure, again the second-largest pool of carbon on earth. Why do we just get to burn it?

3—You claim to want an energy transition etc., etc. Has it occurred to you that we will get one the day we stop plugging into new sources of fossil fuel? Your method is akin to Augustine’s: make me chaste lord, just not yet. My bet is, if we get a new Saudi Arabia, we’ll use it. And my further bet is, it will take a few thousand temporary workers, according to the State Department., to build the pipeline, but the result will be putting off for another decade or two the job-rich transition to what needs to come next. As Paul Krugman pointed out in your pages yesterday, doing the right thing on the environment usually creates jobs; it’s ugly to see you perpetuating the right wing jobs-vs.-environment meme.

4—It’s empty to insist that the right thing would be some huge energy plan to make some great transition. Sure, but that’s no going to happen in Washington as presently constructed. If we’re going to get anywhere, it will be fight by fight and battle by battle—and this once, the president can actually do it by himself. Your effort is as you say designed, for reasons not clear, to help him out of his dilemma. Why? This is the man who said “in my presidency the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet begin to heal.” He can prove it in a small way here; if he didn’t mean it, he shouldn’t have said it.

5—The idea that Canada will simply sell the oil off to China is mistaken. It is trying to build a new pipeline to the Pacific, but so far it has gone nowhere, and no one thinks it will be built any time soon. That’s because, unlike the U.S., first nations tribes in Canada have a lot of legal power, and this pipeline would have to go across their land. This is why Alberta’s energy minister told the Globe and Mail this summer that without Keystone XL Alberta would be ‘landlocked in bitumen.’ Eventually I suppose they’ll figure out a way to unlandlock themselves. But eventually one has to hope that the planet will wake up to the reality of climate change and things like this won’t be an option. We’re buying time, but it might turn out to be precious.

6—Speaking of first nations peoples, you need to deal with the fact that their ancestral lands have been wildly damaged by this incredibly primitive and inefficient tarsands mining. A delegation of chiefs and other leaders came to Washington, and many were arrested in our protest. They were powerful people. So are the ranchers and farmers whose land is being taken by eminent domain across the Plains. Oh, and you really think a pipeline crossing the Oglalla aquifer is a good idea? I’m glad opinions last forever on the Internet.

7—Global warming is not some far off problem we’re going to have to get around to dealing with eventually. It is wrecking our lives now. Come visit Vermont if you don’t believe me, or take a trip to Texas. Not to mention Pakistan, Queensland, any coral reef you might want to name, the dwindling ice floes of the Arctic, and—you know, I could go on a while. Every useful thing to slow it down should be done; this is an easy one.

8— I do wish you’d taken the time to catch a train to D.C. and actually cover this protest. You would have gotten the chance to talk to some interesting and courageous people. Scientists like Jason Box, for instance, who wrote a wonderful piece explaining why he felt—at some risk to his career—it was necessary to be there. Or maybe Gus Speth, the great and venerable environmentalist who has served in every high position you can think of, from chair of the president’s Council on Environmental Quality to Dean of the Yale School of Forestry to head of the U.N. Development Program. He was in the next cell to me for two nights at D.C.’s Central Cell Block, a place that’s as much fun as it sounds like it might be. As we both turned over and over on the bare metal slabs that served as our beds, he said something memorable, that to me provides the perfect answer to your relentlessly middle-seeking blog. “I’ve served in a lot of important positions in this town,” he said. “But none seemed quite as necessary as this one.”

The following thoughts were expressed within a group e-mail exchange on the post, so some of them refer to preceding comments.

Burton Richter, retired Stanford University professor and Nobel laureate in physics:

You take a long time to get there, but your conclusion that the pipeline is OK is one I agree with. Actually there are two different environmental reasons for opposing it. One has to do with greenhouse gases while the other has to do with the pipeline itself and the danger leaks create. The second is the argument of the Audubon Society, for example. Most, however are opposed because of emissions.

This gooey stuff is hard to get out of the ground and has to be heated to flow. It takes on the average about 15%-20% of the energy content of the extracted oil to get it moving so emission from this stuff are in effect 15% – 20% higher than “normal” oil. The reason it is produced is because it can be done at less cost per barrel that the present selling price of oil which is itself determined by the cost of the most expensive oil. If the Canadian tar sands oil is not shipped to us it will be shipped elsewhere because the existence or nonexistence of the new pipeline will not affect demand. You might see more deep drilling in the Gulf to meet U.S. demand, for example, or we could replace the Canadian oil with oil from countries that don’t like us much like Venezuela, or countries where corruption enriches the few like Nigeria.

The way to decrease emission from oil is to increase miles-per-gallon standards for light vehicles and eventually to electrify light vehicle transportation while at the same time shifting away from coal to produce electricity to sources with much lower emissions (gas, wind, nuclear). When we do that, perhaps we will not need the Canadian oil, but it is needed somewhere in the world now.

Daniel Kammen, chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency, The World Bank:

The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17% or an 84% excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

The full resource of ‘unconventional’ oil (becoming more conventional all the time) is that it is vast, as Homans illustrates. The climate impact of this ‘bottom of the barrel’ pathway is the full measure of problem that the pipeline and tar sands illustrates as just one step in a climate destructive pathway.

[A] paper by a former University of California Energy and Resources Group faculty member and a student now on the faculty at Stanford ["Risks of the oil transition," A. E. Farrell and A. R. Brandt] lays this out in a figure where each axis alone is cause for major worry, and together, the carbon intensity/barrel combined with the fact that if unconventional oil is now part of the resource, we have a not near ‘peak oil, but are, in fact, only about 1/50th of the way through this resource. That equation is a climate calamity.

The conclusion that demand management/reduction is the best way to address this (climate certified fuels, low-carbon fuel standards as in California, carbon budgets, etc …) is correct if we were advancing steadily on that pathway. At present, however, collectively we are not.

I am in Australia this week serving on their Climate Commission. With the U.K.’s carbon scheme very much in mind we are looking at ways to bolster an economically viable climate plan, but in the context of some very difficult Australian domestic politics.

Roger Bezdek, energy analyst, Management Information Services, sent a short note referring to a presentation he gave in 2008 positing a peak in total fossil fuel production and resulting forecast for carbon dioxide concentrations:

On the other hand, world fossil fuel production and greenhouse-gas emissions may peak well before then — see attached. [The presentation is posted online.]

Andrew Leach, an environmental economist at the Alberta School of Business with a great blog on energy, climate and oil sands that has the best blog name I’ve seen in a long time — Rescuing the Frog:

I agree strongly with Dan Kammen on the potential supplies of fossil fuel resources, and the implications of those supplies for greenhouse-gas emissions. Further, I have a hard time reconciling the reserve additions figures in Roger Bezdek’s piece with actual reserve additions in Canada, Venezuela, Brazil and Madagascar in recent years, but perhaps they are integrated earlier in time that the U.S.G.S. data, I am misreading one or both pieces of data, or the definition of reserve is not consistent.

What really matters for energy transitions, it seems to me, is the resource-to-reserve price elasticity, combined with the pace of development of alternatives. If, as Jacobsen and Delucchi write in this piece (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030), the potential exists for rapid learning and deployment of renewables, then some of the production outcomes predicted in Roger Bezdek’s piece may hold true, but it won’t be for reasons of physical scarcity. Equally, the cost curves laid out in Farrell and Brandt’s paper would also still be valid, there would simply be no remaining reason to climb the curves any further into new and more expensive fossil fuel resources. Either way, I think the road to emissions reductions must be paved with a carbon price or constraint of some sort — but that constraint needs to be applied broadly. Renewables are not positioned as of yet to displace the “next best” alternative to oilsands, and so I am wary of emissions reduction estimates tied to shutting them down.

After reading Roger Bezdek’s deck, I was reminded of this quote from Jevons in 1865 which I posted on my blog not long ago: “Coal in truth stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country—the universal aid—the factor in everything we do. With coal almost any feat is possible or easy; without it we are thrown back into the laborious poverty of early times.”

Of course, in the same way that Jevons could not see the ability for oil, gas, and nuclear power to render us less fundamentally reliant on coal, I am sure we are making equally egregious errors in our predictions of energy transitions (or at least some of us are). For what it’s worth, Jevons predicted the peak in U.K. coal production – but the consequences were nowhere near as dire as he predicted 50 years beforehand.

David Doniger and Liz Barratt-Brown, Natural Resources Defense Council:

NRDC has worked on tar sands and unconventional fuels issues for many years, including Keystone XL. We view development and expansion of these fuels as a major impediment to reaching the nation’s climate protection goals. There are also very significant risks of damage to land, water supplies, wildlife and wilderness areas from tar sands extraction and transportation through the pipeline.

The U.S. is the only major market for tar sands-derived oil, and that’s not likely to change. Without this pipeline, Canada’s tar sands development will take place much more slowly, and at a much smaller scale. Michael Levi (and others) argue that the tar sands oil will be developed regardless of what the U.S. decides on Keystone XL – if we don’t use, it someone else will – but this overlook the very serious opposition to other pipeline proposals in Canada. Neither the Enbridge Gateway to the west nor the Trailbreaker project to the east have been approved due to opposition in Canada. That leaves Keystone XL as the only viable prospect for moving tar sands oil into the global market. My colleague, Danielle Droitsch responded to Michael’s arguments here.

Analysis by Ensys, supported by the Department of Energy, has found that there is plenty of existing pipeline capacity from Alberta to the U.S. through 2025 (over 2 million barrels capacity per day – we currently import about 1 mbpd). The real goal of the pipeline is to move tar-sands-derived bitumen from the Midwest, where it is currently backed-up, to Gulf Coast refineries.

Accomplishing that will do three things: It will mean industry can charge higher prices for these resources; it will give the industry first-time access to an international export port; and it will send a market signal upstream that the game is on for expanding tar sands exploitation. This Pembina Institute report tracks the industry’s own statements linking the pipeline and the scale of their development plans. There is no evidence that Keystone XL will reduce the global price of oil, as Levi states – it’s too big a pool. But it will increase gas prices in the Midwest as Keystone XL siphons tar sands oil to the Gulf Coast and beyond.

For centuries, Russian foreign policy was dominated by gaining access to warm-water ports. There’s an analogy here for the Canadian tar sands and its quest for access to the Gulf Coast. The pipeline will give the tar sands industry the ability to export this fuel to Asia and other markets.

Andy Revkin and others argue that the main game is better climate protection and oil conservation policies, as if those goals were unconnected to the pipeline’s approval. Michael Levi says, “slash oil demand and the need for oil sands goes away.” The Obama administration has put important new fuel economy and carbon reduction standards in place for new cars and trucks. But it is unlikely we will do significantly more to slash oil demand if we deepen our dependence on tar sands by building the Keystone XL pipeline. In addition to making our vehicles use less fuel, we need to reduce the amount of climate-changing fossil-carbon in our fuels – through “low carbon fuel standards,” for example.

Andy also says the fight over Keystone XL is a “distraction from the core issues” of broader climate policy. It is certainly true that we can’t avoid disastrous climate change without much broader policies. But the reality is that the U.S. and Canada are now nowhere close to having such policies. For now, we are cooking our climate future project by project, and Keystone XL is the biggest project in the queue. And the decision is in the President’s hands alone.

Even if one looks only to the short-term, approval of the pipeline will have a climate impact of 27 million metric tons a year (this isEPA’s estimate; DOE Ensys estimates 26 MMT), which is nearly twice the anticipated benefit of California’s low carbon fuel standard. It’s equivalent to the carbon emissions of building seven new coal-fired power plants or putting 5 million more cars on the road. We cannot usher in a new era of cleaner energy by scraping the bottom of the barrel with tar sands oil.

Everyone is too quick to conclude that environmental concerns compete with economic stagnation and joblessness. To the contrary, reducing our dependence on oil – foreign or domestic – saves Americans billions of dollars at the pump. The administration’s carbon pollution and fuel economy standards are helping rebuild the car industry by making cars cheaper for American families to own and operate. That translates into billions more dollars invested in creating jobs in America instead of paying foreign oil suppliers – including Canada. (It’s worth remembering that when world oil prices go up, we get no special deal from Canada.)

Bottom line. This pipeline may be in the oil industry’s self-interest, and even in Canada’s national interest, but it is not in America’s national interest.

Adam Brandt, a Stanford University researcher focused on oil and alternative fuels:

I have no strong objections to any of the perspectives laid out thus far. I will give my perspective first on peak oil, then on the emissions consequences of oil sands development.

1. Regarding peak oil, there is (in general) great confusion about the topic, which is aided by the use of imprecise definitions by various groups. I think peak oil is very important, but not for the reasons generally outlined. My feelings are as follows:

a. A peak in conventional oil (which I generally define as primary + secondary production) is likely to be upon us sooner than many optimists would imagine, even with Bakken tight oil. Despite a few encouraging finds (e.g., Brazil sub-salt), trends in E&P look dire over the past decade A great presentation by Steven Kopits at Douglas-Westwood is floating around the web on this topic. This is what the general public thinks of as “oil”, and is the reason for panic about peak oil.

b. This peak in conventional output is driven both by political and geologic factors, and does not represent absolute geologic scarcity.

c. A peak in conventional oil is not a dire situation, and does not, in the end, mean a shortage of refined fuels at the pumps. Non-conventional liquids production has reached ~ 4.5 Mbbl/d since 1960, which includes EOR, oil sands, CTL, GTL, ethanol, biodiesel. Oil sands projects in the regulatory pipeline sum to over 7 Mbbl/d, meaning that a Saudi Arabia (give or take) is in the planning process up north.

d. The contrast between points a) and c) is the reason for so much confusion about peak oil. It is very possible (probable in fact) that we will face a peak in conventional oil output with a simultaneous increase in total liquid fuel availability. So did oil production peak or not? It all depends on what you mean by “oil”.

e. So why does peak oil matter then? Because of the environmental impacts of oil substitutes. Oil sands are not a pretty picture, and biofuels are in all likelihood worse, despite the protestations from their supporters.

2. Next, on to oil sands GHG emissions:

a. Available evidence suggests that oil sands have 10-30% higher GHG emissions on a well-to-wheels basis than conventional oil. 15-20% is a reasonable industry-average figure. The range is caused by variation in conventional oil baseline and variation in oil sands projects (e.g., in situ production fueled by asphaltene residue gasification results in higher emissions than mining). This emissions increment is a concern in the present, as current policies in the US and EU aim to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels. In my mind, this is a small-scale concern.

b. The enormous problem in the future is the availability of trillions of barrels worth of unconventional hydrocarbons. This includes not only oil sands, but Venezuelan extra-heavy and oil shale as well. These all have a WTW emissions increase from conventional oil, and are available in truly vast quantities. That is a lot of carbon in the ground that we would ideally keep out of the air.

c. The fight over Keystone is (in my mind) unlikely to amount to much in the end. With demand drivers there, the oil sands will come out one way or another. There is too much money on the line to expect anything different. That said, I understand the effort as a first fight by environmentalists to try to keep the carbon in the ground.

d. In the end, the only way to keep this carbon in the ground is to 1) reduce demand with greatly improved efficiency, and 2) introduce low-carbon alternatives in the transport sector that people actually WANT to drive (e.g., electric vehicles running on power produced with natural gas, renewables or nuclear). All other measures, including pipeline protests, will fall to overwhelming market forces.

THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX 2007

The official position of the World Natural Health Organization in regards to global warming is that there is NO GLOBAL WARMING! Global warming is nothing more than just another hoax, just like Y2K and the global freezing claims in the 1960's and 70's were. Global warming is being used to generate fear and panic. Those behind this movement are using it to control people's lives and for financial gain.

There are not many individuals, groups, or organizations willing to stand up against this fraud that is being perpetuated for fear of being persecuted, harassed, and ostracized by those who support global warming within the scientific and other communities. But fortunately, a few have decided to do the right thing and take a stand against this evil, proving just how unscientifically founded global warming is and exposing those who are behind it. Below, you will find links to information and articles showing the proof that global warming is nothing more than just a bunch of hot air (pun intended).

The date that you see by each headline is the date when it was posted here. If you know of a news story, research, or information that should be posted here, please let us know and provide us with a link. The articles posted for previous years have been archived and links are provided to them; by year; at the bottom of this page.


27 Dec 2007 - Light Bulbs BANNED As The War Against The Cult Religion Of Global Warming Heats Up

27 Dec 2007 - Is Media Bias Real? Look No Further Than Global Warming

26 Dec 2007 - Ski Town's Flame Too Hot For Global Warming Cops: Mayor Targets Downtown Attraction For Extinction

26 Dec 2007 - Letter: Man-Caused Global Warming A Hoax

24 Dec 2007 - Scientists Doubt Climate Change

24 Dec 2007 - Gore Camp Suggests Scientists Bought Off: Report Called Global Warming Worries 'Entirely Without Merit' [Typical tactic that most cults use when their lies are exposed and brought to light!]

24 Dec 2007 - Water Companies Present Flawed, Biased Study To Demand More Funds

24 Dec 2007 - It's Not News Unless It's Reported By A Mainstream Journalist

24 Dec 2007 - Christmas Dinner Hurts Mother Earth [More nonsense from the global warming cult!]

21 Dec 2007 - The Myth Of A Global Warming "Consensus"

21 Dec 2007 - Hundreds Of Scientists Reject Global Warming: Basing Policy On Carbon Dioxide Levels 'Potentially Disastrous Economic Folly'

21 Dec 2007 - No Warming To Idea Of Climate Change

21 Dec 2007 - 400 Prominent Scientists Confirm That Anthropogenic Global Warming Is A Hoax

21 Dec 2007 - Socialist Consensus On Global Warming Is NOT Science: So Why The Alarmism? Hint: It's Not To Save The Planet!

20 Dec 2007 - The Global Warming Suicide Cult

20 Dec 2007 - The Global Warming Stack

20 Dec 2007 - Get Ready For Global Cooling

20 Dec 2007 - Global Warming Hoax Is Hitting Us In The Stomach

20 Dec 2007 - Al Gore And The Global Warming Conspiracy

20 Dec 2007 - Let Them Eat Cake Act: American Elites Killing And Starving The American People

19 Dec 2007 - Educator's Book Addresses Global Warming Myths For Families

19 Dec 2007 - Al Gore's Law

19 Dec 2007 - Global Warming Hysteria Is Leading To Food Shortages

19 Dec 2007 - 100 Prominent Scientists Ask The UN To Stop The Fear Mongering And Get Down To Work

18 Dec 2007 - Man Has Lots Of Competition In Warming The Globe

18 Dec 2007 - American Rep Waves White Flag At Bali

17 Dec 2007 - Carbon Tax Based On Disputed Theory [Taking another manmade FALSE theory and trying to make it seem like fact, just like they did with the lie known as evolution!]

17 Dec 2007 - Winter Weather: The Evidence Against Global Warming

17 Dec 2007 - Scientists Petition UN To Stop Hysteria Over Global Warming

17 Dec 2007 - Dark Side Of Global Warming Agenda Finally Revealing Itself

17 Dec 2007 - United Nations Calls For A Global Carbon Tax [The UN shows it's true colors, trying to make money off of this hoax!]

17 Dec 2007 - The UN Climate Change Numbers Hoax

17 Dec 2007 - Even Kool-Aid-Guzzlers Know Carbon Offsets Are A Scam

17 Dec 2007 - Al Gore Opens Mouth, Increases Carbon Footprint

13 Dec 2007 - Global Warming And Christian Discernment

13 Dec 2007 - British Lord Monckton Calls Global Warming Hoax The Third UN-Backed Mass Slaughter

13 Dec 2007 - Catholic Pope Denounces Global Warming Hoax [More church and spiritual leaders need to stand up against this fraud!]

12 Dec 2007 - A Caller's Global Warming Story

12 Dec 2007 - 12 Dec 2007 - Moonbat Doctor: Parents Should Be Fined And Taxed

12 Dec 2007 - Consensus Shattered As Major Scientific Study Says Global Warming Is Natural

11 Dec 2007 - Burn A Candle For Global Warming

11 Dec 2007 - Cashing In On An Inner Peace Prize

11 Dec 2007 - Lieberman-Warner Theft Act

11 Dec 2007 - KyoTwo In Bali

10 Dec 2007 - Australian Taxpayers Confront The Bovine Flatulence Menace

07 Dec 2007 - Global Warming Crusaders Menace Environment

07 Dec 2007 - U.N. Blackballs International Scientists From Climate Change Conference [The UN obviously does NOT want the truth about the global warming hoax to be told!]

07 Dec 2007 - Global Warming: Revisited, Again

07 Dec 2007 - Anatomy Of A Fake Consensus

07 Dec 2007 - "I Can't Drive 55!" Redux

07 Dec 2007 - Prof. Spreads False Warming Stories

07 Dec 2007 - Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Records In Oct.

06 Dec 2007 - Nobel Prize For Explaining Global Warming Hoax

04 Dec 2007 - British Put Warning Label On Gore Film

04 Dec 2007 - Some Think Opposing Global Warming Theory Is Crime against Humanity!

04 Dec 2007 - Coldest Winter In Years, Environment Canada Warns [More proof exposing the lies of the Global Warming Cult!]

04 Dec 2007 - A Lesson Learned - Hopefully

04 Dec 2007 - Seattle Mayor Shames Himself With Global-Warming Bunk

04 Dec 2007 - Graphic Evidence Global Warming Is A Hoax

30 Nov 2007 - Seattle Mayor Terrifies Children With Global Warming Lies

30 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Grant Pays Scientists To Study Famous Art Paintings [Talk about lunacy!]

30 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Is A Hoax

30 Nov 2007 - F4 Tornado In Late November

29 Nov 2007 - 'We Should Not Fear Global Warming'

29 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Hoax Update (Where Going Green = Going Red)

28 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Psychosis

28 Nov 2007 - Interview With The Founder Of The Weather Channel John Coleman

28 Nov 2007 - Examine The CO2 Coming Out Of Gore's Mouth Before We're Sorry

28 Nov 2007 - We Are Set On A Course Of 'Planet-Saving' Madness

26 Nov 2007 - Shortage Of Private Jet Parking At U.N. Climate Change Conference

26 Nov 2007 - President Bush Should Ask Honest Scientists To Expose Global Warmers

24 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Hoax

23 Nov 2007 - Long-Time Meteorologist: Global Warming Almost Reaching 'Religious' Status

23 Nov 2007 - Al Gore Sells Out: Was He In It Just For The Money All Along?

21 Nov 2007 - Global Warming? Then Why All The Snow Snow Snow Snow???

21 Nov 2007 - Al Gore Invented The Internet? Nope..But, He Might Have Invented The Global Warming Business

21 Nov 2007 - Teepen: U.N.'s Latest Environmental Report Is Alarming - To Some People

20 Nov 2007 - The Global Warming Grab

20 Nov 2007 - 'Global Warming' Shocker - Who's Minding Thermometers?: Surface Temperature Recording Stations A Shambles, Says Veteran Meteorologist

19 Nov 2007 - Alarmist Messages On Warming Can't Overwhelm God's Plan For Earth

19 Nov 2007 - UN Continues To Live Fantasy About Global Hoax [This is a report released by some environmentalists wackos at the UN about the biggest lie in history--global warming and climate change which we know there is none]

19 Nov 2007 - UN: The Sky Is Falling...Again

16 Nov 2007 - Weather Channel Founder Says Global-Warming Alarmism Is A Scam

16 Nov 2007 - An Inconvenient Hoax

14 Nov 2007 - Take Action On Global Warming Scam

13 Nov 2007 - It's Official: Global Warming Is A Hoax

13 Nov 2007 - Clinton Dupe Shills With Canned Question On Global Warming Hoax

12 Nov 2007 - Climate Skeptic: Looks Like I Was Right

12 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Causes Carbon Dioxide

10 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Cult Take Heed, We're On To You

09 Nov 2007 - John Coleman Says Global Warming Is A Hoax: Weather Channel Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming The Greatest Scam In Human History

08 Nov 2007 - My TV Hasn't Changed Its Opinion Of Me....Neither Have I! [Exposing more of the Cult of Global Warming brainwashing attempts!]

08 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Not Backed By Facts

08 Nov 2007 - Friends Of The Earth Are Nobody's Friends

08 Nov 2007 - NBC Pushes The Politics Of The Global Warming Cult

07 Nov 2007 - Flight From Reality - The Global Warming Hoax: Al Gore - First Global PT Barnum

06 Nov 2007 - Global Warming Causes Carbon Dioxide: Erroneous Scientific Consensus Stifles Progress

05 Nov 2007 - The Deceit Behind Global Warming

06 Nov 2007 - NBC's Global Warming Football Farce

05 Nov 2007 - Global Warming In The U.S. And The EU: An 'Inconvenient Truth' Or A Convenient Fiction?

05 Nov 2007 - How Can You Tell Christmas Is Coming?

05 Nov 2007 - Gore, Clinton, And Other Global Warmers Deserve Censure

05 Nov 2007 - Hacking Away At The Consensus Lie

05 Nov 2007 - Clinton Stands To Profit From His Global-Warming Campaign

05 Nov 2007 - Meteorologist Documents Warming Bias In U.S. Temperature Stations

05 Nov 2007 - Clouds Mitigate Global Warming, New Evidence Shows

03 Nov 2007 - IPCC Scientist Rejects Nobel Prize, Global Warming Hoax

03 Nov 2007 - Nobel Laureate Refuses Prize

01 Nov 2007 - Halloween Is Destroying The Environment?

01 Nov 2007 - Gore's Nobel Win Could Have Impact On Policy, Election

31 Oct 2007 - Global Warming Is Not The Cause Of The California Wildfires [The CULT of global warming was WRONG AGAIN!!!]

31 Oct 2007 Attention! The World Is Scheduled To End In (?) Hours

30 Oct 2007 - Global Warming? Or Just Hot Air?

25 Oct 2007 - The High Cost Of Climate Lies ...

24 Oct 2007 - Pat Buchanan Sums Up Global Warming Hoax

24 Oct 2007 - John Stossel Unmasks Global Warming Hoax

24 Oct 2007 - It's Hot In California

24 Oct 2007 - Where Are The Environmentalists Battling California Wildfires?

24 Oct 2007 - Global Warming: A Big Fat Hoax

23 Oct 2007 - What Scientists Really Say About Global Warming

23 Oct 2007 - A Turning Point In The Global Warming Debate?

22 Oct 2007 - The Great Global Warming Hoax

22 Oct 2007 - Global Warming Is A Hoax

19 Oct 2007 - Hitwise Search Data Shows Interest In Global Warming Falling

19 Oct 2007 - People Losing Interest In Impending Doom Of Global Warming

18 Oct 2007 - Follow the Money on Climate Change

18 Oct 2007 - A Week's Worth Of Reasons To Avoid NBC

17 Oct 2007 - POLL: Did You Get A Warm, 'Global' Feeling?

17 Oct 2007 - Prominent Atmospheric Scientist Calls Anthropogenic Global Warming "Ridiculous"

17 Oct 2007 - Al Gore's "Pulp Fiction"

17 Oct 2007 - Gore Again Bashed For Global Warming Film [Good! This film is a waste and does NOT present the facts accurately!]

17 Oct 2007 - Meteorologist: Humans Not To Blame For Global Warming: He Says Warming Of The Earth Occurs Naturally

15 Oct 2007 - Al Gore's Fictional Film "An Inconvenient Truth" Called Unfit For Schools In Britain

15 Oct 2007 - Al Gore, Global Warming, And Health Care

15 Oct 2007 - $Trillions To Be Sacrificed To Global Warming Hoax

15 Oct 2007 - Green Lies About Antarctica

15 Oct 2007 - Global Warming Scammer Wins Nobel's Fraud Prize

15 Oct 2007 - Environmentalism: A Mass Delusion

04 Oct 2007 - Catholic Cardinal Pell, The Sceptic, Not Convinced World Is Warmer [Good for him!!! He is using the brain that God gave him and is thinking for himself, and not just going along with those who are perpetuating this hoax!]

04 Oct 2007 - Global Warming Update

04 Oct 2007 - Czech President Opposes Global Warming Hysteria

04 Oct 2007 - Environmentalist - "Blind People May Cause Global Warming And Should Be The First To Go"

04 Oct 2007 - Warning Notice For Global Warming Propaganda

03 Oct 2007 - Sacrilege! : Global Warming Unmasked

01 Oct 2007 - Global Warming Videos [Good list and links of videos exposing the global warming HOAX!]

01 Oct 2007 - Sunny, But Expensive Dreams

01 Oct 2007 - Look Who Was Right!

28 Sep 2007 - Greenhouse Conspiracy Documentary (1990) [Video]

28 Sep 2007 - Global Whatever-Ing

28 Sep 2007 - Demoncrat Rep. John Dingell Exposes The True Agenda Behind Global Warming

28 Sep 2007 - Proof That Global Warming Is A Political Hoax

27 Sep 2007 - Follow The Money

26 Sep 2007 - Testing The Global Warming Waters: NRG To Submit First New Nuke Application

25 Sep 2007 - Would The World Be Better Off Without Humans?

25 Sep 2007 - Global Warmer Hoaxer James Hansen Once Pushed Global Cooling

24 Sep 2007 - The Veggie Van

24 Sep 2007 - "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

21 Sep 2007 - Global Warming, Corporate Agenda A Perfect Match

21 Sep 2007 - Global-Warming Scientist Warned Of Freeze In 1971: Calls Theory's Doubters 'Court Jesters'

20 Sep 2007 - Judge Chucks Out Global Warming Suit

19 Sep 2007 - Bad Reporting By Media On Global Warming

19 Sep 2007 - Eroding Credibility Of Warming Alarmist

17 Sep 2007 - Ethanol Follies

15 Sep 2007 - Global Warming: Al Gore's Greatest Hoax Yet

15 Sep 2007 - Nobel Laureate Demands More Poverty

14 Sep 2007 - Kids Global Warming Book 'Deceives': Scientist Reveals Critical Error In Argument Of Hollywood Activist Laurie David

14 Sep 2007 - Post-1940 Warming Totals Only A Tiny 0.2 Degrees C.

14 Sep 2007 - Challenge To Scientific Consensus On Global Warming: Analysis Finds Hundreds Of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears

14 Sep 2007 - Moonbats Lay Global Warming Groundwork For Ban On Meat [More nonsense from those behind the hoax!]

14 Sep 2007 - In A World Gone Mad: A Few More Cuts

14 Sep 2007 - Wouldn't It Be Nice?

13 Sep 2007 - The Sorry State Of Science Reporting

13 Sep 2007 - Global Warming RIP

13 Sep 2007 - "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish And Icebergs Melt" (Quote from Washington Post in 1922)

12 Sep 2007 - Talking About Global Warming

12 Sep 2007 - "Conservative" British Group Wants To Start Banning Appliances For Gaia

10 Sep 2007 - Journalism, Science And The Truth

10 Sep 2007 - Global Warming Insanity?

10 Sep 2007 - Greenie On Ice

08 Sep 2007 - Will Thompson Save Us From Global Warming Moonbattery?

08 Sep 2007 - 2007 - The Year AGW Died....

08 Sep 2007 - High Priest Of Global Warming Religion Flies Gulfstream: 'Green' Gore Goes Gulfstream: Video Catches Eco-Warrior On Luxury Private Jet [Typical double-standards and hypocrisy that is common with all cults!]

07 Sep 2007 - Scientific "Consensus" Of Man-Made Global Warming Is A Myth

07 Sep 2007 - DiCaprio Global Warming Movie Bombs

06 Sep 2007 - Author Debunks Numerous Popular Myths About Global Warming

06 Sep 2007 - Global Warming Update

06 Sep 2007 - Global Warming - There's Nothing It Can't Do [More hype from those perpetuating the global warming HOAX!]

05 Sep 2007 - The Global Warming Hoax Unmasked!

05 Sep 2007 - Study: No Scientific Consensus On Global Warming Claims: Papers Do Not Support Claims That It's Human-Caused Or Will Have Catastrophic Impact

04 Sep 2007 - The Global Warming Hoax Windfall: Treasury 'Pockets Extra £10bn' From Green Taxes

31 Aug 2007 - Al Gore's "Consensus" Consists Of Under 50%

31 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Is A Hoax! Says 20,000 Scientists

31 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Hoax Being Exposed

31 Aug 2007 - Claims Of Global Warming Consensus Are A Hoax Too

31 Aug 2007 - Al Gore Must Be Working Off Of A Different Dictionary

28 Aug 2007 - The Global Warming Scam

28 Aug 2007 - Is Global Warming A Hoax?

28 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Not High On Evangelicals' Priority List: Spiritual And Moral Issues Get Highest Marks

25 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Alarms Not Worth Their Salt

27 Aug 2007 - The Return Of The Old Gods: A Challenge To Green Evangelicals

27 Aug 2007 - Falsification Of The Atmospheric Co2 Green House Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

27 Aug 2007 - Ignore The Global Warming Wackos - And Reply

25 Aug 2007 - Global Warming And The Nation-Sized Error

25 Aug 2007 - Overturning The "Consensus" In One Fell Swoop

25 Aug 2007 - The "Global Warming" Chatty Cathy Doll

24 Aug 2007 - The Global Warming HOAX Beginning To Unravel!

24 Aug 2007 - Moose Belching Is Not The Cause

23 Aug 2007 - NASA Revises Temperature Data - 1930's Warmest On Record!

23 Aug 2007 - State, U.S. Voters Should Rise Up To Eliminate Political Pork

23 Aug 2007 - I Swear It Wasn't Me

23 Aug 2007 - Ethanol follies (Continued)

22 Aug 2007 - Buddhadeb: Victim Of Blame Game

21 Aug 2007 - Sizzling Study Concludes: Global Warming 'Hot Air': 'You Can Spit, Have Same Effect As Doubling The Carbon Dioxide'

21 Aug 2007 - Propaganda As Journalism

20 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Freak Shows

19 Aug 2007 - Newsweek Wrong About Global-Warming Skeptics

19 Aug 2007 - Another Global Warming Hoax Exposed: Polar Bears In Peril - On The Brink Of Extinction

19 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Moonbats Sacrifice Orangutans To Gaia

16 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Stupidity On The Rise

16 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Update

15 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Or Global Governance?

14 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Heretics

13 Aug 2007 - NASA Revises Temperature Data - 1930's Warmest On Record! - Global Warming Is Actually A Y2K Bug! [NASA is blaming their error on a Y2K bug. Wasn't Y2K another one of these hoaxes that they keep perpetrating upon the public? Sounds like just another excuse to cover their rears!]

13 Aug 2007 - Fight Global Warming With Taxes [More insanity!]

11 Aug 2007 - Bad News For Science At Newsweek Magazine, Says SPPI

11 Aug 2007 - Rush Quote Of The Day: 1998 Not Hottest Year On Record

11 Aug 2007 - Best Global Warming Story Ever

10 Aug 2007 - Al Gore Slings Bogus Borrowed Charges

08 Aug 2007 - It's The Sun, Stupid

08 Aug 2007 - Heartfelt Thanks To The Goracle And Friends

08 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Update

08 Aug 2007 - Laurie David Climate Book Targets Children: Scholastic Product Seeks To Make Youngsters 'Agents Of Change' [Brainwash them while they're young and are not fully thinking for themselves!]

07 Aug 2007 - Walking To The Shops 'Damages Planet More Than Going By Car' [More nonsense from the folks who brought you the global warming hoax!]

06 Aug 2007 - The Climate Change Conspiracy

04 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Propaganda Factory

03 Aug 2007 - Sierra Club Attempts To Attack FNC Through Home Depot [Sure does seem like the Sierra Club wants to do the thinking for you and not allow you to think for yourself or voice your own opinion if it is different from theirs]

02 Aug 2007 - Global Warming Update

02 Aug 2007 - More On The Global Warming Hoax

01 Aug 2007 - Those Deliberately Playing In Traffic Should Get Run Over

01 Aug 2007 - The Cult Of Global Warming

31 July 2007 - Environmentalists Push, But Home Depot Refuses To Drop Ads On Fox News [Good for them for standing their ground against the global warming cult!!!]

31 July 2007 - Democrat Energy Disaster In The Making

30 July 2007 - The Global Warming Police State

30 July 2007 - Getting To The Truth, Step 1

30 July 2007 - We'll Stop Doing Business With You, Even Though We Never Did Before

28 July 2007 - Michael Eckhart, Global Warming Hoax Enforcer

28 July 2007 - Liberals Go After Fox News Advertisers [And yet another attack on those who want to use their brains and think for themselves!]

26 July 2007 - Another Light Hurricane Season, Despite Gore's Bellowing

26 July 2007 - Mayor Rips Al Gore As 'Junk Scientist': Says 'Municipal Councils Are Making Stupid Decisions' As Result

25 July 2007 - Award-Winning Sci-Fi Author Debunks Global Warming And 'Hockey Stick' Hoaxes

25 July 2007 - Video Of The Day: Global Warming Hypocrites

25 July 2007 - Al Gore Testified Before Congress That Droughts Are Getting Worse, Did He Lie? [Of course he did!]

25 July 2007 - Radical Population Group Suggests Limiting Family Size To Combat Global Warming: Says Government Intervention May Be Unavoidable [PURE RUBBISH! There is NO global warming! This is just an excuse to introduce population control and use abortion to limit the size of families!]

24 July 2007 - A Look Inside The Global Warming Religion

23 July 2007 - Editorial: An Inconvenient HOAX ...

23 July 2007 - Global Warming Hoax Exposed!

23 July 2007 - Erroneous Information Clouds Global Warming Debate

23 July 2007 - Suspect Data Skews Global Warming Coverage

21 July 2007 - When Science Becomes "Treason"

21 July 2007 - Eating Meat Is Worse For The Environment Than Driving Cars [More insanity from the CULT of Global Warming!]

21 July 2007 - There's No Substitute For Oil

21 July 2007 - More Global Warming Hoax Insanity

20 July 2007 - Profanity Sends World Into Sewer

20 July 2007 - Wake Up And Smell The Propaganda Lies: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything

20 July 2007 - The Great Global Warming Hoax

19 July 2007 - An Examination Of The Media And The Global Warming Hoax

19 July 2007 - First Of All: Don't Be Evil

18 July 2007 - Shrillary's Plans To Jack Up Taxes: Justified By The Phony Global Warming Hoax

18 July 2007 - "Stranded Polar Bears" Global Warming Hoax Exposed

17 July 2007 - Global Warming Hype, Now 25% More Misleading

17 July 2007 - Al Gore's Whine: What Really Happened On The Mall

14 July 2007 - The Global Warming Hoax Continues!

14 July 2007 - Global Warming: A Trillion-Dollar Hoax

14 July 2007 - Global Warming: Equals Socialism

13 July 2007 - The Lunacy Of Kyoto

13 July 2007 - Carbon Cops

13 July 2007 - No pasta? Blame It On Al Gore

12 July 2007 - The Global Warming Stack

12 July 2007 - Global Warming Hoaxers Target Fox News

12 July 2007 - Green PR Suffers Blowback ...

12 July 2007 - Location, Not Global Warming Caused Katrina Damages

12 July 2007 - Hostages To A Hoax

10 July 2007 - Fox News Targeted For Global Warming 'Stance': Left-Wing Filmmaker Presses Home Depot To Stop Ads On Network [So when the truth about this hoax is coming out those involved in it want to silence and boycott those exposing their fallacy. This is a typical ploy of those involved with these cult-like tactics! I say more power to Fox News and keep it up!!!!]

10 July 2007 - Low Temp Blamed For Small Crowd At Global Warming Fest: Live Earth Johannesburg Organizer Sees Climate Change As Culprit [Low temperatures? I thought they said we were having a global warming? And now here they are again blaming the weather. Guess this just goes to prove the FACT that there is NO global warming and that it is just a HOAX!!!]

09 July 2007 - Live Earth A Waste Of Resources

08 July 2007 - Global Warming Fraud Marches On: Live Aid Is Promoting Green To Save The Planet - What Planet Are They On?

08 July 2007 - Live Earth: Global Warming Has "Jumped The Shark"

08 July 2007 - Hostages To A Hoax (Global Warming)

07 June 2007 - Global Warming Hype Reaches New Low

06 July 2007 - Smithsonian Prostitutes Itself To Eco-Pimp Al Gore

06 July 2007 - Temperature Readings May Exaggerate Warming

01 July 2007 - Manmade Global Warming: The Real Assault On Reason

01 July 2007 - How The UN Falsifies Data On Rising Sea Levels

01 July 2007 - Kilimanjaro Glacier Isn't Melting, More Proof That Al Gore Had It Wrong

30 June 2007 - Follow The Global Warming Money

29 June 2007 - The Global Warming Challenge

29 June 2007 - The Problem With This

27 June 2007 - 71% Do Not Buy Global Warming Hoax (UK)

26 June 2007 - The Great Biofuel Hoax

25 June 2007 - Kudos To The President - - That Is, President Klaus

23 June 2007 - An Environmental Scam - Carbon Offsets

22 June 2007 - Now Prepare For 'Dangerous Global Cooling' [This is the same type of nonsense they tried to pull in the 1970's and nothing happened like they said and now we see it again. Science obviously can't make up its mind!]

21 June 2007 - Stoplight With Stuart Shepard: Global Questioning

20 June 2007 - Global Warming Cult Pushes "Cohousing"

19 June 2007 - Framing Global Warming

19 June 2007 - Professor Bob Carter, Yet Another Global Warming Heretic

19 June 2007 - More Global Warming Foolishness

16 June 2007 - Vaclav Klaus on the Global Warming Hoax [Vaclav Klaus is the President of the Czech Republic]

15 June 2007 - Global Warming Settled Science? - Commentary

15 June 2007 - Freedom, Not Climate, Is At Risk

15 June 2007 - Old Home Town - 100 Years Ago [Reminds me of the global cooling hoax they were trying to pull in the 1970's and the global warming hoax they are trying to pull now. They must think people are really dumb!]

14 June 2007 - Did You Know Global Warming Is A Hoax And That Real Scientists Are Very Angry With Al Gore's Propaganda?

14 June 2007 - Envirofascists Coming For Our Computers

13 June 2007 - Libs Get Religion

12 June 2007 - The Nation Slams Global Warming Alarmists Again 'Dissidents Against Dogma'

12 June 2007 - Alexander Cockburn Attacks Global Warming Hoax From The Left

11 June 2007 - Some Think Opposing Global Warming Theory Is Crime Against Humanity!

04 June 2007 - Beware Of The Warming Zealots

04 June 2007 - Claims Of A Consensus Are A Hoax

02 June 2007 - Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

01 June 2007 - Global Warming Hysteria Is A National Security Issue

01 June 2007 - Going Green: Social Consciousness Or Profits?

31 May 2007 - Pelosi's Greenland Fantasy

30 May 2007 - Global Warming: Witnesses For The Skeptical Perspective

29 May 2007 - Global Warming???

28 May 2007 - KNS Commentary: The Science Is In, Again, And Global Warming Is A Leftist Hoax

27 May 2007 - How Religious Left Will Spin U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Decline

27 May 2007 - Global Warming Hoax Versus Recreation

25 May 2007 - Complete Video Of Great Global Warming Swindle Is Now On Line

25 May 2007 - British Documentary 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' To Air On Aussie TV

23 May 2007 - Scientists Renounce Global Warming Alarmism: Claims Of 'Consensus' Not Lining Up With Reality

22 May 2007 - Global Warming Debunked

22 May 2007 - Top Hurricane Predictor Denounces Global Warming Hoax

21 May 2007 - Green Myths On Global Warming - Debunked

20 May 2007 - Global Warming Debunked

19 May 2007 - Profiles In Sanity: Global Warming Apostates

17 May 2007 - When Man Made Global Warming Is Exposed As Untrue - Remember It Was A Wanton Power Grab Hoax And NOT An Innocent Mistake

16 May 2007 - Ignored Stories - Even Liberals Realize The Hoax Of Global Warming

15 May 2007 - WND Fostering Hysteria About Global Warming?

14 May 2007 - The Great Global Warming Swindle (Complete)

14 May 2007 - Senator Inhofe Announces Public Release Of "Skeptic's Guide To Debunking Global Warming"

14 May 2007 - Retired Arctic Research Director Slams Global Warming Alarmism

14 May 2007 - Gore Propaganda In British Schools Faces Legal Challenge

12 May 2007 - Chicken Littles Predict Hot Summers

12 May 2007 - Learn The Truth On Global Warming

12 May 2007 - Could Global Warming Make Life On Earth Better?

09 May 2007 - Global Warming Hoax [YouTube Video]

08 May 2007 - Large Families Ruining The Planet, Environmentalists Claim: Experts Call It 'Ridiculous' To Say Having More Than Two Children Is Bad For Earth

02 May 2007 - Warming To A Global Subject

02 May 2007 - From The Pew To The Pulpit: Inside The Church Of Global Warming

01 May 2007 - Another Global Warming Hoax Exposed [YouTube Video]

01 May 2007 - Global Warming Is A Hoax

01 May 2007 - The Great Global Warming Hoax

18 Apr 2007 - Had Enough Of Global Warming?

13 Apr 2007 - The Great Global Warming Swindle [Video]

13 Apr 2007 - Warming Not Behind Hurricane Activity: Forecaster

13 Apr 2007 - From A Rapt Audience, A Call To Cool The Hype

13 Apr 2007 - Critics of Global Warming Receive Threats

13 Apr 2007 - 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary

09 Apr 2007 - Global Warming Heresy

09 Apr 2007 - The Real Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming: Skeptics Have Valid Arguments

08 Apr 2007 - Powerful Documentary Trounces Man-Made Warming Hoax: Climate Change Is Natural nd Has Been Happening Since The Earth Began

08 Apr 2007 - More Evidence Against Global Warming Hoax

08 Apr 2007 - Chill Out Over Global Warming

08 Apr 2007 - The Global Warming Hoax

08 Apr 2007 - There is No Global Warming

07 Apr 2007 - Eco-Celebrities Spew Ideological Toxins

07 Apr 2007 - Forecaster Blasts Gore On Global Warming

07 Apr 2007 - BBC Show Exposes Global Warming 'LIES': Documentary's Scientists, Climatologists Agree: 'The Whole Thing Stinks'