Terry Trippany on Sep 24 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Liberalism Watch, Politicians at Work
Al Gore is calling on young people to engage in “civil disobedience” as necessary to stop the legal construction of coal plants. This is just a reminder of how little space exists between what is considered mainstream liberals and that of the radical left.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al [...]
Terry Trippany on Sep 19 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming
Global warming evangelists didn’t see the writing on the wall but we did. It turns out that the Clean Development Mechanism that was arranged under the Kyoto Protocol allows “rich countries” to offset their CO2 reduction requirements by “sponsoring” reductions in other countries. The only problem is that the trading system was set up to [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Enviromentalists, Global Warming, Media Watch, Politicians at Work
Fellow Webloggin contributer Big Dog is going after my Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he’s found a whole mess of contradictions about the Governator T-800. Gov. Schwarzenegger is supposed to be a pretty smart and ambitious guy, but on the global warming thing he’s either fallen for a bunch of hooey, or is pretending to have. [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming
Carbon Trading Doesn’t Work and the Kyoto Protocol is Worthless. Duh.
What a cool idea: Instead of reducing our own carbon emissions, we’ll pay other people to reduce theirs. Win-win!
Not so fast. Carbon offsets — and emissions-trading schemes, their industrial-scale siblings — are the environmental version of subprime mortgages. They both started from some admirable premises. [...]
