United States President George W. Bush delivered a speech Wednesday in which he urged the United States Congress to end a ban on oil exploration off of US shores. Currently there is both an executive order and a Congressional moratorium against such exploration. The Congress issued its moratorium in 1981. In 1989, President George...
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Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that parks in cities are up to 12 degrees centigrade cooler than commercial centers. A ten percent increase in green areas reduces the average city temperature by about 4 degrees; offsetting the UN climate committee’s extreme predictions of temperature increases over the next century. Many scientists have criticized the UN...
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Two weeks ago the media was thrilled and alarmed by a film of a “lost†tribe of naked, painted Indians, living somewhere on the Brazil-Peru border and firing arrows at a helicopter flying overhead. Some reports claimed that this tribe was previously uncontacted by the modern world. But some anthropologists admitted that “this group...
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United States federal officials flushed billion of gallons of water into the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, in an experimental effort to distribute sediment throughout the river and restore the ecosystem to a more natural state. The water was released from two pipes in the controversial Glen Canyon Dam, which blocks the Colorado River and...
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By Alan Caruba For the last two days, March 2-4, I and about five hundred other people attended the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, including some of the world’s leading authorities on climatology, meteorology, economics, energy, and other fields of knowledge. It was an extraordinary event, held in New York and sponsored by...
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By Alan Caruba Those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s almost universally look back on those days with great fondness. Born into an era that saw the end of the Depression and living as children through World War II, we were nonetheless somehow shielded from it by parents who took...
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Go to your room, sonny boy, and stay there! Much counter-evidence to the man-made global warming hypothesis has come to light. Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age Temperature Monitors Report Widespread Global Cooling Measuring the Phoenix Urban Heat Island Global warming skeptics buoyed by record cold UA prof challenges one of...
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By Alan Caruba I heard from Friends of the Earth, a huge environmental organization, who one would think would favor the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 being advanced by Senate Democrats. It would impose a cap-and-trade program to force reductions of so-called greenhouse gas emissions. FOE, however, was wailing about the way “it...
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault has been referred to by European Commission president José Manuel Barroso as a “frozen Garden of Eden”....
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Author’s note: This was first published several years ago. Golf is one of the most popular outdoor sports in the world. In the United States, there are more than 18 million golfers who spend some $600 million each year on equipment for this much-loved sport. Atlanta boasts more than 100 golf courses. Several Atlanta...
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Recycling is fraudulent and economically wasteful, but it’s a feel-good object of pagan worship for liberal-progressive-socialists. Pagan gods of the Old Testament were powerless against God, as Pharaoh discovered when he balked at God’s demand to liberate the Isrealites from slavery. Nonetheless, Middle Eastern peoples, and even the Israelites, kept turning to their idols...
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By Craig J. Cantoni This season’s Super Bowl will be played about 10 miles from my home in Scottsdale, Ariz. In one of the silliest gestures produced by the unwarranted mass hysteria over global warming, the host stadium is planting trees to counteract carbon dioxide produced by the game. If global warming is truly...
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The lamestream media told you: The world is getting warmer, it’s our fault, and if we don’t reorganize our economy collectively and change our lifestyle like Nobel-prize-winning documentarian Al Gore recommends we’ll all suffer from apocalyptic heat, storms, flooding and worse. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: In an inexplicable disaster for global warming...
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Are you old enough to remember the ice age threat? Well, I am. The pro-U.N., pro-globalist, rabid environmentalist crowd, warned of a coming end of times, global ice age (back in the 1970s if I remember right), and the solution was  you guessed it  big, big, and bigger government. Strange solution, since...
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The People’s Republic of China has, in what Reuters calls a surprising move, banned free plastic shopping bags in a move to take effect from June 1, 2008. The decision made by the Chinese Cabinet, the State Council, is intended to reduce the amount of plastic bags used in China, currently being estimated at...
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